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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: Lecture series
    Beginning: 25.01.2024
    Lecture Series: Border Temporalities. Doing Literature in a World of Walls - Vibha Maurya: The Tragedy of Building Walls between Nations, Religions and Genders: Geetanjali Shree's Playful Response in "Tomb of Sand" (2018)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Susanne Klengel, project Border Temporalities and/in Literature , Research Area 1: "Competing Communities" in cooperation with the Institute of Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin . This event is part of the...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 08.01.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2023
    Kala pani Crossings #3: Across the Oceans: Post-Indentureship Trans-Oceanic Transformations (Pondichéry)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Kala pani Crossings #3: Across the Oceans: Post-Indentureship Trans-Oceanic Transformations Dates: February 22-24, 2024 Venue: Institut Français de Pondichéry / French Institute of Pondicherry Languages: English and French ...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  South Asian literature,  Australian/Oceanian literature and 3 more
    Created on: 25.08.2023
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    South Asian Literatures: Women Writing Men, Men Writing Women (Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2023) (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    South Asian literary works have given us a memorable array of complex portraits of women and men and the relations between them. Some characters favor traditional modes of understanding the roles and behaviors of the sexes and their...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 29.08.2022
  6. 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
  7. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 30.11.2021
    Associate Professor, World Cultures and Literatures, University of Houston
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Associate Professor - World Cultures and Literatures - (FAC001916) H0092 Modern & Classical Languages Salary Commensurate with experience Description The Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  East Asian literature and 5 more
    Created on: 22.11.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2020
    Approches de la culture féminine dans l’Asie et l’Océanie francophones
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Approches de la culture féminine dans l’Asie et l’Océanie francophones Date de tombée : 30 Octobre 2020 Appel à contributions pour un volume à paraître aux édition de L’Harmattan sous le titre « Approches de la culture féminine...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  South Asian literature,  Australian/Oceanian literature and 3 more
    Created on: 28.08.2020
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.10.2020
    Chapters for "Transgender India: Understanding Hijras and Sadhins through the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities"
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Chapters are invited for Transgender India , which examines hijras and sadhins from antiquity to the present, drawing on scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Contributions may explore a range of Indian transgender...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 21.08.2020
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2020
    Approches de la culture féminine dans l'Asie et l'Océanie francophones
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions pour un volume qui sera prochainement édité chez L’Harmattan sous le titre Approches de la culture féminine dans l’Asie et l’Océanie francophones DATE LIMITE : 30 Octobre 2020 Ce volume, qui...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  South Asian literature,  Australian/Oceanian literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.08.2020
  11. Philipp Sperner
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: South Asian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Deconstruction; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and cultural studies; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)

  12. Kitty Millet
    University or institution: San Francisco State University (SFSU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Portugese 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; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Literature from Israel; Near Eastern literature; East Asian literature; South Asian literature; Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Didactics of Literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Criticism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Empirical Aesthetics; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Narratology; Oral poetry / Orality; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Game Studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Prose; Novel; Narrative