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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 05.09.2024
    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    You are kindly invited to an interdisciplinary and international conference hosted by the DFG Research Training Group 2792. The conference will focus on the strategies and intentions in heteronomous texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Heteronomy...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 9 more
    Created on: 23.07.2024
  2. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
    DFG-GRK 2792: Autonomie heteronomer Texte in Antike und Mittelalter
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    Das DFG-geförderte interdisziplinäre Graduiertenkolleg erforscht Texte aus Antike und Mittelalter, die in bewusste Abhängigkeit von Vorlagen treten und in diesem Sinne "heteronom" sind. Zu dieser bislang nicht systematisch im Zusammenhang...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 23.07.2024
  3. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 29.07.2024
    Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (Predoc) (m/w/d) für das Projekt “The Seven Sages of Rome Revisited: Striving for an Alternative Literary History”, Freie Universität Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    [Please see below for English version] Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (Predoc) (m/w/d) für das Projekt “The Seven Sages of Rome Revisited: Striving for an Alternative Literary History” mit 75% Teilzeitbeschäftigung befristet auf 3 Jahre Entgeltgruppe 13...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey),  Near Eastern literature and 3 more
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 24.10.2024
    International Workshop | Towards a Theory of the Modern Religious Bookshelf
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Christian Meyer (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020), project The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf: Canons, Concepts and Communities (2022-) , Research Area 3: "Future Perfect". Guiding questions: How, under...

    Fields of research Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 6 more
    Created on: 19.07.2024
  5. 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

  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2024
    Circulation et réception de la littérature médiane dans la péninsule Arabique (Sorbonne nouvelle)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Circulation et réception de la littérature médiane dans la péninsule Arabique Paris, le 8 octobre 2024 Dans le cadre du projet ANR MSFIMA "Mille et Une Nuits : Sources et Fonctions dans l'Islam Médiéval Arabe" (2012-2015), nous...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  World Literature,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
    Created on: 01.07.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2024
    Reassessing Canon Formation in Medieval Literature (Barcelone, Catalogne)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Reassessing Canon Formation in Medieval Literature Organized by University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona , in collaboration with the University of Geneva, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and University of Barcelona Conference Dates:...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century),  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century)
    Created on: 01.07.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Der Klang (in) der Kleinepik
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Bamberg, 01.10.–03.10.2025 Call for Papers Die Analyse klanglicher Phänomene in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit nimmt in der jüngeren Forschung nicht zuletzt durch Einflüsse aus dem Bereich der Sound Studies breiten...

    Fields of research Literature and music/sound studies,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 3 more
    Created on: 28.06.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Dante en France : la réception savante (Sorbonne nouvelle)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à communications Dante en France : la réception savante Colloque international Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 19-23 mai 2025 Le projet ANR DHAF a pour objet la réception en France de l’œuvre de Dante,...

    Fields of research French literature,  Italian literature,  Reader-response criticism and 5 more
    Created on: 21.06.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.06.2024
    Rhetorical Approaches to Literature (PAMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    *** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 16 *** PAMLA Annual Conference Palm Springs, California November 6-10, 2024 "Rhetorical Approaches to Literature" (Paper / Panel) This standing session is open to all papers that explore some aspect...

    Fields of research Rhetoric,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)
    Created on: 10.06.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.07.2024
    Kunst – Komik – Kritik. Normverstöße im Kontext von Zensur im 20. Jahrhundert, Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Was Zensur genau ist, darauf lässt sich keine einheitliche Antwort geben. Nikola Roßbach beschreibt das Problem in ihrer Monographie pointiert: „Es gibt unzählige Zensurdefinitionen: weite und enge, juristische und alltagssprachliche, politische und...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literary genre,  Rhetoric and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    The Pagan Beowulf: Alternatives to the Usual Beowulf (RMMLA 77th Annual Conventin)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 77th Annual Convention October 10-12 (Thur.-Sat.) at the Westgate Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2024 For centuries, the “usual” Beowulf translation has...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 1 more
    Created on: 03.05.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2024
    “The Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Decay and destruction have long been sources of fascination, inspiration and contemplation in artistic and cultural contexts. From the crumbling ruins of ancient civilizations to the ravages of time on natural landscapes, from the haunting beauty of...

    Fields of research Intermediality,  Poetics,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 29.04.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.06.2024
    Seminar Special Issue: Conceptions of “Race” in Premodern German Studies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    While Black German Studies has become an important field in our discipline, scholarship in premodern German studies is only beginning to show the same level of engagement with Critical Race Studies as evidenced in Anglo- and Francophone premodern...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 4 more
    Created on: 26.04.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2024
    Citer, éditer, réécrire : réception et représentation de la poésie latine fragmentaire (Grenoble)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    AAC - Colloque international "Citer, éditer, réécrire : réception et représentation de la poésie latine fragmentaire" Deadline 31/05/2024 Université Grenoble Alpes, 4-6 Decembre 2024 La manière dont notre accès aux textes...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Reader-response criticism and 4 more
    Created on: 19.04.2024