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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.02.2025
    Call for Papers African Theater Association 2025 Conference: African and Afrodiasporic Theatre in the Digital Age
    Submitted by: Sven Thorsten Kilian

    “The evolution of new technologies and media in the knowledge era has had a huge impact on the field of the arts and culture” (Tajtáková, Theatre in the Digital Age, 2014) In the new millennium internet access has increased considerably in...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Digital Humanities and 5 more
    Created on: 04.11.2024
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 05.12.2024
    Workshop "Trost der Medien. Medien des Trosts" | Weimar (5.12.2024)
    Submitted by: Diego León-Villagrá

    "Trost der Medien. Medien des Trosts". Interdisziplinärer Workshop, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (5.12.2024) Trost ist, was wir brauchen! In krisenhaften Zeiten rückt die Trostfähigkeit und -bedürftigkeit der Menschen in den Fokus, die Denker...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Digital literature
    Created on: 15.10.2024
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 16.12.2024
    Mapping Corporeal Migrations: Latin American Electronic Literature between Global North and Global South (Meeting with Verónica Paula Gómez)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Research Area 5, "Building Digital Communities". As a postdoctoral fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Verónica Paula Gómez is leading a project to map the migrations of Latin American electronic literature between the...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    Deadline extended: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    Workshop, 16–17 January 2025, Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin In her epistolary novel La Toile (2017), Sandra Lucbert contrasts literary language with digital language as two clashing constraints: the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 9 more
    Created on: 02.10.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Zeitgenoss*innenschaften. Formen von Gegenwartsteilnahme
    Submitted by: Fabian Lampart

    Die Tagung soll aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, anhand verschiedener Medien und Gattungen und mit Blick auf unterschiedliche historische und kulturelle Kontexte konzeptionelle Zugänge zu „Zeitgenoss*innenschaften“ vorstellen, vorschlagen und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 19.09.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    ‘Prompting’ World Literature: Gerenative AI, Comparative Aesthetics, New Hegemonies, New Peripheries? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The surge of generative AI poses new challenges for conceptualising world literature and comparative aesthetics. While AI is trained using large datasets containing ‘human’-created works, critical discourse seems to (tacitly) posit a new ‘humanist’...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Workshop, 16–17 January 2025, Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin In her epistolary novel La Toile (2017), Sandra Lucbert contrasts literary language with digital language as two clashing constraints: the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 8 more
    Created on: 14.08.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    The Implications of Generative AI for Human Creativity, Originality—and Deception (NeMLA )
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence (AI) are currently transforming literary and visual studies—raising issues that range from copyright infringement; to human-computer interaction and collaboration; to the inspirations for...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies and 4 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.07.0224
    PoetKI. Poetik x Künstliche Intelligenz, Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Literatur hat einen besonderen Zugang zu KI. Zum einen thematisiert und reflektiert sie künstliche und übernatürliche Intelligenzen schon seit Tausenden von Jahren. Zum anderen wird auch die Literatur – wie jedes andere gesellschaftliche Feld –...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and computer science/cybernetics,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 05.07.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Littérature & arts : les dédales de la rencontre (Alexandrie, Égypte)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque international Littérature & Arts : les dédales de la rencontre Les sujets de recherche mêlant la littérature et les autres formes d’art constituent un fleuve intarissable d’idées pour les chercheurs. La rencontre entre...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 29.05.2024
    Semiotic Machines: Artificial Text and the Praxis of Reading
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Recent discussions about the significance of generative AI technologies, and particularly of Large Language Models like ChatGPT, have tended to revolve around the question of how the new language-generating machines relate to traditionally...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 4 more
    Created on: 23.05.2024
  12. 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

  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    American Literature 1945-present--Translation in Action (PAMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Pacific Modern Language Association Special Section: American Literature 1945 to the Present We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Digital literature and 3 more
    Created on: 22.04.2024
  14. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.05.2024
    Workshop: codes/verstehen: Die doppelte Hermeneutik von Source Codes, Lüneburg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Programmcodes tragen heute wesentlich zu unserer Interpretation der Welt und unserer Interaktion mit ihr bei. Die Form des dabei in Gang gesetzten Verstehensprozesses wird zum einen wesentlich durch die sie nutzenden Programmierer:innen bestimmt, die...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 22.04.2024
  15. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 02.09.2024
    Kostenlose Sommerschule: In Between? Auf der Suche nach unsichtbaren Grenzen
    Submitted by: Helena Link

    Die Grenzregionen im zeitgenössischen Europa zeichnen sich durch eine spezifische Erinnerungskultur aus, die sich unter dem Einfluss der Kriege, der geopolitischen Veränderungen und der Massenmigrationen des 20. Jahrhunderts herausgebildet hat. In...

    Fields of research Oral poetry / Orality,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Interdisciplinarity and 3 more
    Created on: 17.04.2024