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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. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2023
    Postcolonial Narrations Postgraduate Forum: Queering Postcolonial Worlds
    Submitted by: Corina Wieser-Cox

    In Queer Phenomenology (2006), Sara Ahmed explores racial and sexual orientations in the world, writing “Queer orientations are those that put within reach bodies that have been made unreachable by the lines of conventional genealogy. Queer...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from UK and Ireland and 8 more
    Created on: 05.04.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    NeMLA 2023: North African Women Writers (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From Nawal el Saadawi’s writings against FGM to Tunisian protests advocating for changes to inheritance law, this panel considers North Africa’s women writers in conversation with the conference theme, resilience. How have these women writers...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  4. 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
  5. 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
  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
    État des lieux: Women in French and Francophone Noir Fiction, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel: “État des lieux”: Women in French and Francophone Noir Fiction NeMLA 2022 Baltimore, MD March 10-13 Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Sept. 30th Session Description: Apart from some chapters and articles...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  North African literature and 4 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  10. 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
  11. 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
  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. 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
  15. Jana Volkmann
    University or institution: Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) / Université de Fribourg
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; 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); North African literature; East Asian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Empirical Aesthetics; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Narratology; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and philosophy; Poetics; Prose; Novel; Novella; Narrative; Short prose; Aesthetics; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century