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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    The Aging Detective in 21st Century Fiction (NeMLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although some of the most iconic British fictional detectives—Marple, Poirot, and Holmes—are old-age pensioners, the 21st century is witnessing a proliferation of aging detectives in fiction, television, and film. Among recent novels are Jesse Q....

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.09.2024
    Teaching (With) Picturebooks: Context, Competences, Criticism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Symposium at the University of Rostock 25-26 November 2024 organized by Dr. Katja Schmidt & Dr. Hanne Bolze Key note speakers: Prof. Dr. Tobias Kurwinkel (Universität Hamburg) Dr. Grit Bergner (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) As...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Didactics of Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2024
    Die Entstehung der Rheinromantik: Brentano, Heine, Turner und die Folgen. Brentano-Kolloquium der Universität Koblenz und des Landesbibliothekszentrums Koblenz
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Clemens Brentano wurde am 9. September 1778 in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein geboren. Koblenz ist das geographische Zentrum des Weltkulturerbes Mittelrheintal. Der Weltkulturerbestatus beruht auf einer historischen Interpretation der geographischen Lage,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 12.07.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.07.2024
    Deadline extended: Congist’24 - Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    Congist’24 - Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice Date: December 18-20, 2024 Location: Istanbul University Faculty of Letters Organizers: Istanbul University Faculty of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 2 more
    Created on: 03.07.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.09.2024
    Women Travel Writers in Northern Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century, Mulhouse
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A conference organized by the Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes (UR 4363, Université de Haute-Alsace), in partnership with the laboratories : Arts, civilisations, histoire de l'Europe (UMR 3400, Université de...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 10 more
    Created on: 03.06.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 19.07.2024
    Call for book chapters for the edited volume: Cyberpunk and digital rebellion of AI
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    Call for book chapters for the edited volume: Cyberpunk and digital rebellion of AI As a literary genre and a form of cultural aesthetic cyberpunk narratives depict dark visions of the future in which technology, society, and human existence...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 2 more
    Created on: 15.05.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2024
    Congist’24 Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    Congist’24 Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice The III. International Social Sciences Congress of the Faculty of Letters Congist’24, titled “Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 2 more
    Created on: 07.05.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    The Pagan Beowulf: Alternatives to the Usual Beowulf (RMMLA 77th Annual Conventin)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 77th Annual Convention October 10-12 (Thur.-Sat.) at the Westgate Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2024 For centuries, the “usual” Beowulf translation has...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 1 more
    Created on: 03.05.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Romanticism Session (PAMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This year's theme is “Translation in Action.” While most scholarship about translation deals with the interlingual, we welcome scholarship on the other areas discussed by Roman Jakobson such as intralingual and intersemiotic translation. We plan on...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature,  Literary historiography and 5 more
    Created on: 29.04.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    Writing Angst: The Gothic / Schauerliteratur in Scotland and Germany from 1800 until Today”, Universität Göttingen/TU Dresden
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Göttingen University, September 4-6, 2024 Few literary genres are better suited to give voice to cultural, social and political anxieties in periods of collective crises and disorientation than the Gothic, or Schauerliteratur. In our own age of...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary genre and 5 more
    Created on: 16.02.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2024
    „Klassen.Gefühle.Erzählen“ Tagung am Institut für deutsche und niederländische Philologie der FU Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    „Klassen.Gefühle.Erzählen“ Tagung am Institut für deutsche und niederländische Philologie der FU Berlin, 13./14.06.2024 Die queer-feministische Theoretikerin und Literaturwissenschaftlerin bell hooks schreibt in ihrem Buch Die Bedeutung von...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 11.12.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.02.2024
    Call for Papers zur Konferenz Grenzüberschreitende Literatur(en) in einer polyphonen Welt: Mehrsprachigkeit als Quelle der literarischen Kreativität Eine Synergie zwischen globale° – Festival für grenzüberschreitende Literatur Bremen und dem Forschungszen
    Submitted by: Daniel Schmidt

    Deutsch (English below): In der deutschsprachigen Kulturlandschaft sind Festivals, die Musik, Kunst und Film zelebrieren und eine Bühne bieten, etabliert und werden von der Gesellschaft breit rezipiert. Aber auch Literaturfestivals, in denen...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 13 more
    Created on: 29.11.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 11.12.2023
    Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World Turin, Italy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World University of Turin, Italy Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures March 21-22, 2024 In her 1951 work The Sea Around Us, Rachel...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Ecocriticism and 1 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Enfants de la honte - enfants de l'amour: textes littéraires et témoignages / Kinder der Schande – Kinder der Liebe: Literarische Bearbeitungen und Zeitzeugenberichte
    Submitted by: Alina Fritz

    Studientag Universität Passau 26.7.2024 Organisation: Alina Fritz und Marina Ortrud Hertrampf „Mit den Besatzungs- und Soldatenkindern gebar der Krieg Menschen, die allein durch ihre Existenz die Paradigmen des Kriegerischen...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 3 more
    Created on: 29.10.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.11.2023
    Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CfP Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature (deadline 3rd November 2023) What happens when we look away from modernism/s? We are inviting academics to consider this question with a specific...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 13.10.2023