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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  2. Lisa Damm
    University or institution: Freie Universität Berlin
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Feminist studies; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Prose; Novel; Literature of the 20th century

  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 19.05.2022
    Deutsche und polnische Frauenkrimis im Vergleich (Collegium Polonicum in Słubice)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Im Rahmen des von der Deutsch-Polnischen Wissenschaftsstiftung (DPWS) mitfinanzierten Projektes „Deutsche und polnische Frauenkrimis im Vergleich“ / „Niemieckie i polskie kryminały kobiece – porównanie“ (Universität Zielona Góra und...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Feminist studies and 1 more
    Created on: 09.05.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.05.2022
    Clio Reflects. XXI Historical Fiction by Women and about Women
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Chapters Clio Reflects. XXI Historical Fiction by Women and about Women (tentatively by Bloomsbury) Abstract submission: 20 May 2022 In many literary genres as well as other modes of expression, such as...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 04.03.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2022
    Liebesgeflüster und Wutgeschrei: Affektkommunikation in Antike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit / Whisperings of Love - Cries of Anger: Communicating Emotions in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
    Submitted by: Thomas Kullmann

    Emerging Scholars Workshop des Interdisziplinären Instituts für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN) Osnabrück | 12.–14.10.2022 Spätestens seit dem ‚Emotional Turn‘ der (späten) 1990er-Jahre ist die Emotionsforschung in den Kultur- und...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 33 more
    Created on: 15.02.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.02.2022
    12. Studierendenkongress der Komparatistik: „Literatur & Zukunft“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28.02.2022)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Der Studierendenkongress der Komparatistik (SKK), der in seiner 12. Edition am 27. und am 28.05.2022 an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal stattfinden wird, bietet einen Rahmen für deutsch- und englischsprachige Bachelor- und Master-Studierende...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography and 26 more
    Created on: 13.01.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 25.10.2021
    Fairy Tales and Fantasy Fiction / Contes de fées et Fantasy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    (English version below) En 1947, Tolkien publie « Du conte de fées » (« On Fairy Stories »), un essai consacré aux contes de fées issu de sa conférence Andrew Lang de 1939, depuis devenu la base de la théorisation du genre de la Fantasy ...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 06.09.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Encounters and Dis-encounters in Latin American Erotic Poetry and Narrative (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organization: Northeast Modern Language Association Event: 53rd NeMLA Annual Convention This panel explores concepts and stereotypes lying behind the vision of love and eroticism expressed by Latin American authors. This panel...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 30.08.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women and Spanish Kiosk Literature (1907-1939): Modernization and Mass Culture (NeMLA 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description Among the thousands of novelas cortas published in Spain between 1907 and 1939, more than 300 were written by women. The present panel seeks to explore the ways in which women used early-20th-century Spanish kiosk literature as a...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Literary historiography,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 20.08.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2021
    Historical Fictions Research Network Online Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    An online conference, University of Salzburg, Austria, 19-20 February 2022 Deadline for proposals: 1 September 2021 The Historical Fictions Research Network aims to create a place for the discussion of all aspects of the construction...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Feminist studies and 7 more
    Created on: 23.07.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2021
    The ‘Edge’ of Sylvia Plath Critical History: A Reappraisal of Plath’s Work 60 years after
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A special issue of E-Rea: Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2021 Edited by: Nicolas-Pierre Boileau (Aix-Marseille Université, France) Carmen Bonasera (University of Pisa,...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literary historiography and 7 more
    Created on: 02.07.2021
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 29.07.2021
    Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Date 29 July 2021, 9.00am - 31 July 2021, 3.45pm Institute Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium Venue Online Description Organised by Rebecca Rosenberg ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Feminist studies and 6 more
    Created on: 28.06.2021
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Female Identities in Contemporary German Context (NeMLA Cfp)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although there appears to be a notable amount of literature discussing the topic of gender and media, the relation between gender, identity and their transposition in fiction remains a relevant aspect to be analyzed. “Frauenliteratur” is the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 6 more
    Created on: 14.06.2021
  14. Camilo Del Valle Lattanzio
    University or institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and natural science; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Prose; Novel; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; Essay; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Translation; Theory of translation; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  15. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.01.2021
    Impasse
    Submitted by: Soapbox Journal

    For the next volume of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit work that critically engages with the theme of the impasse. [Border] In its first...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary theory and 49 more
    Created on: 28.12.2020