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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Uses of Prose (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Musab Abdul Salam Co-Organizer: Feba Rasheed During the colonial period, South Asia witnessed the rise of new literary forms, particularly in prose, that attempted to grapple with the complexities ushered in by...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Alternative Poetics of Environment in South Asia (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Sumera Saleem Co-Organizer: Bharatwaj Iyer In his 2009 text entitled Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz describes the political power of art in imagining and reimagining “other ways of...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Inter-Asian Literary Relations (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What are the textual modes of inter-Asian literary interactions? What are the forms of intertextuality across the literatures and languages of Asia? This seminar aims to examine the inter-Asian network of literary relations that have developed...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  East Asian literature,  South Asian literature and 4 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    10. Deutsch-Asiatischer Studientag Literatur- und Geisteswissenschaften, Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers für den 10. Deutsch-Asiatischen Studientag Literatur- und Geisteswissenschaften Termin: 13. Dezember 2024 Tagungsort: Mori-Ōgai-Gedenkstätte, Luisenstraße 39, 10117 Berlin Einsendeschluss: 30. September...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  East Asian literature,  South Asian literature
    Created on: 19.07.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    THE BEATS, RADICALISM, AND THE BIPOLAR WORLD - 13th Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN)
    Submitted by: Florian Zappe

    Call for Papers The Beats, Radicalism, and the Bipolar World European Beat Studies Network 13th Annual Conference University of Hildesheim September 15-17, 2025 Organizers: Heike...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) and 9 more
    Created on: 12.07.2024
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.06.2024
    „‚Tipping Points‘. Balanceakte in der Literatur und Kultur“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28. Juni 2024)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    In Zeiten großer Unsicherheit ob der (In-)Stabilität von Strukturen aller Arten sehen sich die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften mehr denn je mit Fragen nach Verantwortung, Abhängigkeiten und Verletzlichkeit konfrontiert: Die Verstrickung von...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 24.05.2024
    Grenzgängerin. Die Reportage-/literatur als entgrenztes Medium der Öffentlichkeitsgestaltung, Dortmund
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Reportage und die Reportageliteratur sind Medien des Dazwischenstehens, des Dazwischentretens – des Intervenierens und der Intervention. Nicht nur stehen sie durch ihre journalistische Faktenbasiertheit und ihre literarischen Qualitäten zwischen...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and media studies,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 26.04.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2024
    The Seen and Unseen in Asian / Asian American Literature and Studies (roundtable) (SAMLA 96)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the U.S., immigrants of Asian origin have historically fallen victim to both extreme violent legal measures and racist stereotype labels—such as the infamous “Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882” and/or other major laws against the naturalization of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  East Asian literature,  South Asian literature and 1 more
    Created on: 22.04.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.04.2024
    Call for Abstracts: Studientag: „‚Tipping Points‘. Balanceakte in der Literatur und Kultur“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28. Juni 2024)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Frist für Einreichungen: 23. April 2024 In Zeiten großer Unsicherheit ob der (In-)Stabilität von Strukturen aller Arten sehen sich die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften mehr denn je mit Fragen nach Verantwortung, Abhängigkeiten und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 14.03.2024
  10. 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
  11. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 25.01.2024
    Lecture Series: Border Temporalities. Doing Literature in a World of Walls - Vibha Maurya: The Tragedy of Building Walls between Nations, Religions and Genders: Geetanjali Shree's Playful Response in "Tomb of Sand" (2018)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Susanne Klengel, project Border Temporalities and/in Literature , Research Area 1: "Competing Communities" in cooperation with the Institute of Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin . This event is part of the...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 08.01.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.12.2023
    CfP: Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen (22.12.2023)
    Submitted by: Daniel Wendt

    Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen Literaturwissenschaftliches Symposium, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, 26.-28.9.2024 Der Satire ist nicht leicht beizukommen. Nicht erst die jüngeren Diskussionen um...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 9 more
    Created on: 05.12.2023
  13. Daniel Wendt
    University or institution: Marburg
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary historiography; Literary theory; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comedy; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  14. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 14.09.2023
    "Literarische Sachbücher. Formen – Funktionen – Praktiken", Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Literarische Sachbücher. Formen – Funktionen – Praktiken Workshop von Non Fiktion, gefördert vom Deutschen Literaturfonds und in Verbindung mit dem DFG-Graduiertenkolleg „Gegenwart/Literatur“ Organisation Christian Meierhofer...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Oral poetry / Orality,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 4 more
    Created on: 11.09.2023