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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Matthäus Merian d.Ä. und die Bebilderung der Alchemie um 1600
    Submitted by: Berit Wagner

    Forschungs- und Studierendenprojekt am Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt in Kooperation mit der Universitätsbibliothek der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Die virtuelle Ausstellung, die – erweitert um flankierende...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies,  Literature of the 16th century and 1 more
    Created on: 01.06.2021
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Gemeinschaft als Retrotopia? Zugehörigkeit in Literatur und Videokunst
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ziel: Die komparatistische Studie an der Schnittstelle von Literatur- und Kulturanthropologie untersucht Darstellungen von Gemeinschaften in ausgewählten literarischen Texten und Videoarbeiten im Kontext von Kategorien wie Zugehörigkeit,...

    Fields of research Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary theory,  Interdisciplinarity and 7 more
    Created on: 14.05.2021
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Hamburg (UH)
    ERC Advanced Grant „Poetry in the Digital Age”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Heutige Präsentationsformen von Lyrik finden sich oft jenseits des Buches, z.B. auf Bühnen oder im Internet. Solche performativen Formen, in denen poetische Sprache durch Musik oder visuelle Komponenten sowie die physische Anwesenheit des ‚Poeten‘...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies,  Literature and music/sound studies and 5 more
    Created on: 14.09.2020
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    The Construction of Countries
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Construction of Countries: the Phototextual "Portraits de pays" Series (1950-1980) studies photographically illustrated books by (canonised) authors that are devoted to the depiction of countries and cities. The focus of the project lies on the...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 28.10.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    HANDLING: Writers Handling Pictures: a Material Intermediality (1880-today)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Maniement, manipulation, manutention : que font les écrivains des images qu’ils ont en main ? HANDLING est un projet de recherche financé par une « Starting Grant » de l’ERC de 2019 à 2024. C’est un projet radicalement interdisciplinaire sur...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and visual studies,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Catholic University Louvain
    « Humaniteit uw naam is dier ». Configurations zoopoétiques et -politiques dans l’œuvre de Charlotte Mutsaers
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    L’objectif de ce projet de recherche est d’examiner comment la problématique de l’animal transparaît dans l’œuvre créatrice de l’écrivaine néerlandaise Charlotte Mutsaers (à la fois dans sa prose, poésie, ses essais et sa peinture). En se fondant sur...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature and visual studies,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Painting Themselves: A Transnational Approach to National Self-Portraiture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This PhD project focused on a group of sketches, which were popular throughout Europe around 1840. The sketches, bearing titles like "les Français peints par eux-mêmes" and "Los Españoles pintados por sí mismos", aimed to underline national identity...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Comparative World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project aims to structure and to develop the field of World Literature in Portugal, based on two theoretical assumptions: the comparative perspective and the estrangement of reading. It currently develops a set of anthologies (3 vols) on World...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities,  World Literature
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Portuguese Colonial Empire and Urban Popular Culture: Comparing Visions from the Metropolis and the Colonies (1945-1974)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Empires are spaces of circulation of people and goods between colonies and their metropolitan centres, but they are also spaces of global circulation. A variety of cultural forms were circulated within the space of the Portuguese empire as well as...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    The Portuguese Representations of India: Power and Knowledge in a Peripheral Orientalism (19th and 20th Centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The main goal of this project (besides critically bringing to light the literary and scientific production on India from the 19th and 20th centuries) is to determine the extent to which the Portuguese accumulation of knowledge on the Orient can be...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  South Asian literature,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    National Identities in Dialogue: Political and Literary Identity Constructions in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique (1961-Present)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This research project aims to contribute to a better understanding of how national identities are constructed in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique, before and after the Carnation Revolution (25 April 1974), in the complex tension between colonial power...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Digital Map of Iberian Literary Relations (1870-1930)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description By showcasting divers materials referring to Iberian literary relations (images, texts, secondary bibliography), this project aims at contributing both to the field of Iberian Studies, and to Digital Humanities in Portugal. This...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    TECOP. Texts and Contexts of Portuguese Orientalism - The International Congresses of Orientalists (1873-1973)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The TECOP project focuses on the study of Portuguese Orientalism within a comparative and interdisciplinary framework. It seeks to give visibility to the Portuguese orientalists taking part in the International Congresses of Orientalists and to...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    The Unwriting Machine: Medio and the Archive in Mario Bellatin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How to write without writing? What is a literary milieu outside of itself? How can we read a writing that proliferates by disappearing? Where does the archive end and the oeuvre begin? This project aims to explore the creative (un)writing process...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Högskolan Dalarna / Dalarna University
    Cosmopolitan, Vernacular and Gender in the Circulation and Aesthetical Reception of African Literature Written in Portuguese
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project combines a focus on the dissemination and reception of contemporary Portuguese-language African literature across the Lusophone world with attention on the spread of this body of work into the English literary world through translation....

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Reader-response criticism and 3 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019