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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The reception of literary works: between translation and paratext - Poli-femo n. 28
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Poli-femo n. 28 The reception of literary works: between translation and paratext In a complex and stratified reflection on the reception of a literary work, the role of translation occupies a central position: it often represents a first...

    Fields of research Aesthetics,  Translation
    Created on: 15.12.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.12.2023
    CfP: Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen (22.12.2023)
    Submitted by: Daniel Wendt

    Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen Literaturwissenschaftliches Symposium, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, 26.-28.9.2024 Der Satire ist nicht leicht beizukommen. Nicht erst die jüngeren Diskussionen um...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 9 more
    Created on: 05.12.2023
  3. Daniel Wendt
    University or institution: Marburg
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary historiography; Literary theory; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comedy; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. OTHERNESSES – Towards Humanisms Beyond BorderThinking
    Submitted by: Diana Mariam Popal

    A Workspace for anti-violent, anti-racist, Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought as Praxis Othernesses provides a platform for critical exchange and dialogue on an international and cross-disciplinary level between different critical...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Deconstruction and 6 more
    Created on: 04.12.2023
  5. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 05.01.2024
    Associate Professor in Comparative Literature (Oslo, Norway)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A permanent position of Associate Professor of Comparative Literature is available at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo. For further information about the department, we refer to the department’s...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 01.12.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    Schwund – Absenz – Entzug, Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Internationaler Workshop vom 25.–27. September 2024 an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Schwund – Absenz – Entzug: Mithilfe dieser drei offensiv metaphorischen Konzepte möchte die Tagung den Dynamiken von Verschwinden und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies,  Intermediality and 2 more
    Created on: 01.12.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2024
    Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What happens when literature–and even language–is used for subversion? When authors write in response to political action, literature functions as a tool. When authors represent their times and their worlds, literature functions symbolically. When...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 6 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 17.11.2023
    "The Final Countdown". Ästhetik und Politik von Weltuntergängen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die "Weltuntergangsuhr" (Doomsday-Clock) des Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists steht seit Ende Januar 2023 auf 90 Sekunden vor Mitternacht. Entwicklungen des aktuellen Zeitgeschehens wie die Klimakrise, der Verlust von Biodiversität, globale...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Aesthetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    Imagination Today: Between Theory and Practice of Phantasia
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A special issue of the journal Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities in 2026 will delve into the challenging debates abundant in 20th and 21st-century continental philosophy about the place of imagination not only in aesthetics, but also in...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 12.01.2024
    Gründungs- und erstes Jahrestreffen Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken am Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mit dem Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken am Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus soll eine freie Assoziation begründet werden, um eine kontinuierlichere Vernetzung zum Thema politische Literatur und Ästhetik zu schaffen. Dazu bitten wir Interessierte an...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and sociology,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  11. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 01.12.2023
    Sprechwerkzeuge. Medialität und Aura der Stimme
    Submitted by: Miriam Wienhold

    „Es gibt keine menschliche Stimme auf der Welt, die nicht Objekt des Begehrens wäre – oder des Abscheus: Es gibt keine neutrale Stimme.“ (R. Barthes) Der Workshop zielt auf Sprech-Werke im Wortsinn, also nicht auf Lesungen von Schrifttexten,...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Oral poetry / Orality,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 06.11.2023
  12. Silvie Lang
    University or institution: Universität Kassel
    Fields of research: Narratology; Oral poetry / Orality; Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale

  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    Fugly: Aesthetics, Activism, and Politics (Richardson, Texas)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Theme–Fugly: Aesthetics, Activism, and Politics       What cultural objects and phenomena are designated to be ugly, bad, unacceptable, and monstrous, especially in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, race, class, and caste? Whose...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Aesthetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 23.10.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.11.2023
    New Sonic Practices in Canadian Poetry (Congress, ACCUTE), Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The poetry reading holds a unique place in poetic discourse; it is both textual and performative, permanent and ephemeral. Poetry readings are the key site for the dissemination of poetic works—a permanent textual object—but as performances, they add...

    Fields of research Oral poetry / Orality,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry
    Created on: 23.10.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    Jahrbuch Exilforschung 2024. Exil und Emotionen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers Jahrbuch Exilforschung 42 (2024): Exil und Emotionen Die Erfahrung des Exils wird kulturhistorisch seit der Antike mit dem Affekt der Trauer und der Klage kodiert, wo nicht faktisch gleichgesetzt (vgl. Psalm 137, Ovid:...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and music/sound studies and 2 more
    Created on: 20.10.2023