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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  2. Joséphine Jacquier
    University or institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    Fields of research: French literature; Italian literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Lyric poetry; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    Material Girls & Boys: Narrated Fashion in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    (March 7th - 9th, 2024 Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Clothing is a daily feature of every child’s life and this significance carries through into the media created for children and young people. From picture books for toddlers...

    Fields of research Empirical Aesthetics,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 13 more
    Created on: 02.05.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2023
    Postcolonial Narrations Postgraduate Forum: Queering Postcolonial Worlds
    Submitted by: Corina Wieser-Cox

    In Queer Phenomenology (2006), Sara Ahmed explores racial and sexual orientations in the world, writing “Queer orientations are those that put within reach bodies that have been made unreachable by the lines of conventional genealogy. Queer...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from UK and Ireland and 8 more
    Created on: 05.04.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NeMLA 2023: North African Women Writers (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From Nawal el Saadawi’s writings against FGM to Tunisian protests advocating for changes to inheritance law, this panel considers North Africa’s women writers in conversation with the conference theme, resilience. How have these women writers...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2022
    CFP-Kremenets Comparative Studies-Vol. 12-2022-2023
    Submitted by: Denys Chyk

    Dear Colleague, Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets and NGO “Volyn Cultural Initiatives” (Ukraine) invites you to submit a paper to the 12th annual scientific journal “Kremenets Comparative Studies” ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 75 more
    Created on: 18.08.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.07.2022
    Celan-Perspektiven 2022 – Sexualität und Daseinsentwurf in Celans Dichtung
    Submitted by: Diego León-Villagrá

    Die Celan-Forschung in ihren Anfängen in den 1960er Jahren konzentrierte sich nach der Zeit der Verdrängung der Shoah in der Adenauer-Ära notwendigerweise vor allem auf den Aspekt des Totengedenkens. Dabei wurden andere dominante Charakteristika...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 07.06.2022
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.07.2022
    Ausrichtung 13. Studierendenkongress der Komparatistik
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Schön war er – der SKK2022 zum Thema ‚Literatur & Zukunft‘ an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal. Nun übergeben wir den SKK gerne in die Hände der nächsten Veranstalter*innen und öffnen daher unser Postfach für Eure Bewerbung, die folgende Aspekte...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Didactics of Literature and 22 more
    Created on: 01.06.2022
  9. Sophie Emilia Seidler
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and cultural studies; Lyric poetry; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2022
    Liebesgeflüster und Wutgeschrei: Affektkommunikation in Antike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit / Whisperings of Love - Cries of Anger: Communicating Emotions in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
    Submitted by: Thomas Kullmann

    Emerging Scholars Workshop des Interdisziplinären Instituts für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN) Osnabrück | 12.–14.10.2022 Spätestens seit dem ‚Emotional Turn‘ der (späten) 1990er-Jahre ist die Emotionsforschung in den Kultur- und...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 33 more
    Created on: 15.02.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.02.2022
    12. Studierendenkongress der Komparatistik: „Literatur & Zukunft“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28.02.2022)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Der Studierendenkongress der Komparatistik (SKK), der in seiner 12. Edition am 27. und am 28.05.2022 an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal stattfinden wird, bietet einen Rahmen für deutsch- und englischsprachige Bachelor- und Master-Studierende...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography and 26 more
    Created on: 13.01.2022
  12. Anna Maria Spener
    University or institution: Universität Paderborn
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from Israel; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Lyric poetry; Prose; travel literature; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  13. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 25.02.2022
    Las Vanguardistas. Spanish Women Poets in Transnational Contexts (1920–1975), Journal of Avant-Garde Studies (JAGS)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Journal of Avant-Garde Studies (JAGS) and its guest editors invite submissions for the special issue “Las Vanguardistas: Spanish Women Poets in Transnational Contexts (1920–1975)”. By proposing this special issue, we aim to foster a...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 20.09.2021
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Encounters and Dis-encounters in Latin American Erotic Poetry and Narrative (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organization: Northeast Modern Language Association Event: 53rd NeMLA Annual Convention This panel explores concepts and stereotypes lying behind the vision of love and eroticism expressed by Latin American authors. This panel...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 30.08.2021
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    État des lieux: Women in French and Francophone Noir Fiction, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel: “État des lieux”: Women in French and Francophone Noir Fiction NeMLA 2022 Baltimore, MD March 10-13 Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Sept. 30th Session Description: Apart from some chapters and articles...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  North African literature and 4 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021