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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    ‘Prompting’ World Literature: Gerenative AI, Comparative Aesthetics, New Hegemonies, New Peripheries? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The surge of generative AI poses new challenges for conceptualising world literature and comparative aesthetics. While AI is trained using large datasets containing ‘human’-created works, critical discourse seems to (tacitly) posit a new ‘humanist’...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    International Conference "Romanticism’s Colonial Legacies in and Beyond Europe: Critical Perspectives on Art and Visual Culture" (10-12 October 2024, Goethe University Frankfurt)
    Submitted by: Frederike Middelhoff

    Romaticism's Colonial Legacies in and beyond Europe: Critical Perspecives on Art and Visual Culture International Conference 10-12 October 2024, Goethe University Frankfurt, GER Organised by Prof. Dr. Mechthild Fend (Frankfurt),...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Media studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 10.09.2024
  3. 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
  4. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 07.10.2024
    Das „Jetzt“ der Handschrift? Hölderlins Manuskripte zwischen Temporalität und Materialität
    Submitted by: Guy Sherman

    7. bis 8. Oktober 2024, Freie Universität Berlin Im kommenden Workshop des Jungen Hölderlinforums wollen wir gemeinsam durch die exemplarische Arbeit an Manuskripten Hölderlins die Frage nach einem »Jetzt« der Handschrift adressieren. Der...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary theory and 9 more
    Created on: 14.08.2024
  5. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.09.2024
    2 Projektmitarbeiter*innen (Praedoc und Postdoc, jew. 3 Jahre, volle Stelle), Literaturwissenschaft/Medienwissenschaft/Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Wien (8.08.2024)
    Submitted by: Burkhardt Wolf

    Philologisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät – Institut für Germanistik 1 Projektmitarbeiter*in Praedoc 1 Projektmitarbeiter*in Postdoc Besetzung ab: 01.10.2024 Laufzeit: 3 Jahre Gehalt:...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Media studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 08.08.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    The Implications of Generative AI for Human Creativity, Originality—and Deception (NeMLA )
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence (AI) are currently transforming literary and visual studies—raising issues that range from copyright infringement; to human-computer interaction and collaboration; to the inspirations for...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies and 4 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.07.0224
    PoetKI. Poetik x Künstliche Intelligenz, Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Literatur hat einen besonderen Zugang zu KI. Zum einen thematisiert und reflektiert sie künstliche und übernatürliche Intelligenzen schon seit Tausenden von Jahren. Zum anderen wird auch die Literatur – wie jedes andere gesellschaftliche Feld –...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and computer science/cybernetics,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 05.07.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2024
    „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ (Germanistentag 2025)
    Submitted by: Philipp Ohnesorge

    Philipp Ohnesorge, Eckhard Schumacher, Hannah Willcox (Universität Greifswald) CfP: „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ Panel auf dem 28....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 04.07.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Littérature & arts : les dédales de la rencontre (Alexandrie, Égypte)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque international Littérature & Arts : les dédales de la rencontre Les sujets de recherche mêlant la littérature et les autres formes d’art constituent un fleuve intarissable d’idées pour les chercheurs. La rencontre entre...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.06.2024
    „‚Tipping Points‘. Balanceakte in der Literatur und Kultur“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28. Juni 2024)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    In Zeiten großer Unsicherheit ob der (In-)Stabilität von Strukturen aller Arten sehen sich die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften mehr denn je mit Fragen nach Verantwortung, Abhängigkeiten und Verletzlichkeit konfrontiert: Die Verstrickung von...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  11. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 27.06.2024
    Buchpräsentation/Filmscreening und Workshop: Screening Fears mit Francesco Casetti
    Submitted by: Henrik Wehmeier

    Anlässlich von Francesco Casettis (Yale University) neuen Buchs Screening Fears: On Protective Media findet am 27. & 28. Juni in Hamburg ein Filmscreening und ein öffentlicher Workshop statt. In Screening Fears bietet Francesco Casetti...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Literature and media studies
    Created on: 17.06.2024
  12. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 31.08.2024
    3-Month Fellowship in the project “Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe”
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL, Berlin, Germany) calls for applications for a 3-month fellowship. This fellowship primarily encourages early and mid-career researchers from Eastern Europe to apply and work in the...

    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 9 more
    Created on: 12.06.2024
  13. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 06.07.2024
    Komparatistischer Tag am 6. Juli in Heidelberg
    Submitted by: Joséphine Jacquier

    Komparatistischer Tag am 6. Juli in Heidelberg Die Klassische und Moderne Literaturwissenschaft lädt ein! Herzliche Einladung an alle Studierenden der alten und der neuen Philologien sowie der KML gemeinsam ein kleines ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Italian literature and 19 more
    Created on: 09.06.2024
  14. Moritz Klenk
    University or institution: Hochschule Mannheim
    Fields of research: Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Empirical Aesthetics; Media studies; Oral poetry / Orality; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy

  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 29.05.2024
    Semiotic Machines: Artificial Text and the Praxis of Reading
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Recent discussions about the significance of generative AI technologies, and particularly of Large Language Models like ChatGPT, have tended to revolve around the question of how the new language-generating machines relate to traditionally...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 4 more
    Created on: 23.05.2024