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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.04.2024
    Interspecies Friendships and Non-human Companionships (2024 annual conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Friendship and companionship offer complementary relationships with the world as they in various ways undermine the idea of singularity. As Jean-Luc Nancy notes in Being Singular Plural, what makes the idea of the singular pure and simple an...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 22.03.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.05.2024
    New Readings on Russian Formalism at the Crossroads of Slavic Cultural History: Primary Insights and Perspectives for Future Research
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    MODERNITAS (MSH - ULB) https://msh.ulb.ac.be/fr/team/modernitas invites paper-proposal abstracts for consideration in the international workshop: New Readings on Russian Formalism at the Crossroads of Slavic Cultural History: Primary...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary theory and 9 more
    Created on: 26.02.2024
  3. OTHERNESSES – Towards Humanisms Beyond BorderThinking
    Submitted by: Diana Mariam Popal

    A Workspace for anti-violent, anti-racist, Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought as Praxis Othernesses provides a platform for critical exchange and dialogue on an international and cross-disciplinary level between different critical...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Deconstruction and 6 more
    Created on: 04.12.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.11.2023
    Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CfP Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature (deadline 3rd November 2023) What happens when we look away from modernism/s? We are inviting academics to consider this question with a specific...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 13.10.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Genre Turn in Multiethnic Literature (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his landmark essay, "The Second Elevation: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative," Ramón Saldívar proclaimed the arrival of a "cohort of contemporary authors . . . [who] all raise as formal and thematic concerns the very...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    "Transnational Literature and Transnational Aesthetics: Developments and Negotiations" (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his 2021 book Transnational Literature: The Basics, Paul Jay describes transnational literature as “a particular type of literature, emergent at an identifiable historical moment and dealing, collectively, with a set of issues and themes...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  7. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  8. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 31.10.2023
    Drei Stellen als wissenschaftliche Programmleitungen für die drei Programmbereiche "Geschichte", "Erfahrung" und "Natur" - Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Die Universität des Saarlandes ist eine Campus-Universität, die international bekannt ist durch ihre ausgeprägte Forschungsorientierung. Die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses und die Schaffung idealer Bedingungen für Forschung und Lehre...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 05.09.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.09.2023
    Ecrire la Terreur (Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Écrire la Terreur XXe-XXIe Appel à communication Colloque des 22 et 23 janvier 2024 CRP19 et THALIM - Sorbonne Nouvelle C’est que nous sommes des hommes, Monsieur ; et que les hommes de haut en bas, les lettrés et les...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 3 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies (Amsterdam)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Keynote Speaker: Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University, author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Duke University Press, 2017) For this two-day, single-stream, and in-person conference,...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 04.08.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.06.2023
    Esthétiques et politiques théâtrales d’Amérique latine aujourd’hui: quels enjeux autour de la (dé)colonialité ? (Toulouse)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS Esthétiques et politiques théâtrales d’Amérique latine aujourd’hui: quels enjeux autour de la (dé)colonialité? Ce colloque interdisciplinaire, faisant dialoguer recherches universitaires et arts vivants,...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Postcolonial studies,  Drama and 1 more
    Created on: 12.06.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2023
    Conference “Migrant voices in popular German literature and the performing arts”, Dublin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Panel: “Migrant voices in popular German literature and the performing arts” invites submissions for presentations for the 2023 annual meeting of the ASSOCIATION FOR GERMAN STUDIES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Trinity College Dublin,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 5 more
    Created on: 10.03.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2023
    Zerstresst! Spannungen zwischen Ästhetischem und Politischem
    Submitted by: Nina-Marie Schüchter

    Tagung: „Zerstresst! Spannungen zwischen Ästhetischem und Politischem“ (Düsseldorf, 08.12.-09.12.2023) Organisatorinnen: Svetlana Chernyshova (HHU), Jasmina Nöllen (HHU), Nina-Marie Schüchter (HHU), Ines Lange (UR) Einsendeschluss:...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 09.03.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2023
    GSA-Panel 2023: Aesthetics and Resistance, Montreal (01.03.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Aesthetics and Resistance: Call for Contributions to a Panel Series at GSA 2023 Rather than keeping the main focus on open and militant acts of refusal, sabotage, or assassination, recent theorists of resistance (Caygill, 2015; Därmann, 2021)...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Aesthetics and 3 more
    Created on: 16.02.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2023
    GSA 2023 "Comparison Literature Revisited: Genres, Forms, Media", October 5–8, 2023, Montréal (15.03.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    As an epistemological practice or as a social custom, comparison has been the subject of much debate in recent decades. “Why compare?,” R. Radhakrishnan has asked in an essay that spells out the asymmetries implicit in many acts of comparison which...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 03.02.2023