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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
    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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 12.06.2024
    Small Forms in Circulation: Infrastructures, Practices, Publics
    Submitted by: Morten Schneider

    Call for Papers Small Forms in Circulation: Infrastructures, Practices, Publics Humboldt University of Berlin, November 28-30, 2024 Submission deadline: June 12, 2024 Acceptance letters in August Small textual and material...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology and 10 more
    Created on: 07.05.2024
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.06.2024
    Seminar Special Issue: Conceptions of “Race” in Premodern German Studies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    While Black German Studies has become an important field in our discipline, scholarship in premodern German studies is only beginning to show the same level of engagement with Critical Race Studies as evidenced in Anglo- and Francophone premodern...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 4 more
    Created on: 26.04.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2024
    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period, Frankfurt a. M.
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period at Frankfurt am Main, September 2025 Comedy, satire, Lucianism – whenever one of these keywords is used in connection with Early Modern literature, it...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 13.03.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.04.2024
    The Poetics of Early Modern Scientific Poetry
    Submitted by: Friederike Altmann

    The Poetics of Early Modern Scientific Poetry 28 – 30 November, 2024 – University of Bayreuth, Germany Inaugural conference of the international AHRC/DFG research consortium, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and...

    Fields of research Literature and natural science,  Poetics,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 27.02.2024
  15. 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