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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 02.01.2024
    La collaboration homme-animal dans les contes, leurs expansions hypertextuelles et hypericoniques : des « Animaux reconnaissants » à « La Belle aux cheveux d’or » (Lille)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Cycle Un jour un conte Colloque international annuel La collaboration homme-animal dans les contes, leurs expansions hypertextuelles et hypericoniques : des « Animaux reconnaissants » à « La Belle aux cheveux d’or » Les...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 21.12.2023
  2. Silvie Lang
    University or institution: Universität Kassel
    Fields of research: Narratology; Oral poetry / Orality; Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale

  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.11.2023
    Chapters for The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are inviting chapter proposals for the edited book The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries. It is a collection of academic essays that scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 13.10.2023
  4. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 18.10.2023
    Ringvorlesung „Die unheile Welt. Zerstörung und Erneuerung im Märchen“, TU Dresden
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ringvorlesung „Die unheile Welt. Zerstörung und Erneuerung im Märchen“, TU Dresden, Wintersemester 2023/24 mittwochs 16.40–18.10 Uhr Präsenz: TU Dresden, Wiener Straße 48 (Fakultät Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften),...

    Fields of research Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Speculative Fiction Novella (conference panel) (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the past decade, the novella has re-emerged as one of the dominant forms of contemporary speculative fiction, with both stand-alone debuts and long-running series taking part in the form. This session invites papers that examine the novella form...

    Fields of research Novella
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  6. 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
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2023
    Räume als Gattungscodes? Die deutschsprachige Novelle im ›Topographical Turn‹, Bochum/online
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: Räume als Gattungscodes? Die deutschsprachige Novelle im ›Topographical Turn‹ »Totgesagte leben länger«, konstatieren Sascha Kiefer und Torsten Mergen (2021) für die deutschsprachige Novelle, die häufig als Relikt einer...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and geography/cartography,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 24.03.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Myth and Fairy Tales: SWPACA 2023 (SWPACA Annual Conference 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Myth and Fairy Tales Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 44th Annual Conference, February 22-25, 2023 Marriott Albuquerque Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.southwestpca.org Submissions...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and media studies,  Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale and 3 more
    Created on: 05.08.2022
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.09.2022
    Sorcières : des femmes libres à travers l’histoire de l’humanité
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Sorcières : des femmes libres à travers l'histoire de l'humanité Appel à communications Colloque international et interdisciplinaire Du 30 novembre au 1er décembre 2022 Lieu du colloque : Université de Haute-Alsace Organisé...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 4 more
    Created on: 04.07.2022
  10. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 05.02.2022
    Kleinprosa und Mikroformate, RWTH Aachen (online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mal als ‚prosetry‘, ‚twitterature‘ oder ‚texticules‘ bezeichnet: Kurze und kürzeste Prosatexte und Mikroformate beherrschen die aktuelle Literaturszene. Prägnant und bündig formuliert und nicht selten im kleinen Format publiziert, eignen sie sich...

    Fields of research Novella,  Short prose,  Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment) and 4 more
    Created on: 04.02.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2022
    Interim Conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research 2022 (London) : Folk Narrative and the Visual Arts. Fashion, Design, Materials and Media
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Interim Conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) 2022 London, will take place on 20-23 July 2022 at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Folk Narrative and the Visual Arts:...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies and 3 more
    Created on: 20.12.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 25.10.2021
    Fairy Tales and Fantasy Fiction / Contes de fées et Fantasy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    (English version below) En 1947, Tolkien publie « Du conte de fées » (« On Fairy Stories »), un essai consacré aux contes de fées issu de sa conférence Andrew Lang de 1939, depuis devenu la base de la théorisation du genre de la Fantasy ...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 06.09.2021
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: The German Novella: Dis/ability, Othering, and Embodiment
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: The German Novella: Dis/ability, Othering, and Embodiment To be held at the NeMLA Annual Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, 10-13 March 2022; Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2021 Andreas Gailus has characterized the German...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 5 more
    Created on: 02.07.2021
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2021
    American Golden Age Mystery and Detective Fiction, Mean Streets Journal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Submissions Third issue of Mean Streets: A Journal of American Crime and Detective Fiction Topic: AMERICAN “GOLDEN AGE” MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION 1920-1945 Proposals: July 15, 2021 Final essays:...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Narratology and 5 more
    Created on: 30.04.2021
  15. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.01.2021
    Impasse
    Submitted by: Soapbox Journal

    For the next volume of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit work that critically engages with the theme of the impasse. [Border] In its first...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary theory and 49 more
    Created on: 28.12.2020