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  1. 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
  2. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 30.09.2024
    Promotionsstipendien am Nachwuchskolleg „Texte. Zeichen. Medien“, Universität Erfurt
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Nachwuchskolleg „Texte. Zeichen. Medien“, das sich gezielt an literatur-, kultur- und medienwissenschaftliche Promotionsvorhaben richtet, ist eines der zertifizierten Graduiertenkollegs mit strukturiertem Promotionsprogramm, in deren Rahmen die...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Poetics
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  3. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 26.09.2024
    Rückkehr des Ressentiments? Stereotype in Medien, Kulturphilosophie und Literatur, Schloss Wiepersdorf
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Rückkehr des Ressentiments? Stereotype in Medien, Kulturphilosophie und Literatur 26.–29.09.2024 Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf Bettina-von-Arnim-Str. 13 14913 Niederer Fläming Ausgerichtet von Prof. Dr. Claudia Öhlschläger...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Aesthetics and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Uses of Prose (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Musab Abdul Salam Co-Organizer: Feba Rasheed During the colonial period, South Asia witnessed the rise of new literary forms, particularly in prose, that attempted to grapple with the complexities ushered in by...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Fareed Ben-Youssef Co-Organizer: Rebecca Ehrenwirth This seminar invites papers on queer homecoming from across East Asian literature and media which present and wrestle with expanded definitions of home outside of the normative...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Dismantling the matrix of oppression in Atwood's "the Testaments" and Parsipur's "Women without Men" (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Marjan Heidari Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men may seem to be different works due to different settings and the writers’ backgrounds. The Testaments, written in 2019, narrates the lives of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Near Eastern literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    speculation I riddle I proemdra (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Danai Mupotsa Co-Organizer: Ayabulela Mhlahlo speculation I riddle I proemdra Zukolwenkosi ZIkalala’s essay “Forced Landing in Dark Time”, speculates on the method of a proemdra arises—a strategy, or trick-form that combines...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Postcolonial studies,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America.(ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Latin America, the convergence of financial crises, developmental and neoliberal policies, informal economies, and armed conflicts has created a backdrop of profound socio-political change spamming over fifty years. This seminar will examine how...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his return to and rereading of Freud’s early writings on the interpretation of dreams, French psychoanalyst and translator of Freud, Jean Laplanche, makes the provocative claim that psychoanalytic theory went awry shortly after its inception, as a...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  11. 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
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality The invocation and use of stone in poetry – as image, metaphor, medium – has a long and varied history. Quarried, shaped, displaced and put to use in both material and...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.09.2024
    Visualität als Wirkungsdimension von Lyrik
    Submitted by: Andreas Degen

    Seit etwa zweihundert Jahren wird Lyrik in der Regel durch individuelle Lektüre rezipiert, das heißt der Text wird visuell wahrgenommen und verarbeitet. Die flächige Anordnung der Wörter und Verse, die Form der Buchstaben und Satzzeichen, Zeilen- und...

    Created on: 13.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Emergence of New World Imagination in the 19th and 20th Century: Understanding of the Global Colonial Countries through the Lens of Auto-Biographical Narratives, Memoirs And Travelogues (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    It is intriguing to examine how the documents from and about the global colonial countries written during the 19th and 20th century describe the extremely unstable social and political environments. With this an emergence of a new world order as well...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  autobiography,  travel literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  15. Andreas Degen
    University or institution: Universität Potsdam
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland