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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: 16.06.2024
    Rhetorical Approaches to Literature (PAMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    *** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 16 *** PAMLA Annual Conference Palm Springs, California November 6-10, 2024 "Rhetorical Approaches to Literature" (Paper / Panel) This standing session is open to all papers that explore some aspect...

    Fields of research Rhetoric,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)
    Created on: 10.06.2024
  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 events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.07.2024
    Kunst – Komik – Kritik. Normverstöße im Kontext von Zensur im 20. Jahrhundert, Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Was Zensur genau ist, darauf lässt sich keine einheitliche Antwort geben. Nikola Roßbach beschreibt das Problem in ihrer Monographie pointiert: „Es gibt unzählige Zensurdefinitionen: weite und enge, juristische und alltagssprachliche, politische und...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literary genre,  Rhetoric and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2024
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2024
    “The Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Decay and destruction have long been sources of fascination, inspiration and contemplation in artistic and cultural contexts. From the crumbling ruins of ancient civilizations to the ravages of time on natural landscapes, from the haunting beauty of...

    Fields of research Intermediality,  Poetics,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 29.04.2024
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.02.2024
    XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture - CULTURE AT WAR (Lisbon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture CULTURE AT WAR Lisbon, June 24 – 29, 2024 Deadline for submissions: February 29, 2024 We are living in times of war. Now, more than ever, war occupies a central role in both national...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.01.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    Schwund – Absenz – Entzug, Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Internationaler Workshop vom 25.–27. September 2024 an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Schwund – Absenz – Entzug: Mithilfe dieser drei offensiv metaphorischen Konzepte möchte die Tagung den Dynamiken von Verschwinden und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies,  Intermediality and 2 more
    Created on: 01.12.2023
  14. 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
  15. 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