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  1. Vanessa-Marie Starker
    University or institution: Universität Erfurt
    Fields of research: Literature and media studies

  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Documentary Fever (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rosana Hernández In the short story “Documentary Novelist,” by Argentinian author Sergio Chejfec, the narrator tries to explain to a hotel worker his determination to have his picture taken with the hotel’s macaws: “I explain to her...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Varieties of the Impersonal (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Impersonality has long been invoked as a marker of modernity and of its literary-aesthetic correlate in modernism: anonymity and ennui appear as symptoms of urbanization and bureaucracy; modern science announces the reign of objectivity; social...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Poetics,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 27.09.2024
  4. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 05.11.2024
    German Assistant Professor, Princeton
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We invite applications for a position at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor to begin September 1, 2025. We seek a dynamic, creative, productive scholar and teacher with a focus on literature, media, and performance since 1945. We are...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.10.2024
    Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950), Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop "Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950)" 13.–15. Februar 2025 an der Universität Bonn Organisation: Fabian Lampart (Potsdam),...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Zeitgenoss*innenschaften. Formen von Gegenwartsteilnahme
    Submitted by: Fabian Lampart

    Die Tagung soll aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, anhand verschiedener Medien und Gattungen und mit Blick auf unterschiedliche historische und kulturelle Kontexte konzeptionelle Zugänge zu „Zeitgenoss*innenschaften“ vorstellen, vorschlagen und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 19.09.2024
  7. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 30.09.2024
    Promotionsstipendien am Nachwuchskolleg „Texte. Zeichen. Medien“, Universität Erfurt
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Nachwuchskolleg „Texte. Zeichen. Medien“, das sich gezielt an literatur-, kultur- und medienwissenschaftliche Promotionsvorhaben richtet, ist eines der zertifizierten Graduiertenkollegs mit strukturiertem Promotionsprogramm, in deren Rahmen die...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Poetics
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  8. 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
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 09.09.2024
    The Media of Art/The Arts of Media (XII. International Congress of the German Society of Aesthetics)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die sogenannte „Medienkunst“ gibt es nicht erst, seit technische Medien sich ins Kunstgeschehen einschalten; medienfreie Künste gab es noch nie. Keine Kunst, die sich nicht in bestimmten Medien äußerte, sei es in Bild, Klang, Licht, Raum oder...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and media studies,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 02.09.2024
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.11.2024
    Symposium | Literature, Prizeworthiness, and Kinship Across Borders
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Program Monday, 25. November 2024EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15 14195 Berlin; Room: 00.07) 10:00 – 15:00 | Meeting of the Research Group From 15:00 I Tour of Berlin Book Stores (Kinship focus, e.g. “She...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Yiddish Technologies in Text and Context (NeMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    PANEL ABSTRACT This interdisciplinary session invites scholars to submit papers which explore the intersections of Yiddish culture and the history of technology. Diasporic Yiddish culture is formed by the constant tension between forces of...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    The Implications of Generative AI for Human Creativity, Originality—and Deception (NeMLA )
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence (AI) are currently transforming literary and visual studies—raising issues that range from copyright infringement; to human-computer interaction and collaboration; to the inspirations for...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies and 4 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Reading Reading: Contemporary Literary Practices (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are constantly engaged in processes of reading. We read literary texts, historical sources, films and other media, political moods and affects, and shifting social formations. Amongst the plethora of reading strategies available to us, close...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.09.2024
    Panel im Rahmen des 28. Deutschen Germanistentages 2025: Auf kurzem Weg klären. Zur Verknappung von Dialogen, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Auf kurzem Weg klären. Zur Verknappung von Dialogen Wenn Angestellte etwas auf kurzem Dienstweg klären, heißt das, dass sie sich schnell und unkompliziert über bestimmte Sachverhalte verständigen, ohne dass sie eine:n Vorgesetzte:n...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Literary genre,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    Panel: Der (para-)dialogische Modus und die Literaturen der Gegenwart (28. Deutscher Germanistentag, Braunschweig)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel | 28. Deutscher Germanistentag | 14.–17. September 2025 | TU Braunschweig | Thema: „Dialog“ | Sektion: Themenbereich 2: Formen und Prozess von Dialog Spätestens mit dem Aufkommen von Influencer:innen lässt sich eine beträchtliche...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies,  Aesthetics,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 22.07.2024