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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.12.2024
    Le Panthéon des Sciences : la biographie savante comme mode d’écriture de l’histoire des sciences (XVe-XVIIIe siècle)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’études l'université de Bourgogne La biographie savante a une histoire. Longtemps prisée et considérée comme une modalité certes minimale mais efficace de l’histoire des sciences (Mazauric, 2007), elle a subi au cours du XXe siècle,...

    Fields of research Non-fictional literature,  autobiography,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century) and 3 more
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2024
    Germanistentag 2025, Doppelpanel: Dialog jenseits des bürgerlichen Zeitalters – Zur Theorie und Methodik eines historischen Crossmapping, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Doppelpanel auf dem 28. Germanistentag, 14.-17. September 2025 Themenbereich 1: Theorien und Konzepte von Dialog Das vorbürgerliche Zeitalter ist für künstlerische und theoretische Ansätze, die sich von den prägenden...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies and 6 more
    Created on: 12.07.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.07.2024
    Les émotions dans les poèmes chevaleresques et héroïques italiens (XIVe-XVIe siècles) : représentations, significations et contextes
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Le poème de chevalerie et le poème héroïque en Italie sont un terrain fertile pour l'émergence de la représentation d'émotions et de passions différentes et parfois contradictoires. Entre le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance on rencontre différentes thèses...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century) and 1 more
    Created on: 08.07.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2024
    Reassessing Canon Formation in Medieval Literature (Barcelone, Catalogne)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Reassessing Canon Formation in Medieval Literature Organized by University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona , in collaboration with the University of Geneva, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and University of Barcelona Conference Dates:...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century),  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century)
    Created on: 01.07.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Der Klang (in) der Kleinepik
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Bamberg, 01.10.–03.10.2025 Call for Papers Die Analyse klanglicher Phänomene in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit nimmt in der jüngeren Forschung nicht zuletzt durch Einflüsse aus dem Bereich der Sound Studies breiten...

    Fields of research Literature and music/sound studies,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 3 more
    Created on: 28.06.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Dante en France : la réception savante (Sorbonne nouvelle)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à communications Dante en France : la réception savante Colloque international Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 19-23 mai 2025 Le projet ANR DHAF a pour objet la réception en France de l’œuvre de Dante,...

    Fields of research French literature,  Italian literature,  Reader-response criticism and 5 more
    Created on: 21.06.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.06.2024
    Seminar Special Issue: Conceptions of “Race” in Premodern German Studies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    While Black German Studies has become an important field in our discipline, scholarship in premodern German studies is only beginning to show the same level of engagement with Critical Race Studies as evidenced in Anglo- and Francophone premodern...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 4 more
    Created on: 26.04.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Medieval Literature Panel at PAMLA 2024, Palm Springs
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Abstract: Medieval Literature will study multiple aspects of medieval literature, with special consideration for work that engages with the conference theme, "Translation in Action." This panel welcomes a broad interpretation of the theme as it...

    Fields of research Translation,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century),  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century)
    Created on: 22.03.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.04.2024
    The Poetics of Early Modern Scientific Poetry
    Submitted by: Friederike Altmann

    The Poetics of Early Modern Scientific Poetry 28 – 30 November, 2024 – University of Bayreuth, Germany Inaugural conference of the international AHRC/DFG research consortium, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and...

    Fields of research Literature and natural science,  Poetics,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 27.02.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    Le rôle de la littérature dans la réflexion sociale sur les catastrophes naturelles, de l’Antiquité à nos jours
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’études Le rôle de la littérature dans la réflexion sociale sur les catastrophes naturelles, de l’Antiquité à nos jours 30 mai 2024 Journée d’étude en ligne (sur Teams) organisée par le CELIS sous la direction de Kim...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.),  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 7 more
    Created on: 05.02.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.01.2024
    Von Erfolg gekrönt – Arturische Erfolgsgeschichten im Wandel der Zeit (Studierendentagung)
    Submitted by: Hannah Semrau

    Studierendentagung Frankfurt am Main 20.–22. Juni 2024 Von Erfolg gekrönt – Arturische Erfolgsgeschichten im Wandel der Zeit Swer nâch êren sinne, triuwe und êre minne, der volge guoter lêre daz vürdert in vil sêre unde vlîze...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 11.12.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    Epic in the Latin West (4th-15th Centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Epic in the Latin West (4th-15th Centuries), Nuremberg, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 - Saturday, 28 September 2024 Congress organizer: Lehrstuhl für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (Prof. Dr. Michele C. Ferrari),...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary genre,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.) and 2 more
    Created on: 04.12.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.10.2023
    Hamlet et l'ubi sunt (Limoges)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’étude sur Hamlet “Where be your gibes now?”: Le motif de l’ubi sunt 13 Décembre 2023. Salle des Actes, FLSH, Université de Limoges (English version below) Dans le cadre du programme de l’agrégation, l’équipe...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.) and 3 more
    Created on: 02.10.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2023
    Dante Without Borders: Translation, Transcultural Heritage, and Reception of the Dantean Works in non-Western Culture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dante Without Borders: Translation, Transcultural Heritage, and Reception of the Dantean Works in non-Western Culture Deadline for abstract proposals (300 words): August 31st, 2023 Publisher: Brill - Literary Reception & Art Reception series...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Italian literature,  North African literature and 7 more
    Created on: 25.08.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain (NEMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss,...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 6 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023