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  1. 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
  2. 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
  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: 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
  5. 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
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.06.2024
    „‚Tipping Points‘. Balanceakte in der Literatur und Kultur“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28. Juni 2024)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    In Zeiten großer Unsicherheit ob der (In-)Stabilität von Strukturen aller Arten sehen sich die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften mehr denn je mit Fragen nach Verantwortung, Abhängigkeiten und Verletzlichkeit konfrontiert: Die Verstrickung von...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  7. 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
  8. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 27.06.2024
    Buchpräsentation/Filmscreening und Workshop: Screening Fears mit Francesco Casetti
    Submitted by: Henrik Wehmeier

    Anlässlich von Francesco Casettis (Yale University) neuen Buchs Screening Fears: On Protective Media findet am 27. & 28. Juni in Hamburg ein Filmscreening und ein öffentlicher Workshop statt. In Screening Fears bietet Francesco Casetti...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Literature and media studies
    Created on: 17.06.2024
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Moritz Klenk
    University or institution: Hochschule Mannheim
    Fields of research: Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Empirical Aesthetics; Media studies; Oral poetry / Orality; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy

  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 29.05.2024
    Semiotic Machines: Artificial Text and the Praxis of Reading
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Recent discussions about the significance of generative AI technologies, and particularly of Large Language Models like ChatGPT, have tended to revolve around the question of how the new language-generating machines relate to traditionally...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 4 more
    Created on: 23.05.2024
  13. 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
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 12.07.2024
    Das war‘s. Praktiken und Ästhetiken des Aufhörens
    Submitted by: Miriam Wienhold

    Der Workshop steht im Kontext der gesellschaftlichen sowie ästhetischen Problematiken des Schließens, des Aufhörens und des Beendens, die Teil der mannigfaltigen Krisen der letzten Jahre waren. Man denke an das ‚Ende‘ der Pandemie, des Kapitalismus...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 08.05.2024
  15. 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