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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2024
    Gatekeeping, Buchmarkt und Publikum
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gatekeeping, Buchmarkt und Publikum Internationale Tagung des Projekts: Verborgen, Verkannt, Vergessen. Negative Zirkulation in der Literatur, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities, FU Berlin 26./27. Juni 2025 Was auf dem...

    Fields of research Literature and publishing/booktrade
    Created on: 31.10.2024
  2. 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
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 14.11.2024
    Which Market? Popular Writing Between Entertainment And/Or Edification
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Program Thursday, 14 November 2024 14.00 h Sandra Richter, Marbach: Welcome and Introduction 14.15 h Opening Speech Dan Sinykin, Atlanta: Sociology and Interpretation Panel 1: Labeling Literatur?, Moderation: Anna Kinder,...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Literary genre
    Created on: 18.10.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Literature and International Development (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Susanna Sacks Co-Organizer: Lauren Horst “Literature, whether handed down by word of mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality…What better preparation can a people desire as they begin their journey into the strange,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The World Republic of Rejection (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amanda Malone Gwendolyn Brooks began work on what would become her first novel, Maud Martha, in 1944, first submitting the manuscript to her editors in 1947. And yet, her novel would not be published until almost a decade later....

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.09.2024
    Panel Discussion “Central European Culture Salon: Perspectives and challenges of literary and cultural cooperation in Central Europe”
    Submitted by: Anna Seidel

    How do Central Europe's cultural and literary scenes work together? What obstacles do they face? And what prospects are there for transnational cultural cooperation in Central Europe? These questions will be discussed on September 23, 2024 by...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 12.09.2024
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    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 8 more
    Created on: 14.08.2024
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.11.2024
    Symposium | Literature, Prizeworthiness, and Kinship Across Borders
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Program Monday, 25. November 2024EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15 14195 Berlin; Room: 00.07) 10:00 – 15:00 | Meeting of the Research Group From 15:00 I Tour of Berlin Book Stores (Kinship focus, e.g. “She...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  11. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 10.09.2024
    Intermediaries, Translators, and Mediators. The Making of World Authorship
    Submitted by: Miriam Wienhold

    Who creates the world author? While Foucault’s question „What’s an author?“ opened the path to the study of censorship and copyright, Bourdieu’s interrogation, „Who creates the creator?“, turned the attention to the network of cultural intermediaries...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and publishing/booktrade
    Created on: 31.07.2024
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 24.10.2024
    International Workshop | Towards a Theory of the Modern Religious Bookshelf
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Christian Meyer (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020), project The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf: Canons, Concepts and Communities (2022-) , Research Area 3: "Future Perfect". Guiding questions: How, under...

    Fields of research Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 6 more
    Created on: 19.07.2024
  13. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 18.08.2024
    BMBF-Verbundprojekt „Lost in Archives“ wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) (E 13 TV-G-U, 65%-Teilzeit)
    Submitted by: Marília Jöhnk

    Das BMBF-Verbundprojekt „Lost in Archives“ (Förderlinie „Innovative Frauen im Fokus“) sucht nach unsichtbaren und vergessenen Frauen, die im 18. und im frühen 19. Jahrhundert in männlich dominierten Bereichen (Theater, Literaturkritik,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Literary historiography and 6 more
    Created on: 17.07.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Pratiques et politiques de traduction dans les fictions criminelles 1945-1989 / Translation practices and policies in crime fiction 1945-1989 (Paris Nanterre)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH VERSION Colloque international - Pratiques et politiques de traduction dans les fictions criminelles (1945-1989) Université Paris Nanterre, 24-25 octobre 2024 Organisé dans le cadre du projet ANR...

    Fields of research Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Literary genre,  Translation and 1 more
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.07.2024
    Literaturgeschichte und Buchmarkt, 1500–1700‘, Heidelberg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Literaturgeschichte und Buchmarkt, 1500–1700 Heidelberg, 26.–28. März 2025 (unter Vorbehalt) Die Literaturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit scheint in einem nicht unerheblichen Ausmaß von der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Autoren und Offizinen geprägt zu...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Translation and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2024