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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
    Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Fareed Ben-Youssef Co-Organizer: Rebecca Ehrenwirth This seminar invites papers on queer homecoming from across East Asian literature and media which present and wrestle with expanded definitions of home outside of the normative...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Dismantling the matrix of oppression in Atwood's "the Testaments" and Parsipur's "Women without Men" (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Marjan Heidari Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men may seem to be different works due to different settings and the writers’ backgrounds. The Testaments, written in 2019, narrates the lives of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Near Eastern literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America.(ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Latin America, the convergence of financial crises, developmental and neoliberal policies, informal economies, and armed conflicts has created a backdrop of profound socio-political change spamming over fifty years. This seminar will examine how...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2025
    Écritures du travail : pour une approche comparatiste (1875 - 1975)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Publié le mardi 27 août 2024 Résumé Depuis la rationalisation du travail, accentuée au XIXe siècle par l’industrialisation, de nombreuses sociétés humaines sont majoritairement composées d’une classe laborieuse, paysanne, ouvrière et...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.02.2025
    Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English. Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the...

    Fields of research Comic,  Children's and young adult literature,  Aesthetics and 2 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  15. 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