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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context, Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Since the consolidation of world literature as a field of research in the 1990s, the study of literature beyond national frameworks has almost become commonplace. While the focus of this discipline has been on the transformations and shifting...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 1 more
    Created on: 06.10.2023
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century.
    Submitted by: Carolin Loyens

    Decades of scholarship on the mechanisms of knowledge formation have generated a wide awareness that the transhistorical nature of knowledge and authoritative statements of truth need to be approached critically. It has become a truism that...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 19.09.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    Workshop: Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century, Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

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

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  5. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.04.2023
    1 postdoctoral position and 3 PhD positions, University of Leuven (COLLAB - ERC StG project)
    Submitted by: Núria Codina

    As part of the ERC Starting Grant project “Making Migrant Voices Heard Through Literature: How Collaboration is Changing the Cultural Field” ( COL LAB , 2023-2028), led by Núria Codina, the University of Leuven (Belgium) is recruiting one...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 01.03.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.05.2022
    Irish Literature and Periodical Culture (KU Leuven)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Leuven Centre for Irish Studies || University of Leuven, Belgium || 1 – 3 December 2022 Since the emergence of periodical studies as a distinct discipline some decades ago, the importance of literary magazines in shaping and influencing...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Hermeneutics,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 07.03.2022
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2020
    Online conference "World Literature and the Minor: Figuration, Circulation, Translation"
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    World Literature and the Minor: Figuration, Circulation, Translation 6 – 7 May 2021 University of Leuven, Belgium (online) Keynote...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 09.10.2020
  10. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 13.07.2020
    PhD position - Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Popular Astronomy, KU Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The MDRN research centre houses about 30 experts in the expanding field of modernism studies. It unites scholars from various languages and disciplines. The centre offers an exciting environment that allows young scholars to pursue their individual...

    Fields of research Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 15.06.2020
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2020
    Biofiction as World Literature (15.04.2020)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Biofiction (literature that takes a real biography as its point of departure) is powered by what Colm Tóibín has recently called “the anchored imagination”, which grants the fictional narrative a certain ambiguous (almost duplicitous) credibility. As...

    Fields of research Narratology,  World Literature,  The fictional
    Created on: 21.01.2020
  12. 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
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    The Irish Short Story and The Bell Magazine (1940-1954)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project seeks to investigate the publication and mediation of the Irish short story in the influential Irish literary periodical The Bell between 1940 and 1954 so as to assess The Bel l ’s seminal role in the formation of a canon and a...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Short prose,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 28.10.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    The Construction of Countries
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Construction of Countries: the Phototextual "Portraits de pays" Series (1950-1980) studies photographically illustrated books by (canonised) authors that are devoted to the depiction of countries and cities. The focus of the project lies on the...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 28.10.2019
  15. 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