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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2024
    Germanistentag 2025, Doppelpanel: Dialog jenseits des bürgerlichen Zeitalters – Zur Theorie und Methodik eines historischen Crossmapping, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Doppelpanel auf dem 28. Germanistentag, 14.-17. September 2025 Themenbereich 1: Theorien und Konzepte von Dialog Das vorbürgerliche Zeitalter ist für künstlerische und theoretische Ansätze, die sich von den prägenden...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies and 6 more
    Created on: 12.07.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Novels and Book History at MAPACA 2024 (2024 Annual MAPACA Conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This cfp welcomes all explorations of the novel and/or the history of the book as they interact with American and/or popular culture. Subjects include genre fiction, authors and authorship, literary time periods, cultures, settings, reading,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies and 2 more
    Created on: 21.06.2024
  3. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 15.04.2025
    Ringvorlesung. Das frühneuzeitliche Frauenzimmer (Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit und ihre kulturellen Kontexte. Vierzehnte Folge), Bochum
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das frühneuzeitliche Frauenzimmer (Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit und ihre kulturellen Kontexte. Vierzehnte Folge), Bochum Ringvorlesung an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum im Sommersemester 2024 Montag 12–14 Uhr, HGB 20 Veranstaltet von...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 12.04.2024
  4. Charlotte Rathjen
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Literary historiography; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Novel; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  5. 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
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Die Anfänge des Schreibens in den Anfängen der Welt: Schöpfung und Auktorialität
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Teilprojekt untersucht das Verhältnis von Schöpfung und Auktorialität in der Literatur der Vormoderne. Dabei wählt es die Ambiguität von ‘Schöpfung’ als Erschaffung von Welt und Hervorbringung von Text zum Ausgangspunkt und fragt, wie die darin...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 6 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women's Fiction, Huelva (Spain)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Seminar Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women’s Fiction University of Huelva, Spain 17-18 October, 2024 Traditional approaches to the ‘origins of the novel’ question in...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literary genre and 5 more
    Created on: 18.12.2023
  8. Roberta Colbertaldo
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: French literature; Italian literature; Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary theory; Narratology; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Comedy; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 20th century

  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 12.10.2023
    Nouveaux savoirs du monde/Savoirs du Nouveau Monde : encyclopédisme, processus de traduction et réorganisations du savoir au siècle des Lumières
    Submitted by: Carla Dalbeck

    Geographischem und anthropologischem Wissen über die außereuropäische Welt kam im 18. Jahrhundert eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Enzyklopädische Wissenssammlungen wie Reisekompendien, Kolonialhistorien, Universal- und Sachwörterbücher versammelten,...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century) and 3 more
    Created on: 04.10.2023
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 21.09.2023
    Schreckliche Sehnsucht. Apokalyptisches Erzählen in der Vormoderne, Wien
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Tagung: „Schreckliche Sehnsucht. Apokalyptisches Erzählen in der Vormoderne“ 21.-23.9.2023, Universität Wien, Schreyvogelsaal der Hofburg Organisation und Kontakt: Dr. Lea Braun ( lea.braun@hu-berlin.de ) und Sarah Lehner ( ...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 8 more
    Created on: 08.09.2023
  11. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 14.09.2023
    Virtueller Master-Info-Tag: "Klassische und Moderne Literaturwissenschaft" (Heidelberg) am 14.09.23 um 14 Uhr
    Submitted by: Joséphine Jacquier

    Liebe Studierende, an diesem virtuellen Info-Tag möchten wir Ihnen unseren komparatistischen Master-Studiengang "Klassische und Moderne Literaturwissenschaft" vorstellen: Was macht diesen Studiengang so einzigartig? Inwiefern erlaubt dieser...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 19 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain (NEMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss,...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 6 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Once Upon a Time, You Lied: Narrative and the Moral Crisis (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “There’s something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator,” Maria Semple. The fiction Narrative is domineering; its effect depends on the impact of the emotions intended by the writer or...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Pariser Str. 1, Eingang Meierottostr. 8, 10719 Berlin Organisiert von Kyung-Ho Cha, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ivana Perica (alle ZfL), Johanna-Charlotte Horst...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  15. Nicoletta Pireddu
    University or institution: Georgetown University
    Fields of research: Literary theory; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Novel; Narrative; Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century