Specialised Information Service Comparative Literature (SIS Comparative Literature)

The SIS Comparative Literature (Fachinformationsdienst Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, FID AVL) is a project set in motion beginning in 2016 at the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with funding from the German Research Foundation. It is now in its third funding period (2023-2025). The FID AVL makes informational services available to scholars in the field of Comparative Literature and is being developed in close collaboration with the research community and with the support of a Advisory Board of Scholars. For more information about the SIS Comparative Literature, go to About us.

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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 30.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2024
    Children's and Youth Literature in the Context of War and Displacement. Comparative Perspectives between the 20th and 21st Centuries
    Submitted by: Matei Chihaia

    The response of children's and youth literature to situations of war and displacement has been extensively studied. From a transnational perspective, comparative research on children's and youth literature examines aspects of historical and cultural...

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  2. Date of publication: 27.09.2024
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    Alles fließt. Fluides in Literatur und anderen Medien, Universität Paderborn, 10./11. Oktober 2024 (Studentische Tagung des Fachbereichs Komparatistik/Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Paderborn)
    Submitted by: Anna Maria Spener

    Studentische Tagung des Fachbereichs Komparatistik/Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Paderborn Alles fließt. Fluides in Literatur und anderen Medien, Universität Paderborn, 10./11. Oktober 2024, Raum I 1.407 ...

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  3. Date of publication: 27.09.2024
    Application deadline: 01.11.2024
    Assistant Professor of German Studies, Rice University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description Rice University’s Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures seeks to hire a tenure track assistant professor of German Studies with open field specialization to begin July 1, 2025. The successful candidate will...

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  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 27.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Varieties of the Impersonal (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Impersonality has long been invoked as a marker of modernity and of its literary-aesthetic correlate in modernism: anonymity and ennui appear as symptoms of urbanization and bureaucracy; modern science announces the reign of objectivity; social...

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  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 27.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    James Baldwin and the Eruption of the Ethical (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In interview footage from 1963 curated by Karen Thorsen for The Price of the Ticket (1989) there is a scene wherein James Baldwin makes a claim about value: “From my point of view, no label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and indeed no...

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