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Displaying results 1 to 9 of 9.

  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Birth Trauma (2025 NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Birth trauma is recurrent around the globe where it is estimated that one third of the birthing people experience some forms of trauma and PTDS. This panel aims to examine contemporary narratives of birth trauma appeared in the last 20 years in an...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain (NEMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss,...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 6 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectrums of Embodiment in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    One interpretation of the NeMLA 2024 theme of Surplus centers on embodiment, and the transatlantic long nineteenth century was arguably a key historical moment for envisioning material embodiment in terms of surplus, or lack thereof. Representation...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Interdisciplinarity and 9 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Senses and War (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How do authors describe the sensory reality of war? What are the sounds of war, the smells of war (the textures, visuals, taste of war)? How are these described and how do they differ? These are questions that remain of interest to historians and...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Where is the Cognitive Turn Today? (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Subject Fields German History / Studies Where is the Cognitive Turn Today? (NeMLA '24, Boston MA, March 7-10, 2024) This panel addresses the current state of the ‘cognitive turn’ in German Studies. Abstracts are invited that...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Posthumanism, Biocentrism, and Ecocriticism in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Posthumanism, biocentrism, and ecocriticism have profoundly impacted the fields of literary studies and critical theory in the last two decades: more and more scholars have investigated how literature engages with the relationship between humans...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Ecocriticism,  Narratology and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    The Aesthetics of Humanity. The Influence of Literature on the Concept of Human Rights (Panel 19345, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore, Maryland), 10th-13th March 2022 The Aesthetics of Humanity. The Influence of Literature on the Concept of Human Rights Isabella Dr. Ferron (Università “La Sapienza”, Rome) This panel aims to analyze...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and law and 3 more
    Created on: 03.09.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Literary Form, Spirituality, and Empire in the Global 20th Century (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    I am inviting abstracts for a NeMLA 2022 panel I am putting together titled "Literary Form, Spirituality, and Empire in the Global 20th Century." This panel explores the interrelations between literary form and genre, spirituality, and...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 16.08.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    From the Page to the Streets: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Urban Literature (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Throughout the last century, cities worldwide have endured various crises, each of them reflected in literature and popular culture. Suburbanization, rapid globalization, regime change, and gentrification have altered many cities beyond...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 31.08.2020