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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Innsbruck
    Russische Moderne und Intermeditalität. Literatur und Film
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt zielt auf eine Verbindung zwischen slawistischer und komparatistischer Forschung ab. Konkret sollen dabei Ansätze des intermedialen Forschungsbereichs »Literatur und Film« mit slawistischer Forschung zur Russischen Moderne verknüpft und...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Innsbruck,  Seo ul dae hag gyo / Seoul National University (SNU)
    WIEDERHOLTE SPIEGELUNGEN – Reflexionsprozesse zwischen Texten, Medien, Sprachen, Religionen und Kulturen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ausgangspunkt und verbindendes Moment des Gesamtprojekts ist Goethes Konzept der wiederholten Spiegelungen. Die zentrale Idee ist dabei, dass mehrfache Reflexionen ein und desselben Gegenstands zu dessen geschärfter und vervollständigter Wahrnehmung...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen,  Universität Bielefeld
    Nachlassbewusstsein Literatur im Zeitalter ihrer Archivierung
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen sowie an der Universität Bielefeld angesiedelte Forschungsprojekt setzt sich zum Ziel, übergreifende Strukturen der philologischen und poetischen Wirkmacht des schriftstellerischen Nachlasswesens erstmals...

    Fields of research Poetics
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Science in the Crime Genre
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What function does science have in fiction? And how are fiction and science mutually influential? The aim of the project is to study the integration, interaction, and depiction of science in contemporary crime fiction (literature, film, TV).

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Nosce te ipsum. On literary engagements between apes and humans in literature after Darwin.
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In my project I examine literary meetings between apes and humans and how concepts of sameness and difference are used in a species discourse. I look at the ways in which literature has often created apes that are possible to dismiss, all in order to...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Literature as Event and Action: The Performativity of Literature in Sweden 1800 - 2008
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    When Selma Lagerlöf appears in front of an audience to read from her work, the capacity of the literary text for interacting with and affecting its receivers is manifested. This is literature in the form of action and it is most clearly manifested in...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Trading in books. Literarure, book market and digital change
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project analyses changes in the book trade and specifically in the sales of books and how these effect the literary system as a whole. The book market has in recent decades changed drastically due to digital technology which means a constant...

    Fields of research Literature and publishing/booktrade
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Nordic World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    To what extent has Nordic literature contributed to world literature and in what way has this literary export shaped the world's view of the Nordic countries? Reception theory is a central element in modern literary studies. Literary scholars,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  9. Category: Research Units
    Recherches interdisciplinaires sur la muséographie et l’exposition de la littérature et du livre (RIMELL)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Les RIMELL (Recherches interdisciplinaires sur la muséographie et l’exposition de la littérature et du livre) se veulent un réseau de « recherches appliquées » qui résulte d’une collaboration entre le Musée royal de Mariemont , le groupe MDRN de...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  10. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Komplitt: Forum for Comparative Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Komplitt: Forum for Comparative Literature is a research group based at the Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL) of Lund University. It was founded in 2013 with the aim to foster close collaboration among scholars across the 17 language...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literary theory
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Breathing under Blockade: Notes on Affect, Ecology, and Resistance
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    At the ICI Berlin, Yıldırım would like to build an anthro/political perspective to explore the conceptual act of ‘breathing’ as a materially organized and affectively sensed life force in relation to environmental activism and anti-colonial...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Principles of An-Archy: Hannah Arendt, Reiner Schürmann, and the Politics of the Many
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Facundo Vega’s project, Principles of An-archy: Hannah Arendt, Reiner Schürmann, and the Politics of the Many , compares Arendt’s and Schürmann’s shared but unacknowledged interest in ‘principles’ and ‘beginnings’ inherent to politics. Vega...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Residues of Presence: Between Physics and Metaphysics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project attempts to open a space of convergence between the insights arising from continental philosophy and modern physics. Both have challenged a naive faith in the horizon of constant presence that have long regulated both philosophical and ...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Derealization and Non-Relationality: Racialized Violence in the Postmigrant Situation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project takes up the notion of the non-relational Other and reassesses its use for the analysis of postmigration Germany. The political assassinations by the NSU between 2000 and 2007 indicate that we need to consider a socio-ontological...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    The (Un-)Bounded Elementary Organism: Visions of the Continuity of Life in the 'Dark Age' of Physical Chemistry
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    During the first three tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, many important biologists, physicists, and chemists began to think of the living cell not as a bounded object, but rather as a more or less differentiated region of a continuous...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 03.06.2019