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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.09.2024
    Subjekt im Aufbruch. Transnationale Wiederaufnahmen von Goethes Werther
    Submitted by: Raphael Stübe

    Upheavals of the Self. On the Transnational Reception of Goethe's Werther Internationale Tagung am Freien Deutschen Hochstift Frankfurt am Main, 20. und 21. September 2024 Gefördert von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Reader-response criticism,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  2. 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

  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.09.2024
    PAIDIA: Now is the time to shape your Stories – Perspektiven auf Final Fantasy
    Submitted by: Phillip Brandes

    1987 erschien das erste Final Fantasy . Nur wenige Jahre später fand die Reihe ihren Weg über die USA nach Europa. Populär ist die Erzählung, Final Fantasy habe seinen Namen vom damaligen Director Sakaguchi deshalb erhalten, weil es als ...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Narratology,  Game Studies
    Created on: 12.08.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2024
    Le roman d'espionnage (revue Fixxion) - prolongé jusqu'au 31 août
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel prolongé jusqu'au 31 août Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine, n°30 : « Le roman d’espionnage » Numéro coordonné par Chloé Chaudet et Alexandre Gefen Appel à contributions / Call for papers Scroll...

    Fields of research Novel,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2024
    International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games 9-11 April 2025 Colégio Almada Negreiros, NOVA University Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA-FCSH), Portugal Ever since Steven...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Game Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    L’adaptation des "classiques" de la littérature en langue française vers d’autres médias et de nouveaux contextes culturels (revue Multilinguales)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    La revue de la Faculté des Lettres et des Langues de l’université Abderrahmane Mira – Bejaia -, Multilinguales, lance un appel à contribution pour le numéro 22 à paraître en décembre 2024, coordonné par Dr. Marie-Manuelle da Silva (Université...

    Fields of research French literature,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Novels and Book History at MAPACA 2024 (2024 Annual MAPACA Conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This cfp welcomes all explorations of the novel and/or the history of the book as they interact with American and/or popular culture. Subjects include genre fiction, authors and authorship, literary time periods, cultures, settings, reading,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies and 2 more
    Created on: 21.06.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.09.2024
    Medusa: Essays on Different Media
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This call for papers seeks chapters on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures. Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and music/sound studies and 5 more
    Created on: 17.06.2024
  10. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 06.06.2024
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 15 more
    Created on: 22.05.2024
  11. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 24.06.2024
    Médiévalismes engagés - Engaged medievalisms
    Submitted by: Filippo Fonio

    L’école d’été est co-organisée par l’Université de Lausanne et l’Université Grenoble Alpes The summer school is co-organised by the University of Lausanne and University Grenoble Alpes Pour sa troisième édition, l’école d’été...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and media studies,  Game Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 09.04.2024
  12. Charlotte Rathjen
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Literary historiography; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Novel; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    MLA-Panel 2025: Narrating Spectacle around 1800, New Orleans
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Modern Language Associate Conference New Orleans, LA January 9-12, 2025 Narrating Spectacle around 1800 Audiences for eighteenth-century theater were more likely to be reading accounts of performances on the page than seeing them...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Novel,  Drama and 3 more
    Created on: 18.03.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.04.2024
    [kon]-paper Nr. 11 zum Thema ›Hybrid‹ (13.04.2024)
    Submitted by: Pia Lobodzinski

    Das interdisziplinäre Literatur- und Kulturmagazin [kon]-paper schreibt seit 2015 mit jeder Ausgabe ein Wort aus, dem sich Feuilleton- und Essaybeiträge sowie Gedichte, kurze Prosa und szenische Texte widmen. Das Titelwort der elften Ausgabe ist...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 6 more
    Created on: 10.03.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024