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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America.(ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Latin America, the convergence of financial crises, developmental and neoliberal policies, informal economies, and armed conflicts has created a backdrop of profound socio-political change spamming over fifty years. This seminar will examine how...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Orientation to Texts and Knowledge: From Antiquity to AI (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How do we orient ourselves to texts and knowledge across time and technological advancements? How do texts and knowledge in turn orientate and transform us, and how do they influence the world we navigate, particularly in an increasingly...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and philosophy,  Poetics
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality The invocation and use of stone in poetry – as image, metaphor, medium – has a long and varied history. Quarried, shaped, displaced and put to use in both material and...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  4. 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
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.09.2024
    Panel Discussion “Central European Culture Salon: Perspectives and challenges of literary and cultural cooperation in Central Europe”
    Submitted by: Anna Seidel

    How do Central Europe's cultural and literary scenes work together? What obstacles do they face? And what prospects are there for transnational cultural cooperation in Central Europe? These questions will be discussed on September 23, 2024 by...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 12.09.2024
  6. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 03.11.2024
    Stellen als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*innen am Exzellenzcluster 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" in Verbindung mit einem Promotionsplatz an der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule
    Submitted by: Rebecca Mak

    Ziel des Exzellenzclusters EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" ist es, die Konzeption von Literatur in globaler Perspektive grundlegend neu zu denken. Mit dem Konzept der „Temporal Communities“ wird dabei...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 10.09.2024
  7. 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
  8. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 03.11.2024
    Ausschreibungen der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für 2025
    Submitted by: Rebecca Mak

    An der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für Literaturwissenschaftliche Studien (FSGS) und am Exzellenzcluster “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” (EXC TC) werden theoretisch und konzeptionell herausragende...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 17.09.2024
    Tagung Konzepte und Wahrnehmungsmodi der Natur in der neueren Lyrik – komparatistische Zugänge
    Submitted by: Adela Sophia Sabban

    17.9. – 19.9.2024 Universität Trier, Konferenzsaal: N2 Organisiert von: Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl (Slavische Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Trier), Prof. Dr. Ralph Müller (Neuere deutschsprachige...

    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: 06.09.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2024
    The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Overview: This conference seeks to consolidate emergent scholarship and artworks that explore the power of narrative to motivate climate-conscious action. The emphasis in this conference is on climate narratives in practice; in other words, it is...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism
    Created on: 06.09.2024
  13. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    Final Issues. Endings in Modern Intellectual History
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Histories of political, intellectual, literary and aesthetic movements are often told through documents of their beginnings: Manifestos, declarations, and programs testify to what groups, avant-gardes or collectives stand for, what they want to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 4 more
    Created on: 04.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Moving Past Lovecraft: New Visions of the Weird (NeMLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Academic discussions of weird fiction today are dominated by HP Lovecraft. This makes some sense, considering he promoted the term and is perhaps the name most associated with it. Yet, the weird existed long before Lovecraft and has been prolifically...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 02.09.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Fusions of Culture, Time, and Space (19th-C. Studies Assoc. Conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    If America were a melting pot, New Orleans would be its capital. Even before the United States gained control of the city with the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans had been usurped from indigenous peoples and changed hands several times between...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 02.09.2024