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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 25.03.2020
    Illegible Escapes. Writing and Archiving with Avery Gordon
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Hawthorn Archive, named after the richly fabled tree, has long welcomed the participants in the various Euro-American social struggles against slavery, racial capitalism, imperialism, and authoritarian forms of order. The Archive is not a library...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Non-fictional literature,  The fictional
    Created on: 10.02.2020
  2. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 07.02.2020
    Utopische Medien
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Universität Basel, 7.-8. Februar 2020 Organisiert von Caspar Battegay AG für Populärkultur der Jungen Akademie der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Die Mediengeschichte ist reich an Utopien. So waren technische...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and music/sound studies,  Literature and media studies and 1 more
    Created on: 24.01.2020
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.03.2020
    Fact or Fiction? Factuality versus Fictionality in German Studies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Fact or Fiction? Factuality versus Fictionality in German Studies The German Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference, 25-27 November 2020 Melbourne, Australia In an age in which factual genres of writing are being...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Non-fictional literature,  The fictional
    Created on: 24.01.2020
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2020
    Biofiction as World Literature (15.04.2020)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Biofiction (literature that takes a real biography as its point of departure) is powered by what Colm Tóibín has recently called “the anchored imagination”, which grants the fictional narrative a certain ambiguous (almost duplicitous) credibility. As...

    Fields of research Narratology,  World Literature,  The fictional
    Created on: 21.01.2020
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2020
    "Travel Narratives and Real-Life Fiction" ​(Lincoln Humanities Journal, volume 8, Fall 2020)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Travel Narratives and Real-Life Fiction" The Lincoln Humanities Journal, volume 8, Fall 2020 The Lincoln Humanities Journal (ISSN 2474-7726) i s requesting article submissions for its 8 th special issue, to...

    Fields of research autobiography,  travel literature,  The fictional
    Created on: 03.01.2020
  6. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 03.01.2020
    Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Figurationen von Unsicherheit, 15 Std./Woche, FernUniversität Hagen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In der Fakultät für Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften , Lehrgebiet für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft und Medienästhetik, ist ab dem nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle für eine wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft mit 15...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 13.12.2019
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 07.11.2019
    An den Schnittstellen von Fakt und Fiktion. Formen und Funktionen dokufiktionalen Erzählens in der Gegenwart
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Trotz oder vielleicht gerade aufgrund der inflationären Rede von einem ‚postfaktischen Zeitalter‘ lässt sich in jüngster Vergangenheit im öffentlichen Diskurs ein immenser Wirklichkeitshunger beobachten, der als Gegenbewegung zum weit verbreiteten...

    Fields of research Narratology,  The fictional,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 04.11.2019
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.10.2019
    History of the Modern Practice of Fiction
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    History of the Modern Practice of Fiction International Conference, October, 10–11, 2019, Göttingen (Germany) Organizers: Benjamin Gittel, Tilmann Köppe Website Over the last few decades, the establishment of fictionality or...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  The fictional
    Created on: 13.09.2019
  9. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 09.07.2019
    Gastvortrag Prof. Dr. Frauke Berndt 9. Juli 2019
    Submitted by: L. E. Lopez Maytorena

    Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften Institut für Romanische Philologie EINLADUNG ZUM GASTVORTRAG Prof. Dr. Frauke Berndt (Universität Zürich) Dubitatio. A. G. Baumgartens...

    Fields of research The fictional
    Created on: 03.07.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in Cyberspace: Fan Fiction and Cognitive Narratology
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    I examine how the storyworld of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is re-presented in fan fiction from the Derbyshire Writers’ Guild (Dwiggie.com). I argue that, unlike Austen, the members of this fan community tend to prioritise the individual...

    Fields of research Narratology,  The fictional,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  11. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.08.2019
    Two fully-funded ERC PhD studentships (4 years each), ERC project "Novel Echoes. Ancient novelistic receptions and concepts of fiction in late antique and medieval secular narrative from East to West", Ghent University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University (Belgium) is seeking well-qualified applicants for two fully-funded and full-time doctoral research fellowships attached to the European Research Council Consolidator Grant project Novel...

    Fields of research Novel,  The fictional,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.) and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Novel Echoes. Ancient Novelistic Receptions and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique and Medieval Secular Narrative from East to West
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project offers the first comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of receptions of ancient novels (1st-4th cent. AD) in (Greek, Arabic and western vernacular) secular narrative from Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Novel Echoes...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Novel and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) / Université de Fribourg
    The Normative Relations between Fiction, Imagination, and Appreciation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    (The detailed research plan can be found here .) It is a commonplace that fictional texts invite and move us to imagine certain things concerning the characters and events described by the text. Reading ‘The Sound and the Fury’ prompts us to...

    Fields of research The fictional
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  14. 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

  15. Hania Siebenpfeiffer
    University or institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Historicism; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Media studies; Narratology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and natural science; Intermediality; Literary genre; The fictional; Rhetoric; Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 21st century