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  1. Isabella Maria Engberg
    University or institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
    Fields of research: Ecocriticism; Literature and natural science; Literature of the 19th century

  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2025
    (De)Bordering Aesthetics: 19th-Century German Philosophy and the Migratory Turn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS Special Issue | Call For Papers (De)Bordering Aesthetics: 19th-Century German Philosophy and the Migratory Turn Guest Editor: Gabriele Schimmenti (Roma Tre University, Italy) ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 3 more
    Created on: 04.11.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2024
    In search of Expressiveness: exploring the notion within the realms of literature and theatre in the 18th-19th century. Interdisciplinary Workshop
    Submitted by: Marina Sivak

    The workshop deals with the concept of expressiveness, with the objective of elucidating its evolution, transformation, and polysemy. The notion of expression stands as a pivotal concept in art history, generally implying the creation of a vivid...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies and 4 more
    Created on: 01.11.2024
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 07.11.2024
    Staging Nature. Berührungspunkte von Natur und Bühnenwerken, München
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Staging Nature. Berührungspunkte von Natur und Bühnenwerken (gefördert von der Daimler und Benz-Stiftung) Ausgehend von der sprichwörtlich gewordenen Sentenz „All the world’s a stage“ (Shakespeare 1623) interessiert sich der Workshop für einen...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and geography/cartography and 3 more
    Created on: 25.10.2024
  5. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 18.11.2024
    Wissenschaftliches Volontariat Buddenbrookhaus / Heinrich-und-Thomas-Mann-Zentrum Lübeck
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Kuturstiftung Hansestadt Lübeck sucht für das Buddenbrookhaus / Heinrich-und-Thomas-Mann-Zentrum zum 01.04.2025 eine:n wissenschaftliche:n Volontär:in Das Buddenbrookhaus / Heinrich-und-Thomas-Mann-Zentrum ist Teil der...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 22.10.2024
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 14.11.2024
    Büchners Elemente
    Submitted by: Oliver Völker

    Büchners Elemente Jahrestagung der Büchner-Gesellschaft 2024 14.-16. November 2024, GU Frankfurt, IG-Farben-Gebäude, Eisenhower-Saal (Raum 1.314) Eine Veranstaltung der Georg Büchner Gesellschaft sowie des Instituts für Deutsche...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and natural science and 2 more
    Created on: 18.10.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Carlo Arrigoni Co-Organizer: Irene Bulla What makes a narrator unreliable, and through which textual strategies is unreliability established? What is the role of unreliable narration in the development of the novel...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 6 more
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Cristina Carnemolla Co-Organizer: Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez The term extractivism describes an economic model based on the circulation of non-renewable "natural" resources to world market metropolises from territories...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    Der weibliche Blick in die Ferne: Fremdheitserfahrungen in der (Reise-)Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit und der Aufklärung, Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die 5. transdisziplinäre Jahrestagung Femmes de Lettres der FONTE-Stiftung: Der weibliche Blick in die Ferne: Fremdheitserfahrungen in der (Reise-)Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit und der Aufklärung 10.-11. Oktober 2024,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  travel literature,  Literature of the 16th century and 3 more
    Created on: 04.10.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond the Capitals of Decadence (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Florian Zappe

    Beyond the Capitals of Decadence Since antiquity, the elusive concept of ‘decadence’—regardless whether defined as a socio-cultural phenomenon, an artistic movement, or as an aesthetic programme—has been associated with the city. Especially...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries and 13 more
    Created on: 02.10.2024
  11. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 01.11.2024
    Assistant Professor of German Studies, Rice University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description Rice University’s Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures seeks to hire a tenure track assistant professor of German Studies with open field specialization to begin July 1, 2025. The successful candidate will...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 4 more
    Created on: 27.09.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.10.2024
    Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950), Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop "Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950)" 13.–15. Februar 2025 an der Universität Bonn Organisation: Fabian Lampart (Potsdam),...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.12.2024
    "Stay or Leave? Family Survival Tactics during the Age of Emigrations, 1770-1830s" (Interdisciplinary Workshop, 24-26 July 2025, Bad Homburg v.d.H.)
    Submitted by: Frederike Middelhoff

    Stay or Leave? Family Survival Tactics during the Age of Emigrations, 1770-1830s Interdisciplinary Workshop at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Bad Homburg v.d.H. // 24-26 July 2025 ...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 19.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Emergence of New World Imagination in the 19th and 20th Century: Understanding of the Global Colonial Countries through the Lens of Auto-Biographical Narratives, Memoirs And Travelogues (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    It is intriguing to examine how the documents from and about the global colonial countries written during the 19th and 20th century describe the extremely unstable social and political environments. With this an emergence of a new world order as well...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  autobiography,  travel literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Inter-Asian Literary Relations (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What are the textual modes of inter-Asian literary interactions? What are the forms of intertextuality across the literatures and languages of Asia? This seminar aims to examine the inter-Asian network of literary relations that have developed...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  East Asian literature,  South Asian literature and 4 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024