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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    REMINDER CFP Conference: Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century.
    Submitted by: Carolin Loyens

    Two-day Workshop at the Department of Literary Studies KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts December 14-15, 2023 Decades of scholarship on the mechanisms of knowledge formation have generated a wide awareness that the transhistorical...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 17 more
    Created on: 06.10.2023
  2. 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
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 16.09.2021
    The tales of Archaeology: Towards a Literary Memory Map of the Mediterranean Space, Rome
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    2-day Conference: 16-17 September 2021 Academia Belgica, Rome In collaboration with Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia Working languages: English, French, Italian When visiting the Etruscan necropolis of Cerveteri, near...

    Fields of research French literature,  Italian literature,  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 7 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  4. 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
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 06.03.2020
    Writing a Cosmos: European Literature and Popular Astronomy, 1890-1950
    Submitted by: Christoph Richter-Rodiek

    The symposium Writing a Cosmos: European Literature and Popular Astronomy (February 6, KU Leuven) investigates the relationship between literature and astronomy during the modernist period (1890-1950) in Europe, addressing the vast literary...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 2 more
    Created on: 09.01.2020
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2020
    Lines of Heredity: Eugenics and Gender in European Literature, 1880-1935
    Submitted by: Fatima Borrmann

    May 18-19, 2020 MDRN First keynote speaker: Prof. Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter). Second keynote speaker to be announced later. During the late 19th and early 20th century evolutionary theory and new...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 9 more
    Created on: 17.10.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Colonised Citizens
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colonized Citizens is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project focuses on colonial literature in Belgium and Germany, both ‘late participants’ in the European...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  8. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 01.10.2019
    Doctorat en littérature française, Université de Louvain (KU Leuven)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    (ref. BAP-2019-431) Bourse de doctorat (4 ans) – La Fabrique des pays. Les collections de portraits de pays phototextuels (1945-1980) – Littérature française du XXe siècle, Université de Louvain (KU Leuven). Project Ce...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature and visual studies,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 23.08.2019