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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.09.2023
    Coding Utopias
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is no shortage of critiques of utopian imaginaries for being coded in colonial, Western, masculine, Christian, and extractive ideologies. Utopia has been, and continues to be, an often violent gesture that chooses the future of select groups...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    La forêt dans les mondes ibériques et ibéro-américains (Limoges)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    La Société Française des Hispanistes et Ibéro-Américanistes (SoFHIA) tiendra son XLI congrès du 5 au 8 juin 2024 à l'Université de Limoges. Il portera sur "La forêt dans les mondes ibériques et ibéro-américains" et se vut ouvert à toutes les...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature,  Portugese literature and 3 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 04.09.2023
    Catastrophes imminentes à travers les siècles : la littérature et les arts face au désastre (Vancouver, Canada)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    10e édition de la Conférence des Étudiants Diplômés Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Catastrophes imminentes à travers les siècles : la Littérature et les Arts face au...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Spanish literature and 8 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  4. 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
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 05.10.2023
    Doing Queer Literature in a Global Perspective
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Doing Queer Literature in a Global Perspective Organised by Michail Leivadiotis, Samira Spatzek, Nina Tolksdorf, Research Area 1: "Competing Communities". The conference seeks to discuss the role of literature in the construction of queer...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  World Literature,  Interdisciplinarity and 2 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.09.2023
    Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Date: November 4-5, 2023 Location: University of Oxford, UK Online option available Cost: 170 GBP 90 GBP (Online) Abstract: Deadline September 17, 2023 “Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and natural science and 3 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.09.2023
    Psyche and Symbol: a Transdisciplinary Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: Psyche and Symbol Conference Date: October 14-15, 2023 Location: October 14: The Association of Jungian Analysts’ Centre in London and Online October 15: Online “You see, man is in need of a symbolic life –...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    “Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make”: The Prison(er) in Literature and Film (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Imprisoned in 1642, Richard Lovelace penned the words that became his best-known: “Stone walls do not a prison make,/Nor iron walls a cage:/Minds innocent and quiet take/That for a hermitage” (“To Althea, From Prison”). Lovelace’s poem points to...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Saying the Unsayable: Narrative Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Trauma is typically considered ‘responsive to and constitutive of “modernity”’ (Micale and Lerner 2001). Certainly, as argued by Mark Seltzer, ‘modernity has come to be understood under the sign of the wound’: ‘the modern subject has become...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Poetics,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  10. 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
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Pariser Str. 1, Eingang Meierottostr. 8, 10719 Berlin Organisiert von Kyung-Ho Cha, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ivana Perica (alle ZfL), Johanna-Charlotte Horst...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  12. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.09.2023
    1 Promotionsstelle (65% TVL 13) mit einem Forschungsschwerpunkt auf außereuropäischen Literaturen und/oder Künsten
    Submitted by: Marlen Stelter

    Das DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2291 „Gegenwart/Literatur. Geschichte, Theorie und Praxeologie eines Verhältnisses“ der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Bonn besetzt zum 01. Januar 2024 befristet für 3 Jahre eine Promotionsstelle als ...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 17 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  13. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.09.2023
    3 Promotionsstellen: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*in, 65%, TVL 13
    Submitted by: Marlen Stelter

    Das DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2291 „Gegenwart/Literatur. Geschichte, Theorie und Praxeologie eines Verhältnisses“ der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Bonn besetzt zum 01. Januar 2024 befristet für 3 Jahre 3 Promotionsstellen als ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries and 21 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Extending Jouissance: The Excessive and The Transgressive in Contemporary Texts (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Jouissance, the iconic Lacanian concept, means “surplus enjoyment,” where excessive pleasure converts into unpleasure and even pain after going beyond the subject’s affective or sensory capacity. Inherited from Freudian psychoanalysis, combined with...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Intermediality,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.09.2023
    Loneliness - 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Conference online (via Zoom) CFP: What makes us happy and content in our life? Some people may point to fabulous fame, fortune, or money. Some may say that the key to happiness are interpersonal relationships. But what if someone is...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023