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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.06.2024
    Alles fließt. Fluides in Literatur und anderen Medien, Universität Paderborn, 10./11. Oktober 2024 (Studentische Tagung des Fachbereichs Komparatistik/Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Paderborn)
    Submitted by: Anna Maria Spener

    Call for Papers: Alles fließt. Fluides in Literatur und anderen Medien, Universität Paderborn, 10./11. Oktober 2024 (Studentische Tagung des Fachbereichs Komparatistik/Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Paderborn) ...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 3 more
    Created on: 03.05.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.05.2024
    Conjuring Decolonial Alternatives: Subversive Navigations of Transnational Colonialisms (MMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear colleagues, I am pleased to extend a warm invitation to contribute to the guaranteed Women in French sessions at the 2024 Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) annual conference, set to convene in Chicago, Illinois from November...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 03.05.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Romanticism Session (PAMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This year's theme is “Translation in Action.” While most scholarship about translation deals with the interlingual, we welcome scholarship on the other areas discussed by Roman Jakobson such as intralingual and intersemiotic translation. We plan on...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature,  Literary historiography and 5 more
    Created on: 29.04.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    "Work in Multi-Ethnic American Literature (co-sponsored by MELUS)" (2024 PALMA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This allied session on work in multi-ethnic literature of the United States (co-sponsored by MELUS) invites papers that explore work as a component of identity formation, especially as it intersects with gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 29.04.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2024
    The Seen and Unseen in Asian / Asian American Literature and Studies (roundtable) (SAMLA 96)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the U.S., immigrants of Asian origin have historically fallen victim to both extreme violent legal measures and racist stereotype labels—such as the infamous “Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882” and/or other major laws against the naturalization of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  East Asian literature,  South Asian literature and 1 more
    Created on: 22.04.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.04.2024
    Postcolonial/Decolonial studies permanent section call for papers (MMLA 2024 Chicago)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Postcolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: “Health in/of the Humanities.” We seek scholarly work within the realm of postcolonial studies...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism
    Created on: 22.04.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Feminisms in the 21st-Century Science Fiction Novel (PAMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 121st annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 7, to Sunday, November 10, 2024, at the Margaritaville Resort, Palm Springs, California. Feminisms in the...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 12.04.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Territorium, Spannung und Tabu: Kanada in der Krise
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen zur 21. Tagung des Zukunftsforums der Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien im deutschsprachigen Raum Territorium, Spannung und Tabu: Kanada in der Krise Universität Bremen, 10. und 11. Oktober 2024 ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 25.03.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.04.2024
    Interspecies Friendships and Non-human Companionships (2024 annual conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Friendship and companionship offer complementary relationships with the world as they in various ways undermine the idea of singularity. As Jean-Luc Nancy notes in Being Singular Plural, what makes the idea of the singular pure and simple an...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 22.03.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    MLA-Panel 2025: Narrating Spectacle around 1800, New Orleans
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Modern Language Associate Conference New Orleans, LA January 9-12, 2025 Narrating Spectacle around 1800 Audiences for eighteenth-century theater were more likely to be reading accounts of performances on the page than seeing them...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Novel,  Drama and 3 more
    Created on: 18.03.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.04.2024
    [kon]-paper Nr. 11 zum Thema ›Hybrid‹ (13.04.2024)
    Submitted by: Pia Lobodzinski

    Das interdisziplinäre Literatur- und Kulturmagazin [kon]-paper schreibt seit 2015 mit jeder Ausgabe ein Wort aus, dem sich Feuilleton- und Essaybeiträge sowie Gedichte, kurze Prosa und szenische Texte widmen. Das Titelwort der elften Ausgabe ist...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 6 more
    Created on: 10.03.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2025
    Call for submissions – peer-reviewed journal Studies in Travel Writing
    Submitted by: Sandra Vlasta

    Founded in 1997 by Tim Youngs, Studies in Travel Writing is an international, refereed journal dedicated to research on travel texts. Unrestricted by period or region of study, the journal allows for the application of a range of scholarly...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and geography/cartography,  Non-fictional literature and 1 more
    Created on: 28.02.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    Agnotology in Literature, Culture, and the Arts (MLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Agnotology, the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, has emerged as a critical lens through which to examine the production, dissemination, and contestation of knowledge within various spheres of human expression. This interdisciplinary...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.04.2024
    FORUM Call for Papers (Issue 35): Emotion and Affect (Journal issue)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Affect theory turns our attention towards a re-contextualisation of emotional and affective experiences within past and contemporary constructions of race, gender and sexuality. It leads us towards the para-rational zones of lived experience...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 19.02.2024