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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Varieties of the Impersonal (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Elias Kleinbock Co-Organizer: Joseph Henry Contact the Seminar Organizers Impersonality has long been invoked as a marker of modernity and of its literary-aesthetic correlate in modernism: anonymity and ennui ...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Wither the Great Books? Or Whither Great Books? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Kenneth Sammond This seminar askes us the explore the relevance, merits, and demerits of the great books approach to literature, its use of shared inquiry, its rootedness in a forming and reforming canons, and its consideration that...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rini Tarafder Co-Organizer: Amrapali Chatterjee Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature's Cold War (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Cate Reilly What is the place of Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies in the comparative literary inquiry? Of comparative literary inquiry, with its emphasis on theory and the critical praxis of the left, in a Slavic,...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 4 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Yuanfei Wang Contact the Seminar Organizers In The Novel and the Sea , Margaret Cohen argues that the dominant narrative about the rise of the western novel occurring on land could be revised with a consideration of sea...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  World Literature,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The World Republic of Rejection (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amanda Malone Gwendolyn Brooks began work on what would become her first novel, Maud Martha, in 1944, first submitting the manuscript to her editors in 1947. And yet, her novel would not be published until almost a decade later....

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic This seminar takes up the concept of displacement from two different vantage points. One is a consideration of how anthropogenically generated processes of environmental change can lead to a transformation of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  9. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 05.11.2024
    German Assistant Professor, Princeton
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We invite applications for a position at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor to begin September 1, 2025. We seek a dynamic, creative, productive scholar and teacher with a focus on literature, media, and performance since 1945. We are...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2024
    Theoriestile: Schreibweisen, Denkfiguren, Zirkulationsformen
    Submitted by: Michael Gamper

    Workshop im Rahmen des Projekts „Theoriezirkulationen. Themen, Prozesse und Geschichten einer globalisierten Schreibweise” (EXC „Temporal Communities“), FU Berlin, 19./20. Juni 2025 Organisiert von Michael Gamper und Oliver Simons Seit...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory
    Created on: 21.09.2024
  11. Michael Gamper
    University or institution: FU Berlin
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Literature and natural science; Prose; Aesthetics

  12. 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
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 09.10.2024
    Magier, Heiler, Ingenieure. Reputationskarrieren und publizistische Tricks zwischen dem 15. und 17. Jahrhundert, Heidelberg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Der Typus des frühneuzeitlichen Magus erscheint abhängig vom höfischen, klösterlichen oder städtischen Kontext in je unterschiedlicher Ausprägung. Er wird einerseits als Betrüger und Teufelsbündner verfemt, andererseits als Unterhaltungskünstler,...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century),  Literature of the 16th century and 1 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Michele Chinitz Co-Organizer: Shoumik Bhattacharya This seminar hopes to engage with forms of social and political organizing that do not conform to binary understandings of the imperative towards assimilation or...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  15. 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