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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 30.05.2024
    „Schöne Europäerinnen“, „Beutetürkin“ und „schwartze Africaner“: Galanterie, Kolonialismus und Orientalismus um 1700
    Submitted by: Isabelle Stauffer

    Internationale und interdisziplinäre Tagung vom 30.05. – 2.06.2024 in Wandersleben bei Erfurt Organisiert von Prof. Dr. Stephan Kraft (Neuere deutsche Literaturgeschichte, Julius- Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) und Prof. Dr. Isabelle...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Literary historiography and 4 more
    Created on: 29.04.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Translating Silence: Alternative Forms of Voice Beyond Speech (PaMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    121st PAMLA Conference Thursday, November 7 - Sunday, November 10, 2024 Margaritaville Resort | Palm Springs, California Inspired by the conference theme “Translation in Action,” this panel seeks papers that explore conceptualizations...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity and 3 more
    Created on: 10.04.2024
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.05.2024
    New Readings on Russian Formalism at the Crossroads of Slavic Cultural History: Primary Insights and Perspectives for Future Research
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    MODERNITAS (MSH - ULB) https://msh.ulb.ac.be/fr/team/modernitas invites paper-proposal abstracts for consideration in the international workshop: New Readings on Russian Formalism at the Crossroads of Slavic Cultural History: Primary...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary theory and 9 more
    Created on: 26.02.2024
  5. 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
  6. OTHERNESSES – Towards Humanisms Beyond BorderThinking
    Submitted by: Diana Mariam Popal

    A Workspace for anti-violent, anti-racist, Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought as Praxis Othernesses provides a platform for critical exchange and dialogue on an international and cross-disciplinary level between different critical...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Deconstruction and 6 more
    Created on: 04.12.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    Postmigration und Postkolonialismus in frankophoner und deutschsprachiger Literatur und Musik
    Submitted by: Martina Kopf

    Eine postmigrantische Perspektive hat in den letzten Jahren vor allem in der deutschsprachigen interdisziplinären Migrationsforschung, aber auch im europäischen Kontext an Bedeutung gewonnen. Ästhetisch umgesetzt wurde die postmigrantische Idee in...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 19.10.2023
  8. Martina Kopf
    University or institution: Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.11.2023
    Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CfP Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature (deadline 3rd November 2023) What happens when we look away from modernism/s? We are inviting academics to consider this question with a specific...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 13.10.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Genre Turn in Multiethnic Literature (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his landmark essay, "The Second Elevation: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative," Ramón Saldívar proclaimed the arrival of a "cohort of contemporary authors . . . [who] all raise as formal and thematic concerns the very...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Caribbean and The American South: Interrogating Contemporary Literary, Artistic, and Cultural Relations (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Connected by the shared experience of the “plantation system” (in the words of Martinican author Édouard Glissant), the relationship between the Caribbean and the American South has been studied from a historical perspective [1], and the literary...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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 Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023