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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    ‘Novel Media/Media Novel: Theorising Digital Media Cultures in the Contemporary Novel’ -- Special Issue of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
    Submitted by: Sandro Eich

    Contemporary novels are marbled with representations of digital media. Despite the notable attention to digital technologies already present in post-war literature, the twenty-first century has witnessed the unprecedented integration of digital media...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Australian/Oceanian literature and 7 more
    Created on: 11.10.2023
  2. Sandro Eich
    University or institution: University of St Andrews
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from UK and Ireland; New Criticism; Media studies; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and media studies; Drama; Formula literature; Literature of the 21st century

  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.10.2023
    Hamlet et l'ubi sunt (Limoges)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’étude sur Hamlet “Where be your gibes now?”: Le motif de l’ubi sunt 13 Décembre 2023. Salle des Actes, FLSH, Université de Limoges (English version below) Dans le cadre du programme de l’agrégation, l’équipe...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.) and 3 more
    Created on: 02.10.2023
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 05.10.2023
    Beziehungsweise(n) dichten - Freundinnenschaft in der europäischen Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts. Transphilologische Jahrestagung Femmes de Lettres im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, HU Berlin
    Submitted by: Gudrun Weiland

    Von ihren Zeitgenossen als „Wunder“ bestaunt und lobend zu Einzelfällen erklärt, werden die wenigen heute noch bekannten Autorinnen der Frühen Neuzeit vor allem als Ausnahmeerscheinungen rezipiert. Diese Autorinnen bezogen sich jedoch schreibend in...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 4 more
    Created on: 26.09.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP for an Edited Collection on the Contemporary Global Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are seeking proposals for contributions to an edited collection of essays, titled Unruly Fictions: Geographies of Genre in the Contemporary Global Novel, focused on how the contemporary global novel expands the generic boundaries of fiction. This...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The first annual conference of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU) discusses a variety of understandings of the political novel as a genre. It probes genre-theoretically and genre-historically informed...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 14 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  8. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 14.09.2023
    Virtueller Master-Info-Tag: "Klassische und Moderne Literaturwissenschaft" (Heidelberg) am 14.09.23 um 14 Uhr
    Submitted by: Joséphine Jacquier

    Liebe Studierende, an diesem virtuellen Info-Tag möchten wir Ihnen unseren komparatistischen Master-Studiengang "Klassische und Moderne Literaturwissenschaft" vorstellen: Was macht diesen Studiengang so einzigartig? Inwiefern erlaubt dieser...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 19 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    CfP: Gothic (Revival) Spaces: Konzepte und Interpretationen Britischer und kontinentaler Wohnarchitektur zwischen 1750 und 1900
    Submitted by: Christina Clausen

    Die Tagung wird vom 14. bis 16. November 2024 an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg stattfinden. „Gothic spaces“ gehören in der Disziplin der englischsprachigen Literaturwissenschaft für den sogenannten „Schauerroman“ bzw. der...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Interdisciplinarity and 3 more
    Created on: 06.09.2023
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.09.2023
    Figurationen des Erbe(n)s in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit, Berlin
    Submitted by: Patrick Hohlweck

    Workshop des Exzellenzclusters »Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective« in Kooperation mit der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Veranstalter:innen: Patrick Hohlweck, Luisa Drews und Stefan Willer (Humboldt-Universität zu...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature
    Created on: 04.09.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    (Dés)écrire l’écologie. Première approche interdisciplinaire (Paris Nanterre)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Selon un certain nombre d’auteurs – philosophes ou scientifiques –, l’enjeu écologique requiert la remise en cause de notre pensée dite “moderne” ou “occidentale” et des gestes qui la structurent (la hiérarchie culture/nature par exemple). Mais qu’en...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Writtenness,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 04.09.2023
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 02.12.2023
    Tolkien's Legacy: 50 Years of Inspiration
    Submitted by: Des Batziou

    Thematic Approach GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship dedicates the conference to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the passing of J.R.R. Tolkien, one of the most influential and beloved fantasy authors of...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 2 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Spectrums of Embodiment in Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    One interpretation of the NeMLA 2024 theme of Surplus centers on embodiment, and the transatlantic long nineteenth century was arguably a key historical moment for envisioning material embodiment in terms of surplus, or lack thereof. Representation...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Interdisciplinarity and 9 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  14. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.09.2023
    1 Promotionsstelle (65% TVL 13) mit einem Forschungsschwerpunkt auf außereuropäischen Literaturen und/oder Künsten
    Submitted by: Marlen Stelter

    Das DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2291 „Gegenwart/Literatur. Geschichte, Theorie und Praxeologie eines Verhältnisses“ der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Bonn besetzt zum 01. Januar 2024 befristet für 3 Jahre eine Promotionsstelle als ...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 17 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  15. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.09.2023
    3 Promotionsstellen: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*in, 65%, TVL 13
    Submitted by: Marlen Stelter

    Das DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2291 „Gegenwart/Literatur. Geschichte, Theorie und Praxeologie eines Verhältnisses“ der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Bonn besetzt zum 01. Januar 2024 befristet für 3 Jahre 3 Promotionsstellen als ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries and 21 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023