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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 06.06.2024
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 15 more
    Created on: 22.05.2024
  2. Stephan Krause
    University or institution: Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO)
    Fields of research: Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey); Literary theory; Reader-response criticism; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and media studies; Poetics; Lyric poetry; Prose; Children's and young adult literature; Themes, motifs, thematology; Translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The first annual conference of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU) discusses a variety of understandings of the political novel as a genre. It probes genre-theoretically and genre-historically informed...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 14 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  4. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.09.2023
    3 Promotionsstellen: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*in, 65%, TVL 13
    Submitted by: Marlen Stelter

    Das DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2291 „Gegenwart/Literatur. Geschichte, Theorie und Praxeologie eines Verhältnisses“ der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Bonn besetzt zum 01. Januar 2024 befristet für 3 Jahre 3 Promotionsstellen als ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries and 21 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  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: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 03.02.2023
    Opferdramaturgie und Viktimologie der Geschlechter in Prosa und Film (19. Jh. bis zur Gegenwart) Berlin, 3./4. Februar 2023
    Submitted by: Anna Maria Spener

    Opferdramaturgie und Viktimologie der Geschlechter in Prosa und Film (19. Jh. bis zur Gegenwart) Berlin, 3./4. Februar 2023 Exposé Augenscheinlich vermehren sich gegenwärtig wieder die Diskurse ums Opfer. Das ist freilich keine...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Italian literature and 9 more
    Created on: 16.01.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2023
    Violent Child-Animal Encounters in Literature. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Submitted by: Marina Ortrud Hertrampf

    In the last decades, we have witnessed a variety of theories and approaches - from multispecies ethnography to trans- and posthumanist philosophy - that aim to decentralize the category of the human. Introducing a posthuman perspective into the study...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 27 more
    Created on: 06.12.2022
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 21.04.2022
    Figuren der Endlichkeit in der europäischen Romantik
    Submitted by: Sebastian Schönbeck

    Die Konferenz untersucht Figuren der Endlichkeit in der europäischen Romantik. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass Figuren des Letzten – letzte Menschen (J.-B. Grainville: Le dernier homm e (1805); M. Shelley: The Last Man (1826)), letzte...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine) and 7 more
    Created on: 06.04.2022
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2021
    The Red Globe: Writing the World in Eastern European Travel Literature of the Cold War, ZfL Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference, 1-3 June 2022, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL) Deadline: 30 September 2021 Conference organisers: Susanne Frank (EXC 2020/HU Berlin), Clemens Günther (Freie Universität...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary theory and 8 more
    Created on: 16.08.2021
  10. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 11.05.2021
    Sprachliche Dynamiken im Raum: Sprachinseln zwischen Begegnung und Abschottung (Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Im Sommersemester 2021 findet die Vortragsreihe “Sprachliche Dynamiken im Raum: Sprachinseln zwischen Begegnung und Abschottung” an der Universität Regensburg (online in Zoom) statt. Organisation: Laura Linzmeier, Malte Rosemeyer,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Italian literature,  Spanish literature and 3 more
    Created on: 26.04.2021
  11. Jana-Katharina Mende
    University or institution: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
    Fields of research: French literature; Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Literary historiography; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  12. Maria Slavtscheva
    University or institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey); Literary historiography; Literary theory; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and law; Poetics; Lyric poetry; Rhetoric; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Translation; Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  13. Franziska Thiel
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Literary historiography; Literary theory; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and music/sound studies; Intermediality; Drama; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  14. Paula Wojcik
    University or institution: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (FSU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from UK and Ireland; Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Literary theory; Narratology; Oral poetry / Orality; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Ballad; Prose; Novel; Folk literature; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century

  15. Agatha Frischmuth
    University or institution: Freie Universität Berlin
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Narratology; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Poetics; Prose; Novel; Aesthetics; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century