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. Date of publication: 25.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2025
    Journal of Literary Theory Bd. 20, Nr. 1 (2026): Literaturwissenschaft und/als politisches Engagement (15.07.2025)
    Submitted by: JLT Redaktion

    Journal of Literary Theory Bd. 20, Nr. 1 (2026) Themenschwerpunkt "Literaturwissenschaft und/als politisches Engagement" (English version below) Ecocriticism, so heißt es in einer Einführung, sei "an avowedly political mode of...

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    Fields of research: Literary theory
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 25.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 18.11.2024
    2025 DDGC Conference "Interdependence and Solidarity Formations in German Studies and the Arts"
    Submitted by: Jeannette Oholi

    April 10-12, 2025 (Online) The fifth biennial DDGC Conference will draw on our collective’s long tradition of coming together in community to take stock of the field and anticipate better structures for it in the future. We will gather under...

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  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 23.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Varieties of the Impersonal (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Elias Kleinbock Co-Organizer: Joseph Henry Contact the Seminar Organizers Impersonality has long been invoked as a marker of modernity and of its literary-aesthetic correlate in modernism: anonymity and ennui ...

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  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 23.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Wither the Great Books? Or Whither Great Books? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Kenneth Sammond This seminar askes us the explore the relevance, merits, and demerits of the great books approach to literature, its use of shared inquiry, its rootedness in a forming and reforming canons, and its consideration that...

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  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 23.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rini Tarafder Co-Organizer: Amrapali Chatterjee Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate...

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