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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2024
    Die Modernen. Skandinavisch-deutsche Literaturbeziehungen, 1870–1930
    Submitted by: Alexa Hennemann

    Die aktuell zu beobachtende Konjunktur skandinavischer Literatur ist kein Novum. Vor etwa 100 Jahren, im Übergang zum 19. Jahrhundert, richteten Autor/-innen, Leser/-innen, Wissenschaftler/-innen und Verleger/-innen aus der Schweiz, der...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature
    Created on: 29.02.2024
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2023
    CFP GSA 2023 "Comparison Literature Revisited: Genres, Forms, Media", Montréal (15.03.2023)
    Submitted by: Kristina Petzold

    As an epistemological practice or as a social custom, comparison has been the subject of much debate in recent decades. “Why compare?,” R. Radhakrishnan has asked in an essay that spells out the asymmetries implicit in many acts of comparison which...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 5 more
    Created on: 27.01.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2023
    CfP: Zwischen Resistenz und Resilienz. Erscheinungsformen der Populär- und Popularkulturen in der Romania, Spannungsverhältnisse und Herausbildung von kollektiven Zugehörigkeiten
    Submitted by: Minerva Peinador

    Call for Contributions Panel: „Zwischen Resistenz und Resilienz. Erscheinungsformen der Populär- und Popularkulturen in der Romania, Spannungsverhältnisse und Herausbildung von kollektiven Zugehörigkeiten“ ...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Spanish literature and 12 more
    Created on: 21.11.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Voicing ‘the Other’: Literatures Between and Beyond Appreciation and (Re-)Appropriation (ACLA seminar)
    Submitted by: Sandra Folie

    Debates about cultural appropriation are omnipresent. Although they seem to revolve more often around music and fashion, questions such as “who has the right to write about whom and/or in what way?” are also being raised in relation to literature....

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Interdisciplinarity and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2022
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2022
    Special journal issue on Trauma and Multilingualism in Literature
    Submitted by: Marianna Deganutti

    Starting with two pioneering studies in the 1990s – Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History and Kali Tal’s Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma – Trauma Studies have demonstrated that language lies at...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Interdisciplinarity
    Created on: 04.07.2022
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2022
    Der Autor SAID - Sammelband zum Gesamtwerk
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Wenn die Presse über deutschsprachige Autoren nicht-deutscher Herkunft berichtet, bedient sie sich zumeist reduktionistischer Kategorien wie „Grenzgänger“, „Grenzüberwinder“, „Brückenbauer“ und „Kulturvermittler“. An ihren Geburts- und Herkunftsorten...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  World Literature,  Lyric poetry and 1 more
    Created on: 11.02.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2022
    Die internationale Rezeption der "Essais" Michel de Montaignes: Formen, Deutungen, Konjunkturen – Osnabrück
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die internationale Rezeption der Essais Michel de Montaignes: Formen, Deutungen, Konjunkturen Internationale Tagung am 1. und 2. Dezember 2022 am Interdisziplinären Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN) ...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary historiography,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 04.02.2022
  12. 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
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2021
    Germanistentag 2022 – Panel: Triviale Wahrheitsprozeduren? Zur Mehrdeutigkeit von Indizien in Kriminalgeschichten von Pitaval bis Emil und die Detektive, von Holmes bis Sherlock
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel auf dem 27. Deutschen Germanistentag, 25.-28. September 2022, Universität Paderborn Themenbereich 2: Phänomenorientierte Zugänge Dr. Antonia Eder (KIT) Triviale Wahrheitsprozeduren? Zur Mehrdeutigkeit von...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 5 more
    Created on: 02.07.2021