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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    Agnotology in Literature, Culture, and the Arts (MLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Agnotology, the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, has emerged as a critical lens through which to examine the production, dissemination, and contestation of knowledge within various spheres of human expression. This interdisciplinary...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.04.2024
    FORUM Call for Papers (Issue 35): Emotion and Affect (Journal issue)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Affect theory turns our attention towards a re-contextualisation of emotional and affective experiences within past and contemporary constructions of race, gender and sexuality. It leads us towards the para-rational zones of lived experience...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 19.02.2024
  4. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 23.08.2024
    Summer School: New Approaches and Methods for Research in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    The Summer School: New Approaches and Methods for Research in Children’s Media will be held at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (Germany) and aims at students interested in Children’s and YA-media in Germany and abroad. Numerous...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Didactics of Literature,  Literary theory and 10 more
    Created on: 21.11.2023
  5. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 30.11.2023
    PhD Research Position (male/female/diverse), »Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe«, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, befristet auf 3 Jahre (TV-L E13 65 %)
    Submitted by: Christian Scheerhorn

    The project »Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe« at the Media Faculty of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is hiring a Research Assistant (male/female/diverse) The PhD research position is funded through a...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Poststructuralism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  6. 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
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA-panel 2024: Queer trauma in world literature, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear colleagues, For anyone working on literary trauma studies or queer trauma in literature (any language / period), I would like to draw your attention to this seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association's (ACLA’s) 2024...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 11.09.2023
  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: 04.09.2023
    Catastrophes imminentes à travers les siècles : la littérature et les arts face au désastre (Vancouver, Canada)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    10e édition de la Conférence des Étudiants Diplômés Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Catastrophes imminentes à travers les siècles : la Littérature et les Arts face au...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Spanish literature and 8 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.09.2023
    She Said, He Said, They Said: (Un)Reliable Narrators in Literature (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From monologues offering invectives about various characters in Shakespearean plays and poetry; suspicious narrations involving characters in Hawthorne’s short stories and novels; distrustful narrators in Marge Percy’s sci-fi stories, novels and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Narratology,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Where is the Cognitive Turn Today? (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Subject Fields German History / Studies Where is the Cognitive Turn Today? (NeMLA '24, Boston MA, March 7-10, 2024) This panel addresses the current state of the ‘cognitive turn’ in German Studies. Abstracts are invited that...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.09.2023
    Coding Utopias
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is no shortage of critiques of utopian imaginaries for being coded in colonial, Western, masculine, Christian, and extractive ideologies. Utopia has been, and continues to be, an often violent gesture that chooses the future of select groups...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.06.2023
    4. Studientag der Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft: „Über Menschen… und darüber hinaus“ (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 14.07.2023)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Die studies haben in den letzten Jahren Hochkonjunktur: von den animal über die plant bis hin zu den critical future studies – verhandelt wird die Stellung des Menschen in einem Geflecht wechselseitiger Abhängigkeiten. Was ist...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary theory and 13 more
    Created on: 05.06.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.03.2023
    Marges et marginalités littéraires d’Asie d’hier et d’aujourd’hui (Aix-en-Provence)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à communications pour les journées d’études organisées par l’axe de recherches « Littératures d’Asie et traduction » de l’IrAsia (UMR 7306), les 17-18 novembre 2023, Aix-Marseille Université, centre des lettres,...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 24.03.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.03.2023
    Writing Trauma and the Body (GSA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Please consider submitting a paper proposal for the following GSA panel: CFP: Writing Trauma and the Body German Studies Association Conference Oct. 5-8, 2023 Montréal, Canada We invite contributions that explore the relationship...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 17.03.2023