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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2022
    Narrating Dreams: Solution and Dissolution (Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Co-Editors: Juliet Flower MacCannell (University of California-Irvine, USA) Claude Fretz (Sun Yat-sen University, China) Rose Hsiu-li Juan (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) This special issue of The Wenshan Review,...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Narratology and 7 more
    Created on: 17.01.2022
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Debating World Literature through National Literature (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This seminar seeks papers that reflect on how national authors attempt to introduce and present their countries through the lens of the literature to the world readers, on the one hand, and how the concept of world literature functions at the...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    New Workers’ Literature: Re-Imagining Global Subaltern Narratives (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the ongoing global geopolitical, economic, environmental and pandemic crises, the world is never this divided and stratified. Among a multitude of verbal, visual and aural narratives in response to such social inequality, New Workers’ Literature...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Orientation in and through Texts (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Reinhard G. Mueller Co-Organizer: Timon Georg Boehm Orientation in and through Texts Organized on behalf of the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation How do we orient ourselves...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Hermeneutics,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Writing with the Mind: The Virtual Essence of Global Magical Realism (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This comparative literature panel will be founded on Eva Aldea’s Deleuzian treatment of magical realism, according to which “the Deleuzian ontological model of actual and virtual as two sides of One Being is invaluable to negotiating the...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Narratology and 3 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Unjust Philologies in the "Modern" University, ACLA 2022, Taipei
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    *Unjust Philologies in the "Modern" University* American Comparative Literature Association Seminar (June 15-18 2022; Deadline for abstracts: October 31, 2021 ) In this seminar, we wish to examine how people of different positionalities ...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Hermeneutics,  Poststructuralism and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    I want to die: The contemporary writer and their suicide, ACLA 2022 at National Taiwan Normal University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Josefa Ros Velasco (Complutense University of Madrid) From the turn of the 20th century to the present, debates over the meaning of suicide became a privileged site for efforts to discover the reasons why people commit suicide and how...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and sociology,  Narrative and 4 more
    Created on: 27.08.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 21.08.2021
    Obscenity! Blasphemy! Treason! An Interdisciplinary Conference on Censorship, National Taiwan University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Obscenity! Blasphemy! Treason! Justifications for censorship imply that censored objects hold the power to subvert moral, religious, and civic good. The censor assumes that power, turning the censored object into a hidden hypothetical danger, whose...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 2 more
    Created on: 13.08.2021