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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 11.01.2025
    Japonism and Postjaponism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are seeking individual contributions with a specific historical focus for the volume “Japonism and Post-Japonism in Literature: Nationally Coded Writing Beyond National Culture” which will be published in the CHLEL series (Comparative History of...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 4 more
    Created on: 01.11.2024
  2. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 13.11.2024
    Dualla Misipo: »Der Junge aus Duala«. Literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf ein frühes Werk der Schwarzen deutschen Literatur
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Dualla Misipos Der Junge aus Duala. Ein Regierungsschüler erzählt ... wird als der »erste Roman eines Schwarzen Deutschen« und als einer der frühesten postkolonialen literarischen Texte in deutscher Sprache bezeichnet. Obwohl der zwischen den...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literary historiography and 6 more
    Created on: 31.10.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2024
    Wissenschaftsgeschichte der niederdeutschen Philologie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    137. Jahresversammlung des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung Hamburg, 9. bis 12. Juni 2025 Tagungsaufruf / Call for Papers Wissenschaftsgeschichte der niederdeutschen Philologie Vom 9. bis zum 12. Juni 2025 findet die...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 28.10.2024
  4. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 02.12.2024
    Assistant Professor in Yiddish Literature/Culture, University of Wisconsin, Madison (tenure-track)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invites applications for a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are seeking scholars with an active research program in the field of...

    Fields of research Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 7 more
    Created on: 25.10.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.11.2024
    CFP: Hedwig Dohm. Literatur – Theorie – Aktivismus am Fin de Siècle (22.11.2024)
    Submitted by: Tilman Venzl

    Internationale und interdisziplinäre Tagung, München, 18.–20.12.2025 Hedwig Dohm. Literatur – Theorie – Aktivismus am Fin de Siècle organisiert von Gaby Pailer (UBC Vancouver) und Tilman Venzl (LMU München) Zielsetzung ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 24.10.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2024
    Gedankenwelten und Gedankenspiele: Konzeptualisierungen des Inneren in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Greifswald
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers Gedankenwelten und Gedankenspiele: Konzeptualisierungen des Inneren in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Interdisziplinäre und internationale Fachtagung Datum: 20. bis 22. November 2025 Ort: Alfried Krupp...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Poetics and 8 more
    Created on: 22.10.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2025
    Komparatistik. Jahrbuch der DGAVL 2025
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: Komparatistik. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (DGAVL) Ausgabe 2025 Einreichungsfrist: 31.05.2025 Für die nächste Ausgabe der Komparatistik...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Hermeneutics and 4 more
    Created on: 18.10.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Ends of the Road: Rethinking the Borders of the Picaresque (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Emily Mulvihill The picaresque has largely fallen out of vogue in literary studies. Nevertheless, the genre has long shaped the study of many of the world’s major literary traditions. So, what happens if we rethink both our use of...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and geography/cartography and 3 more
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  9. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 16.10.2024
    Ringvorlesung Kanon und Kultur: Gegenstände der Literaturwissenschaften (Universität Paderborn)
    Submitted by: Hendrik Schlieper

    Ringvorlesung an der Universität Paderborn, Wintersemester 2024 / 2025 (in Präsenz und virtuell)

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 10.10.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Modernism in the Twenty-First Century (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Chris Gortmaker Co-Organizer: Joseph Staten Can the modernism genie truly be sequestered in its twentieth-century bottle? This seminar invites papers that explore the possible persistence of aesthetic modernism in...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Literature and International Development (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Susanna Sacks Co-Organizer: Lauren Horst “Literature, whether handed down by word of mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality…What better preparation can a people desire as they begin their journey into the strange,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    Deadline extended: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    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 9 more
    Created on: 02.10.2024
  13. 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
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Wither the Great Books? Or Whither Great Books? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Kenneth Sammond This seminar askes us the explore the relevance, merits, and demerits of the great books approach to literature, its use of shared inquiry, its rootedness in a forming and reforming canons, and its consideration that...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The World Republic of Rejection (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amanda Malone Gwendolyn Brooks began work on what would become her first novel, Maud Martha, in 1944, first submitting the manuscript to her editors in 1947. And yet, her novel would not be published until almost a decade later....

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024