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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: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.09.2024
    PAIDIA: Now is the time to shape your Stories – Perspektiven auf Final Fantasy
    Submitted by: Phillip Brandes

    1987 erschien das erste Final Fantasy . Nur wenige Jahre später fand die Reihe ihren Weg über die USA nach Europa. Populär ist die Erzählung, Final Fantasy habe seinen Namen vom damaligen Director Sakaguchi deshalb erhalten, weil es als ...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Narratology,  Game Studies
    Created on: 12.08.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2024
    International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games 9-11 April 2025 Colégio Almada Negreiros, NOVA University Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA-FCSH), Portugal Ever since Steven...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Game Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2024
    „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ (Germanistentag 2025)
    Submitted by: Philipp Ohnesorge

    Philipp Ohnesorge, Eckhard Schumacher, Hannah Willcox (Universität Greifswald) CfP: „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ Panel auf dem 28....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 04.07.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.09.2024
    Panel Deutscher Germanistentag 2025: Dialog als Form in der interkulturellen Erzählliteratur in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dialog als Form in der interkulturellen Erzählliteratur in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft „Die Idee, Geschichte aus der Perspektive und Erfahrung von Migration zu erzählen und dabei marginalisierte Wissensarten sichtbar zu machen, ist für...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  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: 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 events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.04.2024
    Call for Abstracts: Studientag: „‚Tipping Points‘. Balanceakte in der Literatur und Kultur“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28. Juni 2024)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Frist für Einreichungen: 23. April 2024 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...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 14.03.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  14. 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
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2024
    GSA Seminar 2024 "Politisch schreiben in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur: Methodische und theoretische Annäherungen"
    Submitted by: Jeannette Oholi

    Abstract : Die deutschsprachige Literaturlandschaft ebenso wie die dazugehörigen Diskurse wandeln sich: Gegenwartsromane wie Salzmanns Außer sich, Otoos Adas Raum und Aydemirs Dschinns spielen eine wichtige Rolle in gesellschaftlichen...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Narratology and 4 more
    Created on: 07.02.2024