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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.05.2025
    Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts: Performance, Performativity, Agents and Genres
    Submitted by: Dinah Wouters

    Performance and performativity have proved to be highly productive concepts for understanding the social worlds of medieval texts in diverse literary, linguistic and historical contexts. Through associable notions of orality, aurality, gesture,...

    Fields of research Oral poetry / Orality,  Writtenness,  World Literature and 6 more
    Created on: 07.04.2025
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 06.05.2025
    DraCor Summit from 1 until 4 September 2025 in Berlin (CfP deadline: 6 May 2025)
    Submitted by: Julia Jennifer Beine

    Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the DraCor Summit in Berlin from 1 to 4 September 2025 . This four-day event will bring together researchers in computational literary studies, cultural analytics, and related fields to present...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Drama
    Created on: 20.03.2025
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 21.03.2025
    MLA 2026 Performing the Past: Historical Subjects on Stage (Modern Language Association Annual Convention)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his Poetics, Aristotle famously distinguishes poetry from history, claiming that “the distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse…it consists really in this, that the one describes the thing that has...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Drama
    Created on: 14.03.2025
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.04.2025
    CFP: [Nachwuchs-Workshop] Freiheit der Feder versus Forderung der Moralität – Zum Verhältnis von ästhetischer Autonomie und ethischer Praxis (Frist 14.04.25/ 09.09.25)/ Veranstaltungstermin: 20.10.2025
    Submitted by: Laura Bella Theis

    Veranstaltungstermin: 20.10.2025 (ca. 9-18 Uhr) Veranstaltungsort/ Organisation: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Abgabefrist für Abstracts: 14.04.2025 Abgabefrist für angenommene Aufsätze: 09.09.2025 Kontakt: Laura Bella...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Reader-response criticism and 16 more
    Created on: 13.02.2025
  5. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 07.02.2025
    In Search of Expressiveness: Exploring the Notion within the Realms of Literature and Theatre in the 18th-19th Century
    Submitted by: Marina Sivak

    This workshop examines the evolving concept of expressiveness in the 18th and 19th centuries, focusing on its role in literature and theatre. Through interdisciplinary discussions, participants will explore how emotions and individual sensitivities...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 05.02.2025
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.04.2025
    Fascination with the Middle Ages in Modern German Literature and Other Media
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    Call for Papers - Special Issue of Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur (E-ISSN: 2619-9890) Fascination with the Middle Ages in Modern German Literature and Other Media The Middle Ages hold a timeless allure, often serving as a...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography and 18 more
    Created on: 19.01.2025
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.02.2025
    Deadline extension: Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur (Journal of German Language and Literature) is a peer-reviewed international academic journal founded in 1954 by Istanbul University’s Department of German Language and...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography and 38 more
    Created on: 09.01.2025
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.01.2025
    Kollektive Formen des Dramatischen, Zürich
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    KONF: Kollektive Formen des Dramatischen, Zürich, 10.1.-12.1.2025 5. Treffen des DFG-Netzwerks „Untersuchungen zur Gegenwartsdramatik“ Universität Zürich, 10.–12. Januar 2025 Organisation: Hannah von Sass, Clemens Özelt Bei dem...

    Fields of research Drama,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 03.01.2025
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.01.2025
    Internationale Konferenz: Intermedialität von Dramenverfilmungen, Magdeburg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Internationale Konferenz "Intermedialität von Dramenverfilmungen" Magdeburg, 6.–8. November 2025 Die filmische Adaption von Theaterstücken hat eine lange Tradition. In den Anfängen des Kinos wurde das Genre genutzt, um den Film als...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Intermediality,  Drama
    Created on: 19.12.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2025
    Konferenz „Disability Theatre from 1900 to the Present in German and Italian Disability Studies“ - Beiträge von Wissenschaftler:innen in der Qualifikationsphase, Como
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Ziel der von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten und vom 6.-9. Mai 2025 am Deutsch-Italienischen Zentrum für den Europäischen Dialog Villa Vigoni stattfindenden Konferenz „Disability Theatre from 1900 to the Present in German and...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Italian literature,  Drama and 4 more
    Created on: 19.12.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.02.2025
    Call for Papers African Theater Association 2025 Conference: African and Afrodiasporic Theatre in the Digital Age
    Submitted by: Sven Thorsten Kilian

    “The evolution of new technologies and media in the knowledge era has had a huge impact on the field of the arts and culture” (Tajtáková, Theatre in the Digital Age, 2014) In the new millennium internet access has increased considerably in...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Digital Humanities and 5 more
    Created on: 04.11.2024
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 07.11.2024
    Staging Nature. Berührungspunkte von Natur und Bühnenwerken, München
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Staging Nature. Berührungspunkte von Natur und Bühnenwerken (gefördert von der Daimler und Benz-Stiftung) Ausgehend von der sprichwörtlich gewordenen Sentenz „All the world’s a stage“ (Shakespeare 1623) interessiert sich der Workshop für einen...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and geography/cartography and 3 more
    Created on: 25.10.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Zeitgenoss*innenschaften. Formen von Gegenwartsteilnahme
    Submitted by: Fabian Lampart

    Die Tagung soll aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, anhand verschiedener Medien und Gattungen und mit Blick auf unterschiedliche historische und kulturelle Kontexte konzeptionelle Zugänge zu „Zeitgenoss*innenschaften“ vorstellen, vorschlagen und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 19.09.2024
  14. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.09.2024
    Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d), 65%-Stelle, befristet bis 30.09.2027
    Submitted by: Anna Axtner-Borsutzky

    Das BMBF-Verbundprojekt „Lost in Archives“ (Förderlinie „Innovative Frauen im Fokus“) sucht nach unsichtbaren und vergessenen Frauen, die im 18. Jahrhundert und zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts in männlich dominierten Bereichen (Theater,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Drama and 2 more
    Created on: 03.09.2024
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.09.2024
    BAUSTELLE Brecht 2024: „Brecht vergegenwärtigen: aktuelle und historische Praxis-Theorie-Gefüge“
    Submitted by: Micha Braun

    [ENGLISH VERSION SEE ATTACHED FILE] Jede Vergegenwärtigung eines Textes oder Gedankens von Bertolt Brecht findet innerhalb von konkreten Organisationen, mit spezifischen medialen Mitteln, für eine bestimmte Gruppe von Zeitgenoss:innen an einem...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Literature and other forms of art and 3 more
    Created on: 15.07.2024