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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Standing Panel: East-West Literary Relations (PAMLA, 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The "East-West Literary Relations" session seeks to foster a discussion that crosses various disciplines and methodologies, including but not limited to literature, history, science, anthropology, religion, philosophy, film, art, and music. We...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 12.04.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.04.2024
    Interspecies Friendships and Non-human Companionships (2024 annual conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Friendship and companionship offer complementary relationships with the world as they in various ways undermine the idea of singularity. As Jean-Luc Nancy notes in Being Singular Plural, what makes the idea of the singular pure and simple an...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 22.03.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2024
    eikones summer school – Attention in Animal Ethics and Aesthetics, Basel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    eikones summer school Attention in Animal Ethics and Aesthetics September 4 - 6, 2024 Application Due Date: April 15, 2024 Speakers: Anat Pick (Queen Mary University of London) Jessica Ullrich...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 22.03.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.04.2024
    [kon]-paper Nr. 11 zum Thema ›Hybrid‹ (13.04.2024)
    Submitted by: Pia Lobodzinski

    Das interdisziplinäre Literatur- und Kulturmagazin [kon]-paper schreibt seit 2015 mit jeder Ausgabe ein Wort aus, dem sich Feuilleton- und Essaybeiträge sowie Gedichte, kurze Prosa und szenische Texte widmen. Das Titelwort der elften Ausgabe ist...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 6 more
    Created on: 10.03.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2024
    GSA 2024 Seminar - Interplanetary Perspectives: Cosmic Fictions and Figurations of Other Worlds, Atlanta
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We seek participants for a proposed seminar at the upcoming 48th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, to be held September 26-29, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. Application Deadline: February 23, 2024 Interplanetary...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 16.02.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2024
    GSA Seminar: The Diversities of Care in the Long 19th Century (Atlanta)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Seminar: The Diversities of Care in the Long 19th Century 48th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia September 26-29, 2024 Submission Deadline: February 23, 2024 Recently, the concept of “care”...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 05.02.2024
  7. 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
  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: 30.09.2023
    The Senses and War (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How do authors describe the sensory reality of war? What are the sounds of war, the smells of war (the textures, visuals, taste of war)? How are these described and how do they differ? These are questions that remain of interest to historians and...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 24.07.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.04.2023
    Posthumanistische Narrationen und Narratologien. Auftaktworkshop zur Konstitution und Vorbereitung eines DFG-Netzwerks, Köln
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: Posthumanistische Narrationen und Narratologien Auftaktworkshop zur Konstitution und Vorbereitung eines DFG-Netzwerks Dr. Charlotte Coch, Universität zu Köln In den unter dem Stichwort...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Narratology,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 10.03.2023
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.03.2023
    Posthumanism and the Posthuman. Chances and Challenges in German and European Literature and Culture, London (23.03.–24.03.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Posthumanism and the Posthuman Chances and Challenges in German and European Literature and Culture Thursday, 23 and Friday, 24 March 2023 At the Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU Booking now open: ...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 16.02.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.03.2023
    GSA-Panel 2023: Beyond our grasp: Representing Hyperobjects in German-language Works, Montreal (03.03.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Beyond our grasp: Representing Hyperobjects in German-language Works The introduction of the concept of the Anthropocene by Paul Crutzen in 2000 (or ‘Capitalocene’ as suggested by Jason Moore, Donna Haraway et al.) has raised awareness of...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 16.02.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Zeitschrift Recherches germaniques, Themenheft 2025 Misshandlungen von Tieren und Pflanzen (30.09.23)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers Zeitschrift Recherches germaniques, Themenheft 2025 Misshandlungen von Tieren und Pflanzen – (un)mögliche Formen von Resilienz im deutschsprachigen Raum. Kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Studien ...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 6 more
    Created on: 06.02.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2023
    GSA 2023 Catastrophe and Critique, Montreal (15.03.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The term catastrophe, which has its roots in ancient Greek dramaturgy, denotes a “downward turn” of events and is linked to Aristotle’s definition of peripeteia, a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances. Typically, the breakdown of the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 23.01.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2023
    Violent Child-Animal Encounters in Literature. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Submitted by: Marina Ortrud Hertrampf

    In the last decades, we have witnessed a variety of theories and approaches - from multispecies ethnography to trans- and posthumanist philosophy - that aim to decentralize the category of the human. Introducing a posthuman perspective into the study...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 27 more
    Created on: 06.12.2022