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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.12.2023
    CfP: Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen (22.12.2023)
    Submitted by: Daniel Wendt

    Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen Literaturwissenschaftliches Symposium, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, 26.-28.9.2024 Der Satire ist nicht leicht beizukommen. Nicht erst die jüngeren Diskussionen um...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 9 more
    Created on: 05.12.2023
  2. Daniel Wendt
    University or institution: Marburg
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary historiography; Literary theory; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comedy; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  3. OTHERNESSES – Towards Humanisms Beyond BorderThinking
    Submitted by: Diana Mariam Popal

    A Workspace for anti-violent, anti-racist, Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought as Praxis Othernesses provides a platform for critical exchange and dialogue on an international and cross-disciplinary level between different critical...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Deconstruction and 6 more
    Created on: 04.12.2023
  4. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 05.01.2024
    Associate Professor in Comparative Literature (Oslo, Norway)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A permanent position of Associate Professor of Comparative Literature is available at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo. For further information about the department, we refer to the department’s...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poetics,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 01.12.2023
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.12.2023
    Internationale Nestroy-Gespräche 2024
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Internationale Nestroy-Gesellschaft & Nestroy-Komitee Schwechat Ankündigung (Call for Papers) 48. INTERNATIONALE NESTROY-GESPRÄCHE 2024 2.–6. Juli 2024 in A-2320 Schwechat bei Wien (Justiz-Bildungszentrum, Schloss Altkettenhof) ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature
    Created on: 24.11.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2024
    Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What happens when literature–and even language–is used for subversion? When authors write in response to political action, literature functions as a tool. When authors represent their times and their worlds, literature functions symbolically. When...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 6 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 17.11.2023
    "The Final Countdown". Ästhetik und Politik von Weltuntergängen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die "Weltuntergangsuhr" (Doomsday-Clock) des Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists steht seit Ende Januar 2023 auf 90 Sekunden vor Mitternacht. Entwicklungen des aktuellen Zeitgeschehens wie die Klimakrise, der Verlust von Biodiversität, globale...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Aesthetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    Imagination Today: Between Theory and Practice of Phantasia
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A special issue of the journal Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities in 2026 will delve into the challenging debates abundant in 20th and 21st-century continental philosophy about the place of imagination not only in aesthetics, but also in...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 3 more
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 12.01.2024
    Gründungs- und erstes Jahrestreffen Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken am Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mit dem Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken am Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus soll eine freie Assoziation begründet werden, um eine kontinuierlichere Vernetzung zum Thema politische Literatur und Ästhetik zu schaffen. Dazu bitten wir Interessierte an...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and sociology,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2023
    Activating Margins: Destabilizing the Canon from the Periphery – 16th Ohio State German Graduate Student Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    February 23rd – 24th, 2024 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mari Jarris, Department of German Studies, Cornell University In geology, active margins are where edges of tectonic plates meet and cause friction as well as develop new formations....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Deconstruction and 3 more
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 21.12.2023
    Borders/Freedom/Civility (Gettysburg, PA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Exit West, Mohsin Hamid writes, “We are all migrants through time.” Hamid’s words speak to the growing crisis of statelessness, precipitated and accelerated by the extractive expansion of colonial and imperial powers, endless war, and intensifying...

    Fields of research Deconstruction,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 06.11.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2023
    Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Conference theme: Trace and Transformation Keynote speaker: Dr. Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook University The art of translation, as Edouard Glissant reminds us, involves “the practice of trace, which, as against systematic thought, points...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Translation
    Created on: 03.11.2023
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 02.11.2023
    Nordsüdlicher Divan. Intercultural Worldmaking in Literature and Film from Europe and the Global South, University of Illinois Chicago
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Nordsüdlicher Divan: Intercultural Worldmaking in Literature and Film from Europe and the Global South Department of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago, November 2 & 3, 2023 Thursday, November 2, 2023 3:00- 3:30 pm...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.11.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.12.2023
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    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 at the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 30.10.2023