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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 15.11.2024
    Online Workshop - The Nuclear Age, Redux: Forms and Modes of Environmental Change
    Submitted by: Annika Schadewaldt

    The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the nuclear – as both material reality and cultural phenomenon. From resurfaced fears of nuclear warfare and disasters to debates about the use of nuclear technology as a sustainable...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literary theory,  Ecocriticism and 4 more
    Created on: 31.10.2024
  2. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 29.10.2024
    Ringvorlesung: Gegenwartsliteratur und Gesellschaftsdiagnostik, Heidelberg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Neuphilologische Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg lädt ein zur interdisziplinären Ringvorlesung "Gegenwartsliteratur und Gesellschaftsdiagnostik". Die Vortragsreihe findet ab dem 29.10.2024 wöchentlich dienstags um 18:15 Uhr in Hörsaal 14 der...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 5 more
    Created on: 28.10.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2025
    Girls* to the Front: Trends in Contemporary German-Language Writing by Women and Non-Binary Authors
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Earlier this year, Martina Läubli, arts editor for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, published an exposé on gender in the German literary industry and declared “Die Frauen haben die Macht übernommen.” [1] Indeed, in recent years, women (queer and...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 28.10.2024
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2024
    Children's and Youth Literature in the Context of War and Displacement. Comparative Perspectives between the 20th and 21st Centuries
    Submitted by: Matei Chihaia

    The response of children's and youth literature to situations of war and displacement has been extensively studied. From a transnational perspective, comparative research on children's and youth literature examines aspects of historical and cultural...

    Fields of research Children's and young adult literature,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 28.09.2024
  8. 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
  9. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 05.11.2024
    German Assistant Professor, Princeton
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We invite applications for a position at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor to begin September 1, 2025. We seek a dynamic, creative, productive scholar and teacher with a focus on literature, media, and performance since 1945. We are...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  10. 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
  11. Raphael Stübe
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: New Historicism; World Literature; Game Studies; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 17.09.2024
    Tagung Konzepte und Wahrnehmungsmodi der Natur in der neueren Lyrik – komparatistische Zugänge
    Submitted by: Adela Sophia Sabban

    17.9. – 19.9.2024 Universität Trier, Konferenzsaal: N2 Organisiert von: Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl (Slavische Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Trier), Prof. Dr. Ralph Müller (Neuere deutschsprachige...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 8 more
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 04.11.2024
    Pratiques intermédiales et créations hybrides dans les mondes hispaniques (XXe et XXIe siècles
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’étude « Pratiques intermédiales et créations hybrides dans les mondes hispaniques (XX e et XXI e siècles) » Vendredi 13 juin 2025, à Tours Employée pour la première fois en 1965 par Dick...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  14. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    Final Issues. Endings in Modern Intellectual History
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Histories of political, intellectual, literary and aesthetic movements are often told through documents of their beginnings: Manifestos, declarations, and programs testify to what groups, avant-gardes or collectives stand for, what they want to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 4 more
    Created on: 04.09.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.09.2024
    Justice (20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Justice Ce colloque s’engage dans un dialogue transatlantique à propos des enjeux complexes de la justice et de l’inclusion dans le contexte français et francophone. 2025 est une année clef qui marque des anniversaires importants dont : les...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature and law,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 02.09.2024