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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 18.11.2024
    2025 DDGC Conference "Interdependence and Solidarity Formations in German Studies and the Arts"
    Submitted by: Jeannette Oholi

    April 10-12, 2025 (Online) The fifth biennial DDGC Conference will draw on our collective’s long tradition of coming together in community to take stock of the field and anticipate better structures for it in the future. We will gather under...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 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
    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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Genre(s) et frontière(s)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Argumentaire La frontière est l’une des questions cruciales de la littérature comparée. L’étude des œuvres littéraires issues de contextes culturels et linguistiques différents mène à définir et à interroger les points de contact, les limites,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literary genre
    Created on: 26.08.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Pratiques et formes hors-normes : marginalisation, réappropriation et extractivisme culturel (Bruxelles)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS Pratiques et formes hors-normes : Marginalisation, réappropriation, et extractivisme culturel Université Libre de Bruxelles, les 9 et 16 octobre 2024. Comité organisateur : Emma Lozano...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.11.2024
    Symposium | Literature, Prizeworthiness, and Kinship Across Borders
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Program Monday, 25. November 2024EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15 14195 Berlin; Room: 00.07) 10:00 – 15:00 | Meeting of the Research Group From 15:00 I Tour of Berlin Book Stores (Kinship focus, e.g. “She...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2024
    Femmes et canon littéraire à l’ère de la multimodalité (Dijon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    « Femmes et canon littéraire à l’ère de la multimodalité » Colloque international organisé les 7 et 8 novembre 2024 à la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Dijon Le colloque « Femmes et canon littéraire à l’ère de la multimodalité »,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Intermediality
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Radical Bodies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Human bodies and, by extension, human subjectivity have long been contested spaces. Against traditional Eurocentric and anthropocentric definitions of the human as a stable identity abstracted from its surrounding environment, movements like...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Archival Activisms: Resistance In/Through Print
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel is sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Caucus, NeMLA Drawing from several decades’ worth of critical re-evaluations of the structures and limitations of the literary archive, in which “retroactivist”, recovery-oriented ethics...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Reader-response criticism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Women's Progress in African Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From an early stage, the modern African novel has recognized the unjust challenges faced by African women. Even novels of the 1950's, such as Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (1954), bear witness to the difficulties that women face in...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024