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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 17.11.2023
    "The Final Countdown". Ästhetik und Politik von Weltuntergängen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die "Weltuntergangsuhr" (Doomsday-Clock) des Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists steht seit Ende Januar 2023 auf 90 Sekunden vor Mitternacht. Entwicklungen des aktuellen Zeitgeschehens wie die Klimakrise, der Verlust von Biodiversität, globale...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Aesthetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    Imagination Today: Between Theory and Practice of Phantasia
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A special issue of the journal Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities in 2026 will delve into the challenging debates abundant in 20th and 21st-century continental philosophy about the place of imagination not only in aesthetics, but also in...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 12.01.2024
    Gründungs- und erstes Jahrestreffen Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken am Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mit dem Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken am Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus soll eine freie Assoziation begründet werden, um eine kontinuierlichere Vernetzung zum Thema politische Literatur und Ästhetik zu schaffen. Dazu bitten wir Interessierte an...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and sociology,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    Fugly: Aesthetics, Activism, and Politics (Richardson, Texas)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Theme–Fugly: Aesthetics, Activism, and Politics       What cultural objects and phenomena are designated to be ugly, bad, unacceptable, and monstrous, especially in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, race, class, and caste? Whose...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Aesthetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 23.10.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    Jahrbuch Exilforschung 2024. Exil und Emotionen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers Jahrbuch Exilforschung 42 (2024): Exil und Emotionen Die Erfahrung des Exils wird kulturhistorisch seit der Antike mit dem Affekt der Trauer und der Klage kodiert, wo nicht faktisch gleichgesetzt (vgl. Psalm 137, Ovid:...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and music/sound studies and 2 more
    Created on: 20.10.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.11.2023
    Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CfP Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature (deadline 3rd November 2023) What happens when we look away from modernism/s? We are inviting academics to consider this question with a specific...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 13.10.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.10.2023
    L’artiste au travail. Images, textes, discours (XIXe s.)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    L’artiste au travail. Images, textes, discours (XIXe siècle) 30 – 31 mai 2024, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon et Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Lyon St-Étienne Organisé par Baptistin Rumeau (Université d’Artois, Textes et...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and visual studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2023
    Red World Literature: Periphery, Theory, Form, System
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    RED WORLD LITERATURE : Periphery, Theory, Form, System Co-editors: Hunter Bivens, University of California, Santa Cruz and Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, University of Iceland The promise of a new ‘red’ dawn in the history of World Literature...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  9. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 07.01.2024
    Doctoral Fellowships in German Studies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of German Studies at Brown University invites applications to its Ph.D. program, focused on the areas of German literature, literary theory and aesthetics. The Department of German Studies at Brown is a vibrant and close-knit...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 06.10.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context, Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Since the consolidation of world literature as a field of research in the 1990s, the study of literature beyond national frameworks has almost become commonplace. While the focus of this discipline has been on the transformations and shifting...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 1 more
    Created on: 06.10.2023
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 12.10.2023
    Liquide Formen 1800, Konstanz
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Liquide Formen 1800 Internationale literaturwissenschaftliche Tagung, Universität Konstanz, 12.-14. Oktober 2023 Formbegriff und Wasserströme scheinen zunächst gegensätzlichen, wenn nicht gar sich ausschließenden Denk- bzw....

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 4 more
    Created on: 06.10.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.10.2023
    Answering the Call: Aesthetic Expressions of Vocation and Responsibility in Nordic Cultures since 1750
    Submitted by: Pehr Englén

    Answering the Call: Aesthetic Expressions of Vocation and Responsibility in Nordic Cultures since 1750 Date: 21st to 23rd March 2024 Place: Strasbourg “Jeg må! Jeg må; så byder mig en stemme i sjælens dyb, — og jeg vil følge den”?...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 02.10.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Genre Turn in Multiethnic Literature (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his landmark essay, "The Second Elevation: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative," Ramón Saldívar proclaimed the arrival of a "cohort of contemporary authors . . . [who] all raise as formal and thematic concerns the very...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    "Transnational Literature and Transnational Aesthetics: Developments and Negotiations" (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his 2021 book Transnational Literature: The Basics, Paul Jay describes transnational literature as “a particular type of literature, emergent at an identifiable historical moment and dealing, collectively, with a set of issues and themes...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA Panel 2024—Theory without Object: Histories and Historical Accounts, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Theory without Object: Histories and Historical Accounts Co-Organizers: Daniel Carranza and William Stewart, Harvard University March 14–17, Montreal, Canada For a term bandied about ubiquitously and often with little conceptual...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 22.09.2023