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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rini Tarafder Co-Organizer: Amrapali Chatterjee Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature's Cold War (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Cate Reilly What is the place of Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies in the comparative literary inquiry? Of comparative literary inquiry, with its emphasis on theory and the critical praxis of the left, in a Slavic,...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 4 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Symphonic Discourses and Connections for Interracial Alliances in Asian Diaspora and AAPI Communities (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Liyang Dong Contact the Seminar Organizers Commending Goethe’s and Erich Auerbach’s philological approach to world literature, particularly Goethe’s s holistic understanding of Islamic literature and culture, Edward Said...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The World Republic of Rejection (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amanda Malone Gwendolyn Brooks began work on what would become her first novel, Maud Martha, in 1944, first submitting the manuscript to her editors in 1947. And yet, her novel would not be published until almost a decade later....

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic This seminar takes up the concept of displacement from two different vantage points. One is a consideration of how anthropogenically generated processes of environmental change can lead to a transformation of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  6. Michael Gamper
    University or institution: FU Berlin
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Literature and natural science; Prose; Aesthetics

  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  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