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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The first annual conference of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU) discusses a variety of understandings of the political novel as a genre. It probes genre-theoretically and genre-historically informed...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 14 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 04.11.2022
    FSGS Jahrestagung 2022: No Masters! Anarchismus und Literatur
    Submitted by: Rebecca Mak

    No Masters! Anarchismus und Literatur Wenn man über Anarchismus spricht, werden oft Vorstellungen von Chaos oder Utopie aufgerufen, seltener auch präzisere, politikwissenschaftliche Definitionen. Die Literatur scheint weit entfernt, und...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Interdisciplinarity and 3 more
    Created on: 18.10.2022
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.10.2022
    Slavoj Žižek: ‘Unbehagen in der Natur’ / On Thinking the End of Nature (Lecture)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    It is as if the Earth is gradually turning into Trisolaris, a strange planet from The Three-Body Problem , Liu Cixin’s sci-fi masterpiece. Trisolaris has three suns which rise and set at strange and unpredictable intervals: sometimes too far away...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 16.08.2022
  4. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 22.09.2022
    Transtemporal Philologies: Philological Practices in a Cross Cultural Perspective
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Conceived and organised by Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin; Research Area 3: "Future Perfect") and Glenn W. Most (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Committee on Social Thought, Univ. Chicago; Research Area 3:...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 08.08.2022
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 07.07.2022
    Walter Benjamin in the East – Networks, Conflicts, and Reception
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    In late and post-Socialist contexts in Eastern Europe, the works of Walter Benjamin—a historical materialist thinker who travelled to the young Soviet Union in the 1920s—have incited various theoretical transfers, artistic engagements, and political...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 5 more
    Created on: 23.06.2022
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 29.06.2022
    Wie postdigital schreiben? Verfahren der Gegenwartsliteratur
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Die Digitalisierung verändert den Literaturbetrieb, aber auch Schreibweisen und Texte. Das bezeugt nicht nur die sogenannte ›digitale Literatur‹, die in den Netzwerken der sozialen Medien entsteht oder aktiv Algorithmen in die Literaturproduktion...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 5 more
    Created on: 16.06.2022
  7. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.05.2022
    Book Launch, Artist Talk & Discussion | "Circus and the Avant-Gardes"
    Submitted by: Lena Hintze

    Join us for a lively book launch of "Circus and the Avant-Gardes" , an artist talk with actor and performance artist Le Pustra and a roundtable discussion! "Circus and the Avant-Gardes" (Routledge, 2022) elucidates how the realm of the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Interdisciplinarity and 3 more
    Created on: 02.05.2022
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.03.2022
    Sketches of Black Europe. Imagining Europe/ans in African and African Diasporic Narratives (Blankensee-Colloquium)
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Die literarischen Bilder und kreativen ›Aneignungen‹ von Europa und den Europäer*innen, die sich in literarischen Texten von Menschen aus Afrika oder der afrikanischen Diaspora finden, variieren stark. Sie unterscheiden sich in Bezug auf Geschlecht,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 17.03.2022
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 07.04.2022
    Epochenwenden und Epochenwandel
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Epochen sind das Ergebnis von Periodisierungstechniken, die der Selbst- oder Fremdbeschreibung dienen. Sie teilen den stetigen Zeitfluss in Zeiträume auf, denen jeweils so viel Homogenität zugesprochen werden kann, dass sie sich von anderen...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  New Historicism,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 17.03.2022
  10. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 24.02.2022
    Naturalisation of the Foreign? Literary Translation from a Postcolonial Perspective (FU Berlin/Livestream)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Heribert Tommek in cooperation with Cornelia Ortlieb, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies". Feb 24, 2022 | 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM A lecture by Prof. Dr. Gisèle Sapiro (EHESS / Paris), with an introduction by Dr. Heribert...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and geography/cartography and 2 more
    Created on: 18.02.2022
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 09.12.2021
    The Soviet Project of World Literature and its Legacies, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, Aufgang B, 3. Etage, Trajekteraum Organisiert von Zaal Andronikashvili (ZfL), Susanne Frank (HU Berlin/EXC 2020), Eugene Ostashevsky (NYU/EXC...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 3 more
    Created on: 15.11.2021
  12. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 28.10.2021
    Material/ität – Zwischenbilanz zur Konjunktur eines Begriffs, EXC 2020 “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective”, FU Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop | Material/ität – Zwischenbilanz zur Konjunktur eines Begriffs Organised by Karin Gludovatz and Matthias Warstat, Research Area 2: "Travelling Matters". Nachdem der Aspekt des Materiellen in den geisteswissenschaftlichen...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 25.10.2021
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 29.10.2021
    Borrowed Wor(l)ds. Jenseits des Anführungszeichens: 11th Annual Conference of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School, Berlin / Livestream
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    BORROWED WOR(L)DS Aneignung jenseits des Anführungszeichens 29. 10. 2021 UG Holzlaube Freie Universität Berlin This conference ventures beyond the traditional purview of literary studies, seeking to highlight the...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 3 more
    Created on: 15.10.2021
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 06.10.2021
    Schreibarten im Umbruch. Stildiskurse im 18. Jahrhundert, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL) Berlin
    Submitted by: Kathrin Wittler

    Internationale Tagung am Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, 6. bis 8. Oktober 2021 Organisiert von Eva Axer (ZfL Berlin), Annika Hildebrandt (Universität Siegen) und Kathrin Wittler (Freie Universität Berlin) ...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 8 more
    Created on: 24.09.2021
  15. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 06.09.2021
    Echo. Echo. Indigenous Voices, Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Welches Wissen zählt? Wem gehört das Land? Und wer wird gehört? Indigene Autor*innen kamen in der Literaturgeschichte lange nur am Rande vor. Das ändert sich endlich. In ihren Werken geben sie eigene Antworten auf die Klimakrise. Sie erzählen von...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 4 more
    Created on: 20.08.2021