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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: 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
  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 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
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 24.10.2024
    International Workshop | Towards a Theory of the Modern Religious Bookshelf
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Christian Meyer (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020), project The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf: Canons, Concepts and Communities (2022-) , Research Area 3: "Future Perfect". Guiding questions: How, under...

    Fields of research Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 6 more
    Created on: 19.07.2024
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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

  15. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 31.05.2024
    Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) am Lehrstuhl Englische Literaturwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt in der Frühen Neuzeit (Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk)
    Submitted by: Lisa Hartley

    Das sind Ihre Aufgaben: Selbstständige Forschungs- und Publikationstätigkeit mit der Möglichkeit zur Promotion Mitarbeit an Forschungs- und Publikationsprojekten des Lehrstuhls Unterstützung des Lehrstuhls in der Vorbereitung und...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary theory,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 02.05.2024