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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2023
    Red World Literature: Periphery, Theory, Form, System
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    RED WORLD LITERATURE : Periphery, Theory, Form, System Co-editors: Hunter Bivens, University of California, Santa Cruz and Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, University of Iceland The promise of a new ‘red’ dawn in the history of World Literature...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context, Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Since the consolidation of world literature as a field of research in the 1990s, the study of literature beyond national frameworks has almost become commonplace. While the focus of this discipline has been on the transformations and shifting...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 1 more
    Created on: 06.10.2023
  4. 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
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures (Saarbrücken)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures" 8. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft e.V. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken Ein Interesse an wissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung mit dem ›Populären‹ ist wohl...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies and 6 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 26.01.2023
    Workshop Form und Wissen – Über die historisch-epistemischen Bedingungen der Form, FU Berlin (26./27.01.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dieser Lektüre-Workshop setzt eine Diskussion fort, die im Mai 2022 bei einem ersten Treffen an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg begonnen wurde. In der Workshop-Reihe geht es um die Frage, welche epistemischen Bedingungen erfüllt bzw....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 9 more
    Created on: 13.01.2023
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 19.01.2023
    Adventure: Violence and Narrative Form, München (19.01. – 21.01.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Annual Conference of the DFG Research Unit “Philology of Adventure” 19/20/21 January 2023, Literaturhaus München, Salvatorplatz 1, Munich Adventure involves both the fascination of exerting and the fear of suffering violence....

    Fields of research World Literature,  Aesthetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 06.01.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.09.2022
    Global Horror 2nd Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Horror pervades our lives. The emotional experiences based on fear and dread it provides affect us both individually and collectively, and the fascination it exerts is undeniable and ancient, as evidenced by its lurking recurrence in mythologies,...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Interdisciplinarity and 9 more
    Created on: 29.08.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2022
    CFP-Kremenets Comparative Studies-Vol. 12-2022-2023
    Submitted by: Denys Chyk

    Dear Colleague, Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets and NGO “Volyn Cultural Initiatives” (Ukraine) invites you to submit a paper to the 12th annual scientific journal “Kremenets Comparative Studies” ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 75 more
    Created on: 18.08.2022
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2022
    Les metamorphoses de Diderot: Philosophie, art et science (Lo Sguardo, rivista internazionale di filosofia)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Parmi les penseurs du XVIIIe siècle, Denis Diderot est sans doute l’un des plus difficiles à classer. Auteur de romans, de pièces de théâtre, d’essaies scientifiques et d’art, ainsi que de philosophie, il est difficile séparer ses œuvres proprement «...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary historiography,  World Literature and 9 more
    Created on: 14.02.2022
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2022
    Arendt and Literature (GSA Conference 2022, Houston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Life of the Mind , posthumously published by Mary McCarthy in 1977, Hannah Arendt uses one of Gertrude Stein's most famous lines to show how language operates between thought and sensual experience, as a communicative tool that is...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 14.01.2022
  14. Patricia Gwozdz
    University or institution: Universität Potsdam
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Reader-response criticism; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and philosophy; Literature and natural science; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Aesthetics

  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.12.2021
    Extended deadline: Call for papers on the theme "Interface" (Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis)
    Submitted by: Soapbox Journal

    For the next issue of Soapbox we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit academic essays or creative work that critically engages with the theme of interface. We are inviting extended proposals (500-1000 words) that follow...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 10 more
    Created on: 06.12.2021