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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2025
    Gothic Panel (Standing Session; in-person): PAMLA Conference 2025, San Francisco
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gothic writers embrace the genre for its inclusive and representational nature. The genre is, in effect, a palimpsest as it prominently features both the past and memory. The creators in the genre continue to create plots that center on women, queer,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism,  Game Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 28.04.2025
  2. 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
  3. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 13.05.2025
    Book Presentation: Atlas of Petromodernity
    Submitted by: Miriam Wienhold

    Press the ignition. Hear the combustion engine. Smell the Gasoline fumes. Feel the improbably smooth and bright colored plastic surfaces of a vehicle’s interior. Ride. Dream. What do you see? Petroleum has enabled and shaped modern experience....

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 17.04.2025
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 25.05.2025
    NATURA & ceTERRA. Zur Ästhetik von Naturorten im Mittelalter | Tübingen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    31. Jahrestagung des Brackweder Arbeitskreises für Mittelalterforschung, in Kooperation mit dem SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik, Teilprojekt B7 „Natur/lehren. Ästhetische Strategien der Wis­sensvermittlung in transkultureller Perspektive“ ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and geography/cartography,  Intermediality and 1 more
    Created on: 11.04.2025
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2025
    Erzählte Umwelten bei Grimmelshausen und in der Literatur seiner Zeit | Gelnhausen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die erzählten Welten des frühneuzeitlichen Romans formen sich nicht allein durch das Handeln der Protagonisten sowie ein teils schier unübersichtliches Personengeflecht, sondern auch durch die geschilderte Umwelt, die die Handlung in vielfältiger...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Ecocriticism,  Poetics and 4 more
    Created on: 11.04.2025
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.04.2025
    Dringlichkeit und Grenzziehungen. Zur Analyse der Polykrise im deutschen und französischen Sprachraum: (Post-)Migration, Pandemien und Klima-Energie. Interdisziplinäre Tagung | Metz
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Gegenwart wird durch eine Vielzahl von Krisen geprägt. Deren rasche Abfolge bzw. Gleichzeitigkeit erweckt das Gefühl von Fortbestehen, Dauerhaftigkeit und somit auch von konvergierenden Nostandssituationen. Man denke an die Klimakrise oder an die...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 11.04.2025
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.05.2025
    Posthuman Ecofeminism in Art, Literature, and Aesthetics (23.-24.10.2025, University of Bonn)
    Submitted by: Carolin Slickers

    “By making a compelling case for mutual interconnectedness, ecofeminism emphasises the ecological idea that 'we' are all in this together, although we differ. These insights are key to the making of a notion of posthuman subjects as heterogeneous...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 07.04.2025
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.04.2025
    Unity, Hope and Resistance in Central America (MMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Unity, Hope and Resistance in Central America Presentation Format: In-Person Only From the poetry and music of Liberation Theology to testimonial novels and films, the theme of communities coming together to resist oppression has long been...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 3 more
    Created on: 07.04.2025
  9. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 21.04.2025
    Global Humanities Fellow (Tulane Univ.)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Tulane Global Humanities Center invites applications for postdoctoral Global Humanities Fellows. We are seeking recent PhDs in the humanities and humanistic social sciences whose work explores or intersects with any of the following topics: port...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 04.04.2025
  10. Anna-Lena Eick
    University or institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; Media studies; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and visual studies; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Comic; Digital literature; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 21st century

  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2025
    Émotions et animaux non humains dans les littératures contemporaines des "francophonies du Nord" (Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Canada)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please scroll down for the English version. — Appel à contributions pour le numéro 2/2025 de la revue Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory Émotions et animaux non humains dans les littératures...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 3 more
    Created on: 24.03.2025
  12. Reto Rössler
    University or institution: Europa-Universität Flensburg
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; Media studies; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and natural science; Intermediality; Literary genre; Novel; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Essay; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)

  13. Florian Lützelberger
    University or institution: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; North African literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Ecocriticism; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and visual studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and natural science; Lyric poetry; Prose; Diary; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.03.2025
    Graduate Conference: Contact Zones: Human and Non-Human Relations, Rom
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    he third-year students of the joint double-degree PhD Programme in Germanic and Slavic Studies (Sapienza University of Rome – Charles University in Prague), are glad to launch the Call for Papers for their Graduate Conference Contact Zones: Human...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 3 more
    Created on: 17.02.2025
  15. Peri Sipahi
    University or institution: Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; Literature and cultural studies