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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Sabina Fazli
    University or institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from UK and Ireland

  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2024
    „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ (Germanistentag 2025)
    Submitted by: Philipp Ohnesorge

    Philipp Ohnesorge, Eckhard Schumacher, Hannah Willcox (Universität Greifswald) CfP: „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ Panel auf dem 28....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 04.07.2024
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.06.2024
    „‚Tipping Points‘. Balanceakte in der Literatur und Kultur“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28. Juni 2024)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    In Zeiten großer Unsicherheit ob der (In-)Stabilität von Strukturen aller Arten sehen sich die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften mehr denn je mit Fragen nach Verantwortung, Abhängigkeiten und Verletzlichkeit konfrontiert: Die Verstrickung von...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  8. 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
  9. Sonja Trurnit
    University or institution: LMU München
    Fields of research: Literature from UK and Ireland

  10. 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
  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. 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
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    The Pagan Beowulf: Alternatives to the Usual Beowulf (RMMLA 77th Annual Conventin)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 77th Annual Convention October 10-12 (Thur.-Sat.) at the Westgate Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2024 For centuries, the “usual” Beowulf translation has...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 1 more
    Created on: 03.05.2024
  14. 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
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Romanticism Session (PAMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This year's theme is “Translation in Action.” While most scholarship about translation deals with the interlingual, we welcome scholarship on the other areas discussed by Roman Jakobson such as intralingual and intersemiotic translation. We plan on...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature,  Literary historiography and 5 more
    Created on: 29.04.2024