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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.08.2025
    Rethinking Tomorrow: Emerging Research for Social Change
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We live in a time of precarity, uncertainty and unrest: the climate emergency is escalating, far-right ideologies are mainstream, political and social systems and society is becoming increasingly post-digital and artificially intelligent. How are we...

    Fields of research Australian/Oceanian literature,  Digital Humanities,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 26.05.2025
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2025
    Intersectional Feminisms and Regenerative Justice (NeMLA 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA (USA))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel of NeMLA examines how intersectional feminist thought redefines justice as a regenerative process- one that repairs harm while building equitable futures. We welcome analyses of literature, activism, and pedagogy that center marginalized...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 26.05.2025
  3. Dennis Henneböhl
    University or institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Fields of research: Literature from UK and Ireland; New Historicism; Postcolonial studies; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and natural science; Intermediality; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2025
    16th EURAMAL Conference: ‘Catastrophe and Beyond: Representations of Violence and Trauma in Modern Arabic Literature’
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    16th EURAMAL CONFERENCE hosted by the University of St Andrews, School of Modern Languages, Department of Arabic & Persian (June 2026, St Andrews, Scotland, UK) Arab modernity has been marked by the traumas caused by the material and epistemic...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Near Eastern literature,  Postcolonial studies and 3 more
    Created on: 23.05.2025
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.06.2025
    Poétique et politique de l'obstacle dans les littératures africaines postcoloniales et Afro-diasporiques
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    COLLOQUE JEUNES CHERCHEUR.E.S 2025 THÈME : POÉTIQUE ET POLITIQUE DE L’OBSTACLE DANS LES LITTÉRATURES AFRICAINES POSTCOLONIALES ET AFRO-DIASPORIQUES Argumentaire En tant qu’une des « composantes essentielles de nos...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Hermeneutics and 4 more
    Created on: 23.05.2025
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2025
    “Sympoetry: Morphologies of Global Romanticism”, Special Issue «Between» XVI, 31
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Sympoetry: Morphologies of Global Romanticism Call for Papers – Special Issue of Between, the international, peer-reviewed journal of the Italian Association for the Theory and Comparative History of Literature Ed. by Simona Beccone...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 23.05.2025
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2025
    Was ist das Politische in der KJL? // What is Political in CYAL?
    Submitted by: Katharina Andrea Kalthoff

    *English version below* CFP: Was ist das Politische in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur? *English version below* Die 20. Ausgabe von undercurrents – Forum für linke Literaturwissenschaft widmet sich dem Politischen in der...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 6 more
    Created on: 20.05.2025
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 02.06.2025
    International Symposium – Neo-Historical Fiction at 2025: Prized Temporalities and Contested Progress, Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We kindly invite you to join our International Symposium "Neo-Historical Fiction at 2025: Prized Temporalities and Contested Progress" from June 2 - June 4, 2025. Across the political spectrum, historicity has been mobilised as a prized...

    Fields of research New Historicism,  Postcolonial studies,  Intermediality and 2 more
    Created on: 16.05.2025
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.05.2025
    HORIZONTE. Netzwerktagung zum 10-jährigen Jubiläum der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft / HORIZONS. 10th Anniversary Networking Conference of the German Society for Cultural Studies
    Submitted by: Minerva Peinador

    ( Deutsch, English version below ) Universität Regensburg | 18.–20. September 2025 Mit der Tagung zum 10. Jubiläum der deutschen Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KWG) möchten wir die Vielfalt der kulturwissenschaftlichen...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 14 more
    Created on: 09.05.2025
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.05.2025
    FrancophonieS et LusophonieS : les angles morts de la traduction littéraire (revue Intercâmbio)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Intercâmbio n°18 (2025) Revue d’Études Françaises de la Faculté de Lettres de l’Université de Porto (Portugal) https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/int/issue/archive Appel à contributions FrancophonieS et LusophonieS : les...

    Fields of research French literature,  Portugese literature,  Postcolonial studies and 3 more
    Created on: 08.05.2025
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.05.2025
    Les monuments souterrains dans les littératures et les arts des Suds (Sorbonne nouvelle)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d'étude Les monuments souterrains dans les littératures et les arts des Suds 24 octobre 2025 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Organisée par Xavier Garnier et Marie Pernice (UMR 7172/THALIM,...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 08.05.2025
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 12.05.2025
    Pe(a)nser l’Occident à partir du littéraire. Occidentalisation, Post-Occident, Occidentalisme. Enquête dans la littérature contemporaine de langue française. XIVe Rendez-vous de la critique (Porto)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    XIVe RENDEZ-VOUS DE LA CRITIQUE Colloque international PE(A)NSER L’Occident À PARTIR DU LITTÉRAIRE OCCIDENTALISATION, POST-OCCIDENT, OCCIDENTalisme Enquête dans la littérature contemporaine de langue française ...

    Fields of research French literature,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 28.04.2025
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.07.2025
    (Former) Third World Literature and Culture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: International Conference on (Former)Third World Literature and Culture Conference Theme: “What happens to (Former)Third World Literature and Culture in a Multipolar World?” Keynote Speakers: Theo D’haen (Ku Leuven), Svend Eric...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 28.04.2025
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2025
    Variations 28: "Environment, Science, Memory"
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: Variations 28 – Environment, Science, Memory The balsam fir tree also remembers. If caterpillars or moose browse its needles, the nibbling assault lodges itself in the chemical makeup of the tree, in a manner analogous to the...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and other forms of art and 3 more
    Created on: 25.04.2025
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2025
    PAMLA 2025: Panel 19521 - "Power, Text and Image in Medieval and Early Modern Literature"
    Submitted by: Hannah Semrau

    Power, Text and Image in Medieval and Early Modern Literature The staging of power follows a strategic media use of contemporary possibilities and is solidified both in text and image. All media – from highly aesthetic literary works to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 07.04.2025