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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2025
    Call for submissions – peer-reviewed journal Studies in Travel Writing
    Submitted by: Sandra Vlasta

    Founded in 1997 by Tim Youngs, Studies in Travel Writing is an international, refereed journal dedicated to research on travel texts. Unrestricted by period or region of study, the journal allows for the application of a range of scholarly...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and geography/cartography,  Non-fictional literature and 1 more
    Created on: 28.02.2024
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2023
    Judith Schalansky und das Buch als Gedächtnis der Welt | Paris
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Judith Schalansky oder das Buch als Gedächtnis der Welt Internationale Tagung Paris, Maison de la Recherche – école Normale Supérieure, 18.-19. Januar 2024 Organisation: Mandana Covindassamy (ENS-PSL), Agathe Mareuge...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Ecocriticism,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 14.04.2023
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 22.07.2022
    Gabriele Tergit 
– Chronistin und Kritikerin der Moderne
    Submitted by: Luisa Banki

    Gabriele Tergit Chronistin und Kritikerin der Moderne 22.–23. Juli 2022 Warburg-Haus, Hamburg Konzeption & Organisation Dr. Luisa Banki und Dr. Juliane Sucker in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. Doerte Bischoff ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 6 more
    Created on: 23.06.2022
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.05.2022
    Clio Reflects. XXI Historical Fiction by Women and about Women
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Chapters Clio Reflects. XXI Historical Fiction by Women and about Women (tentatively by Bloomsbury) Abstract submission: 20 May 2022 In many literary genres as well as other modes of expression, such as...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 04.03.2022
  6. Juliane Prade-Weiss
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Elegy; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; Tragedy; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.02.2022
    12. Studierendenkongress der Komparatistik: „Literatur & Zukunft“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28.02.2022)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Der Studierendenkongress der Komparatistik (SKK), der in seiner 12. Edition am 27. und am 28.05.2022 an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal stattfinden wird, bietet einen Rahmen für deutsch- und englischsprachige Bachelor- und Master-Studierende...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography and 26 more
    Created on: 13.01.2022
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.01.2022
    34. Jahrestagung der GJFK Körper und Körperlichkeit in Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien, Wien
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: 34. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (GKJF) vom 26. bis 28. Mai 2022 in Wien in Kooperation mit der STUBE - Studien- und Beratungsstelle für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Die 34. Tagung der Gesellschaft...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 29.11.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2021
    Europa und der Grenzdiskurs in der deutschsprachigen Literatur
    Submitted by: Annabelle Jänchen

    Call for Papers - Internationaler Workshop zum Thema: Europa und der Grenzdiskurs in der deutschsprachigen Literatur am 20. und 21. Oktober 2021 Institut für Germanistik, Universität Jan-Evangelista-Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 11 more
    Created on: 01.07.2021
  10. Camilo Del Valle Lattanzio
    University or institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and natural science; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Prose; Novel; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; Essay; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Translation; Theory of translation; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.01.2021
    Impasse
    Submitted by: Soapbox Journal

    For the next volume of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit work that critically engages with the theme of the impasse. [Border] In its first...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary theory and 49 more
    Created on: 28.12.2020
  12. Mira Shah
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Australian/Oceanian literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and natural science; Literature and geography/cartography; Literary genre; Prose; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; travel literature; The fictional; Rhetoric

  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.04.2019
    Aussterben. Darstellungen und Diskurse am Beispiel bedrohter Arten und Sprachen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: ZfL, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, 3. Et., Trajekte-Tagungsraum Organisiert von Eva Geulen , Falko Schmieder , Georg Toepfer Kontakt: Georg Toepfer Vom Aussterben biologischer Arten, Sprachen und Kulturen...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Non-fictional literature
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Konstanz
    Die Zeit der Tiere. Zur Biodiversität modernen Zeitwissens
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ob mit Fossilien die geologische Tiefenzeit datiert und das Alter der Menschheit bestimmt wird; ob mit Animalpräparaten die Naturgeschichte explizit ihre Praxis und gleichzeitig ihre Medienästhetik erhält; ob Schlachtvieh gemeinsam mit...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Non-fictional literature
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  15. Sieghild Bogumil-Notz
    University or institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Spanish literature; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Criticism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and natural science; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Prose; Non-fictional literature; Drama; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century