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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: 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2023
    Kafka Transformed (University of Oxford)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Kafka Transformed International Conference; University of Oxford, 18-20 September 2024 Franz Kafka’s role as a world author is inextricably linked to his reception and afterlife. His global legacy has been shaped by academic as well as...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 8 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    CfP Eternal Peace in Speculative Fiction
    Submitted by: Johannes Kaminski

    Dear colleagues, I am currently putting together a special issue of World Literature Studies (WLS) dedicated to speculative fiction. Looking forward to see your abstracts by September 15! See CfP below. Best wishes Johannes Kaminski ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 30.06.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    Material Girls & Boys: Narrated Fashion in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    (March 7th - 9th, 2024 Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Clothing is a daily feature of every child’s life and this significance carries through into the media created for children and young people. From picture books for toddlers...

    Fields of research Empirical Aesthetics,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 13 more
    Created on: 02.05.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2023
    Heritage Exchanges between Southeastern Europe and the German-language Sphere, Graz
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: Interdisciplinary Conference, November 16–17, 2023, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria, held in English and German Heritage Exchanges between Southeastern Europe and the German-language Sphere Keynote speaker: Mitja...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 14.04.2023
  7. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 30.12.2023
    Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (Postdoc) für Wissenschaftliches Publikationsmanagement und Wissenschaftskommunikation am EXC 2020 Temporal Communities
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, Vollzeitbeschäftigung, befristet bis 31.12.2025. Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L FU. Bewerbungsende: 30.12.2022 News from Dec 06, 2022 Ziel des Exzellenzclusters EXC 2020 "Temporal...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  World Literature,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 2 more
    Created on: 19.12.2022
  8. 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
  9. Denys Chyk
    University or institution: Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets
    Fields of research: Literature from UK and Ireland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and cultural studies; Literary genre; Prose; Novel; The fictional; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2022
    Chaos, Unverbundenheit, Kombination. Aleatorische (Nicht-)Formen und ihre Rezeption (17.-18.03.2023)
    Submitted by: Dana Steglich

    Chaos, Unverbundenheit, Kombination. Aleatorische (Nicht-)Formen und ihre Rezeption Aleatorische Texte transformieren nicht nur klassische Produktionsweisen und Buchformate, sondern eröffnen zugleich spezifische Form- und...

    Fields of research Reader-response criticism,  Media studies,  Narratology and 4 more
    Created on: 27.06.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.12.2021
    Extended deadline: Call for papers on the theme "Interface" (Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis)
    Submitted by: Soapbox Journal

    For the next issue of Soapbox we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit academic essays or creative work that critically engages with the theme of interface. We are inviting extended proposals (500-1000 words) that follow...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 10 more
    Created on: 06.12.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.12.2021
    Call for papers on the theme "interface" (Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis)
    Submitted by: Soapbox Journal

    For the upcoming issue of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit academic essays or creative work that critically engages with the theme of interface. We...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 10 more
    Created on: 09.11.2021
  13. 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
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2021
    World-Wide Woolf: A book to be published in 2023
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2021 From a somewhat niche position in English modernism, Virginia Woolf is today an icon (see Brenda Silver, Virginia Woolf Icon) recognised around the world. World Wide Woolf will consider the many steps of...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 25.06.2021
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    Inspired by and Invigorating Myth and Literature: Contemporary Literature and the Classics (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad , Madeline Miller’s Circe , Natalie Haynes’s A Thousand Ships , Luigi Malerba’s Ithaca Forever , Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities, and Colm Toibin’s House of Names are just a small sample of...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Digital literature,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.) and 2 more
    Created on: 14.06.2021