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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Michele Chinitz Co-Organizer: Shoumik Bhattacharya This seminar hopes to engage with forms of social and political organizing that do not conform to binary understandings of the imperative towards assimilation or...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Writing about extinction is an aporetic coming together of our current geological reality and imagination that borders on speculation. It is an act that opens up the ecological, the ontological, and simultaneously interrogates the disappearance of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2024
    Republic of Letters: The Scholar and Scholarly Communities from Petrarch to the Present, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Republic of Letters: The Scholar and Scholarly Communities from Petrarch to the Present Graduate Student Conference at Johns Hopkins University April 4–5, 2025 Submission Deadline for Abstracts: November 15 to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.10.2024
    Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950), Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop "Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950)" 13.–15. Februar 2025 an der Universität Bonn Organisation: Fabian Lampart (Potsdam),...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Zeitgenoss*innenschaften. Formen von Gegenwartsteilnahme
    Submitted by: Fabian Lampart

    Die Tagung soll aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, anhand verschiedener Medien und Gattungen und mit Blick auf unterschiedliche historische und kulturelle Kontexte konzeptionelle Zugänge zu „Zeitgenoss*innenschaften“ vorstellen, vorschlagen und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 19.09.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Uses of Prose (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Musab Abdul Salam Co-Organizer: Feba Rasheed During the colonial period, South Asia witnessed the rise of new literary forms, particularly in prose, that attempted to grapple with the complexities ushered in by...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Alternative Poetics of Environment in South Asia (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Sumera Saleem Co-Organizer: Bharatwaj Iyer In his 2009 text entitled Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz describes the political power of art in imagining and reimagining “other ways of...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    speculation I riddle I proemdra (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Danai Mupotsa Co-Organizer: Ayabulela Mhlahlo speculation I riddle I proemdra Zukolwenkosi ZIkalala’s essay “Forced Landing in Dark Time”, speculates on the method of a proemdra arises—a strategy, or trick-form that combines...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Postcolonial studies,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America.(ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Latin America, the convergence of financial crises, developmental and neoliberal policies, informal economies, and armed conflicts has created a backdrop of profound socio-political change spamming over fifty years. This seminar will examine how...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his return to and rereading of Freud’s early writings on the interpretation of dreams, French psychoanalyst and translator of Freud, Jean Laplanche, makes the provocative claim that psychoanalytic theory went awry shortly after its inception, as a...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Orientation to Texts and Knowledge: From Antiquity to AI (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How do we orient ourselves to texts and knowledge across time and technological advancements? How do texts and knowledge in turn orientate and transform us, and how do they influence the world we navigate, particularly in an increasingly...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and philosophy,  Poetics
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality The invocation and use of stone in poetry – as image, metaphor, medium – has a long and varied history. Quarried, shaped, displaced and put to use in both material and...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Emergence of New World Imagination in the 19th and 20th Century: Understanding of the Global Colonial Countries through the Lens of Auto-Biographical Narratives, Memoirs And Travelogues (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    It is intriguing to examine how the documents from and about the global colonial countries written during the 19th and 20th century describe the extremely unstable social and political environments. With this an emergence of a new world order as well...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  autobiography,  travel literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Inter-Asian Literary Relations (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What are the textual modes of inter-Asian literary interactions? What are the forms of intertextuality across the literatures and languages of Asia? This seminar aims to examine the inter-Asian network of literary relations that have developed...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  East Asian literature,  South Asian literature and 4 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    ‘Prompting’ World Literature: Gerenative AI, Comparative Aesthetics, New Hegemonies, New Peripheries? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The surge of generative AI poses new challenges for conceptualising world literature and comparative aesthetics. While AI is trained using large datasets containing ‘human’-created works, critical discourse seems to (tacitly) posit a new ‘humanist’...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024