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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Towards a Global Discourse: The “Ethical Turn” in Western and Arab-Islamic Thought (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Bouchra Benlemlih Co-Organizer: Mustapha Kharoua Since its inception in the 1990s, the “ethical turn” has laid the groundwork for the exploration of the ethics and politics of representation. Literature stands out as one of the...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 04.10.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    Deadline extended: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    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 9 more
    Created on: 02.10.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond the Capitals of Decadence (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Florian Zappe

    Beyond the Capitals of Decadence Since antiquity, the elusive concept of ‘decadence’—regardless whether defined as a socio-cultural phenomenon, an artistic movement, or as an aesthetic programme—has been associated with the city. Especially...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries and 13 more
    Created on: 02.10.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Yuanfei Wang Contact the Seminar Organizers In The Novel and the Sea , Margaret Cohen argues that the dominant narrative about the rise of the western novel occurring on land could be revised with a consideration of sea...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  World Literature,  Literature and geography/cartography
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Uses of Prose (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Musab Abdul Salam Co-Organizer: Feba Rasheed During the colonial period, South Asia witnessed the rise of new literary forms, particularly in prose, that attempted to grapple with the complexities ushered in by...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    ‘Prompting’ World Literature: Gerenative AI, Comparative Aesthetics, New Hegemonies, New Peripheries? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The surge of generative AI poses new challenges for conceptualising world literature and comparative aesthetics. While AI is trained using large datasets containing ‘human’-created works, critical discourse seems to (tacitly) posit a new ‘humanist’...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.09.2024
    Panel Discussion “Central European Culture Salon: Perspectives and challenges of literary and cultural cooperation in Central Europe”
    Submitted by: Anna Seidel

    How do Central Europe's cultural and literary scenes work together? What obstacles do they face? And what prospects are there for transnational cultural cooperation in Central Europe? These questions will be discussed on September 23, 2024 by...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 12.09.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2025
    Écritures du travail : pour une approche comparatiste (1875 - 1975)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Publié le mardi 27 août 2024 Résumé Depuis la rationalisation du travail, accentuée au XIXe siècle par l’industrialisation, de nombreuses sociétés humaines sont majoritairement composées d’une classe laborieuse, paysanne, ouvrière et...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Les Mille et Une Nuits des romantiques
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à communications Les Mille et Une Nuits des romantiques Besançon – 13-14 février 2025 Colloque international des Cahiers d’études nodiéristes coorganisé par l’Association des Amis de Charles Nodier, la Société...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  Literary historiography,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  10. 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
  11. Raphael Stübe
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: New Historicism; World Literature; Game Studies; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  12. 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
  13. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 10.09.2024
    Intermediaries, Translators, and Mediators. The Making of World Authorship
    Submitted by: Miriam Wienhold

    Who creates the world author? While Foucault’s question „What’s an author?“ opened the path to the study of censorship and copyright, Bourdieu’s interrogation, „Who creates the creator?“, turned the attention to the network of cultural intermediaries...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and publishing/booktrade
    Created on: 31.07.2024
  14. 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

  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.09.2024
    Internationale DFG-Tagung: Writing a British Childhood in a Global Context? Critical Perspectives on Enid Blyton, Potsdam
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Enid Blyton is one of the world’s most well-known and prolific authors of children’s literature. Her book series have entertained children across the globe and across generations for almost a century. The conference Writing a British Childhood in a...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature,  Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 08.07.2024