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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.04.2024
    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (Spring 2025 issue) -- Call for articles and book reviews
    Submitted by: Nicoletta Pireddu

    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fluid Encounters - Rencontres Fluides
    Submitted by: Chanelle Dupuis

    CALL FOR PAPERS FLUID ENCOUNTERS | RENCONTRES FLUIDES April 19-20, 2024 Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island In Sylvie Germain's 1985 novel, Le Livre des Nuits , bodily fluids serve as potent metaphors for...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 01.10.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.10.2023
    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (Spring 2024 issue) -- Call for articles and book reviews
    Submitted by: Nicoletta Pireddu

    _Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism_ is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 7 more
    Created on: 16.06.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.11.2022
    Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association annual conference (February 22-25, Albuquerque, New Mexico) (SWPACA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    DEADLINE EXTENDED! Call for Papers ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 44th Annual Conference, February 22-25, 2023 Marriott Albuquerque Albuquerque, New Mexico ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  World Literature,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 07.11.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2023
    Corporeal Conversations / Conversations corporelles
    Submitted by: Chanelle Dupuis

    CALL FOR PAPERS Corporeal Conversations / Conversations corporelles March 10-11, 2023 | Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island Keynote: Dr. Nora Martin Peterson Associate Professor of...

    Fields of research French literature
    Created on: 28.10.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2022
    Literature Special Issue: "American Sci-Fi"
    Submitted by: Joelle Renstrom

    You are invited to submit a paper for possible inclusion in a Special Issue of Literature ( ISSN: 2410-9789 ) entitled “ American Sci-Fi ”. Literatur e is an international, peer-reviewed , open access journal on literature and...

    Created on: 19.10.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.10.2023
    Écrivaines et fictions scientifiques à l'époque des Lumières / Women Writers and Scientific Fiction(s) in Enlightenment France (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2023, St. Louis, Missouri)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 53rd Annual Meeting Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, St. Louis, Missouri, Etats-Unis 9 - 11 mars 2023 Session #107. Women Writers and Scientific Fiction(s) in...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 26.09.2022
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NeMLA 2023: 'The Social Hieroglyphic': Modernist Reading Practices and their Afterlives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Anticipating notions of modern cryptography, Marx famously observed in Capital Vol. I, that value “does not have its description branded on its forehead; it rather transforms every product of labour into a social hieroglyphic.” Therefore, to...

    Fields of research Reader-response criticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 26.09.2022
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.10.2022
    Writing Democracy: Literature and Democratic History (New Haven)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop to be held at Yale University, March 31–April 1, 2023, organized by Dr. Tilman Venzl, Prof. Dr. Jennifer Allen, and Prof. Dr. Kirk Wetters. Writing Democracy: Literature and Democratic History In recent months, the idea of...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 26.09.2022
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NeMLA 2023: North African Women Writers (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From Nawal el Saadawi’s writings against FGM to Tunisian protests advocating for changes to inheritance law, this panel considers North Africa’s women writers in conversation with the conference theme, resilience. How have these women writers...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  11. 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
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Lyric Resilience: The Subject and its Questions (Seminar) (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Abstract In his famous essay 'On Lyric Poetry and Society', Adorno argues that the lyric subject is conditioned by a “collective undercurrent” that makes it “more than a mere subject” and prevents poetic language from being fully...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry
    Created on: 09.09.2022
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.09.2022
    25th Evelyn G. Etheridge Conference on the Harlem Renaissance 2022 (25th Evelyn G. Etheridge Conference on the Harlem Renaissance)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CALL FOR PAPERS EVELYN G. ETHERIDGE CONFERENCE ON THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE PAINE COLLEGE AUGUSTA, GEORGIA OCTOBER 26-28, 2022 Paine College 1235 Fifteenth Street Augusta, GA 30901 Contact: Dr. Nancy...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 02.09.2022
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Portrayals of Africans in Europe and the USA in Modern African Literature (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Diverse African literary works portray the experiences of African characters in the United States and other Western nations. Such works include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers, and NoViolet Bulawayo's We...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.08.2022
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    South Asian Literatures: Women Writing Men, Men Writing Women (Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2023) (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    South Asian literary works have given us a memorable array of complex portraits of women and men and the relations between them. Some characters favor traditional modes of understanding the roles and behaviors of the sexes and their...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 29.08.2022