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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. Sophie Jaussi
    University or institution: ​​Université de Fribourg
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literary theory; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and philosophy; Literature and music/sound studies; Literature and natural science; Prose; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; Translation; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  3. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 17.05.2024
    Workshop: Utopia in German Idealism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his commentary on Hegel, Subject-Object: Erläuterungen zu Hegel (1951), Ernst Bloch criticises the closed structure of Hegel’s system as the ‘spell of anamnesis’ that makes it impossible to think something really new. At the same time, he...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and philosophy,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 15.04.2024
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 16.05.2024
    Ingeborg Bachmann und Ludwig Wittgenstein. Literatur und Philosophie, Innsbruck
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), eine der bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts, kam während ihres Philosophiestudiums in Innsbruck, Graz und Wien mit mehreren philosophischen Strömungen in Berührung. Besonders...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 12.04.2024
  5. 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
  6. 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

  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.03.2024
    Magical Things, Haunted Objects II: The Clock Strikes Back! Gender and Object-Oriented Ontology in German Women’s Literature up to 1918
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Pre-20th Century Panel, Women in German Conference, Online, October 24-26, 2024 “Nur was uns anschaut sehen wir...”--Franz Hessel, “Spazieren in Berlin” In Annette von Droste Hülshoff’s Die Judenbuche, the eponymous tree stands as a silent...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 4 more
    Created on: 09.02.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2024
    GSA Seminar: The Diversities of Care in the Long 19th Century (Atlanta)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Seminar: The Diversities of Care in the Long 19th Century 48th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia September 26-29, 2024 Submission Deadline: February 23, 2024 Recently, the concept of “care”...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 05.02.2024
  9. 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
  10. 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

  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.02.2024
    Call for Papers zur Konferenz Grenzüberschreitende Literatur(en) in einer polyphonen Welt: Mehrsprachigkeit als Quelle der literarischen Kreativität Eine Synergie zwischen globale° – Festival für grenzüberschreitende Literatur Bremen und dem Forschungszen
    Submitted by: Daniel Schmidt

    Deutsch (English below): In der deutschsprachigen Kulturlandschaft sind Festivals, die Musik, Kunst und Film zelebrieren und eine Bühne bieten, etabliert und werden von der Gesellschaft breit rezipiert. Aber auch Literaturfestivals, in denen...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 13 more
    Created on: 29.11.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2023
    Franz Fühmann-Handbuch. Werk – Leben – Wirkung. – EINZELNE KAPITEL
    Submitted by: Stephan Krause

    Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, im Metzler-Verlag erscheint in der Reihe literaturwissenschaftlicher Personen-Handbücher das Franz Fühmann-Handbuch. Es wird von einer international und interdisziplinär zusammengesetzten Autor*innengruppe...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Reader-response criticism and 3 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  13. 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

  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    Prague German Circle(s): Stable Values in Turbulent Times?
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Renowned Max Brod scholar Margarita Pazi has argued that the historical and geographical constellation of Czech-German writers is unique and provided the context for some of the world’s greatest literature, including but not limited to Franz Kafka...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary historiography and 1 more
    Created on: 03.11.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Enfants de la honte - enfants de l'amour: textes littéraires et témoignages / Kinder der Schande – Kinder der Liebe: Literarische Bearbeitungen und Zeitzeugenberichte
    Submitted by: Alina Fritz

    Studientag Universität Passau 26.7.2024 Organisation: Alina Fritz und Marina Ortrud Hertrampf „Mit den Besatzungs- und Soldatenkindern gebar der Krieg Menschen, die allein durch ihre Existenz die Paradigmen des Kriegerischen...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 3 more
    Created on: 29.10.2023