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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.09.2024
    International Conference “Imagining Central Europe. (Re-)Shaping a Geopolitical Concept in Literature, Visual Arts, and Popular Culture"
    Submitted by: Anna Seidel

    From 23.09.-25.09.2024 the CENTRAL network is hosting the international conference “Imagining Central Europe. (Re-)Shaping a Geopolitical Concept in Literature, Visual Arts, and Popular Culture”, co-organized by Assoz.-Prof. Dr. Paula Wojcik (Univ....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) and 3 more
    Created on: 12.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Call for Participants: "The Return of Myths in the 21st Century: How Cultural Narratives Shape Reality" (Paris, May 13-16, 2025)
    Submitted by: Christian Baier

    The contemporary world is marred by division. Everywhere, antagonistic factions are locked in apparently irreconcilable opposition, incapable of finding common ground. Beneath all ideological differences lies an epistemic fragmentation of society ...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Écritures du terrorisme. Perspectives historiques et transdisciplinaires (Bordeaux)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journées d’études Écritures du terrorisme. Perspectives historiques et transdisciplinaires 19 et 20 mars 2025, Université Bordeaux Montaigne La question du terrorisme — ses processus, ses acteurs, ses menaces — semble...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 3 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 04.11.2024
    Pratiques intermédiales et créations hybrides dans les mondes hispaniques (XXe et XXIe siècles
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’étude « Pratiques intermédiales et créations hybrides dans les mondes hispaniques (XX e et XXI e siècles) » Vendredi 13 juin 2025, à Tours Employée pour la première fois en 1965 par Dick...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2024
    Journal of Austrian Studies – Special Issue for Graduate Students
    Submitted by: Julia Lückl

    CfP Journal of Austrian Studies – Special Issue for Graduate Students English version below Das Journal of Austrian Studies lädt Doktorand*innen aus allen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen ein,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art and 4 more
    Created on: 30.08.2024
  6. Julia Lückl
    University or institution: Universität Wien
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Poetics; Children's and young adult literature; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    Insects, “bichos” and other “bugs” in the literature of the Americas (19th to 21st centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In conjunction with the seminar “Bugs in children's literature” of the research and study group on written culture and societies (GRECES) of the CELLAM team (Rennes2 University), this call aims to bring together works that question the representation...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 23.08.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Workshop, 16–17 January 2025, Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin In her epistolary novel La Toile (2017), Sandra Lucbert contrasts literary language with digital language as two clashing constraints: the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 8 more
    Created on: 14.08.2024
  9. Leah Biebert
    University or institution: Heinrich-Heine-Institut
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and philosophy; Literature and music/sound studies; Lyric poetry; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 19th century

  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 16.09.2024
    Kunst und Handwerk. Die Techniken des 18. Jahrhunderts
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Im 18. Jahrhundert wandeln sich Begriff und Einsatz dessen, was in der Antike techne hieß und handwerkliche Arbeitstechniken bezeichnete. Wissensgebiete differenzieren sich aus, und mit der zunehmenden Profilierung von Kunst als eigenständigem...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Interdisciplinarity and 2 more
    Created on: 09.08.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 11.09.2024
    Pressentir l’incomparabilité : vers les limites de la comparaison (Montréal)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions Tribune des étudiant-e-s en littérature comparée Pressentir l’incomparabilité : vers les limites de la comparaison 22-23 novembre, 2024, Université de Montréal Les approches comparatives souhaitent...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2024
    International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games 9-11 April 2025 Colégio Almada Negreiros, NOVA University Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA-FCSH), Portugal Ever since Steven...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Game Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    The Aging Detective in 21st Century Fiction (NeMLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Although some of the most iconic British fictional detectives—Marple, Poirot, and Holmes—are old-age pensioners, the 21st century is witnessing a proliferation of aging detectives in fiction, television, and film. Among recent novels are Jesse Q....

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 05.09.2024
    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    You are kindly invited to an interdisciplinary and international conference hosted by the DFG Research Training Group 2792. The conference will focus on the strategies and intentions in heteronomous texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Heteronomy...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 9 more
    Created on: 23.07.2024
  15. Category: Research Training Groups
    Institutions: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
    DFG-GRK 2792: Autonomie heteronomer Texte in Antike und Mittelalter
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    Das DFG-geförderte interdisziplinäre Graduiertenkolleg erforscht Texte aus Antike und Mittelalter, die in bewusste Abhängigkeit von Vorlagen treten und in diesem Sinne "heteronom" sind. Zu dieser bislang nicht systematisch im Zusammenhang...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 23.07.2024