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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: 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
  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 events
    Abstract submission deadline: 11.08.2024
    Panel Deutscher Germanistentag 2025: Das Netzwerk als Erzählmodell. Dialogizität und komplexe Systeme in der Literatur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Seit dem Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts avanciert das Netzwerk zur Metapher einer spezifisch modernen Sozialform, die die Erfahrung von wachsender Kommunikationsdichte und Komplexität im Zuge von Fernverkehr, -handel und -kommunikation abbildet...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 01.07.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Dante en France : la réception savante (Sorbonne nouvelle)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à communications Dante en France : la réception savante Colloque international Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 19-23 mai 2025 Le projet ANR DHAF a pour objet la réception en France de l’œuvre de Dante,...

    Fields of research French literature,  Italian literature,  Reader-response criticism and 5 more
    Created on: 21.06.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2024
    Panel: Gespräch über das Schöne. Die dialogische Etablierung und Differenzierung der Ästhetik und ihrer Autonomie um 1800 (28. Deutscher Germanistentag), Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Panel am 28. Deutscher Germanistentag | 14.–17. September 2025 | TU Braunschweig | Thema: „Dialog“ | Sektion: Themenbereich 4: Funktionen und Ziele von Dialog Sektionsleitung: Franziska Solana Higuera, Lydia Rammerstorfer ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and other forms of art,  Aesthetics and 2 more
    Created on: 14.06.2024
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2024
    Nature et littérature au XIXe siècle
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions Nature et littérature au XIXe siècle Le cycle « Nature et littérature au XIXe siècle » de la Vallée-aux-Loups, qui s’est tenu de septembre à avril 2024, a permis d’explorer la question du paysage, du jardin comme...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 4 more
    Created on: 06.05.2024
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.06.2024
    Heinrich Heine and Translation collected volume
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Heinrich Heine’s oeuvre and reception raise important questions about the poetics and ethics of translation. Notable US poets, for example, have translated his well-known early poetry with very different motivations, including situating it in his...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Translation and 2 more
    Created on: 05.04.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.04.2024
    Venetian backdrops in European Romanticism: places, images, sounds and narratives, Verona
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    C.R.I.E.R. International Conference Venetian backdrops in European Romanticism: places, images, sounds and narratives University of Verona 6-8 November 2024 Call for Papers The C.R.I.E.R., Interdepartmental Research...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art and 3 more
    Created on: 25.03.2024