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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Women's Progress in African Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From an early stage, the modern African novel has recognized the unjust challenges faced by African women. Even novels of the 1950's, such as Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (1954), bear witness to the difficulties that women face in...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  2. 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
  3. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.09.2024
    ilb 2024 | Whispers from the Past: Collective Remembering
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Forms of remembering bring together the very different literary worlds of the fjords of Scandinavia, the Chilean metropolis of Santiago, and the Congo Delta for this event. Whether through the traces of political violence or personal experiences, the...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 1 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  4. 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
  5. Alexandra Irimia
    University or institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: Narratology; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.08.2024
    Voyages en Afrique centrale et équatoriale à travers les littératures et les études de l’ère coloniale : mondes vivants, mondes en mouvement
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Société Internationale d'Etude des Littératures de l'Ere Coloniale APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS POUR UN OUVRAGE COLLECTIF Voyages en Afrique centrale et équatoriale à travers les littératures et les études de l’ère coloniale : ...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Postcolonial studies,  travel literature
    Created on: 12.07.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2024
    Germanistentag 2025, Doppelpanel: Dialog jenseits des bürgerlichen Zeitalters – Zur Theorie und Methodik eines historischen Crossmapping, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Doppelpanel auf dem 28. Germanistentag, 14.-17. September 2025 Themenbereich 1: Theorien und Konzepte von Dialog Das vorbürgerliche Zeitalter ist für künstlerische und theoretische Ansätze, die sich von den prägenden...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies and 6 more
    Created on: 12.07.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.07.2024
    Les émotions dans les poèmes chevaleresques et héroïques italiens (XIVe-XVIe siècles) : représentations, significations et contextes
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Le poème de chevalerie et le poème héroïque en Italie sont un terrain fertile pour l'émergence de la représentation d'émotions et de passions différentes et parfois contradictoires. Entre le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance on rencontre différentes thèses...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century) and 1 more
    Created on: 08.07.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.07.2024
    Évoquer "sous le voile de silence" : l’auctorialité implicite dans les œuvres composites de la Première Modernité (Strasbourg)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Deuxième Journée d’étude PROC (22 novembre 2024) coordonnée par Michela Lagnena (ILLE, Université de Haute-Alsace et Université Ca’Foscari-Venise), avec la collaboration de Guillaume Porte (ARCHE, Unistra) — Organisée...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 08.07.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.08.2024
    All US Come Cross the Water: Diasporic Ecological Practices & Intergenerational Relations (ASWAD 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel seeks papers for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s (ASWAD) 12th Biennial and 25th Anniversary Conference that will be held in Saint Louis, Missouri at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel from October 29th...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 2 more
    Created on: 08.07.2024
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.09.2024
    Internationale DFG-Tagung: Writing a British Childhood in a Global Context? Critical Perspectives on Enid Blyton, Potsdam
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Enid Blyton is one of the world’s most well-known and prolific authors of children’s literature. Her book series have entertained children across the globe and across generations for almost a century. The conference Writing a British Childhood in a...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature,  Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 08.07.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2024
    Circulation et réception de la littérature médiane dans la péninsule Arabique (Sorbonne nouvelle)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Circulation et réception de la littérature médiane dans la péninsule Arabique Paris, le 8 octobre 2024 Dans le cadre du projet ANR MSFIMA "Mille et Une Nuits : Sources et Fonctions dans l'Islam Médiéval Arabe" (2012-2015), nous...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  World Literature,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
    Created on: 01.07.2024
  13. 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
  14. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 31.08.2024
    3-Month Fellowship in the project “Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe”
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL, Berlin, Germany) calls for applications for a 3-month fellowship. This fellowship primarily encourages early and mid-career researchers from Eastern Europe to apply and work in the...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 9 more
    Created on: 12.06.2024
  15. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 06.07.2024
    Komparatistischer Tag am 6. Juli in Heidelberg
    Submitted by: Joséphine Jacquier

    Komparatistischer Tag am 6. Juli in Heidelberg Die Klassische und Moderne Literaturwissenschaft lädt ein! Herzliche Einladung an alle Studierenden der alten und der neuen Philologien sowie der KML gemeinsam ein kleines ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Italian literature and 19 more
    Created on: 09.06.2024