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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2021
    Workshop: Revisiting Revenge. New Perspectives for the Study of Revenge Tragedies (late 16th–early 18th century).
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop: Revisiting Revenge. New Perspectives for the Study of Revenge Tragedies (late 16th–early 18th century) Ghent University (Belgium), 16-17 September 2021 Keynote speakers: Prof. Russ Leo (Princeton University) and Prof. Helen...

    Fields of research Tragedy,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 16th century and 2 more
    Created on: 27.11.2020
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2020
    Sugar and Spice and the Not So Nice: Comics Picturing Girlhood
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Symposium 22- 23 April 2021 Het Pand, Ghent University Sugar and Spice and the Not So Nice: Comics Picturing Girlhood Comics have long relied on reinforcing reader identity formation whether through interest,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Comic
    Created on: 13.07.2020
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Enlightenment at War: Epic Poetry, the Citizen and Discursive Bridges to the Military (1740-1800)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In current debates about Western identity, the Enlightenment is associated with reason and civic emancipation, but not with war enthusiasm. It was however Enlightenment thinking that brought representations of civic and military behaviour into a...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Narratology and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Conjuring Phantoms: A Comparative Study of Trauma in Comics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Maaheen Ahmed's postdoctoral project is on trauma in contemporary comics, relying on a broad definition of trauma to encompass the aftermath of large-scale events (the two world wars, 9/11) as well as the reverberations of psychological damage in...

    Fields of research Comic,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920″ (acronym WeChangEd) is a five-year research project funded by an ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020). It is directed by Marianne Van Remoortel and based at the ...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  6. Sophie Wennerscheid
    University or institution: Ghent University (UGent)
    Fields of research: Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; autobiography; travel literature; Children's and young adult literature; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century