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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA Panel 2024—Theory without Object: Histories and Historical Accounts, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Theory without Object: Histories and Historical Accounts Co-Organizers: Daniel Carranza and William Stewart, Harvard University March 14–17, Montreal, Canada For a term bandied about ubiquitously and often with little conceptual...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 22.09.2023
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP: Report on the State of the Discipline of Comparative Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear ACLA member, The Bylaws of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) mandate that a State of the Discipline Report be prepared by the association every decade. The five previous reports (1965, 1975, 1993, 2006, and 2014) have...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 1 more
    Created on: 05.08.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Emotional Communities in the Early Period (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Emotion is a perennial feature of the human experience, and its representation has been explored in literature and art across millennia. Nonetheless, emotions do not exist only within the individual experience. For all our fascination with emotions,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Debating World Literature through National Literature (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This seminar seeks papers that reflect on how national authors attempt to introduce and present their countries through the lens of the literature to the world readers, on the one hand, and how the concept of world literature functions at the...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    New Workers’ Literature: Re-Imagining Global Subaltern Narratives (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the ongoing global geopolitical, economic, environmental and pandemic crises, the world is never this divided and stratified. Among a multitude of verbal, visual and aural narratives in response to such social inequality, New Workers’ Literature...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Belonging in French- and German-speaking Literatures. A Transnational Approach (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Belonging in French- and German-speaking Literatures. A Transnational Approach Michel Mallet (Moncton, NB), Timo Obergöker (Chester, UK) Questions related to the sentiment of belonging have been at the forefront of literary...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 2 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Orientation in and through Texts (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Reinhard G. Mueller Co-Organizer: Timon Georg Boehm Orientation in and through Texts Organized on behalf of the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation How do we orient ourselves...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Hermeneutics,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Short Fiction in Comparative and World Literature (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amândio Reis In Death of a Discipline , Gayatri Spivak addresses the problematic identification between “literature” and the novel form in conventional approaches within comparative literature (2005: 123), voicing a concern with...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Je est un author: (Re-)Appearances of the Authorial Subject in Literature and Theory (ACLA 2022, Taipei)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Mithu Sanyal’s novel Identitti, shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2021, a fictional professor of Postcolonial Studies who identifies as a PoC causes a scandal when it turns out she is actually white. A recent American case eerily resembles the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 15.10.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Writing with the Mind: The Virtual Essence of Global Magical Realism (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This comparative literature panel will be founded on Eva Aldea’s Deleuzian treatment of magical realism, according to which “the Deleuzian ontological model of actual and virtual as two sides of One Being is invaluable to negotiating the...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Narratology and 3 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Possibilities in World Literary Criticism(s) (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Despite the opening up of literary studies to the burgeoning and thriving world of literatures from around the world, particularly those in languages outside of the major traditions in European and US American contexts, the project of criticism and...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  East Asian literature and 11 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2020
    Epistemic Justice in Literary Studies (ACLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Epistemic Justice in Literary Studies ACLA Panel organized by Victoria Zurita and Chen Bar-Itzhak (Stanford University) This panel addresses epistemic inequality in literary studies: the categories, theories and methods through...

    Fields of research Literary theory
    Created on: 19.10.2020