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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    Final Issues. Endings in Modern Intellectual History
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Histories of political, intellectual, literary and aesthetic movements are often told through documents of their beginnings: Manifestos, declarations, and programs testify to what groups, avant-gardes or collectives stand for, what they want to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 4 more
    Created on: 04.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Workshop, 16–17 January 2025, Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin In her epistolary novel La Toile (2017), Sandra Lucbert contrasts literary language with digital language as two clashing constraints: the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 8 more
    Created on: 14.08.2024
  3. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 09.07.2024
    »El Aleph« – Übertragene Liebe
    Submitted by: Monika Raič

    Die Kurzgeschichte »El Aleph« des argentinischen Schriftstellers Jorge Luis Borges handelt von allem auf einmal – vielleicht aber vor allem von idealisierter, romantischer Liebe, die literaturgeschichtlich in ihrer Struktur in Dantes »Divina...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Italian literature and 1 more
    Created on: 28.06.2024
  4. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 31.08.2024
    3-Month Fellowship in the project “Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe”
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL, Berlin, Germany) calls for applications for a 3-month fellowship. This fellowship primarily encourages early and mid-career researchers from Eastern Europe to apply and work in the...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 9 more
    Created on: 12.06.2024
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 14.06.2024
    Workshop: List, Compile, Assemble: Small Forms and the Power of Collecting
    Submitted by: Chiara Sartor

    Interdisciplinary Workshop of the Research Training Group “The Literary and Epistemic History of Small Forms” June 14–15, 2024 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Main Building, 2nd Floor | Room 2070 A | Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Oral poetry / Orality and 7 more
    Created on: 23.05.2024
  6. 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
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Neue Schöpfung? – Aitiologische Rezeptionen der Genesiserzählung in frühchristlichen Diskursen über Kosmos, Mensch und Geschlecht
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die als Anfang der Bibel überlieferte Erzählung von der Erschaffung der Welt und des Menschen durch Gott und dem Verlust des Paradieses (Gen 1-3) hat für Judentum und Christen­tum fundamentale Bedeutung. Der Text und die damit fixierte Vorstellung...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Reader-response criticism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.12.2023
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    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 at the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 30.10.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2023
    BAUSTELLE Brecht V: „Darum bleibt alle stehen, wo ihr steht, und singt den Choral der Ärmsten der Armen“ – Praktiken der Platznahme bei Brecht, Benjamin und Co.
    Submitted by: Micha Braun

    Das Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus lädt in Zusammenarbeit mit der International Brecht Society (IBS) Wissenschaftler:innen (besonders Graduierte, Doktorand:innen und andere Early Career Researcher) aller Disziplinen dazu ein, ihre Arbeiten zu Bertolt...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 26.05.2023
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 09.09.2022
    Small Forms. Aesthetics – Media – Modernity
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Transatlantic Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium 09/09 – 11/09/2022 Small Forms. Aesthetics – Media – Modernity Cornell University A cooperation between the Institute for German Cultural Studies (Cornell University) and...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary genre,  Literature of the 17th century and 4 more
    Created on: 12.08.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2022
    Das Rätsel in der Moderne (Berlin)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop, 11.11.2022, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL) Organisation: Dana Steglich (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Eva Stubenrauch (ZfL) Die Hochzeit des Rätsels wird für gewöhnlich im...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 5 more
    Created on: 01.08.2022
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 07.07.2022
    Walter Benjamin in the East – Networks, Conflicts, and Reception
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    In late and post-Socialist contexts in Eastern Europe, the works of Walter Benjamin—a historical materialist thinker who travelled to the young Soviet Union in the 1920s—have incited various theoretical transfers, artistic engagements, and political...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 5 more
    Created on: 23.06.2022
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 29.06.2022
    Wie postdigital schreiben? Verfahren der Gegenwartsliteratur
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Die Digitalisierung verändert den Literaturbetrieb, aber auch Schreibweisen und Texte. Das bezeugt nicht nur die sogenannte ›digitale Literatur‹, die in den Netzwerken der sozialen Medien entsteht oder aktiv Algorithmen in die Literaturproduktion...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 5 more
    Created on: 16.06.2022
  14. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 13.06.2022
    Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (Postdoc, m/w/d), Vollzeitbeschäftigung befristet bis zu 3 Jahre, FU Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die folgende Stellenausschreibung wurde über den H-Net Job Guide zur Verfügung gestellt ( https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63462 ) Freie Universität Berlin , Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Literature and other forms of art and 6 more
    Created on: 03.06.2022
  15. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.05.2022
    Book Launch, Artist Talk & Discussion | "Circus and the Avant-Gardes"
    Submitted by: Lena Hintze

    Join us for a lively book launch of "Circus and the Avant-Gardes" , an artist talk with actor and performance artist Le Pustra and a roundtable discussion! "Circus and the Avant-Gardes" (Routledge, 2022) elucidates how the realm of the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Interdisciplinarity and 3 more
    Created on: 02.05.2022