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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain (NEMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss,...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 6 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Troublesome Matters: Materiality through Literature, Film, and Comics (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This roundtable is being organized as part of NeMLA 2024 , centered around the theme of SURPLUS . Description: We live in a world brimming with tangible entities. The material reality we are enmeshed in fascinates us yet also...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Pregnancy Loss in Contemporary Literature and Film (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2024 NeMLA Convention: This panel aims to examine how elective, therapeutic, spontaneous abortions, and stillbirths are represented in work of literature and cinema from an interdisciplinary and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and natural science,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    “Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make”: The Prison(er) in Literature and Film (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Imprisoned in 1642, Richard Lovelace penned the words that became his best-known: “Stone walls do not a prison make,/Nor iron walls a cage:/Minds innocent and quiet take/That for a hermitage” (“To Althea, From Prison”). Lovelace’s poem points to...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectrums of Embodiment in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    One interpretation of the NeMLA 2024 theme of Surplus centers on embodiment, and the transatlantic long nineteenth century was arguably a key historical moment for envisioning material embodiment in terms of surplus, or lack thereof. Representation...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Interdisciplinarity and 9 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Extending Jouissance: The Excessive and The Transgressive in Contemporary Texts (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Jouissance, the iconic Lacanian concept, means “surplus enjoyment,” where excessive pleasure converts into unpleasure and even pain after going beyond the subject’s affective or sensory capacity. Inherited from Freudian psychoanalysis, combined with...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Intermediality,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Senses and War (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How do authors describe the sensory reality of war? What are the sounds of war, the smells of war (the textures, visuals, taste of war)? How are these described and how do they differ? These are questions that remain of interest to historians and...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Where is the Cognitive Turn Today? (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Subject Fields German History / Studies Where is the Cognitive Turn Today? (NeMLA '24, Boston MA, March 7-10, 2024) This panel addresses the current state of the ‘cognitive turn’ in German Studies. Abstracts are invited that...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Posthumanism, Biocentrism, and Ecocriticism in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Posthumanism, biocentrism, and ecocriticism have profoundly impacted the fields of literary studies and critical theory in the last two decades: more and more scholars have investigated how literature engages with the relationship between humans...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Ecocriticism,  Narratology and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    The Aesthetics of Humanity. The Influence of Literature on the Concept of Human Rights (Panel 19345, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore, Maryland), 10th-13th March 2022 The Aesthetics of Humanity. The Influence of Literature on the Concept of Human Rights Isabella Dr. Ferron (Università “La Sapienza”, Rome) This panel aims to analyze...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and law and 3 more
    Created on: 03.09.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Literary Form, Spirituality, and Empire in the Global 20th Century (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    I am inviting abstracts for a NeMLA 2022 panel I am putting together titled "Literary Form, Spirituality, and Empire in the Global 20th Century." This panel explores the interrelations between literary form and genre, spirituality, and...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 16.08.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    From the Page to the Streets: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Urban Literature (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Throughout the last century, cities worldwide have endured various crises, each of them reflected in literature and popular culture. Suburbanization, rapid globalization, regime change, and gentrification have altered many cities beyond...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 31.08.2020
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    Transmedia Adaptations of Literary ‘Classics’ in 20th- and 21st-century Artistic Expression (NeMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    NeMLA 2021, Philadelphie, 11-14 Mars 2021 From L’Étranger by Albert Camus, to Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera and Leon Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina , a large number of literary works are finding a second life by being reimagined in...

    Fields of research Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 29.05.2020