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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Call for Participants: "The Return of Myths in the 21st Century: How Cultural Narratives Shape Reality" (Paris, May 13-16, 2025)
    Submitted by: Christian Baier

    The contemporary world is marred by division. Everywhere, antagonistic factions are locked in apparently irreconcilable opposition, incapable of finding common ground. Beneath all ideological differences lies an epistemic fragmentation of society ...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2024
    Journal of Austrian Studies – Special Issue for Graduate Students
    Submitted by: Julia Lückl

    CfP Journal of Austrian Studies – Special Issue for Graduate Students English version below Das Journal of Austrian Studies lädt Doktorand*innen aus allen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen ein,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art and 4 more
    Created on: 30.08.2024
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    Les "nouveaux mutants" de la culture pop (XXe-XXIe s.) : sémiologie du désastre ou utopie posthumaniste ? (revue Études littéraires)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Quel est le point commun entre « l’Homme qui devint gorille » de Magog, les X-Men, Tony Stark et les autres « hommes de fer » nés vingt ans plus tard au cinéma dont Robocop chez Verhoeven, Terminator chez Cameron, Tetsuo chez Tsukamoto, les «...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  6. 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
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Radical Bodies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Human bodies and, by extension, human subjectivity have long been contested spaces. Against traditional Eurocentric and anthropocentric definitions of the human as a stable identity abstracted from its surrounding environment, movements like...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 2 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 06.09.2024
    Rahel Levin Varnhagens ›Denkblätter‹. Schreibformen und Kontexte
    Submitted by: Elisabeth Flucher

    Tagung 02.-04.06.2025, Schloss Rauischholzhausen Organisation: Dr. Elisabeth Flucher (Universität Siegen) Dr. Daniela Henke (Universität Gießen) Die Rahel Levin Varnhagen-Forschung stützte sich bis dato in all ihren sich...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 18.07.2024
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Journalanthropologie. Wesensbestimmungen des Menschen in der Zeitschriftenliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts | Göttingen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Zeitschriften als „kleine Archive“ (Frank/Scherer/Podewski 2009) stellen insbesondere seit den erweiterten drucktechnischen Möglichkeiten ab 1830, die eine Verringerung der Kosten und eine Vergrößerung der Reichweiten ebenso ermöglichten wie reiche...

    Fields of research Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology,  Non-fictional literature and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2024
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 14.06.2024
    Workshop: List, Compile, Assemble: Small Forms and the Power of Collecting
    Submitted by: Chiara Sartor

    Interdisciplinary Workshop of the Research Training Group “The Literary and Epistemic History of Small Forms” June 14–15, 2024 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Main Building, 2nd Floor | Room 2070 A | Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Oral poetry / Orality and 7 more
    Created on: 23.05.2024
  12. 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
  13. Gesche Beyer
    University or institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Fields of research: Media studies; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Comic; Non-fictional literature; Diary; Digital literature

  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 19.05.2024
    The Cultural Space of Amazonia: Encounter – Exchange – Controversy
    Submitted by: Franziska Gesine Brede

    The Cultural Space of Amazonia: Encounter – Exchange – Controversy DRV Summer School at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 23-26 July 2024 Amazonia as a cultural space has received little attention in European literature and...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Spanish literature and 10 more
    Created on: 06.05.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Workshop zu Dualla Misipos »Der Junge aus Duala«
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Workshop, 14.–15. November 2024, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin Organisation: Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco Dualla Misipos Der Junge aus Duala. Ein Regierungsschüler erzählt … wird als der »erste Roman eines...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 30.04.2024