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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature beyond Epistemic colonization (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Metin Boşnak Undoubtedly, the concepts of decolonization and postcolonialism emerge from a profound discontent with the dominant paradigms of Western, male, and white literatures that have dictated the generation of knowledge for...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Paula Cucurella Co-Organizer: Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier In contemporary translation theory, two predominant perspectives shape the discourse: one posits that universals are translatable across languages through various...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Marie Huber Co-Organizer: Maziyar Faridi If poetry, as Maurice Blanchot writes, is that which always eludes philosophical questioning, what philosophy of history could emerge from thinking with the poetic cinemas of the Global...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi From civil wars to military dictatorships, from global conflicts to racial, religious, or ethnic genocides, historical violence, in its many forms, fractures societies, deepens divisions, and leaves lasting...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 04.10.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Towards a Global Discourse: The “Ethical Turn” in Western and Arab-Islamic Thought (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Bouchra Benlemlih Co-Organizer: Mustapha Kharoua Since its inception in the 1990s, the “ethical turn” has laid the groundwork for the exploration of the ethics and politics of representation. Literature stands out as one of the...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 04.10.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    James Baldwin and the Eruption of the Ethical (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In interview footage from 1963 curated by Karen Thorsen for The Price of the Ticket (1989) there is a scene wherein James Baldwin makes a claim about value: “From my point of view, no label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and indeed no...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 27.09.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Web3 and the Question Concerning Technology (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Digital technologies have transformed our personal lives as well as our political, economic, and social contexts. The Internet-ization (if not the internationalization) of the world by technology has enabled unprecedented forms of cooperation and...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and visual studies and 1 more
    Created on: 27.09.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    What Are the Key Concepts of Literary Study? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Delineating the Concept-Field of Literature: What Are the Basic Units of Analysis of Literary Study? In contrast to many other academic fields where the subject matter is clearly defined across its given scalar range—such as the cell and the...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 3 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Writing about extinction is an aporetic coming together of our current geological reality and imagination that borders on speculation. It is an act that opens up the ecological, the ontological, and simultaneously interrogates the disappearance of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2024
    Republic of Letters: The Scholar and Scholarly Communities from Petrarch to the Present, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Republic of Letters: The Scholar and Scholarly Communities from Petrarch to the Present Graduate Student Conference at Johns Hopkins University April 4–5, 2025 Submission Deadline for Abstracts: November 15 to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Zeitgenoss*innenschaften. Formen von Gegenwartsteilnahme
    Submitted by: Fabian Lampart

    Die Tagung soll aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, anhand verschiedener Medien und Gattungen und mit Blick auf unterschiedliche historische und kulturelle Kontexte konzeptionelle Zugänge zu „Zeitgenoss*innenschaften“ vorstellen, vorschlagen und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 19.09.2024
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 03.11.2024
    Stellen als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*innen am Exzellenzcluster 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" in Verbindung mit einem Promotionsplatz an der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule
    Submitted by: Rebecca Mak

    Ziel des Exzellenzclusters EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" ist es, die Konzeption von Literatur in globaler Perspektive grundlegend neu zu denken. Mit dem Konzept der „Temporal Communities“ wird dabei...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 10.09.2024