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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Les littératures des mondes de l’Islam à l’épreuve des contestations. Représenter, d’Europe en Orient, le refus de la norme (Lille)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Université de Lille, jeudi 27 et vendredi 28 février 2025 Les propositions de communication, d’environ 300 mots, assorties d’un titre et de quelques lignes de présentation bio-bibliographique, seront à envoyer par courriel au plus tard le...

    Fields of research South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey),  North African literature,  Near Eastern literature and 7 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2024
    Le roman d'espionnage (revue Fixxion) - prolongé jusqu'au 31 août
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel prolongé jusqu'au 31 août Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine, n°30 : « Le roman d’espionnage » Numéro coordonné par Chloé Chaudet et Alexandre Gefen Appel à contributions / Call for papers Scroll...

    Fields of research Novel,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  3. Alexandra Irimia
    University or institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: Narratology; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Novels and Book History at MAPACA 2024 (2024 Annual MAPACA Conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This cfp welcomes all explorations of the novel and/or the history of the book as they interact with American and/or popular culture. Subjects include genre fiction, authors and authorship, literary time periods, cultures, settings, reading,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies and 2 more
    Created on: 21.06.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.06.2024
    Rhetorical Approaches to Literature (PAMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    *** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 16 *** PAMLA Annual Conference Palm Springs, California November 6-10, 2024 "Rhetorical Approaches to Literature" (Paper / Panel) This standing session is open to all papers that explore some aspect...

    Fields of research Rhetoric,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)
    Created on: 10.06.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.07.2024
    Kunst – Komik – Kritik. Normverstöße im Kontext von Zensur im 20. Jahrhundert, Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Was Zensur genau ist, darauf lässt sich keine einheitliche Antwort geben. Nikola Roßbach beschreibt das Problem in ihrer Monographie pointiert: „Es gibt unzählige Zensurdefinitionen: weite und enge, juristische und alltagssprachliche, politische und...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literary genre,  Rhetoric and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2024
  7. Moritz Klenk
    University or institution: Hochschule Mannheim
    Fields of research: Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Empirical Aesthetics; Media studies; Oral poetry / Orality; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy

  8. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 06.06.2024
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 15 more
    Created on: 22.05.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2024
    “The Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Decay and destruction have long been sources of fascination, inspiration and contemplation in artistic and cultural contexts. From the crumbling ruins of ancient civilizations to the ravages of time on natural landscapes, from the haunting beauty of...

    Fields of research Intermediality,  Poetics,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 29.04.2024
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 22.04.2024
    Ringvorlesung: Fake, Lüge, Desinformation. Über die Literatur zwischen Fiktion und Täuschung, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Saarbrücker literaturwissenschaftliche Ringvorlesung im Festsaal des Rathauses Sankt Johann der Landeshauptstadt Saarbrücken Sommersemester 2024, montags 19 Uhr Fakes, Lügen und Desinformationen sind Instrumente der hybriden...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 12.04.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.05.2024
    Bin ichʼs oder bin ichʼs nicht? Bachmanns Echos. Ein Nachwuchs-Kolloquium
    Submitted by: Henrike Ribbe

    * English version see below* Ort der Veranstaltung: Literaturhaus München / Ausstellung „Ingeborg Bachmann. ‚Ich bin es nicht. Ich bin ʼ s.‘“ (Mai – November 2024) Datum: Fr., 25. und Sa., 26. Oktober 2024 ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Poststructuralism,  Deconstruction and 5 more
    Created on: 05.04.2024
  12. Charlotte Rathjen
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Literary historiography; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Novel; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    MLA-Panel 2025: Narrating Spectacle around 1800, New Orleans
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Modern Language Associate Conference New Orleans, LA January 9-12, 2025 Narrating Spectacle around 1800 Audiences for eighteenth-century theater were more likely to be reading accounts of performances on the page than seeing them...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Novel,  Drama and 3 more
    Created on: 18.03.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2024
    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period, Frankfurt a. M.
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period at Frankfurt am Main, September 2025 Comedy, satire, Lucianism – whenever one of these keywords is used in connection with Early Modern literature, it...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 13.03.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024