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  1. 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
  2. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.06.2024
    Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) im Projekt »Schwarze Narrative Transkultureller Aneignung«
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Am LEIBNIZ-ZENTRUM FÜR LITERATUR- UND KULTURFORSCHUNG (ZfL) in Berlin ist zum 1. Oktober 2024 eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) , Entgeltgruppe 13 TVöD (Bund), 65 %, im Projekt »Schwarze Narrative Transkultureller...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 9 more
    Created on: 17.04.2024
  3. Daniel Wendt
    University or institution: Marburg
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary historiography; Literary theory; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comedy; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Enfants de la honte - enfants de l'amour: textes littéraires et témoignages / Kinder der Schande – Kinder der Liebe: Literarische Bearbeitungen und Zeitzeugenberichte
    Submitted by: Alina Fritz

    Studientag Universität Passau 26.7.2024 Organisation: Alina Fritz und Marina Ortrud Hertrampf „Mit den Besatzungs- und Soldatenkindern gebar der Krieg Menschen, die allein durch ihre Existenz die Paradigmen des Kriegerischen...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 3 more
    Created on: 29.10.2023
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.11.2023
    Übersetzen vernetzen
    Submitted by: Arne Mrotzek

    Internationale Tagung: Übersetzen vernetzen Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 23.-25. November 2023 Die Arbeit des Übersetzens, die einen zentralen Bestandteil interkulturellen Austauschs und internationaler Wissenszirkulation...

    Fields of research Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  6. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The first annual conference of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU) discusses a variety of understandings of the political novel as a genre. It probes genre-theoretically and genre-historically informed...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 14 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  8. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.09.2023
    3 Promotionsstellen: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*in, 65%, TVL 13
    Submitted by: Marlen Stelter

    Das DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2291 „Gegenwart/Literatur. Geschichte, Theorie und Praxeologie eines Verhältnisses“ der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Bonn besetzt zum 01. Januar 2024 befristet für 3 Jahre 3 Promotionsstellen als ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries and 21 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2023
    CFP GSA 2023 "Comparison Literature Revisited: Genres, Forms, Media", Montréal (15.03.2023)
    Submitted by: Kristina Petzold

    As an epistemological practice or as a social custom, comparison has been the subject of much debate in recent decades. “Why compare?,” R. Radhakrishnan has asked in an essay that spells out the asymmetries implicit in many acts of comparison which...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 5 more
    Created on: 27.01.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2023
    Violent Child-Animal Encounters in Literature. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Submitted by: Marina Ortrud Hertrampf

    In the last decades, we have witnessed a variety of theories and approaches - from multispecies ethnography to trans- and posthumanist philosophy - that aim to decentralize the category of the human. Introducing a posthuman perspective into the study...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 27 more
    Created on: 06.12.2022
  11. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 08.11.2022
    Juicy, Wiry, Wrinkled, Kinked: On Touching Language – Experimental Workshop with Sophie Seita
    Submitted by: Anna Luhn

    In this practice-based workshop, we will experiment with various translational techniques of writing and making, swimming in the mucky waters between languages or following the messy movement from one medium or material to another through layers of...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Oral poetry / Orality,  Writtenness and 3 more
    Created on: 04.11.2022
  12. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 10.11.2022
    Übersetzerduett
    Submitted by: Frances Jackson

    Ein Text – zwei Übersetzerinnen – unzählige Möglichkeiten… Mit konkreten Beispielen aus der aktuellen tschechischen Lyrik sowie auch aus den Werken von Jan Skácel zeigen die angesehenen Übersetzerinnen und Bohemistinnen Lena Dorn und Kristina...

    Fields of research Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Lyric poetry,  Translation and 3 more
    Created on: 04.11.2022
  13. Jenny Willner
    University or institution: Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Feminist studies; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and natural science; Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 14.09.2022
    Übersetzungsräume – Raumübersetzungen. Vierte Jahreskonferenz des SPP 2130 (Göttingen)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Übersetzungsräume – Raumübersetzungen (Jörg Wesche, Regina Toepfer, Peter Burschel) Das DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm 2130 „Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit“ lädt zu seiner 4. Jahreskonferenz zum Thema „Übersetzungsräume – ...

    Fields of research Translation,  Theory of translation,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century) and 1 more
    Created on: 01.08.2022
  15. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 15.06.2022
    Übersetzen im Gespräch mit Sophie Seita: Translation as Reading, as Movement, as Pedagogy
    Submitted by: Lena Hintze

    In this artist talk and reading, the interdisciplinary researcher, artist, writer and translator Sophie Seita will introduce her multimedia project My Little Enlightenment Plays as a starting point for a conversation on playful approaches to...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Media studies and 6 more
    Created on: 09.06.2022