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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
    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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Pratiques et formes hors-normes : marginalisation, réappropriation et extractivisme culturel (Bruxelles)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS Pratiques et formes hors-normes : Marginalisation, réappropriation, et extractivisme culturel Université Libre de Bruxelles, les 9 et 16 octobre 2024. Comité organisateur : Emma Lozano...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Radical Bodies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Human bodies and, by extension, human subjectivity have long been contested spaces. Against traditional Eurocentric and anthropocentric definitions of the human as a stable identity abstracted from its surrounding environment, movements like...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Archival Activisms: Resistance In/Through Print
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel is sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Caucus, NeMLA Drawing from several decades’ worth of critical re-evaluations of the structures and limitations of the literary archive, in which “retroactivist”, recovery-oriented ethics...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Reader-response criticism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Women's Progress in African Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From an early stage, the modern African novel has recognized the unjust challenges faced by African women. Even novels of the 1950's, such as Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (1954), bear witness to the difficulties that women face in...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    Drawing the Line: Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Drawing the Line: Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts The New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College Where do we draw the line? If we take the aphorism that morals have aesthetic criteria, then how should we think about...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 4 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  15. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 04.11.2024
    Graduiertenkolleg "Politik der Aufklärung": Stelle einer/eines Wiss. Mitarbeiterin*Mitarbeiters (m-w-d), 100 % TV-L 13, 60 Monate, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Martin Luther University , IZEA RTG 2999 "Politics of Enlightenment" Scientific Employee (m-f-d), Full time, TV-L 13, 60 months Institution Type: Other Location: Germany Position: ...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024