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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.10.2023
    Literary Self-Translation and its Metadiscourse Power Relations in Postcolonial Contexts
    Submitted by: Myriam-Naomi Walburg

    Initially relegated to the margins of translation studies, literary self-translation has now become a research topic in its own right, both in the fields of translation studies and comparative literature. While translation studies typically...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 02.05.2022
    Experimental Writing in English (1945-2000): The Anti-Canon
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This conference aims to focus on experimental writing in English from the second half of the twentieth century which is less well known, has been positioned outside of the literary mainstream or is simply deserving of more attention. It...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 04.04.2022
  3. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 13.12.2021
    Principal research fellow Modern German Literary Studies (13.12.2021 | = 80% Postdoc NdL)
    Submitted by: Thomas Ernst

    Bewerben Sie sich über die in den Links angegebenen Seiten der Universiteit Antwerpen: englischsprachige Ausschreibung:...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography and 7 more
    Created on: 26.11.2021
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2022
    The Mimetic Turn: Final International Conference on Homo Mimeticus (ERC), KU Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    April 20-22, 2022, KU Leuven Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the value of mimetic representations, but they agreed that humans are mimetic animals—for good and ill. This ancient realization has long remained in the shadow of dominant...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 6 more
    Created on: 05.11.2021
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 15.09.2021
    Biofiction as world literature, KU Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Day 1 (15 September): Genre and gender Day 2 (16 September): Genealogies and precursors Day 3 (17 September): Truth and representation Day 4 (18 September): Politics, oppression, negotiation WEDNESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER (DAY 1 –...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Poststructuralism and 5 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2022
    Reading in theory and in higher education practice
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Special issue of CLW – Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap (2022) ed. by Janine Hauthal & Hannah Van Hove deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2021; deadline for articles: 15 October 2021 Over the past few decades, the field...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 07.06.2021
  7. Thomas Ernst
    University or institution: Universiteit Antwerpen / University of Antwerp; Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) / University of Amsterdam
    Fields of research: Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Digital Humanities; Media studies; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and media studies; Digital literature; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  8. Helga Mitterbauer
    University or institution: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) / Université Libre de Bruxelles
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Prose; Drama; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century