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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. Raphael Stübe
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: New Historicism; World Literature; Game Studies; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  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: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.09.2024
    PAIDIA: Now is the time to shape your Stories – Perspektiven auf Final Fantasy
    Submitted by: Phillip Brandes

    1987 erschien das erste Final Fantasy . Nur wenige Jahre später fand die Reihe ihren Weg über die USA nach Europa. Populär ist die Erzählung, Final Fantasy habe seinen Namen vom damaligen Director Sakaguchi deshalb erhalten, weil es als ...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Narratology,  Game Studies
    Created on: 12.08.2024
  5. 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
  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: 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    L’adaptation des "classiques" de la littérature en langue française vers d’autres médias et de nouveaux contextes culturels (revue Multilinguales)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    La revue de la Faculté des Lettres et des Langues de l’université Abderrahmane Mira – Bejaia -, Multilinguales, lance un appel à contribution pour le numéro 22 à paraître en décembre 2024, coordonné par Dr. Marie-Manuelle da Silva (Université...

    Fields of research French literature,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.09.2024
    Medusa: Essays on Different Media
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This call for papers seeks chapters on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures. Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and music/sound studies and 5 more
    Created on: 17.06.2024
  11. 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
  12. Gesche Beyer
    University or institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Fields of research: Media studies; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; Comic; Non-fictional literature; Diary; Digital literature

  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    American Literature 1945-present--Translation in Action (PAMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Pacific Modern Language Association Special Section: American Literature 1945 to the Present We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Digital literature and 3 more
    Created on: 22.04.2024
  14. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.05.2024
    Workshop: codes/verstehen: Die doppelte Hermeneutik von Source Codes, Lüneburg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Programmcodes tragen heute wesentlich zu unserer Interpretation der Welt und unserer Interaktion mit ihr bei. Die Form des dabei in Gang gesetzten Verstehensprozesses wird zum einen wesentlich durch die sie nutzenden Programmierer:innen bestimmt, die...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 22.04.2024
  15. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 02.09.2024
    Kostenlose Sommerschule: In Between? Auf der Suche nach unsichtbaren Grenzen
    Submitted by: Helena Link

    Die Grenzregionen im zeitgenössischen Europa zeichnen sich durch eine spezifische Erinnerungskultur aus, die sich unter dem Einfluss der Kriege, der geopolitischen Veränderungen und der Massenmigrationen des 20. Jahrhunderts herausgebildet hat. In...

    Fields of research Oral poetry / Orality,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Interdisciplinarity and 3 more
    Created on: 17.04.2024