Specialised Information Service Comparative Literature (SIS Comparative Literature)

The SIS Comparative Literature (Fachinformationsdienst Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, FID AVL) is a project set in motion beginning in 2016 at the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with funding from the German Research Foundation. It is now in its third funding period (2023-2025). The FID AVL makes informational services available to scholars in the field of Comparative Literature and is being developed in close collaboration with the research community and with the support of a Advisory Board of Scholars. For more information about the SIS Comparative Literature, go to About us.

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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 20.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    What Are the Key Concepts of Literary Study? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Delineating the Concept-Field of Literature: What Are the Basic Units of Analysis of Literary Study? In contrast to many other academic fields where the subject matter is clearly defined across its given scalar range—such as the cell and the...

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  2. Date of publication: 20.09.2024
    Beginning: 09.10.2024
    Magier, Heiler, Ingenieure. Reputationskarrieren und publizistische Tricks zwischen dem 15. und 17. Jahrhundert, Heidelberg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Der Typus des frühneuzeitlichen Magus erscheint abhängig vom höfischen, klösterlichen oder städtischen Kontext in je unterschiedlicher Ausprägung. Er wird einerseits als Betrüger und Teufelsbündner verfemt, andererseits als Unterhaltungskünstler,...

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  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 20.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Michele Chinitz Co-Organizer: Shoumik Bhattacharya This seminar hopes to engage with forms of social and political organizing that do not conform to binary understandings of the imperative towards assimilation or...

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  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 20.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Writing about extinction is an aporetic coming together of our current geological reality and imagination that borders on speculation. It is an act that opens up the ecological, the ontological, and simultaneously interrogates the disappearance of...

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  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 20.09.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2024
    Republic of Letters: The Scholar and Scholarly Communities from Petrarch to the Present, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Republic of Letters: The Scholar and Scholarly Communities from Petrarch to the Present Graduate Student Conference at Johns Hopkins University April 4–5, 2025 Submission Deadline for Abstracts: November 15 to...

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