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  1. 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
  2. Stephan Krause
    University or institution: Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO)
    Fields of research: Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey); Literary theory; Reader-response criticism; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and media studies; Poetics; Lyric poetry; Prose; Children's and young adult literature; Themes, motifs, thematology; Translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.11.2023
    Übersetzen vernetzen
    Submitted by: Arne Mrotzek

    Internationale Tagung: Übersetzen vernetzen Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 23.-25. November 2023 Die Arbeit des Übersetzens, die einen zentralen Bestandteil interkulturellen Austauschs und internationaler Wissenszirkulation...

    Fields of research Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  4. Jasmin Wrobel
    University or institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Literature and visual studies; Comic

  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: 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
  7. 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
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.11.2022
    Family Constellations and Transnational Historical Imaginaries in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures
    Submitted by: Jobst Welge

    International Conference supported by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung The conference draws on three main conceptual axes: What these narratives have in common is that they each construct specific constellations of the historical imagination and of...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature,  Portugese literature and 1 more
    Created on: 14.11.2022
  9. Jobst Welge
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Literary historiography; Ecocriticism; World Literature

  10. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 10.11.2022
    Übersetzerduett
    Submitted by: Frances Jackson

    Ein Text – zwei Übersetzerinnen – unzählige Möglichkeiten… Mit konkreten Beispielen aus der aktuellen tschechischen Lyrik sowie auch aus den Werken von Jan Skácel zeigen die angesehenen Übersetzerinnen und Bohemistinnen Lena Dorn und Kristina...

    Fields of research Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Lyric poetry,  Translation and 3 more
    Created on: 04.11.2022
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 06.10.2022
    Historische Semantiken des Übersetzens in der frühen Neuzeit am Beispiel deutschsprachiger Erzählliteratur. Übersetzen – Wissen – Erzählen (Heidelberg)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Historische Semantiken des Übersetzens in der frühen Neuzeit am Beispiel deutschsprachiger Erzählliteratur. Übersetzen – Wissen – Erzählen Arbeitsgespräch in Heidelberg, 06.–07. Oktober 2022 (Universität Heidelberg, Germanistisches Seminar,...

    Fields of research Translation,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century),  Literature of the 16th century and 2 more
    Created on: 23.09.2022
  12. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 05.10.2022
    Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (50% bzw. 100%) für romanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft; Promotion oder Habilitation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    deutsch Das Romanische Seminar der Universität Bonn sucht vom 01.04.2023 bis 31.03.2026 eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (50% bzw. 100%) für romanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Schwerpunkt Französisch oder Spanisch...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Italian literature and 2 more
    Created on: 29.08.2022
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 14.09.2022
    Übersetzungsräume – Raumübersetzungen. Vierte Jahreskonferenz des SPP 2130 (Göttingen)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Übersetzungsräume – Raumübersetzungen (Jörg Wesche, Regina Toepfer, Peter Burschel) Das DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm 2130 „Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit“ lädt zu seiner 4. Jahreskonferenz zum Thema „Übersetzungsräume – ...

    Fields of research Translation,  Theory of translation,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century) and 1 more
    Created on: 01.08.2022
  14. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 15.06.2022
    Übersetzen im Gespräch mit Sophie Seita: Translation as Reading, as Movement, as Pedagogy
    Submitted by: Lena Hintze

    In this artist talk and reading, the interdisciplinary researcher, artist, writer and translator Sophie Seita will introduce her multimedia project My Little Enlightenment Plays as a starting point for a conversation on playful approaches to...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Media studies and 6 more
    Created on: 09.06.2022
  15. Philipp Lammers
    University or institution: Universität Konstanz
    Fields of research: French literature; Spanish literature; Literary historiography; Literature and cultural studies; Novel; Tragedy; Translation; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century