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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.01.2024
    Secular Saints: Practices of Awe and Veneration in Hagiography and Pop-Culture
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Saints, holy people, and the “Very Special Dead” have been central to religious worship, the rise of Christianity, and the popularity of mystery cults from Antiquity until today. Yet celebrated individuals who epitomise cultural values are not...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 18.01.2024
  2. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 12.10.2023
    Lecture Series "Empire and Violence"
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    at LMU Munich & University of Innsbruck Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine has recently been related to "the curse of the empire" (Martin Schulze Wessel, Der Fluch des Imperiums: Die Ukraine, Polen und der Irrweg in der russischen...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 03.10.2023
  3. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 30.06.2023
    Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter m/w/d (TV-L E13, Teilzeit 65%), NDL, LMU München
    Submitted by: Tilman Venzl

    Das Department für Germanistik, Komparatistik, Nordistik, Deutsch als Fremdsprache der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität sucht zum 01.09.2023 einen Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter m/w/d (TV-L E13, Teilzeit 65%) Das sind wir: An dem...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
    Created on: 02.06.2023
  4. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 02.06.2023
    Lecture Series Kick-Off: Empire and Violence
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Auftaktveranstaltung der Lecture Series Empire and Violence am Freitag, den 02. Juni, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, A 120: ▫ 16-18 José Casanova (Georgetown U), „The Sacralization of Canonicity as the Legitimation of Violence“ ...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Interdisciplinarity and 2 more
    Created on: 19.05.2023
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.05.2023
    Flower Power - Blossoms and Petals Between Beauty, Classification, and Dominance
    Submitted by: Sophie Emilia Seidler

    Following the vegetal turn in the humanities, our conference aims to explore the literary, cultural, and philosophical implications of flowers. Flowers are far less innocent than bridal bouquets and Mother’s Day kitsch might suggest. For Alice...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 9 more
    Created on: 26.04.2023
  6. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 10.11.2022
    Übersetzerduett
    Submitted by: Frances Jackson

    Ein Text – zwei Übersetzerinnen – unzählige Möglichkeiten… Mit konkreten Beispielen aus der aktuellen tschechischen Lyrik sowie auch aus den Werken von Jan Skácel zeigen die angesehenen Übersetzerinnen und Bohemistinnen Lena Dorn und Kristina...

    Fields of research Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Lyric poetry,  Translation and 3 more
    Created on: 04.11.2022
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 03.11.2022
    The Cultural Memory of Mass Violence: Re-mediation and Pre-mediation
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    LMU Munich, 03 November 2022 Große Aula: Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 register for streaming at n.frank@lrz.uni-muenchen.de organized by Juliane Prade-Weiss (LMU Munich) Dominik Markl (Georgetown U, Washington, DC) ...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey),  Literary theory and 5 more
    Created on: 15.10.2022
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2022
    Beyond Comparison: Towards a Connected Philology
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Beyond Comparison: Towards a Connected Philology Call for papers International conference hosted by IDK Philology: Practices of premodern cultures, global perspectives and future concepts, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München June...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 10.10.2022
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 07.10.2022
    Pandemic Grief (2). “Our” Irresponsible Nature: Affectability and Disappointment in the Pandemic and the Ecological Crisis
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Does the zoonotic SARS-CoV-2 pandemic change the outlook onto nature? The dynamics enfolding in pandemic grief is certainly more complex than a mere yes-or-no answer can capture. The sudden and pervasive rupture of global life caused by non-human...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity
    Created on: 21.09.2022
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 18.07.2022
    Literary Acts of Agency
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    Contemporary society has been shaped and sometimes vexed by the notion of the Rechtsstaat (the state of law, or just/ified state) – a culturally key word in which the state, justice and the law meet. There are inevitable tensions in that meeting....

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and law
    Created on: 08.07.2022
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 01.07.2022
    „Spannung im Text", München/online, 01.07 – 02.07.2022 (DFG-Forschungsgruppe "Philologie des Abenteuers")
    Submitted by: Carina Breidenbach

    Tagung der DFG-Forschungsgruppe "Philologie des Abenteuers" organisiert von Wolfram Ette 01. und 02. Juli 2022, Seidlvilla München und auf Zoom Die Schwierigkeiten, in die man gerät, wenn man versucht, sich mit dem Begriff der Spannung...

    Created on: 20.06.2022
  12. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 11.07.2022
    Ideology and Complicity in Mass Violence: Roundtable on Two New Books
    Submitted by: Juliane Prade-Weiss

    Ideology and Complicity in Mass Violence: Roundtable on Two New Books by Jonathan Leader Maynard (King’s College London) I deology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities ...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 13.06.2022
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 12.05.2022
    From Âventiure Novels to Adventure Games: Adventure Narratives in Popular Images and Texts, München/online (12–14 May 2022)
    Submitted by: Carina Breidenbach

    How popular was adventure? Medieval âventiure built a model of heroes traversing limits and journeying to wonderful and dangerous encounters. In many European languages, the term adventure has since referred to...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 6 more
    Created on: 10.05.2022
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 12.05.2022
    From Âventiure Novels to Adventure Games: Adventure Narratives in Popular Images and Texts (München / online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How popular was adventure? Medieval âventiure built a model of heroes traversing limits and journeying to wonderful and dangerous encounters. In many European languages, the term adventure has since referred to complex motifs and structural ...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies,  Game Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 22.04.2022
  15. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 25.04.2022
    Sebald international. Weite Spuren im Ausgang des Werkes W. G. Sebalds, München
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Sebald international. Weite Spuren im Ausgang des Werkes W. G. Sebalds Workshop der Deutschen Sebald Gesellschaft bei der Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung in München am 25. April 2022 10.00–10.30 Uhr Eröffnung Ricardo Felberbaum...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Spanish literature and 5 more
    Created on: 28.03.2022