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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.07.2024
    Feeling Responsible: Affective Polarization and the Sense of Implication in Academic Debates on Israel/Palestine
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Feeling Responsible: Affective Polarization and the Sense of Implication in Academic Debates on Israel/Palestine Workshop, 10 October 2024, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany Dominik Markl (University of Innsbruck), Juliane...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 04.06.2024
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.01.2024
    Secular Saints: Practices of Awe and Veneration in Hagiography and Pop-Culture
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Saints, holy people, and the “Very Special Dead” have been central to religious worship, the rise of Christianity, and the popularity of mystery cults from Antiquity until today. Yet celebrated individuals who epitomise cultural values are not...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 18.01.2024
  3. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 12.10.2023
    Lecture Series "Empire and Violence"
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    at LMU Munich & University of Innsbruck Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine has recently been related to "the curse of the empire" (Martin Schulze Wessel, Der Fluch des Imperiums: Die Ukraine, Polen und der Irrweg in der russischen...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 03.10.2023
  4. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 02.06.2023
    Lecture Series Kick-Off: Empire and Violence
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Auftaktveranstaltung der Lecture Series Empire and Violence am Freitag, den 02. Juni, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, A 120: ▫ 16-18 José Casanova (Georgetown U), „The Sacralization of Canonicity as the Legitimation of Violence“ ...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Interdisciplinarity and 2 more
    Created on: 19.05.2023
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 03.11.2022
    The Cultural Memory of Mass Violence: Re-mediation and Pre-mediation
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    LMU Munich, 03 November 2022 Große Aula: Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 register for streaming at n.frank@lrz.uni-muenchen.de organized by Juliane Prade-Weiss (LMU Munich) Dominik Markl (Georgetown U, Washington, DC) ...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey),  Literary theory and 5 more
    Created on: 15.10.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2022
    Beyond Comparison: Towards a Connected Philology
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Beyond Comparison: Towards a Connected Philology Call for papers International conference hosted by IDK Philology: Practices of premodern cultures, global perspectives and future concepts, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München June...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 10.10.2022
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 07.10.2022
    Pandemic Grief (2). “Our” Irresponsible Nature: Affectability and Disappointment in the Pandemic and the Ecological Crisis
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Does the zoonotic SARS-CoV-2 pandemic change the outlook onto nature? The dynamics enfolding in pandemic grief is certainly more complex than a mere yes-or-no answer can capture. The sudden and pervasive rupture of global life caused by non-human...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity
    Created on: 21.09.2022
  8. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 11.07.2022
    Ideology and Complicity in Mass Violence: Roundtable on Two New Books
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Ideology and Complicity in Mass Violence: Roundtable on Two New Books by Jonathan Leader Maynard (King’s College London) I deology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities ...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 13.06.2022
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 12.05.2022
    From Âventiure Novels to Adventure Games: Adventure Narratives in Popular Images and Texts, München/online (12–14 May 2022)
    Submitted by: Carina Breidenbach

    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...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 6 more
    Created on: 10.05.2022
  10. 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
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 29.03.2022
    Beschwerde führen: Systemkritik zwischen Engagement und Exzess
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Tagung vom 29. bis 30. März 2022 am Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Kooperation mit dem Germanistischen Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Konzeption...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 14.03.2022
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2022
    Auf den Kopf gestellt. Interdisziplinäre Betrachtungen der Trickster-Figur (LMU München)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop; München, 2. – 3. Juli 2022 (For English version please see below.) Figuren wie Coyote, der Affenkönig Sun Wukong 孙悟空 , Reineke Fuchs und der nordische Gott Loki heben mit Witz und List die Welt aus den Angeln...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Narratology,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 25.02.2022
  13. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 11.02.2022
    Diskursive Konstruktion von Feindbildern: Populismen, Verschwörung, Verhetzung
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    26. Institutsworkshop der AVL Freitag, 11.02.2022 14:00 Uhr – 18:30 Uhr Programm: Jonathan Leader Maynard (London), Rethinking Extremism in Comparative Perspective: Narrative, Enmity and Political War Ruth Wodak (Wien),...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 26.01.2022
  14. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 21.11.2021
    Kurzzeitstipendien für Promovierende im Sonderforschungsbereich 1369 „Vigilanzkulturen“ / Visiting Fellowships for PhD candidates at the Collaborative Research Centre 1369 „Cultures of Vigilance“, LMU München
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    (English version see below) Der Sonderforschungsbereich 1369 „Vigilanzkulturen. Transformationen – Räume – Techniken“, der seit dem 01.07.2019 von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) ...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 18.10.2021
  15. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 23.09.2021
    Professur (W3) für Nordamerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (Lehrstuhl), Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, LMU München
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Einrichtung: Fakultät für Sprach- und LiteraturwissenschaftenBesetzungsdatum: zum Sommersemester 2022Ende der Bewerbungsfrist: 23.09.2021Besoldungsgruppe: Professur (W3)An der Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften ist zum Sommersemester...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literary theory,  Interdisciplinarity
    Created on: 30.08.2021