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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 12.05.2025
    Pe(a)nser l’Occident à partir du littéraire. Occidentalisation, Post-Occident, Occidentalisme. Enquête dans la littérature contemporaine de langue française. XIVe Rendez-vous de la critique (Porto)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    XIVe RENDEZ-VOUS DE LA CRITIQUE Colloque international PE(A)NSER L’Occident À PARTIR DU LITTÉRAIRE OCCIDENTALISATION, POST-OCCIDENT, OCCIDENTalisme Enquête dans la littérature contemporaine de langue française ...

    Fields of research French literature,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 28.04.2025
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.07.2025
    (Former) Third World Literature and Culture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: International Conference on (Former)Third World Literature and Culture Conference Theme: “What happens to (Former)Third World Literature and Culture in a Multipolar World?” Keynote Speakers: Theo D’haen (Ku Leuven), Svend Eric...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 28.04.2025
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2025
    PAMLA 2025: Panel 19521 - "Power, Text and Image in Medieval and Early Modern Literature"
    Submitted by: Hannah Semrau

    Power, Text and Image in Medieval and Early Modern Literature The staging of power follows a strategic media use of contemporary possibilities and is solidified both in text and image. All media – from highly aesthetic literary works to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 07.04.2025
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2025
    CFP Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis: Between Bodies and Homes
    Submitted by: Soapbox Journal

    Soapbox 7.0: call for papers Between Bodies and Homes — peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals — To feel like we belong is one of our most common desires. Our bodily...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 02.04.2025
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.04.2025
    Black Antiquity, Emplotment, and the Vindicating Self
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Black Antiquity, Emplotment, and the Vindicating Self CFP: This call for papers invites contributors to publish analyses in an anthology focused on writers, artists, and others who have engaged with or represented aspects of a Black past. We are...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 3 more
    Created on: 31.03.2025
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2025
    Gewalt und Literatur: Vergleichende Betrachtungen türkisch- und deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsliteratur
    Submitted by: Anna-Lena Eick

    CFP: Gewalt und Literatur: Vergleichende Betrachtungen türkisch- und deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsliteratur Interdisziplinäre Tagung an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 14 – 15. November 2025 Organisation: Prof. Dr. Petr Kucera...

    Fields of research South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey),  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 25.03.2025
  9. 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

  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2025
    Von gelebten Erfahrungen zu Erzählungen der Postmigration. Neugestaltungen von Selbst- und Welterzählungen in den pluralistischen Gesellschaften Europas
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: Von gelebten Erfahrungen zu Erzählungen der Postmigration. Neugestaltungen von Selbst- und Welterzählungen in den pluralistischen Gesellschaften Europas (30.04.2025) Der Begriff der Postmigration hat sich ursprünglich im deutschsprachigen...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and visual studies and 1 more
    Created on: 21.03.2025
  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. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.04.2025
    Temporalities and Power: Oppression, Resistance, Justice, Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Time can be fast and slow or stand still. Time can be a resource and some people have more time than others. Some “others” of society are forced to exist outside of time or are fixed to exist only in the past and are erased from the future. Having...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 21.02.2025
  14. Peri Sipahi
    University or institution: Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; Literature and cultural studies

  15. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 19.02.2025
    A Mesopotamian Re(s)pair: Dusty experimentations in the marshes amidst war and sanction
    Submitted by: Clara Vater

    Das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE) und das CEUS | Cluster für Europaforschung laden herzlich zur Käte Hamburger Lecture an der Universität des Saarlandes ein. Im Fokus der Vortragsreihe stehen aktuelle...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  Deconstruction,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 30.01.2025