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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2024
    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism -- Call for submissions for Vol. 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2025)
    Submitted by: Nicoletta Pireddu

    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique,...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 4 more
    Created on: 02.05.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    (An)economies of Translation: Repression, Untranslation, and the Drive for Translation (PAMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Today, in theory of translation, two general tendencies prevail: the first tendency imagines universals passing from language to language, according to different models of foundation; and the second tendency, a post-foundational one, understands...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Translation and 1 more
    Created on: 22.04.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.06.2024
    Heinrich Heine and Translation collected volume
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Heinrich Heine’s oeuvre and reception raise important questions about the poetics and ethics of translation. Notable US poets, for example, have translated his well-known early poetry with very different motivations, including situating it in his...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Translation and 2 more
    Created on: 05.04.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.05.2024
    New Readings on Russian Formalism at the Crossroads of Slavic Cultural History: Primary Insights and Perspectives for Future Research
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    MODERNITAS (MSH - ULB) https://msh.ulb.ac.be/fr/team/modernitas invites paper-proposal abstracts for consideration in the international workshop: New Readings on Russian Formalism at the Crossroads of Slavic Cultural History: Primary...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary theory and 9 more
    Created on: 26.02.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    Erste internationale Tagung „Literarisches Recycling für postdigitale Leser“. Eine digitale Epistemologie für das Recycling von Literaturen? Digitale Literaturstudien in der Diskussion, Madrid
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Erste internationale Tagung „Literarisches Recycling für postdigitale Leser“. Eine digitale Epistemologie für das Recycling von Literaturen? Digitale Literaturstudien in der Diskussion Fakultät für Philologie, Universidad Complutense de...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Hermeneutics,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 16.02.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Das schlechte Bilderbuch – Zu einer seltenen, aber notwendigen Wertungspraxis in der Kinderliteraturkritik, online
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das schlechte Bilderbuch – Zu einer seltenen, aber notwendigen Wertungspraxis in der Kinderliteraturkritik (Zoom-Tagung vom 25.-27.07.2024) In der Praxis der institutionalisierten Kinderliteraturkritik fällt zweierlei besonders...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Hermeneutics and 5 more
    Created on: 12.02.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.04.2024
    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (Spring 2025 issue) -- Call for articles and book reviews
    Submitted by: Nicoletta Pireddu

    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.11.2023
    Autor-Übersetzerinnen um 1800. Autorschaft, Übersetzungspraxis und Geschlecht an der Schnittstelle ästhetischer und gesellschaftspolitischer Debatten
    Submitted by: Daniele Vecchiato

    Autor-Übersetzerinnen um 1800. Autorschaft, Übersetzungspraxis und Geschlecht an der Schnittstelle ästhetischer und gesellschaftspolitischer Debatten Università degli Studi di Padova, 07.–08.03.2024 ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Translation and 3 more
    Created on: 26.10.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2024
    Konvergenz, Zerstreuung, Konfusion. Wissen übersetzen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (1. Sektion des 14. Kongress des Frankoromanistikverbands)
    Submitted by: Roberta Colbertaldo

    Unsere Sektion beschäftigt sich mit der mehrsprachigen Genese von Wissen in Übersetzungsprozessen. Komplementär zu den bereits rezipierten naturwissenschaftlichen Diskursen im Frankreich des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts möchten wir anhand dreier...

    Fields of research French literature,  Translation,  Theory of translation and 2 more
    Created on: 12.10.2023
  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    Gebaut, gesprochen und geschrieben: Raum, Architektur und Sprache, Bergell/Schweiz
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gebaut, gesprochen und geschrieben: Raum, Architektur und Sprache Werkstatt-Tagung, 9. bis 14. September 2024 Tagungsort: Tagungszentrum Villa Garbald, Bergell (GR) / Schweiz https://www.garbald.ch/en/ Organisation ...

    Fields of research Hermeneutics,  Deconstruction,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 08.09.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    'Carried Down to Wondrous Depths': Meaning and Metaphor in Moby Dick (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Melville's Moby Dick is a book that defiantly (and perhaps frustratingly) defies a solitary meaning. Indeed, rather than providing readers with a single message in a simple narrative, the text is instead "overflowing" with meaning and the endless...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Hermeneutics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor) and 1 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Surplus, Scarcity, and the Trials of the Translator (55th Annual NeMLA Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The act of translation is often discussed in terms of possession: what is lost, what is revealed, who can claim ownership of a text, and to what extent. It is possible, however, that a more enlightening conversation around translation theory and...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    Sammelbandprojekt „Paratexte der Theorie“
    Submitted by: Wolfgang Hottner

    Subject Fields: German History / Studies,, Intellectual History,, Literature Sammelbandprojekt „Paratexte der Theorie“ Die Zirkulation von ‚Theorie‘ geht mit spezifischen Formen des Paratextes einher. Titel, Cover, Waschzettel,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 21.07.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Translation Studies, NeMLA 2024 (NeMLA 2024, March 7-10, 2024) (Boston, MA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Contemporary translation theory reflects the breakdown in the traditional dichotomy “author” versus “translator,” since it views the translator no longer as a subordinate figure to the author, but as an equal co-creator of the literary work, who...

    Fields of research Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 19.07.2023