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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2024
    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period, Frankfurt a. M.
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period at Frankfurt am Main, September 2025 Comedy, satire, Lucianism – whenever one of these keywords is used in connection with Early Modern literature, it...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 13.03.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.02.2024
    XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture - CULTURE AT WAR (Lisbon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture CULTURE AT WAR Lisbon, June 24 – 29, 2024 Deadline for submissions: February 29, 2024 We are living in times of war. Now, more than ever, war occupies a central role in both national...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.01.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    Schwund – Absenz – Entzug, Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Internationaler Workshop vom 25.–27. September 2024 an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Schwund – Absenz – Entzug: Mithilfe dieser drei offensiv metaphorischen Konzepte möchte die Tagung den Dynamiken von Verschwinden und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies,  Intermediality and 2 more
    Created on: 01.12.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Gendered Allegories: Origen of Alexandria and the Representation of the Feminine in Patristic Literature (CFP)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CALL FOR PAPERS for a topical issue of Open Theology GENDERED ALLEGORIES: ORIGEN OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE FEMININE IN PATRISTIC LITERATURE "Open Theology” (https://www.degruyter.com/opth) invites...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 24.12.2023
    After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics - Sapienza-Silesia Graduate Forum 2024
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the face of ongoing disasters including the climate crisis, the pandemic, war in Europe and conflicts worldwide, as well as blatant manifestations of social injustice taking place on both a localised and a planetary scale, we might be prone to...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetoric,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor) and 1 more
    Created on: 03.11.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.10.2023
    Les spectres de la faim dans la littérature et la langue (Moyen Âge-XXIe siècle)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions pour le volume XXXVII (octobre 2024) des Travaux de littérature, publiés par l’ADIREL (Association pour la diffusion de la recherche littéraire) : Les spectres de la faim dans la littérature et la langue (Moyen Âge-XXI e...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literary genre and 2 more
    Created on: 04.09.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.09.2023
    Psyche and Symbol: a Transdisciplinary Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: Psyche and Symbol Conference Date: October 14-15, 2023 Location: October 14: The Association of Jungian Analysts’ Centre in London and Online October 15: Online “You see, man is in need of a symbolic life –...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    'Carried Down to Wondrous Depths': Meaning and Metaphor in Moby Dick (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Melville's Moby Dick is a book that defiantly (and perhaps frustratingly) defies a solitary meaning. Indeed, rather than providing readers with a single message in a simple narrative, the text is instead "overflowing" with meaning and the endless...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Hermeneutics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor) and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    Material Girls & Boys: Narrated Fashion in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    (March 7th - 9th, 2024 Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Clothing is a daily feature of every child’s life and this significance carries through into the media created for children and young people. From picture books for toddlers...

    Fields of research Empirical Aesthetics,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 13 more
    Created on: 02.05.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2023
    Themenheft z.B. Zeitschrift zum Beispiel: Beispielgeben und Erzählen
    Submitted by: Helmut Hofbauer

    Die z.B. Zeitschrift zum Beispiel ist eine Fachzeitschrift, die sich der Erforschung des Beispielgebrauchs in der Moderne widmet. Sie erscheint online als O pen Access-Publikation wie auch als PoD. Die z.B. ist interdisziplinär...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Digital Humanities,  Hermeneutics and 2 more
    Created on: 24.03.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2023
    PLAGUE AS METAPHOR
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CALL FOR PAPERS for a topical issue of "Open Cultural Studies" PLAGUE AS METAPHOR "Open Cultural Studies" (www.degruyter.com/CULTURE) invites submissions for a topical issue on “Plague as Metaphor,” edited by Nahum Welang...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 19.12.2022
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.02.2023
    International Conference "Modern Arabic Literature – Between Myth and Reality"
    Submitted by: Krzysztof Traba

    We look forward to academics who are interested in issues linked to the relation between myth and reality in the contemporary Arab World, textualization of political, philosophical, social and aesthetic concepts in literary texts, as well as...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 26.11.2022
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Tropes of Adventure (ACLA seminar)
    Submitted by: Manuel Mühlbacher

    Seminar at the Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (Chicago, 16–19 March 2023) In contemporary Western culture, the term ‘adventure’ seems to be applicable to almost everything. While the ‘adventure appeal’ is...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Novel,  Rhetoric and 1 more
    Created on: 20.09.2022
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2022
    XV. IVG-Kongress 2025: Narrative psychischer Krisen (Graz)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for papers für die Sektion „Narrative psychischer Krisen“ IVG-Kongress 2025: „Sprache und Literatur in Krisenzeiten – Herausforderungen, Aufgaben und Chancen der internationalen Germanistik“, 20. bis 27.7.2025, Ort: Graz, Österreich ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Narratology and 6 more
    Created on: 12.09.2022
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2022
    Silence de la parole et parole du silence (Jendouba)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Université de Jendouba L’Institut Supérieur des Langues Appliquées et d’Informatique de Béja (Tunisie) Le Département des Langues Organise Colloque Multidisciplinaire international Silence de la parole et parole du silence ...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Aesthetics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor) and 2 more
    Created on: 10.06.2022