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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    Final Issues. Endings in Modern Intellectual History
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Histories of political, intellectual, literary and aesthetic movements are often told through documents of their beginnings: Manifestos, declarations, and programs testify to what groups, avant-gardes or collectives stand for, what they want to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 4 more
    Created on: 04.09.2024
  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. Alexandra Irimia
    University or institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: Narratology; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2024
    „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ (Germanistentag 2025)
    Submitted by: Philipp Ohnesorge

    Philipp Ohnesorge, Eckhard Schumacher, Hannah Willcox (Universität Greifswald) CfP: „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ Panel auf dem 28....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 04.07.2024
  5. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 31.08.2024
    3-Month Fellowship in the project “Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe”
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL, Berlin, Germany) calls for applications for a 3-month fellowship. This fellowship primarily encourages early and mid-career researchers from Eastern Europe to apply and work in the...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 9 more
    Created on: 12.06.2024
  6. 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
  7. Judith Müller
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Literature from Israel; Digital Humanities; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.03.2024
    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts The creation of texts can take various forms. One seemingly obvious method is to copy an already existing text. The material evidence of this practice in Antiquity and the Middle Ages...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary theory,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 12.02.2024
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.01.2024
    Secular Saints: Practices of Awe and Veneration in Hagiography and Pop-Culture
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Saints, holy people, and the “Very Special Dead” have been central to religious worship, the rise of Christianity, and the popularity of mystery cults from Antiquity until today. Yet celebrated individuals who epitomise cultural values are not...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 18.01.2024
  10. Daniel Wendt
    University or institution: Marburg
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary historiography; Literary theory; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comedy; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); 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; Literature of the 21st century

  11. Tobias Schmidt
    University or institution: Universität Erfurt
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary theory; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Literature and other forms of art; Prose; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.01.2024
    CFP: Workshop „Literatur und Abtreibung“, Wien
    Submitted by: Carolin Slickers

    Call for Papers: Literatur und Abtreibung Schwangerschaften gibt es überall in der Literatur (Villinger 2021) – und auch, vielleicht unvermutet, Schwangerschaftsabbrüche. Im Wiener Museum für Verhütung und Schwangerschaftsabbruch steht ein...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 22.11.2023
  13. Stephan Krause
    University or institution: Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO)
    Fields of research: Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey); Literary theory; Reader-response criticism; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and media studies; Poetics; Lyric poetry; Prose; Children's and young adult literature; Themes, motifs, thematology; Translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  14. 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
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Enfants de la honte - enfants de l'amour: textes littéraires et témoignages / Kinder der Schande – Kinder der Liebe: Literarische Bearbeitungen und Zeitzeugenberichte
    Submitted by: Alina Fritz

    Studientag Universität Passau 26.7.2024 Organisation: Alina Fritz und Marina Ortrud Hertrampf „Mit den Besatzungs- und Soldatenkindern gebar der Krieg Menschen, die allein durch ihre Existenz die Paradigmen des Kriegerischen...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 3 more
    Created on: 29.10.2023