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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2023
    Conceptualizing Sacred Languages and Their Visual Inimitability
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers AGYA Conference Conceptualizing Sacred Languages and Their Visual Inimitability 7 − 8 December 2023 SOAS University of London, United Kingdom Sacred Languages are languages that are considered to have a special, often religious,...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and philosophy and 5 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Aesthetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 20.10.2023
    The Tropes of Theory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Organisiert von Zaal Andronikashvili (ZfL), Susanne Strätling (FU Berlin) Annual workshop of the Research Committee on Literary Theory of the International...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  New Historicism and 6 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies (Amsterdam)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Keynote Speaker: Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University, author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Duke University Press, 2017) For this two-day, single-stream, and in-person conference,...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  11. 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
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    Komik - Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2024
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    [English version below] Thema: Komik Was ist komisch daran, dass Wednesday Addams in Tim Burtons TV-Serie Wednesday (USA 2022) zwei Plastiktüten voller Piranhas in den Pool entlässt, in dem die aufstrebenden Sportler der...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Intermediality,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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 Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023