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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
    speculation I riddle I proemdra (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Danai Mupotsa Co-Organizer: Ayabulela Mhlahlo speculation I riddle I proemdra Zukolwenkosi ZIkalala’s essay “Forced Landing in Dark Time”, speculates on the method of a proemdra arises—a strategy, or trick-form that combines...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Postcolonial studies,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his return to and rereading of Freud’s early writings on the interpretation of dreams, French psychoanalyst and translator of Freud, Jean Laplanche, makes the provocative claim that psychoanalytic theory went awry shortly after its inception, as a...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Orientation to Texts and Knowledge: From Antiquity to AI (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How do we orient ourselves to texts and knowledge across time and technological advancements? How do texts and knowledge in turn orientate and transform us, and how do they influence the world we navigate, particularly in an increasingly...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and philosophy,  Poetics
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality The invocation and use of stone in poetry – as image, metaphor, medium – has a long and varied history. Quarried, shaped, displaced and put to use in both material and...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Emergence of New World Imagination in the 19th and 20th Century: Understanding of the Global Colonial Countries through the Lens of Auto-Biographical Narratives, Memoirs And Travelogues (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    It is intriguing to examine how the documents from and about the global colonial countries written during the 19th and 20th century describe the extremely unstable social and political environments. With this an emergence of a new world order as well...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  autobiography,  travel literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    ‘Prompting’ World Literature: Gerenative AI, Comparative Aesthetics, New Hegemonies, New Peripheries? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The surge of generative AI poses new challenges for conceptualising world literature and comparative aesthetics. While AI is trained using large datasets containing ‘human’-created works, critical discourse seems to (tacitly) posit a new ‘humanist’...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  10. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 03.11.2024
    Stellen als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*innen am Exzellenzcluster 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" in Verbindung mit einem Promotionsplatz an der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule
    Submitted by: Rebecca Mak

    Ziel des Exzellenzclusters EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" ist es, die Konzeption von Literatur in globaler Perspektive grundlegend neu zu denken. Mit dem Konzept der „Temporal Communities“ wird dabei...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 10.09.2024
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    International Conference "Romanticism’s Colonial Legacies in and Beyond Europe: Critical Perspectives on Art and Visual Culture" (10-12 October 2024, Goethe University Frankfurt)
    Submitted by: Frederike Middelhoff

    Romaticism's Colonial Legacies in and beyond Europe: Critical Perspecives on Art and Visual Culture International Conference 10-12 October 2024, Goethe University Frankfurt, GER Organised by Prof. Dr. Mechthild Fend (Frankfurt),...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Media studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 10.09.2024
  12. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 03.11.2024
    Ausschreibungen der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für 2025
    Submitted by: Rebecca Mak

    An der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für Literaturwissenschaftliche Studien (FSGS) und am Exzellenzcluster “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” (EXC TC) werden theoretisch und konzeptionell herausragende...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Call for Participants: "The Return of Myths in the 21st Century: How Cultural Narratives Shape Reality" (Paris, May 13-16, 2025)
    Submitted by: Christian Baier

    The contemporary world is marred by division. Everywhere, antagonistic factions are locked in apparently irreconcilable opposition, incapable of finding common ground. Beneath all ideological differences lies an epistemic fragmentation of society ...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  14. Raphael Stübe
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: New Historicism; World Literature; Game Studies; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 17.09.2024
    Tagung Konzepte und Wahrnehmungsmodi der Natur in der neueren Lyrik – komparatistische Zugänge
    Submitted by: Adela Sophia Sabban

    17.9. – 19.9.2024 Universität Trier, Konferenzsaal: N2 Organisiert von: Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl (Slavische Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Trier), Prof. Dr. Ralph Müller (Neuere deutschsprachige...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 8 more
    Created on: 06.09.2024