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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Ends of the Road: Rethinking the Borders of the Picaresque (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Emily Mulvihill The picaresque has largely fallen out of vogue in literary studies. Nevertheless, the genre has long shaped the study of many of the world’s major literary traditions. So, what happens if we rethink both our use of...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and geography/cartography and 3 more
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Marie Huber Co-Organizer: Maziyar Faridi If poetry, as Maurice Blanchot writes, is that which always eludes philosophical questioning, what philosophy of history could emerge from thinking with the poetic cinemas of the Global...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and visual studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    “Beyond Social Death?”: Afro-Pessimism in Literature, Film and Television (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Badreddine Ben Othman This seminar aims to explore literary texts, films and television productions which adopt or challenge Afro-Pessimistic visions of Black life in a systemically anti-Black world. It asks whether Black subjects...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Near Eastern literature and 3 more
    Created on: 07.10.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    Deadline extended: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    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 9 more
    Created on: 02.10.2024
  5. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 05.11.2024
    German Assistant Professor, Princeton
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We invite applications for a position at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor to begin September 1, 2025. We seek a dynamic, creative, productive scholar and teacher with a focus on literature, media, and performance since 1945. We are...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.10.2024
    Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950), Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop "Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950)" 13.–15. Februar 2025 an der Universität Bonn Organisation: Fabian Lampart (Potsdam),...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.09.2024
    International Conference “Imagining Central Europe. (Re-)Shaping a Geopolitical Concept in Literature, Visual Arts, and Popular Culture"
    Submitted by: Anna Seidel

    From 23.09.-25.09.2024 the CENTRAL network is hosting the international conference “Imagining Central Europe. (Re-)Shaping a Geopolitical Concept in Literature, Visual Arts, and Popular Culture”, co-organized by Assoz.-Prof. Dr. Paula Wojcik (Univ....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) and 3 more
    Created on: 12.09.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2025
    Écritures du travail : pour une approche comparatiste (1875 - 1975)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Publié le mardi 27 août 2024 Résumé Depuis la rationalisation du travail, accentuée au XIXe siècle par l’industrialisation, de nombreuses sociétés humaines sont majoritairement composées d’une classe laborieuse, paysanne, ouvrière et...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Écritures du terrorisme. Perspectives historiques et transdisciplinaires (Bordeaux)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journées d’études Écritures du terrorisme. Perspectives historiques et transdisciplinaires 19 et 20 mars 2025, Université Bordeaux Montaigne La question du terrorisme — ses processus, ses acteurs, ses menaces — semble...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 3 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2024
    Journal of Austrian Studies – Special Issue for Graduate Students
    Submitted by: Julia Lückl

    CfP Journal of Austrian Studies – Special Issue for Graduate Students English version below Das Journal of Austrian Studies lädt Doktorand*innen aus allen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen ein,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art and 4 more
    Created on: 30.08.2024
  11. 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
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 21.08.2024
    "Crédibiliser le visible". Photographie et littérature en France et en Italie de 1930 à nos jours (Univ. de Macerata)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “CRÉDIBILISER LE VISIBLE”: FOTOGRAFIA E LETTERATURA IN FRANCIA E IN ITALIA DAL 1930 ALL’ETÀ CONTEMPORANEA « CRÉDIBILISER LE VISIBLE » : PHOTOGRAPHIE ET LITTÉRATURE EN FRANCE ET EN ITALIE DE 1930 À NOS JOURS Ce colloque, qui représente...

    Fields of research French literature,  Italian literature,  Literature and other forms of art and 4 more
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2024
    Femmes et canon littéraire à l’ère de la multimodalité (Dijon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    « Femmes et canon littéraire à l’ère de la multimodalité » Colloque international organisé les 7 et 8 novembre 2024 à la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Dijon Le colloque « Femmes et canon littéraire à l’ère de la multimodalité »,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Intermediality
    Created on: 02.08.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.08.2024
    Appel – "Adaptations animées – Animations adaptées", Transcr(é)ation (printemps 2025 / été 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel – « Adaptations animées – Animations adaptées » (printemps 2025 / été 2025) Mentionnant que la littérature a été une source d’inspiration importante pour le cinéma dès ses débuts, Paul Wells rapporte que l’animation, tout...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Literature and music/sound studies,  Intermediality and 1 more
    Created on: 29.07.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Reading Reading: Contemporary Literary Practices (Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are constantly engaged in processes of reading. We read literary texts, historical sources, films and other media, political moods and affects, and shifting social formations. Amongst the plethora of reading strategies available to us, close...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 26.07.2024