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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 15.05.2024
    Das Kafkaeske in den Künsten, Krems
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Tagung Das Kafkaeske in den Künsten 15.–17. Mai 2024 Archiv der Zeitgenossen / Universität für Weiterbildung Krems Am 3. Juni 1924 starb der aus Prag stammende Schriftsteller Franz Kafka im Alter von 40 Jahren an den Folgen...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Interdisciplinarity and 6 more
    Created on: 10.04.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.04.2024
    Interspecies Friendships and Non-human Companionships (2024 annual conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Friendship and companionship offer complementary relationships with the world as they in various ways undermine the idea of singularity. As Jean-Luc Nancy notes in Being Singular Plural, what makes the idea of the singular pure and simple an...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 22.03.2024
  3. Irina Hron
    University or institution: Universität Kopenhagen
    Fields of research: Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary theory; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Literature and music/sound studies; Aesthetics; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    MLA 2025: Thinking Beyond Brecht – Collective and/or Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Thinking Beyond Brecht – Collective and/or Artificial Intelligence Panel sponsored by the International Brecht Society Modern Language Association Convention (January 9 – 12, 2025), New Orleans, LA This panel examines Brecht’s or Brechtian...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Digital Humanities,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 13.03.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.05.2024
    New Readings on Russian Formalism at the Crossroads of Slavic Cultural History: Primary Insights and Perspectives for Future Research
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    MODERNITAS (MSH - ULB) https://msh.ulb.ac.be/fr/team/modernitas invites paper-proposal abstracts for consideration in the international workshop: New Readings on Russian Formalism at the Crossroads of Slavic Cultural History: Primary...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary theory and 9 more
    Created on: 26.02.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.04.2024
    FORUM Call for Papers (Issue 35): Emotion and Affect (Journal issue)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Affect theory turns our attention towards a re-contextualisation of emotional and affective experiences within past and contemporary constructions of race, gender and sexuality. It leads us towards the para-rational zones of lived experience...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 19.02.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.02.2024
    Making Sense of Experience: Analyses of Sensation after Mach - Yale German Graduate Student Conference, Yale
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In “Die Analyse der Empfindungen” (1886), Ernst Mach introduces sensation [Empfindung] as the fundamental condition of possibility for experience [Erfahrung]. Exceeding conventional understandings of external sense experience as opposed to internal...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and philosophy and 5 more
    Created on: 22.01.2024
  8. Daniel Wendt
    University or institution: Marburg
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary historiography; Literary theory; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comedy; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  9. OTHERNESSES – Towards Humanisms Beyond BorderThinking
    Submitted by: Diana Mariam Popal

    A Workspace for anti-violent, anti-racist, Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought as Praxis Othernesses provides a platform for critical exchange and dialogue on an international and cross-disciplinary level between different critical...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Deconstruction and 6 more
    Created on: 04.12.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2024
    Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What happens when literature–and even language–is used for subversion? When authors write in response to political action, literature functions as a tool. When authors represent their times and their worlds, literature functions symbolically. When...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 6 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.11.2023
    Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CfP Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature (deadline 3rd November 2023) What happens when we look away from modernism/s? We are inviting academics to consider this question with a specific...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 13.10.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2023
    Red World Literature: Periphery, Theory, Form, System
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    RED WORLD LITERATURE : Periphery, Theory, Form, System Co-editors: Hunter Bivens, University of California, Santa Cruz and Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, University of Iceland The promise of a new ‘red’ dawn in the history of World Literature...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Genre Turn in Multiethnic Literature (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his landmark essay, "The Second Elevation: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative," Ramón Saldívar proclaimed the arrival of a "cohort of contemporary authors . . . [who] all raise as formal and thematic concerns the very...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  14. Category: Collaborative Research Centres
    Institutions: Universität Siegen
    SFB 1472: Transformationen des Populären
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Populäre ist in unserem Alltag allgegenwärtig. Für die meisten Menschen scheint klar, was darunter zu verstehen ist. Fasst man das Populäre positiv, dann ist es das Beliebte, das Reizvolle. Vielleicht etwas Volkstümliches, das im Gegensatz zum...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Intermediality,  Poetics and 4 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  15. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023