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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. 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
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 02.12.2023
    Tolkien's Legacy: 50 Years of Inspiration
    Submitted by: Des Batziou

    Thematic Approach GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship dedicates the conference to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the passing of J.R.R. Tolkien, one of the most influential and beloved fantasy authors of...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 2 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  4. 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
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 07.07.2022
    Walter Benjamin in the East – Networks, Conflicts, and Reception
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    In late and post-Socialist contexts in Eastern Europe, the works of Walter Benjamin—a historical materialist thinker who travelled to the young Soviet Union in the 1920s—have incited various theoretical transfers, artistic engagements, and political...

    Fields of research 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) and 5 more
    Created on: 23.06.2022
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 09.12.2021
    The Soviet Project of World Literature and its Legacies, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, Aufgang B, 3. Etage, Trajekteraum Organisiert von Zaal Andronikashvili (ZfL), Susanne Frank (HU Berlin/EXC 2020), Eugene Ostashevsky (NYU/EXC...

    Fields of research 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) and 3 more
    Created on: 15.11.2021
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 15.09.2021
    Biofiction as world literature, KU Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Day 1 (15 September): Genre and gender Day 2 (16 September): Genealogies and precursors Day 3 (17 September): Truth and representation Day 4 (18 September): Politics, oppression, negotiation WEDNESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER (DAY 1 –...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Poststructuralism and 5 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.05.2021
    Inherit the World: Strategies of ‘translatio’ in the Soviet Literary Cosmopolis
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: Online Organisiert von Zaal Andronikashvili (ZfL), Susanne Frank (HU Berlin/EXC 2020), Eugene Ostashevsky (NYU/EXC 2020) Kontakt: Alisa Kuznetcova (kuznetal@hu-berlin.de) A collaboration with the research project...

    Fields of research 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) and 3 more
    Created on: 17.05.2021
  9. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 09.02.2021
    Zoom-Gespräch: Der gute Soldat Švejk in der Weltliteratur
    Submitted by: Frances Jackson

    Švejk mag als »urtschechischer« Held gelten, aber mit seinem unvollendeten Magnum Opus hat sich der Autor Jaroslav Hašek nicht nur einen Weg ins tschechische Nationalbewusstsein gebahnt, sondern auch in die Weltliteratur. Wer sind die...

    Fields of research Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  World Literature,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 02.02.2021
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.01.2021
    Arbeitsgespräch mit Dr. Sandra Vlasta: Mehrsprachigkeit in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Tomer Gardis "Broken German"
    Submitted by: Marília Jöhnk

    Im Rahmen des Seminars "Mehrsprachigkeit in Literatur und Theorie" findet am 25. Januar 2021 ein digitales Arbeitsgespräch mit Dr. Sandra Vlasta (JGU Mainz) statt. In diesem wird es um Tomer Gardis Roman Broken German gehen....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from Israel,  World Literature and 4 more
    Created on: 23.10.2020