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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 06.06.2024
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 15 more
    Created on: 22.05.2024
  2. Gesche Beyer
    University or institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Fields of research: Media studies; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Comic; Non-fictional literature; Diary; Digital literature

  3. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.06.2024
    Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) im Projekt »Schwarze Narrative Transkultureller Aneignung«
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Am LEIBNIZ-ZENTRUM FÜR LITERATUR- UND KULTURFORSCHUNG (ZfL) in Berlin ist zum 1. Oktober 2024 eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) , Entgeltgruppe 13 TVöD (Bund), 65 %, im Projekt »Schwarze Narrative Transkultureller...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 9 more
    Created on: 17.04.2024
  4. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 23.08.2024
    Summer School: New Approaches and Methods for Research in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    The Summer School: New Approaches and Methods for Research in Children’s Media will be held at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (Germany) and aims at students interested in Children’s and YA-media in Germany and abroad. Numerous...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Didactics of Literature,  Literary theory and 10 more
    Created on: 21.11.2023
  5. 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
  6. Jasmin Wrobel
    University or institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Literature and visual studies; Comic

  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The first annual conference of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU) discusses a variety of understandings of the political novel as a genre. It probes genre-theoretically and genre-historically informed...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 14 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  8. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.09.2023
    3 Promotionsstellen: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*in, 65%, TVL 13
    Submitted by: Marlen Stelter

    Das DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2291 „Gegenwart/Literatur. Geschichte, Theorie und Praxeologie eines Verhältnisses“ der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Bonn besetzt zum 01. Januar 2024 befristet für 3 Jahre 3 Promotionsstellen als ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries and 21 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2023
    Violent Child-Animal Encounters in Literature. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Submitted by: Marina Ortrud Hertrampf

    In the last decades, we have witnessed a variety of theories and approaches - from multispecies ethnography to trans- and posthumanist philosophy - that aim to decentralize the category of the human. Introducing a posthuman perspective into the study...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 27 more
    Created on: 06.12.2022
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2023
    CLOSURE: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung #10 (November 2023) Schwerpunkt: »Ocean Comics«
    Submitted by: Alina Schoppe

    Offener Themenbereich Das e-Journal CLOSURE wird im Herbst 2023 in seiner zehnten Ausgabe erneut allen Facetten der Comicforschung ein Forum bieten. Von Kultur-, Bild- und Medienwissenschaften bis zu Sozial- oder Naturwissenschaften und...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 10.10.2022
  11. Alina Schoppe
    University or institution: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU)
    Fields of research: Comic

  12. Christoph Groß
    University or institution: Ruhr Universität Bochum
    Fields of research: Literature from the Benelux Countries; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Literary theory; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century

  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.06.2022
    Kindheit medial. Kindheits- und Jugendkonstruktionen im aktuellen Comic
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Kindheit und Jugend sind zentrale Kategorien kinder- und jugendliterarischer Texte, wobei sie auf mindestens drei Ebenen realisiert werden: (1) Die Protagonist:innen sind meist Kinder oder Jugendliche. Diese Altersfokussierung hat möglicherweise mit...

    Fields of research Comic,  Children's and young adult literature,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 01.04.2022
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.04.2022
    Transmediale und interdisziplinäre Analysen des Traums und Träumens in Kinder- und Jugendmedien
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    In dieser Ringvorlesung werden Expert*innen verschiedener literatur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen kritische Einsichten in kulturelle, historische, medienspezifische, ästhetische und theoretische Charakteristiken der Phänomene des Traums...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 21 more
    Created on: 07.03.2022
  15. Jasmin Wrobel
    University or institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Feminist studies; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and visual studies; Comic; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century