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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: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 22.02.2024
    Nähe und Distanz im Sachbuch. Ein Abend mit Ewald Frie und Steffen Mau
    Submitted by: Miriam Wienhold

    Dies ist ein Nachholtermin – diese Veranstaltung wurde ursprünglich für den 15.11.2023 geplant. Eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen des Jahresthemas „Mehr oder Weniger“. Wer in einem Sachbuch von sich selbst spricht, wurde in Deutschland...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Non-fictional literature,  autobiography
    Created on: 16.02.2024
  3. 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
  4. Jil Runia
    University or institution: Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: North African literature; Near Eastern literature; Postcolonial studies; autobiography

  5. 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
  6. Marcella Fassio
    University or institution: Freie Universität Berlin
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Media studies; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and cultural studies; Intermediality; Prose; autobiography; Digital literature; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  7. Diego León-Villagrá
    University or institution: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and natural science; autobiography

  8. Linda Maeding
    University or institution: Universität Bremen
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; autobiography; Literature of the 20th century

  9. Juliane Prade-Weiss
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Elegy; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; Tragedy; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Helen Höstlund
    University or institution: Universität Augsburg (UNIA)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Prose; autobiography; Drama; Aesthetics; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  13. 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

  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    The Red Globe: Writing the World in Eastern European Travel Literature of the Cold War, ZfL Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference, 1-3 June 2022, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL) Deadline: 30 September 2021 Conference organisers: Susanne Frank (EXC 2020/HU Berlin), Clemens Günther (Freie Universität...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary theory and 8 more
    Created on: 16.08.2021
  15. Priyam Goswami Choudhury
    University or institution: Universität Potsdam
    Fields of research: South Asian literature; Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Translation