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DEADLINE EXTENSION! CFP 1st NEOLAiA International Conference on Narrating (Hi)Stories in Decentring Europe (1-3/10/2025, Universidad de Jaén) (1st NEOLAiA International Conference on Narrating (Hi)Stories in Decentring Europe)

Jaén, Spain
Organization: University of Jaén, and NEOLAiA European University Alliance
Event: 1st NEOLAiA International Conference on Narrating (Hi)Stories in Decentring Europe
Categories: Postcolonial, Digital Humanities, Hispanic & Latino, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, French, British, Lingustics, German, Genre & Form, Popular Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Literary Theory, Women's Studies, World Literatures, Medieval, Early Modern & Renaissance, Long 18th Century, Romantics, Victorian, 20th & 21st Century, Adventure & Travel Writing, Children's Literature, Comics & Graphic Novels, Drama, Narratology, Poetry, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Food Studies, History, Philosophy, African & African Diasporas, Asian & Asian Diasporas, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, Caribbean & Caribbean Diasporas, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Middle East, Native American, Scandinavian, Pacific Literature, Miscellaneous
Event Date: 2025-10-01 to 2025-10-03 Abstract Due: 2025-04-25

Dear colleagues,


We are extending the deadline to submit your proposals? for the 1st NEOLAiA International Conference on Narrating (Hi)Stories in Decentring Europe (1st-3rd October 2025, University of Jaén, Spain). This is an interdisciplinary conference jointly organised by partner universities of the Alliance of European Universities NEOLAiA.  It will count with presentations by the following confirmed keynote speakers: Izabela Dahl (University of Örebro), Celestino Deleyto (University of Zaragoza), and Beatrix Busse (University of Cologne). 

The new deadline for abstract submissions is April ?2?5, 2025. We invite 200-word abstracts with 4-6 keywords for 20-minute paper presentations (+10 minutes for discussion) in one of the conference languages (English, Spanish, or French). Proposals, together with a short biographical note (60-70 words, including your name, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address), must be sent as an email attachment to narratinghistories.neolaia@ gmail.com. Participants will be notified by May 5, 2025.
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This conference aims to reinterpret Europe through transcultural and counter-factual narratives, addressing themes like hegemony, migration, and decolonization for a more nuanced understanding. This call for papers invites studies on a diverse array of narratives—oral, written, factual, and fictional—found in autobiographies, memoirs, biographies, fiction, collective narratives, and national stories. Topics under examination include:

  • Hitory and life-writing  
  • History and memory narratives 
  • Relations between fiction and document: fact-fiction, ego-document, ego-history, etc. 
  • Hegemonic narratives and subaltern communities’ stories 
  • Oral narratives as a source of knowledge and as a strategy for meaning-making 
  • Narrative identities and traumas, narrative therapy 
  • Facts and their discursive representations: boundaries, borderliners, hybrid entities 
  • Material history and literary history 
  • Post-truth and post-factual societies  
  • Narratives, media, and remediations: written, visual, multimedia, and cross-media narratives  
  • Historicity of narrative paradigms: continuity and discontinuity in narrative models within literary history 
  • The role of memory in shaping multilingual identities in Europe
  • Language, trauma, and memory in literature and in historical narratives
  • Language, translation, and multilingual realities in the European context
  • English in European higher education: pragmatic adaptation and negotiation in multilingual settings 
  • Sociolinguistic perspectives on language use in European societies

For more information and updates on the conference, you can check the official website: https://www. narratinghistories-neolaiaconference.com/. 


We are looking forward to seeing you in Jaén!


Best regards,


Almudena Machado-Jiménez (On behalf of the Organising Committee of #NEOLAiANarratingHistories2025)

https://www.narratinghistories-neolaiaconference.com/

amachado@ujaen.es

Almudena Machado-Jiménez