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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.09.2024
    Women Travel Writers in Northern Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century, Mulhouse
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A conference organized by the Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes (UR 4363, Université de Haute-Alsace), in partnership with the laboratories : Arts, civilisations, histoire de l'Europe (UMR 3400, Université de...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 10 more
    Created on: 03.06.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2025
    Call for submissions – peer-reviewed journal Studies in Travel Writing
    Submitted by: Sandra Vlasta

    Founded in 1997 by Tim Youngs, Studies in Travel Writing is an international, refereed journal dedicated to research on travel texts. Unrestricted by period or region of study, the journal allows for the application of a range of scholarly...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and geography/cartography,  Non-fictional literature and 1 more
    Created on: 28.02.2024
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2024
    DIMAG 2, 2025 – Tourismus und Literatur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    DIMAG versteht sich als kultur- und dabei primär literaturwissenschaftlich ausgerichtete Fachzeitschrift, die besonders internationalen Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen ein Forum für erste Publikationen bieten möchte. Publiziert werden innovative...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 02.02.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women's Fiction, Huelva (Spain)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Seminar Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women’s Fiction University of Huelva, Spain 17-18 October, 2024 Traditional approaches to the ‘origins of the novel’ question in...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literary genre and 5 more
    Created on: 18.12.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2024
    Transnational Narratives: European Women's Fiction in the Early Modern Period (ESSE Conference, Laussane)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) CONFERENCE, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 26-30 August, 2024 Convenors of Seminar 38: Gerd Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, FAU, Germany) gerd.bayer@fau.de ...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  World Literature,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 01.12.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Cultural Representations of Social Reproduction (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel will focus on cultural representations of social reproduction. Social reproduction theory developed from a Marxist-feminist concern for typically-unwaged labor performed outside the traditional workplace, demonstrating how this “invisible”...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.09.2023
    She Said, He Said, They Said: (Un)Reliable Narrators in Literature (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From monologues offering invectives about various characters in Shakespearean plays and poetry; suspicious narrations involving characters in Hawthorne’s short stories and novels; distrustful narrators in Marge Percy’s sci-fi stories, novels and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Narratology,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Dostoevsky's Women and the Image of the Femme Fatale in the European Novel (NeMLA 2024) (Boston, MA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The creative legacy of Dostoevsky left a memorable gallery of extraordinary female characters, from Sonia in Crime and Punishment to Grushen'ka in Brothers Karamazov and Nastasia Philippovna in The Idiot. The proposed session will analyze the complex...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.06.2023
    4. Studientag der Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft: „Über Menschen… und darüber hinaus“ (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 14.07.2023)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Die studies haben in den letzten Jahren Hochkonjunktur: von den animal über die plant bis hin zu den critical future studies – verhandelt wird die Stellung des Menschen in einem Geflecht wechselseitiger Abhängigkeiten. Was ist...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary theory and 13 more
    Created on: 05.06.2023
  11. 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
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2023
    GSA-Panel 2023: Voices of Difference and Sturm und Drang, Montréal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    German Studies Association 47th Annual Conference Montréal, Canada , October 5-8, 2023 Voices of Difference and Sturm und Drang Organizers: Lisa Wille (Technical University of Darmstadt) and...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 13.03.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2023
    GSA 2023 »Gender and Rulership in the 16th and 17th Century« (Montréal, Canada)
    Submitted by: Lea Reiff

    CfP: »Gender and Rulership in the 16 th and 17 th Century« GSA 2023 – Conference Panel October 5-8, 2023, Montréal, Canada Deadline: March 15, 2023 This panel takes its starting point from gendered...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Media studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 3 more
    Created on: 07.02.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.03.2023
    GSA 2023: "Übung, Exercise, Askesis", Montréal (10.03.2023)
    Submitted by: Patrick Hohlweck

    Exercise ( askesis / melete / exercitium / exercitatio / usus ), the repeated performance of actions over time, has always been one of the most fundamental aspects of culture in those areas in which the human mind-body-complex is thought to...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 6 more
    Created on: 03.02.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.05.2023
    Cartes et tarots : imaginaire et représentations littéraires (Tours)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Séminaire de recherche Littérature et ésotérisme (Tours, Lille III, Rouen) Coordination scientifique : Catherine Douzou, Frank Greiner, Sylvain Ledda — CARTES ET TAROTS : IMAGINAIRE ET REPRÉSENTATIONS LITTÉRAIRES Tours, le...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Narratology,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 16.01.2023