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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2024
    Femmes et canon littéraire à l’ère de la multimodalité (Dijon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    « Femmes et canon littéraire à l’ère de la multimodalité » Colloque international organisé les 7 et 8 novembre 2024 à la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Dijon Le colloque « Femmes et canon littéraire à l’ère de la multimodalité »,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Intermediality
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    This Magick Moment: Revolutionary Witchcraft and Cultural Change (NeMLA 2025) (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: Panel Something momentous is brewing within contemporary witchcraft scholarship. Borne from calls for revolution, justice, and cultural emendation, new voices in witchcraft studies are amending antiquity within the pages of...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Stigmatization: Exploring Infertility in Latin American Literature and Cinema (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel explores the intricate portrayals of infertility in Latin American Literature and Cinema, focusing on stigmatization and its interplay with trauma and intersectionality. Infertility, often laden with societal and cultural implications, is...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2025
    "Indigenous Ecocriticism: Paradigm Shifts in Environmental Literature" (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Environmental Humanities is experiencing an unprecedented influx of creative and critical works from writers of indigenous literature. The immense literary revolution associated with climate change and environmental discourse is a contributing...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 1 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Family Abolition and Social Revolution: Theories of Social Reproduction Now (NeMLA 25)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The last twenty years have marked a wave of renewed interest in social reproduction theory, from the republication of work associated with the 1970s Wages for Housework campaign from theorists like Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, and Silvia...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Silent Revolution: Silence as a form of female resistance (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In her seminal work, Oscillation Between Power and Denial (1981), Julia Kristeva presents a compelling argument: “Estranged from language, women are visionaries, dancers who suffer as they speak” (167). This statement encapsulates the prevalent...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  11. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 11.09.2024
    ilb 2024 | QUEERE UND TRANS* ZEITLICHKEITEN: KOLLEKTIVITÄTEN IN POESIE
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Getilgte Vergangenheiten, prekäre Gegenwart und unvorstellbare Zukünfte – solche Erfahrungen teilen viele queere und trans* Menschen noch heute. Dies wird spürbar in Zsuka Nagys pointierter Lyrik, Łęko Zygmuntównes poetischem Laboratorium und Sergei...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Birth Trauma (2025 NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Birth trauma is recurrent around the globe where it is estimated that one third of the birthing people experience some forms of trauma and PTDS. This panel aims to examine contemporary narratives of birth trauma appeared in the last 20 years in an...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Bodies in (R)Evolution: Labor, Embodiment, and Resistance (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The covid-19 pandemic not only sparked conversations on the gendered division of household chores and care but also brought to light the paradox of the “essential-worker.” Despite being deemed “essential” to society, these workers-often women,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  14. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 18.08.2024
    BMBF-Verbundprojekt „Lost in Archives“ wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) (E 13 TV-G-U, 65%-Teilzeit)
    Submitted by: Marília Jöhnk

    Das BMBF-Verbundprojekt „Lost in Archives“ (Förderlinie „Innovative Frauen im Fokus“) sucht nach unsichtbaren und vergessenen Frauen, die im 18. und im frühen 19. Jahrhundert in männlich dominierten Bereichen (Theater, Literaturkritik,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Literary historiography and 6 more
    Created on: 17.07.2024
  15. Anna Stemmann
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Ecocriticism; Literature and cultural studies; Children's and young adult literature