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: 22.04.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    La pièce et la plume. La monnaie dans la littérature (Orléans)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    La pièce et la plume. La monnaie dans la littérature Orléans, 9-10 décembre 2024 Colloque organisé par l’Axe Monnaie, économie, finance de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Val de Loire, avec le soutien de l’Université d’Orléans et des...

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  2. Date of publication: 22.04.2024
    Application deadline: 29.04.2024
    Poste d'Enseignant-Chercheur en études littéraires des pratiques créatives contemporaines (Lyon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    La Faculté des Lettres et civilisations de l’UCLy ouvre un poste d'Enseignant-Chercheur en études littéraires des pratiques créatives contemporaines dans le cadre du développement de sa Licence de Lettres Modernes (CDI 50 %). Profil...

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  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 22.04.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    (An)economies of Translation: Repression, Untranslation, and the Drive for Translation (PAMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Today, in theory of translation, two general tendencies prevail: the first tendency imagines universals passing from language to language, according to different models of foundation; and the second tendency, a post-foundational one, understands...

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  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 22.04.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2024
    "Narratives of Displacement" International Conference (Palma de Mallorca/Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The conference seeks to explore the narratives of displacement and to demonstrate the validity of a cross-disciplinary approach which brings together the historical, cultural, social and literary expertise in the handling of text. The conference will...

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  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Date of publication: 22.04.2024
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2024
    The Seen and Unseen in Asian / Asian American Literature and Studies (roundtable) (SAMLA 96)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the U.S., immigrants of Asian origin have historically fallen victim to both extreme violent legal measures and racist stereotype labels—such as the infamous “Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882” and/or other major laws against the naturalization of...

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