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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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