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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Relationality in Queer, Trans, and Crip Asian/American and Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultural Critiques (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: stef torralba Co-Oranizer: Phuong Vuong Since its inception, the interdisciplinary field of queer of color critique has recalibrated commonplace understandings of ethnic and racial difference by foregrounding the imbricated...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Carlo Arrigoni Co-Organizer: Irene Bulla What makes a narrator unreliable, and through which textual strategies is unreliability established? What is the role of unreliable narration in the development of the novel...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 6 more
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  3. 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
  4. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 16.10.2024
    Ringvorlesung Kanon und Kultur: Gegenstände der Literaturwissenschaften (Universität Paderborn)
    Submitted by: Hendrik Schlieper

    Ringvorlesung an der Universität Paderborn, Wintersemester 2024 / 2025 (in Präsenz und virtuell)

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 10.10.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Documentary Fever (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rosana Hernández In the short story “Documentary Novelist,” by Argentinian author Sergio Chejfec, the narrator tries to explain to a hotel worker his determination to have his picture taken with the hotel’s macaws: “I explain to her...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  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: 15.10.2024
    Deadline extended: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    Workshop, 16–17 January 2025, Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin In her epistolary novel La Toile (2017), Sandra Lucbert contrasts literary language with digital language as two clashing constraints: the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 9 more
    Created on: 02.10.2024
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Symphonic Discourses and Connections for Interracial Alliances in Asian Diaspora and AAPI Communities (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Liyang Dong Contact the Seminar Organizers Commending Goethe’s and Erich Auerbach’s philological approach to world literature, particularly Goethe’s s holistic understanding of Islamic literature and culture, Edward Said...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  10. 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
  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: 07.10.2024
    Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950), Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop "Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950)" 13.–15. Februar 2025 an der Universität Bonn Organisation: Fabian Lampart (Potsdam),...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.12.2024
    "Stay or Leave? Family Survival Tactics during the Age of Emigrations, 1770-1830s" (Interdisciplinary Workshop, 24-26 July 2025, Bad Homburg v.d.H.)
    Submitted by: Frederike Middelhoff

    Stay or Leave? Family Survival Tactics during the Age of Emigrations, 1770-1830s Interdisciplinary Workshop at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Bad Homburg v.d.H. // 24-26 July 2025 ...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 19.09.2024
  14. 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
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Roaring of the Twenties: Modernity and the Energetic Turn (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Daniel Brandlechner

    The 1920s are a period of profound social, cultural, and technological transformation across the globe. Known as the Roaring Twenties in the US, Goldene Zwanziger in Germany, años locos in Argentina, Les Années Folles in France, or Anni Ruggenti in...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 17.09.2024