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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 01.09.2024
    Akademische Mitarbeiterin/ Akademischer Mitarbeiter im Bereich Literaturwissenschaft und Literaturdidaktik (w/m/d) Kennziffer 39/2024 | Karlsruhe
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe ist eine bildungswissenschaftliche Hochschule mit rund 3.600 Studierenden und einem breiten Angebot an lehramts- und nicht-lehramtsbezogenen Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen. An der Fakultät für...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.09.2024
    Teaching (With) Picturebooks: Context, Competences, Criticism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Symposium at the University of Rostock 25-26 November 2024 organized by Dr. Katja Schmidt & Dr. Hanne Bolze Key note speakers: Prof. Dr. Tobias Kurwinkel (Universität Hamburg) Dr. Grit Bergner (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) As...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Didactics of Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 22.07.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung
    Submitted by: Anna Stemmann

    English version below Thema: Unheimlich! „Sie bringen den Schrecken in die heile Familienwelt: Unschuldig lächelnd treten sie mit ihren kleinen Füßen ein Loch in den dünnen Boden der Zivilisation.“ So fasst die Süddeutsche Zeitung ...

    Fields of research Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 15.07.2024
  6. Anna Stemmann
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Ecocriticism; Literature and cultural studies; Children's and young adult literature

  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2024
    Die Entstehung der Rheinromantik: Brentano, Heine, Turner und die Folgen. Brentano-Kolloquium der Universität Koblenz und des Landesbibliothekszentrums Koblenz
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Clemens Brentano wurde am 9. September 1778 in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein geboren. Koblenz ist das geographische Zentrum des Weltkulturerbes Mittelrheintal. Der Weltkulturerbestatus beruht auf einer historischen Interpretation der geographischen Lage,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 12.07.2024
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.09.2024
    Internationale DFG-Tagung: Writing a British Childhood in a Global Context? Critical Perspectives on Enid Blyton, Potsdam
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Enid Blyton is one of the world’s most well-known and prolific authors of children’s literature. Her book series have entertained children across the globe and across generations for almost a century. The conference Writing a British Childhood in a...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature,  Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 08.07.2024
  9. Sabina Fazli
    University or institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from UK and Ireland

  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Journalanthropologie. Wesensbestimmungen des Menschen in der Zeitschriftenliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts | Göttingen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Zeitschriften als „kleine Archive“ (Frank/Scherer/Podewski 2009) stellen insbesondere seit den erweiterten drucktechnischen Möglichkeiten ab 1830, die eine Verringerung der Kosten und eine Vergrößerung der Reichweiten ebenso ermöglichten wie reiche...

    Fields of research Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology,  Non-fictional literature and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.09.2024
    Women Travel Writers in Northern Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century, Mulhouse
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A conference organized by the Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes (UR 4363, Université de Haute-Alsace), in partnership with the laboratories : Arts, civilisations, histoire de l'Europe (UMR 3400, Université de...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 10 more
    Created on: 03.06.2024
  12. Sonja Trurnit
    University or institution: LMU München
    Fields of research: Literature from UK and Ireland

  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.06.2024
    "Jenseits des Abenteuers" (München, 27./28./29.06.2024) - Abschlusstagung der DFG-Forschungsgruppe "Philologie des Abenteuers")
    Submitted by: Carina Breidenbach

    Die DFG-Forschungsgruppe 2568 "Philologie des Abenteuers" an der LMU München lädt herzlich zu ihrer Abschlusstagung "Jenseits des Abenteuers” ein, die am 27./28./29. Juni 2024 im IBZ München (Amalienstraße 38) stattfindet. Einen Teil des...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 7 more
    Created on: 30.05.2024
  14. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 06.06.2024
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 15 more
    Created on: 22.05.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2024
    Macht durch Sprachhandlungen in der K-J-L, Wuppertal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    „Was bist du denn? Ein Junge oder ein Mädchen?“, fragt sie mich unfreundlich. „Ich bin Pembo“, antworte ich genervt. (Bosse 2020, 143f.) Das zitierte Beispiel ist beinahe ideal- und prototypisch für das Thema, das wir im Rahmen...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 17.05.2024