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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. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2024
    Beyond Nationalism and Populism: National Identities Studies in the 21st Century (National Identities 25th anniversary conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A special conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the journal National Identities will be held at the University of Westminster, London on 12-14 September 2024. This journal was founded in 1999 in a context of globalisation,...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 19.02.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2024
    (GSA 2024) Seminar:"Marxisms and German Studies"
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Marxisms and German Studies 48th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association September 26–29, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia Submission Deadline: February 23, 2024 In light of current political challenges like the climate...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 12.02.2024
  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: Research Units
    Institutions: Universität zu Köln,  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Energie und Literatur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die zentrale Prämisse des kulturwissenschaftlich und komparatistisch ausgerichteten, DFG-geförderten Forschungsnetzwerks Energie und Literatur ist, dass Energie und Literatur in einem produktiven, aber bisher unzureichend erforschten...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 31.01.2024
  6. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 24.01.2024
    « Postmigration et postcolonialisme ». Cycle de trois rencontres littéraires franco-germanophones
    Submitted by: Martina Kopf

    Le projet « postmigration et postcolonialisme » vise à faire dialoguer les approches académiques littéraires germano-francophones des migrations et invite plusieurs écrivain.e.s francophones et germanophones à échanger leurs idées et à comparer leurs...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 23.01.2024
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Mythenschlüssel und Urkultur: Antiquarismus und Aitiologie im 19. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Teilprojekt befasst sich mit Universalmythologien des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts und ihrer Bedeutung für die Mythenexegese der späteren Folkloristen und Anthropologen, denen das gesammelte und zu mythologischen Systemen verdichtete Material im...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.02.2024
    XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture - CULTURE AT WAR (Lisbon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture CULTURE AT WAR Lisbon, June 24 – 29, 2024 Deadline for submissions: February 29, 2024 We are living in times of war. Now, more than ever, war occupies a central role in both national...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.01.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.01.2024
    Poéthiques de la trace : inscription et effacement dans la littérature (Toronto)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque de littérature de la Société des études supérieures du Département d’études françaises (SESDEF) 11 au 13 avril 2024, Université de Toronto (Campus St. George) « Poéthiques de la trace : inscription et effacement dans...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 6 more
    Created on: 22.12.2023
  10. OTHERNESSES – Towards Humanisms Beyond BorderThinking
    Submitted by: Diana Mariam Popal

    A Workspace for anti-violent, anti-racist, Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought as Praxis Othernesses provides a platform for critical exchange and dialogue on an international and cross-disciplinary level between different critical...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Deconstruction and 6 more
    Created on: 04.12.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.12.2023
    Internationale Nestroy-Gespräche 2024
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Internationale Nestroy-Gesellschaft & Nestroy-Komitee Schwechat Ankündigung (Call for Papers) 48. INTERNATIONALE NESTROY-GESPRÄCHE 2024 2.–6. Juli 2024 in A-2320 Schwechat bei Wien (Justiz-Bildungszentrum, Schloss Altkettenhof) ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature
    Created on: 24.11.2023
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 02.11.2023
    Nordsüdlicher Divan. Intercultural Worldmaking in Literature and Film from Europe and the Global South, University of Illinois Chicago
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Nordsüdlicher Divan: Intercultural Worldmaking in Literature and Film from Europe and the Global South Department of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago, November 2 & 3, 2023 Thursday, November 2, 2023 3:00- 3:30 pm...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.11.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.12.2023
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example at the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 30.10.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2023
    Kafka Transformed (University of Oxford)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Kafka Transformed International Conference; University of Oxford, 18-20 September 2024 Franz Kafka’s role as a world author is inextricably linked to his reception and afterlife. His global legacy has been shaped by academic as well as...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 8 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.04.2024
    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (Spring 2025 issue) -- Call for articles and book reviews
    Submitted by: Nicoletta Pireddu

    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023