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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2023
    CfP: Zwischen Resistenz und Resilienz. Erscheinungsformen der Populär- und Popularkulturen in der Romania, Spannungsverhältnisse und Herausbildung von kollektiven Zugehörigkeiten
    Submitted by: Minerva Peinador

    Call for Contributions Panel: „Zwischen Resistenz und Resilienz. Erscheinungsformen der Populär- und Popularkulturen in der Romania, Spannungsverhältnisse und Herausbildung von kollektiven Zugehörigkeiten“ ...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Spanish literature and 12 more
    Created on: 21.11.2022
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2022
    Flower Power. Florales zwischen Schönheit, Ordnung und Dominanz, München (31.12.2022)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Blumen sind weit weniger unschuldig, als Brautsträuße und Muttertagskitsch vermuten lassen. Für Alice Walker symbolisiert der aufwändige Blumenschmuck, mit dem ihre Mutter selbst schäbigste Wohnungen veredeln konnte, nicht nur Trost und Hoffnung...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 21.11.2022
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2022
    Deutsch-Asiatische Begegnungen in Krisenzeiten (XV. IVG-Kongress 2025, Graz)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    XV. IVG-Kongress 2025 : „Sprache und Literatur in Krisenzeiten – Herausforderungen, Aufgaben und Chancen der internationalen Germanistik“ (20. bis 27.7.2025, Graz) Titel der Sektion: Deutsch-Asiatische Begegnungen in Krisenzeiten ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Near Eastern literature,  East Asian literature and 3 more
    Created on: 11.11.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2023
    Sektion: 'Negative Virtualität: Über eine kulturtheoretische Figur in den Amerikas' (XVIII. Romanistentag, Leipzig 2023)
    Submitted by: Ángela Calderón Villarino

    Frank B. Wilderson III entwickelt in seinem Werk Afropessimismus (2021) eine schwarze Personen konstitutiv auslöschende Ontologie, deren Urgrund eine (Anti-)Phänomenologie des Schwarzen bildet: „Bei ‚Anti-Blackness‘ geht es um blanken Terror vor...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature and 7 more
    Created on: 10.11.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Seminar: Rethinking Lyric Communities, Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (Chicago, March 16-19, 2023)
    Submitted by: Francesco Giusti

    From the circulation of poetic forms across different languages and traditions around the globe, through the envisioning of national and transnational discursive communities, to the use of poetry in contemporary episodes of political resistance and...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 14 more
    Created on: 20.10.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2022
    IVG-Kongress 2025, Sektion: Transnational, Intersektional, Dekolonial, Plural, Graz (30.11.2022)
    Submitted by: Jeannette Oholi

    XV. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik "Sprache und Literatur in Krisenzeiten" in Graz vom 20. bis 27. Juli 2025 Sektion: Transnational, Intersektional, Dekolonial, Plural - Herausforderungen, Aufgaben und Chancen für...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Literary theory and 3 more
    Created on: 07.10.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2022
    Flower Power. Florales zwischen Schönheit, Ordnung und Dominanz
    Submitted by: Sophie Emilia Seidler

    Blumen sind weit weniger unschuldig, als Brautsträuße und Muttertagskitsch vermuten lassen. Für Alice Walker symbolisiert der aufwändige Blumenschmuck, mit dem ihre Mutter selbst schäbigste Wohnungen veredeln konnte, nicht nur Trost und Hoffnung...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 7 more
    Created on: 03.10.2022
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Voicing ‘the Other’: Literatures Between and Beyond Appreciation and (Re-)Appropriation (ACLA seminar)
    Submitted by: Sandra Folie

    Debates about cultural appropriation are omnipresent. Although they seem to revolve more often around music and fashion, questions such as “who has the right to write about whom and/or in what way?” are also being raised in relation to literature....

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Interdisciplinarity and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2022
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2022
    Consolation in contemporary British and postcolonial literatures
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Consolation in contemporary British and postcolonial literatures Keynote speaker: Professor David James (University of Birmingham) In a contemporary era defined as an age of crisis by Emily Horton (2014), the notion of consolation has...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 23.09.2022
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2022
    IVG-Kongress, Graz 2025 Sektion: Unruhe stiften: ökologische Krisennarrative und experimentelle Poetiken des Anthropozäns, Graz
    Submitted by: Alena Heinritz

    Unruhe stiften: ökologische Krisennarrative und experimentelle Poetiken des Anthropozäns Leitung der Sektion: Prof. Dr. Paweł Piszczatowski, Universität Warschau, PD. Dr. Urte Stobbe, Universität Vechta/Siegen, Dr. Alena...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 21.09.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2022
    Zumutung Freiheit? Narrative von Partizipation und democratic backsliding in den postsozialistischen Gesellschaften
    Submitted by: Torsten Erdbrügger

    11. – 13. 05. 2023, Universität Lodz / Uniwersytet Łódzki Der Befund, die Gesellschaft zerfalle in Ich-zentrierte Singularitäten (Reckwitz 2019), während sich Politikverdrossenheit und Vertrauensverlust in Staat und Politik...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) and 7 more
    Created on: 20.09.2022
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Crises de l'universel dans la littérature et la critique anglophones (Paris)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Crises de l’universel dans la littérature et la critique anglophones (xix e -xxi e siècles) Au cours du xx e siècle, le paradigme universaliste est mis en crise par les penseurs de la condition noire comme W.E.B. Du Bois et ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  13. 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
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2022
    The productivity of the so-called ‘negative emotions’ in postcolonial literatures
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Emotions, affect, and moods do not happen to us. Rather, we are our emotions: they configure our manner of relating to, and existing within the world. Ontologies of emotion—in their embodied and symbolic dimensions—alter our perceptions, ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism,  Postcolonial studies and 5 more
    Created on: 09.09.2022
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.09.2022
    Global Horror 2nd Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Horror pervades our lives. The emotional experiences based on fear and dread it provides affect us both individually and collectively, and the fascination it exerts is undeniable and ancient, as evidenced by its lurking recurrence in mythologies,...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Interdisciplinarity and 9 more
    Created on: 29.08.2022