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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2024
    “The Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Decay and destruction have long been sources of fascination, inspiration and contemplation in artistic and cultural contexts. From the crumbling ruins of ancient civilizations to the ravages of time on natural landscapes, from the haunting beauty of...

    Fields of research Intermediality,  Poetics,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 29.04.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 24.05.2024
    Grenzgängerin. Die Reportage-/literatur als entgrenztes Medium der Öffentlichkeitsgestaltung, Dortmund
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Reportage und die Reportageliteratur sind Medien des Dazwischenstehens, des Dazwischentretens – des Intervenierens und der Intervention. Nicht nur stehen sie durch ihre journalistische Faktenbasiertheit und ihre literarischen Qualitäten zwischen...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and media studies,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 26.04.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 19.04.2024
    "Urgence climatique : quand les cultures populaires crient au réveil écologique" du 9 au 11 octobre 2024 à La Rochelle Université
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    C’est principalement le XIXe siècle, et les profonds changements technologiques, sociaux et économiques dus à la seconde révolution industrielle, qui vont poser les bases de ce qui deviendra le mouvement environnementaliste dont différentes branches...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 15.04.2024
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 04.03.2024
    National Epic, Nationalepos: Problematics and Difficult Cases
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Research Area 3, "Future Perfect". David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania): National Epic, Nationalepos: Problematics and Difficult Cases The turn to studying nationalism signalled by my new project, and its companion...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 26.02.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    Writing Angst: The Gothic / Schauerliteratur in Scotland and Germany from 1800 until Today”, Universität Göttingen/TU Dresden
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Göttingen University, September 4-6, 2024 Few literary genres are better suited to give voice to cultural, social and political anxieties in periods of collective crises and disorientation than the Gothic, or Schauerliteratur. In our own age of...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary genre and 5 more
    Created on: 16.02.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    GSA Panel 2024: "Politics of Form. Ambiguity and Dynamism in Literary Genres" (Atlanta)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    When literary genres are actualized in specific texts, they become ambiguous and dynamic. This process may be described as an interplay of style and form. Literary texts realize genres in distinct ways, thereby transforming the spatiality or...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literary genre
    Created on: 05.02.2024
  7. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 04.02.2024
    Gesucht: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (DFG) in deutsch-britischem Forschungsprojekt zu "Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment" (DFG/AHRC)
    Submitted by: Hania Siebenpfeiffer

    Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (DFG) in deutsch-britischem Forschungsprojekt zu "Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment" (DFG/AHRC) Am Institut für Neuere deutsche Literatur der ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary theory and 7 more
    Created on: 19.01.2024
  8. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin,  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and 1 more
    Aitiologien – Figuren und Funktionen begründenden Erzählens in Wissenschaft und Literatur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe Aitiologien untersucht Schöpfungserzählungen, literarische und wissenschaftliche Urszenen sowie politische Gründungsmotive im Hinblick auf ihre zeitlichen Kontexte und Rhetoriken. In der Forschungsgruppe...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and philosophy and 5 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    Crises in Ibero-American Graphic Narratives: Utopia, Liminality & the Anthropocene
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Crises in Ibero-American Graphic Narratives: Utopia, Liminality & the Anthropocene University of Limerick; Limerick, Ireland 2 – 3 May 2024 The idea of crisis has become inherent to contemporary reflections on societies...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 4 more
    Created on: 04.12.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 12.11.2023
    Aufstieg/Abstieg/Ausstieg – Modelle und Narrative sozialer Mobilität in der deutschen Literatur, Essen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Aufstieg/Abstieg/Ausstieg – Modelle und Narrative sozialer Mobilität in der deutschen Literatur Mit dem social turn hat sich die germanistische Literaturwissenschaft in den letzten Jahren verstärkt Konfigurationen von Klasse, Herkunft und...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and sociology,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 06.11.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.01.2024
    Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur 2024, Leipzig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    36. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (GKJF) e.V. vom 06. bis 08. Juni 2024 in der Universität Leipzig Aufbrüche, Umbrüche, Transformationen in Kinder- und Jugendmedien Ob aufgezwungen, ersehnt,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 02.11.2023
    Autosoziobiographie und Bourdieu, Wien
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Information: Tagungsort: Universität Wien, Schreyvogelsaal, Batthyanystiege, Hofburg Tagungsleitung, Konzept und Organisation: Lydia Rammerstorfer, Fabienne Steeger, Haimo Stiemer und Norbert Christian Wolf für das Netzwerk ›Bourdieu in...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literary genre,  autobiography
    Created on: 16.10.2023
  13. 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
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP for an Edited Collection on the Contemporary Global Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are seeking proposals for contributions to an edited collection of essays, titled Unruly Fictions: Geographies of Genre in the Contemporary Global Novel, focused on how the contemporary global novel expands the generic boundaries of fiction. This...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  15. 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