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  1. 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
  2. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.06.2024
    Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) im Projekt »Schwarze Narrative Transkultureller Aneignung«
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Am LEIBNIZ-ZENTRUM FÜR LITERATUR- UND KULTURFORSCHUNG (ZfL) in Berlin ist zum 1. Oktober 2024 eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) , Entgeltgruppe 13 TVöD (Bund), 65 %, im Projekt »Schwarze Narrative Transkultureller...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 9 more
    Created on: 17.04.2024
  3. Judith Müller
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Literature from Israel; Digital Humanities; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.03.2024
    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts The creation of texts can take various forms. One seemingly obvious method is to copy an already existing text. The material evidence of this practice in Antiquity and the Middle Ages...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary theory,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 12.02.2024
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.01.2024
    Secular Saints: Practices of Awe and Veneration in Hagiography and Pop-Culture
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Saints, holy people, and the “Very Special Dead” have been central to religious worship, the rise of Christianity, and the popularity of mystery cults from Antiquity until today. Yet celebrated individuals who epitomise cultural values are not...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 18.01.2024
  7. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 02.06.2023
    Lecture Series Kick-Off: Empire and Violence
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Auftaktveranstaltung der Lecture Series Empire and Violence am Freitag, den 02. Juni, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, A 120: ▫ 16-18 José Casanova (Georgetown U), „The Sacralization of Canonicity as the Legitimation of Violence“ ...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Interdisciplinarity and 2 more
    Created on: 19.05.2023
  8. Johanna Abel
    University or institution: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Spanish literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Drama; Liturgical drama; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century

  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2022
    Grenzüberschreitungen – Plots, Akteure, Kontexte: Missionserzählungen in Literatur und Film (Wittenberg)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Fachgruppentagung der Sektion Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie in der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie 30. März (15 Uhr) – 1. April 2023 in Wittenberg 1st Call for Papers Grenzüberschreitungen – Plots,...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and theology/study of religions
    Created on: 29.07.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2022
    Special journal issue on Trauma and Multilingualism in Literature
    Submitted by: Marianna Deganutti

    Starting with two pioneering studies in the 1990s – Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History and Kali Tal’s Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma – Trauma Studies have demonstrated that language lies at...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Interdisciplinarity
    Created on: 04.07.2022
  12. 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
  13. Christoph Groß
    University or institution: Ruhr Universität Bochum
    Fields of research: Literature from the Benelux Countries; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Literary theory; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century

  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2022
    Heilige Spiele -- Workshop im Rahmen des Forschungsforums „Literatur und Religion“ für junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler (Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Im Titel des diesjährigen Workshops verbinden sich zwei scheinbar gegenläufige Tendenzen: der gravitätusche Ernst des Heiligen und die Leichtigkeit des Spiels. Der Ausdruck erinnert an die religiösen Ursprünge des Spiels aber auch an die Spannung...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 09.05.2022
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 24.06.2022
    Literarische Mehrsprachigkeit und ihre Didaktik (Schwäbisch Gmünd)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Institut für Sprache und Literatur sowie das Zentrum für Migrations- und Integrationsstudien „Migration – Gesellschaft – Schule“ (MiGS) der Pädagogischen Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd laden in Kooperation mit dem Institut für deutsche Sprache...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 06.05.2022