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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 27.12.2024
    Who is in charge here? Konzeptionen von Natur, Kultur und Agency angesichts der ökologischen Krise
    Submitted by: Patrick Lars Müller

    Wissenschaftliche Tagung: 3. - 4. April 2025, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder Die ökologische Krise hat weitreichende Auswirkungen und manifestiert sich in vielfältiger Weise. Deutlich wird das auch an den Kontroversen und...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.11.2024
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 15.11.2024
    Online Workshop - The Nuclear Age, Redux: Forms and Modes of Environmental Change
    Submitted by: Annika Schadewaldt

    The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the nuclear – as both material reality and cultural phenomenon. From resurfaced fears of nuclear warfare and disasters to debates about the use of nuclear technology as a sustainable...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literary theory,  Ecocriticism and 4 more
    Created on: 31.10.2024
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 14.11.2024
    Büchners Elemente
    Submitted by: Oliver Völker

    Büchners Elemente Jahrestagung der Büchner-Gesellschaft 2024 14.-16. November 2024, GU Frankfurt, IG-Farben-Gebäude, Eisenhower-Saal (Raum 1.314) Eine Veranstaltung der Georg Büchner Gesellschaft sowie des Instituts für Deutsche...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and natural science and 2 more
    Created on: 18.10.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Cultures of Monoculture (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amber Bal Co-Organizer: Ben Beitler Monocultural farming practices are indissociable from the transformations that characterize life in the 21st century: climate change, urbanization and the dematerialization of labor are but a...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 14.10.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Brittany Frodge Co-Organizer: Kelly Ferguson Due to varied complex historical processes such as industrialization, urbanization, and colonization, the rural has often been articulated in literature and other cultural...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 14.10.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2024
    RECHTSENTWÜRFE IN LITERATUR ZUM ANTHROPOZÄN
    Submitted by: Alexandra Juster

    RECHTSENTWÜRFE IN LITERATUR ZUM ANTHROPOZÄN WORKSHOP – INNSBRUCK – 16.-17. April 2025 - ONLINE Zeitplan: Einreichung der Beitragsvorschläge (knappes, aussagekräftiges Exposé Ihres Vorhabens mit...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and law
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  7. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 23.10.2024
    Poetry Debates IV: Lyrik nach der Natur (Hamburg, 2024)
    Submitted by: Juliane Engel

    Im Zentrum der vierten Reihe der Poetry Debates des Forschungsprojekts "Poetry in the Digital Age" stehen drängende poetische und politische Fragen rund um das menschliche Verhältnis zur Umwelt in Zeiten der Klimakatastrophe. Im Rahmen von vier...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 1 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Modernism in the Twenty-First Century (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Chris Gortmaker Co-Organizer: Joseph Staten Can the modernism genie truly be sequestered in its twentieth-century bottle? This seminar invites papers that explore the possible persistence of aesthetic modernism in...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Cristina Carnemolla Co-Organizer: Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez The term extractivism describes an economic model based on the circulation of non-renewable "natural" resources to world market metropolises from territories...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  10. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 01.11.2024
    Assistant Professor of German Studies, Rice University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description Rice University’s Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures seeks to hire a tenure track assistant professor of German Studies with open field specialization to begin July 1, 2025. The successful candidate will...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 4 more
    Created on: 27.09.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rini Tarafder Co-Organizer: Amrapali Chatterjee Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature's Cold War (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Cate Reilly What is the place of Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies in the comparative literary inquiry? Of comparative literary inquiry, with its emphasis on theory and the critical praxis of the left, in a Slavic,...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 4 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Yuanfei Wang Contact the Seminar Organizers In The Novel and the Sea , Margaret Cohen argues that the dominant narrative about the rise of the western novel occurring on land could be revised with a consideration of sea...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  World Literature,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic This seminar takes up the concept of displacement from two different vantage points. One is a consideration of how anthropogenically generated processes of environmental change can lead to a transformation of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Michele Chinitz Co-Organizer: Shoumik Bhattacharya This seminar hopes to engage with forms of social and political organizing that do not conform to binary understandings of the imperative towards assimilation or...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024