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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.03.2024
    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts The creation of texts can take various forms. One seemingly obvious method is to copy an already existing text. The material evidence of this practice in Antiquity and the Middle Ages...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary theory,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 12.02.2024
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.01.2024
    Secular Saints: Practices of Awe and Veneration in Hagiography and Pop-Culture
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Saints, holy people, and the “Very Special Dead” have been central to religious worship, the rise of Christianity, and the popularity of mystery cults from Antiquity until today. Yet celebrated individuals who epitomise cultural values are not...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 18.01.2024
  3. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 02.06.2023
    Lecture Series Kick-Off: Empire and Violence
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Auftaktveranstaltung der Lecture Series Empire and Violence am Freitag, den 02. Juni, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, A 120: ▫ 16-18 José Casanova (Georgetown U), „The Sacralization of Canonicity as the Legitimation of Violence“ ...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Interdisciplinarity and 2 more
    Created on: 19.05.2023
  4. Johanna Abel
    University or institution: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Spanish literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Drama; Liturgical drama; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century

  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2023
    Violent Child-Animal Encounters in Literature. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Submitted by: Marina Ortrud Hertrampf

    In the last decades, we have witnessed a variety of theories and approaches - from multispecies ethnography to trans- and posthumanist philosophy - that aim to decentralize the category of the human. Introducing a posthuman perspective into the study...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 27 more
    Created on: 06.12.2022
  6. Annika Haas
    University or institution: Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK)
    Fields of research: French literature; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and philosophy; Essay; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2022
    Grenzüberschreitungen – Plots, Akteure, Kontexte: Missionserzählungen in Literatur und Film (Wittenberg)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Fachgruppentagung der Sektion Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie in der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie 30. März (15 Uhr) – 1. April 2023 in Wittenberg 1st Call for Papers Grenzüberschreitungen – Plots,...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and theology/study of religions
    Created on: 29.07.2022
  8. Christoph Groß
    University or institution: Ruhr Universität Bochum
    Fields of research: Literature from the Benelux Countries; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Literary theory; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century

  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2022
    Heilige Spiele -- Workshop im Rahmen des Forschungsforums „Literatur und Religion“ für junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler (Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Im Titel des diesjährigen Workshops verbinden sich zwei scheinbar gegenläufige Tendenzen: der gravitätusche Ernst des Heiligen und die Leichtigkeit des Spiels. Der Ausdruck erinnert an die religiösen Ursprünge des Spiels aber auch an die Spannung...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 09.05.2022
  10. Franziska Rauh
    University or institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Narratology; Literature and theology/study of religions; The fictional

  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2022
    Liebesgeflüster und Wutgeschrei: Affektkommunikation in Antike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit / Whisperings of Love - Cries of Anger: Communicating Emotions in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
    Submitted by: Thomas Kullmann

    Emerging Scholars Workshop des Interdisziplinären Instituts für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN) Osnabrück | 12.–14.10.2022 Spätestens seit dem ‚Emotional Turn‘ der (späten) 1990er-Jahre ist die Emotionsforschung in den Kultur- und...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 33 more
    Created on: 15.02.2022
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 03.03.2022
    Texturen der 'Vorwelt' im 19. Jahrhundert. Darstellungsmuster und Wissensordnungen, Halle/online
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Texturen der ‚Vorwelt‘ im 19. Jahrhundert. Darstellungsmuster und Wissensordnungen Workshop am "Interdisziplinären Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung" (IZEA), Halle/S., 03.03.–04.03.2022 Ort: ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 11.02.2022
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.02.2022
    Joan Didion: Life and/with/through words, Universität Bamberg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG | APRIL 29-30, 2022 | VIA ZOOM DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2022 “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” Vanessa Redgrave speaks these lines on stage,...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Prose,  Narrative and 3 more
    Created on: 04.02.2022
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2022
    Die internationale Rezeption der "Essais" Michel de Montaignes: Formen, Deutungen, Konjunkturen – Osnabrück
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die internationale Rezeption der Essais Michel de Montaignes: Formen, Deutungen, Konjunkturen Internationale Tagung am 1. und 2. Dezember 2022 am Interdisziplinären Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN) ...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary historiography,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 04.02.2022
  15. Juliane Prade-Weiss
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Elegy; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; Tragedy; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century