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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 18.11.2024
    2025 DDGC Conference "Interdependence and Solidarity Formations in German Studies and the Arts"
    Submitted by: Jeannette Oholi

    April 10-12, 2025 (Online) The fifth biennial DDGC Conference will draw on our collective’s long tradition of coming together in community to take stock of the field and anticipate better structures for it in the future. We will gather under...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Wither the Great Books? Or Whither Great Books? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Kenneth Sammond This seminar askes us the explore the relevance, merits, and demerits of the great books approach to literature, its use of shared inquiry, its rootedness in a forming and reforming canons, and its consideration that...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Yuanfei Wang Contact the Seminar Organizers In The Novel and the Sea , Margaret Cohen argues that the dominant narrative about the rise of the western novel occurring on land could be revised with a consideration of sea...

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

  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Zeitgenoss*innenschaften. Formen von Gegenwartsteilnahme
    Submitted by: Fabian Lampart

    Die Tagung soll aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, anhand verschiedener Medien und Gattungen und mit Blick auf unterschiedliche historische und kulturelle Kontexte konzeptionelle Zugänge zu „Zeitgenoss*innenschaften“ vorstellen, vorschlagen und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 19.09.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Roaring of the Twenties: Modernity and the Energetic Turn (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Daniel Brandlechner

    The 1920s are a period of profound social, cultural, and technological transformation across the globe. Known as the Roaring Twenties in the US, Goldene Zwanziger in Germany, años locos in Argentina, Les Années Folles in France, or Anni Ruggenti in...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 17.09.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Alternative Poetics of Environment in South Asia (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Sumera Saleem Co-Organizer: Bharatwaj Iyer In his 2009 text entitled Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz describes the political power of art in imagining and reimagining “other ways of...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Fareed Ben-Youssef Co-Organizer: Rebecca Ehrenwirth This seminar invites papers on queer homecoming from across East Asian literature and media which present and wrestle with expanded definitions of home outside of the normative...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Dismantling the matrix of oppression in Atwood's "the Testaments" and Parsipur's "Women without Men" (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Marjan Heidari Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men may seem to be different works due to different settings and the writers’ backgrounds. The Testaments, written in 2019, narrates the lives of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Near Eastern literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  15. 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