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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 06.06.2024
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    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 the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 15 more
    Created on: 22.05.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.04.2024
    [kon]-paper Nr. 11 zum Thema ›Hybrid‹ (13.04.2024)
    Submitted by: Pia Lobodzinski

    Das interdisziplinäre Literatur- und Kulturmagazin [kon]-paper schreibt seit 2015 mit jeder Ausgabe ein Wort aus, dem sich Feuilleton- und Essaybeiträge sowie Gedichte, kurze Prosa und szenische Texte widmen. Das Titelwort der elften Ausgabe ist...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 6 more
    Created on: 10.03.2024
  3. Phillip Brandes
    University or institution: Universität Tübingen
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Digital Humanities; Literary theory; Narratology; Game Studies; Themes, motifs, thematology

  4. Jasmin Wrobel
    University or institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Literature and visual studies; Comic

  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 05.10.2023
    Beziehungsweise(n) dichten - Freundinnenschaft in der europäischen Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts. Transphilologische Jahrestagung Femmes de Lettres im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, HU Berlin
    Submitted by: Gudrun Weiland

    Von ihren Zeitgenossen als „Wunder“ bestaunt und lobend zu Einzelfällen erklärt, werden die wenigen heute noch bekannten Autorinnen der Frühen Neuzeit vor allem als Ausnahmeerscheinungen rezipiert. Diese Autorinnen bezogen sich jedoch schreibend in...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 4 more
    Created on: 26.09.2023
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The first annual conference of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU) discusses a variety of understandings of the political novel as a genre. It probes genre-theoretically and genre-historically informed...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 14 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2023
    Violent Child-Animal Encounters in Literature. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Submitted by: Marina Ortrud Hertrampf

    In the last decades, we have witnessed a variety of theories and approaches - from multispecies ethnography to trans- and posthumanist philosophy - that aim to decentralize the category of the human. Introducing a posthuman perspective into the study...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 27 more
    Created on: 06.12.2022
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.11.2022
    Family Constellations and Transnational Historical Imaginaries in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures
    Submitted by: Jobst Welge

    International Conference supported by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung The conference draws on three main conceptual axes: What these narratives have in common is that they each construct specific constellations of the historical imagination and of...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature,  Portugese literature and 1 more
    Created on: 14.11.2022
  9. Jobst Welge
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Literary historiography; Ecocriticism; World Literature

  10. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 05.10.2022
    Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (50% bzw. 100%) für romanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft; Promotion oder Habilitation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    deutsch Das Romanische Seminar der Universität Bonn sucht vom 01.04.2023 bis 31.03.2026 eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (50% bzw. 100%) für romanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Schwerpunkt Französisch oder Spanisch...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Italian literature and 2 more
    Created on: 29.08.2022
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 12.05.2022
    From Âventiure Novels to Adventure Games: Adventure Narratives in Popular Images and Texts (München / online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How popular was adventure? Medieval âventiure built a model of heroes traversing limits and journeying to wonderful and dangerous encounters. In many European languages, the term adventure has since referred to complex motifs and structural ...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Game Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 22.04.2022
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.05.2022
    12. Studierendenkongress der Komparatistik: „Literatur & Zukunft“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Mittwoch, 25.05.22 18.00–20.30 Uhr Pre-Conference Workshop (via Zoom) Zur Einstimmung auf die Tagung bieten wir allen Teilnehmenden, Vortragenden und weiteren Interessierten die Möglichkeit, einer virtuellen Diskussionsrunde...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography and 11 more
    Created on: 08.04.2022
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 30.03.2022
    Einsatz der Affekte: Momente der Alteritätserfahrung im Schrifttum der europäischen Expansion 1460–1700
    Submitted by: Dirk Brunke

    Einsatz der Affekte Momente der Alteritätserfahrung im Schrifttum der europäischen Expansion 1460–1700 Forschungskolloquium an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum 30. März – 1. April 2022 Afecto, Latine affectus.us. propiamente es passion del...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Italian literature and 2 more
    Created on: 23.03.2022
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.04.2022
    Transmediale und interdisziplinäre Analysen des Traums und Träumens in Kinder- und Jugendmedien
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    In dieser Ringvorlesung werden Expert*innen verschiedener literatur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen kritische Einsichten in kulturelle, historische, medienspezifische, ästhetische und theoretische Charakteristiken der Phänomene des Traums...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 21 more
    Created on: 07.03.2022
  15. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 17.03.2022
    Der lange Weg queerer Literatur im Portugal des 20. Jahrhunderts (Onlinevortrag an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Einladung zum Gastvortrag „Der lange Weg queerer Literatur im Portugal des 20. Jahrhunderts“ am Donnerstag, 17. März 2022, von 18:00-20:00, online via Zoom Im Rahmen des Seminars „Literatur und Queer Studies“ spricht Alexander Altevoigt von...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 04.03.2022