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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    Final Issues. Endings in Modern Intellectual History
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Histories of political, intellectual, literary and aesthetic movements are often told through documents of their beginnings: Manifestos, declarations, and programs testify to what groups, avant-gardes or collectives stand for, what they want to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 4 more
    Created on: 04.09.2024
  2. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 14.10.2024
    The Trouble with Thinking. Transnational Dialogues on Academic Freedom
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The past decade has seen a troubling turn toward autocracy across wide regions of the globe. What may have once seemed confined to parts of the Global South and the former Communist Bloc is now, through the rise of right-wing populism, markedly...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 26.08.2024
  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: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 31.08.2024
    3-Month Fellowship in the project “Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe”
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL, Berlin, Germany) calls for applications for a 3-month fellowship. This fellowship primarily encourages early and mid-career researchers from Eastern Europe to apply and work in the...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 9 more
    Created on: 12.06.2024
  5. 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
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Imagining Dark Age Britain. Die Geburt der Literatur aus dem Dunkel der Geschichte
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Teilprojekt will anhand exemplarischer Texte eine paradoxe historisch-literarische Figuration untersuchen: die Vergangenheit vor dem Ursprung, wie sie in der englischsprachigen Literatur insbesondere im Konzept der Dark Ages begegnet. Der...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Chronos und Chthoniê: Figuren des Anfangs und der Gründung in antiker Mythologie und moderner Mythentheorie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Teilprojekt untersucht Narrative des Anfangs und der Gründung, also Aitiologien im weiteren Sinne, sowohl in der griechischen Antike als auch in der modernen Kultur- und Mythentheorie. Dabei soll eine Systematisierung der Typen und Funktionen...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literary genre and 2 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  8. 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
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 04.11.2022
    FSGS Jahrestagung 2022: No Masters! Anarchismus und Literatur
    Submitted by: Rebecca Mak

    No Masters! Anarchismus und Literatur Wenn man über Anarchismus spricht, werden oft Vorstellungen von Chaos oder Utopie aufgerufen, seltener auch präzisere, politikwissenschaftliche Definitionen. Die Literatur scheint weit entfernt, und...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Interdisciplinarity and 3 more
    Created on: 18.10.2022
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.10.2022
    Slavoj Žižek: ‘Unbehagen in der Natur’ / On Thinking the End of Nature (Lecture)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    It is as if the Earth is gradually turning into Trisolaris, a strange planet from The Three-Body Problem , Liu Cixin’s sci-fi masterpiece. Trisolaris has three suns which rise and set at strange and unpredictable intervals: sometimes too far away...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 16.08.2022
  11. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 22.09.2022
    Transtemporal Philologies: Philological Practices in a Cross Cultural Perspective
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Conceived and organised by Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin; Research Area 3: "Future Perfect") and Glenn W. Most (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Committee on Social Thought, Univ. Chicago; Research Area 3:...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 08.08.2022
  12. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 05.09.2022
    Zwei Stellen als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) zur Promotion
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Am LEIBNIZ-ZENTRUM FÜR LITERATUR- UND KULTURFORSCHUNG (ZfL) in Berlin sind ab dem 1. November 2022 zwei Stellen als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d), 65 %, Entgeltgruppe TVöD 13 (Bund) zu besetzen. Die Laufzeit der Stellen beträgt...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 11.07.2022
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 07.07.2022
    Walter Benjamin in the East – Networks, Conflicts, and Reception
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    In late and post-Socialist contexts in Eastern Europe, the works of Walter Benjamin—a historical materialist thinker who travelled to the young Soviet Union in the 1920s—have incited various theoretical transfers, artistic engagements, and political...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 5 more
    Created on: 23.06.2022
  14. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 07.07.2022
    W3-Professur für „Neuere deutsche Literatur mit medien- und kulturwissenschaftlichem Schwerpunkt“
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    H-Net Job Guide: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63519 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , Institut für deutsche Literatur W3-Professur für „Neuere deutsche Literatur mit medien- und kulturwissenschaftlichem ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies
    Created on: 20.06.2022
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 29.06.2022
    Wie postdigital schreiben? Verfahren der Gegenwartsliteratur
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Die Digitalisierung verändert den Literaturbetrieb, aber auch Schreibweisen und Texte. Das bezeugt nicht nur die sogenannte ›digitale Literatur‹, die in den Netzwerken der sozialen Medien entsteht oder aktiv Algorithmen in die Literaturproduktion...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 5 more
    Created on: 16.06.2022