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Displaying results 1 to 6 of 6.

  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Corporeal Technologies: Modifying and Augmenting the Body (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The intersection of technology and the human body has given rise to a myriad of possibilities that transform our perception of self, relationships, and the world around us. In this panel, we will delve into representations of corporeal technologies...

    Fields of research French literature,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 6 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectrums of Embodiment in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    One interpretation of the NeMLA 2024 theme of Surplus centers on embodiment, and the transatlantic long nineteenth century was arguably a key historical moment for envisioning material embodiment in terms of surplus, or lack thereof. Representation...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Interdisciplinarity and 9 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spare, (Almost) Never Heir: Girls, Second Sons and Other Fantastic Creatures (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    As much as surplus indicates plenty, it also hints at excess. If the word is applied to people rather than goods, it suggests a denigration of status and even a certain dehumanization. What happens when the word ‘surplus’ is made adjacent to power?...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Writing in the “alterity industry”: Marginalized authors and the politics of publishing (NeMLA) (Boston, MA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his 2001 book The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan describes book publishing as an “alterity industry” profiting from “the commodification of cultural difference” (12), in which authors of underrepresented backgrounds must balance their...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Between Entrapment and Release: Navigating Trauma in Contemporary World Literature, NeMLA 2022 (Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference to be held from March 10-13, 2022 , in Baltimore, MD. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2021 ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    NeMLA 2022: Migration, Belonging, and Afro-Europeanness: Current Articulations and Future Perspectives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel aims to explore how writers and filmmakers have articulated questions of Blackness and Europeanness, migration and cultural belonging, colonial histories and decolonial futures. In recent decades, artists, scholars, and activists from...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 11 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021