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  1. 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
  2. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.09.2023
    1 Promotionsstelle (65% TVL 13) mit einem Forschungsschwerpunkt auf außereuropäischen Literaturen und/oder Künsten
    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 eine Promotionsstelle als ...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and 17 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  3. 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
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Generationengerechtigkeit neu verhandeln: Ein Vergleich von Generationenkrisen in Anglophoner Literatur und Film vom 20.-21. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Idee der ‚Generationengerechtigkeit’ ist zu einem der Schlüsselbegriffe des 21. Jahrhunderts geworden und bezieht sich heute meist auf die Rechte zukünftiger Generationen auf eine intakte Umwelt und eine stabile Gesellschaftsordnung. Während sich...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from UK and Ireland and 5 more
    Created on: 07.01.2022
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 17.12.2021
    7. Deutsch-Asiatischer Studientag Literatur- und Geisteswissenschaften, HU Berlin (Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Freitag, 17. Dezember 2021 Digital über Zoom, Anmeldung bitte per E-Mail an mori-ogai@hu-berlin.de Programm 9:00 Uhr MEZ (13:30 Delhi, 17:00 Tokyo) Stefan Keppler-Tasaki (The University of Tokyo),...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  East Asian literature,  South Asian literature and 4 more
    Created on: 13.12.2021
  6. Touhid A. Chowdhury
    University or institution: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (OFU Bamberg)
    Fields of research: Literature from UK and Ireland; South Asian literature; Postcolonial studies; Literature of the 21st century

  7. Priyam Goswami Choudhury
    University or institution: Universität Potsdam
    Fields of research: South Asian literature; Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Translation

  8. Philipp Sperner
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: South Asian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Deconstruction; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and cultural studies; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)

  9. Reinhard M. Möller
    University or institution: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; South Asian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Novel; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); travel literature; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  10. Ursula Kocher
    University or institution: Bergische Universität Wuppertal (BUW)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Italian literature; South Asian literature; Literary theory; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Novella; Rhetoric; Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century); Literature of the 20th century

  11. Thomas Kullmann
    University or institution: Universität Osnabrück (UOS)
    Fields of research: Literature from UK and Ireland; South Asian literature; Literary historiography; Postcolonial studies; Literature and cultural studies; Lyric poetry; Epic poetry; Prose; Novel; Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale; autobiography; travel literature; Essay; Drama; Children's and young adult literature; Digital literature; Rhetoric; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century