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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 14.11.2024
    "Gattungen des Ökonomischen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Kompilation – Diffusion – Zirkulation", Augsburg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gattungen des Ökonomischen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Kompilation – Diffusion – Zirkulation Internationale und interdisziplinäre Tagung am Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum Augsburg Gefördert vom Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum und der...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 4 more
    Created on: 01.11.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2025
    Girls* to the Front: Trends in Contemporary German-Language Writing by Women and Non-Binary Authors
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Earlier this year, Martina Läubli, arts editor for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, published an exposé on gender in the German literary industry and declared “Die Frauen haben die Macht übernommen.” [1] Indeed, in recent years, women (queer and...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 28.10.2024
  3. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 02.12.2024
    Assistant Professor in Yiddish Literature/Culture, University of Wisconsin, Madison (tenure-track)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invites applications for a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are seeking scholars with an active research program in the field of...

    Fields of research Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 7 more
    Created on: 25.10.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.11.2024
    CFP: Hedwig Dohm. Literatur – Theorie – Aktivismus am Fin de Siècle (22.11.2024)
    Submitted by: Tilman Venzl

    Internationale und interdisziplinäre Tagung, München, 18.–20.12.2025 Hedwig Dohm. Literatur – Theorie – Aktivismus am Fin de Siècle organisiert von Gaby Pailer (UBC Vancouver) und Tilman Venzl (LMU München) Zielsetzung ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 24.10.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2024
    Gedankenwelten und Gedankenspiele: Konzeptualisierungen des Inneren in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Greifswald
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers Gedankenwelten und Gedankenspiele: Konzeptualisierungen des Inneren in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Interdisziplinäre und internationale Fachtagung Datum: 20. bis 22. November 2025 Ort: Alfried Krupp...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Poetics and 8 more
    Created on: 22.10.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Relationality in Queer, Trans, and Crip Asian/American and Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultural Critiques (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: stef torralba Co-Oranizer: Phuong Vuong Since its inception, the interdisciplinary field of queer of color critique has recalibrated commonplace understandings of ethnic and racial difference by foregrounding the imbricated...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Modernism in the Twenty-First Century (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Chris Gortmaker Co-Organizer: Joseph Staten Can the modernism genie truly be sequestered in its twentieth-century bottle? This seminar invites papers that explore the possible persistence of aesthetic modernism in...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    Der weibliche Blick in die Ferne: Fremdheitserfahrungen in der (Reise-)Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit und der Aufklärung, Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die 5. transdisziplinäre Jahrestagung Femmes de Lettres der FONTE-Stiftung: Der weibliche Blick in die Ferne: Fremdheitserfahrungen in der (Reise-)Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit und der Aufklärung 10.-11. Oktober 2024,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  travel literature,  Literature of the 16th century and 3 more
    Created on: 04.10.2024
  9. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 01.11.2024
    Assistant Professor of German Studies, Rice University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description Rice University’s Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures seeks to hire a tenure track assistant professor of German Studies with open field specialization to begin July 1, 2025. The successful candidate will...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 4 more
    Created on: 27.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 18.11.2024
    2025 DDGC Conference "Interdependence and Solidarity Formations in German Studies and the Arts"
    Submitted by: Jeannette Oholi

    April 10-12, 2025 (Online) The fifth biennial DDGC Conference will draw on our collective’s long tradition of coming together in community to take stock of the field and anticipate better structures for it in the future. We will gather under...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Wither the Great Books? Or Whither Great Books? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Kenneth Sammond This seminar askes us the explore the relevance, merits, and demerits of the great books approach to literature, its use of shared inquiry, its rootedness in a forming and reforming canons, and its consideration that...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Rini Tarafder Co-Organizer: Amrapali Chatterjee Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Comparative Literature's Cold War (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Cate Reilly What is the place of Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies in the comparative literary inquiry? Of comparative literary inquiry, with its emphasis on theory and the critical praxis of the left, in a Slavic,...

    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 4 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Michele Chinitz Co-Organizer: Shoumik Bhattacharya This seminar hopes to engage with forms of social and political organizing that do not conform to binary understandings of the imperative towards assimilation or...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Alternative Poetics of Environment in South Asia (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Sumera Saleem Co-Organizer: Bharatwaj Iyer In his 2009 text entitled Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz describes the political power of art in imagining and reimagining “other ways of...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024