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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.09.2024
    Subjekt im Aufbruch. Transnationale Wiederaufnahmen von Goethes Werther
    Submitted by: Raphael Stübe

    Upheavals of the Self. On the Transnational Reception of Goethe's Werther Internationale Tagung am Freien Deutschen Hochstift Frankfurt am Main, 20. und 21. September 2024 Gefördert von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Reader-response criticism,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Workshop, 16–17 January 2025, Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin In her epistolary novel La Toile (2017), Sandra Lucbert contrasts literary language with digital language as two clashing constraints: the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 8 more
    Created on: 14.08.2024
  3. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 06.06.2024
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 15 more
    Created on: 22.05.2024
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2024
    Transnational Narratives: European Women's Fiction in the Early Modern Period (ESSE Conference, Laussane)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) CONFERENCE, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 26-30 August, 2024 Convenors of Seminar 38: Gerd Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, FAU, Germany) gerd.bayer@fau.de ...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  World Literature,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 01.12.2023
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 21.11.2023
    Der globale Roman, Düsseldorf (21.11. und 28.11.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gastvorträge im Rahmen des Seminars "Der globale Roman" am Institut für Germanistik der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Der globale Roman erzählt entweder über die Welt oder er adressiert ein länderübergreifendes Publikum oder er...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  World Literature,  Novel and 2 more
    Created on: 20.11.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.12.2023
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example at the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 30.10.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP for an Edited Collection on the Contemporary Global Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are seeking proposals for contributions to an edited collection of essays, titled Unruly Fictions: Geographies of Genre in the Contemporary Global Novel, focused on how the contemporary global novel expands the generic boundaries of fiction. This...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  9. 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
  10. 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

  11. Denys Chyk
    University or institution: Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets
    Fields of research: Literature from UK and Ireland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and cultural studies; Literary genre; Prose; Novel; The fictional; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    CFP: Workshop „Opferdramaturgie und Viktimologie der Geschlechter in Prosa und Film (19. Jhd. bis zur Gegenwart)“, Berlin (30.09.2022)
    Submitted by: Anna Maria Spener

    Themenstellung „Es kommt mir aber unmännlich vor, Frauen als Sündenböcke hinzumodeln“, sagt Kai Carlsen, der angehende Schriftsteller, in Ralf Rothmanns Roman Stier (1991). Er greift eine literarische Tradition auf, in der sich die kultur-...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Italian literature and 9 more
    Created on: 12.07.2022
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2022
    Liebesgeflüster und Wutgeschrei: Affektkommunikation in Antike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit / Whisperings of Love - Cries of Anger: Communicating Emotions in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
    Submitted by: Thomas Kullmann

    Emerging Scholars Workshop des Interdisziplinären Instituts für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN) Osnabrück | 12.–14.10.2022 Spätestens seit dem ‚Emotional Turn‘ der (späten) 1990er-Jahre ist die Emotionsforschung in den Kultur- und...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 33 more
    Created on: 15.02.2022
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2022
    Les metamorphoses de Diderot: Philosophie, art et science (Lo Sguardo, rivista internazionale di filosofia)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Parmi les penseurs du XVIIIe siècle, Denis Diderot est sans doute l’un des plus difficiles à classer. Auteur de romans, de pièces de théâtre, d’essaies scientifiques et d’art, ainsi que de philosophie, il est difficile séparer ses œuvres proprement «...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary historiography,  World Literature and 9 more
    Created on: 14.02.2022
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.09.2021
    The Enlightenment and the Shadows of the Occult (ASECS 2022, Baltimore)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS 2022) Baltimore, Maryland; March 31-April 2, 2022 The age of reason and Voltairean skepticism was also a time of wonder-seeking and marvels, during which a broad range of...

    Fields of research French literature,  Italian literature,  Literature and other forms of art and 4 more
    Created on: 26.07.2021