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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 22.04.2024
    Ringvorlesung: Fake, Lüge, Desinformation. Über die Literatur zwischen Fiktion und Täuschung, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Saarbrücker literaturwissenschaftliche Ringvorlesung im Festsaal des Rathauses Sankt Johann der Landeshauptstadt Saarbrücken Sommersemester 2024, montags 19 Uhr Fakes, Lügen und Desinformationen sind Instrumente der hybriden...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 12.04.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2024
    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period, Frankfurt a. M.
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period at Frankfurt am Main, September 2025 Comedy, satire, Lucianism – whenever one of these keywords is used in connection with Early Modern literature, it...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 13.03.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.04.2024
    Aufgezeichnetes Erbe. Kulturelle Interferenzräume des östlichen Europa als Sujet im Comic, Oldenburg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Aufgezeichnetes Erbe. Kulturelle Interferenzräume des östlichen Europa als Sujet im Comic (7. und 8.11.2024, Oldenburg) Der jahrzehntelang als trivial verrufene Comic erlebt seit einigen Dekaden in Deutschland eine Konjunktur, die neben der...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literature and cultural studies and 5 more
    Created on: 04.03.2024
  4. Julia Soytek
    University or institution: Universität Hamburg
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Poetics; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)

  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Kosmogonien und Verlustgeschichten der Gegenwart. Experimentelle Darstellungsweisen begründender Anfangs - und Untergangserzählungen in Literatur und Comic
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Im Angesicht von Klimawandel und Artensterben erscheinen gegenwärtig international zahlreiche literarische Texte und Comics, die Kosmogonien und Entwicklungsgeschichten mit Untergangsszenarien menschlicher Kulturen, Tierpopulationen bzw. des ganzen...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and natural science and 4 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.02.2024
    Mediennostalgie in der Gegenwart – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, Kiel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mediennostalgie in der Gegenwart – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Tagung: Frist für das Einreichen von Abstracts: 1. Februar 2024 Ursprünglich als medizinischer Terminus für eine pathologische Form des Heimwehs bei Soldaten eingeführt,...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and media studies and 4 more
    Created on: 15.01.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.02.2024
    XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture - CULTURE AT WAR (Lisbon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture CULTURE AT WAR Lisbon, June 24 – 29, 2024 Deadline for submissions: February 29, 2024 We are living in times of war. Now, more than ever, war occupies a central role in both national...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.01.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    Schwund – Absenz – Entzug, Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Internationaler Workshop vom 25.–27. September 2024 an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Schwund – Absenz – Entzug: Mithilfe dieser drei offensiv metaphorischen Konzepte möchte die Tagung den Dynamiken von Verschwinden und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies,  Intermediality and 2 more
    Created on: 01.12.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2024
    Aufgezeichnetes Erbe. Kulturelle Interferenzräume des östlichen Europa als Sujet im Comic
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Aufgezeichnetes Erbe. Kulturelle Interferenzräume des östlichen Europa als Sujet im Comic (7. und 8.11.2024, Oldenburg) Der jahrzehntelang als trivial verrufene Comic erlebt seit einigen Dekaden in Deutschland eine Konjunktur, die neben der...

    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 1 more
    Created on: 24.11.2023
  10. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 23.08.2024
    Summer School: New Approaches and Methods for Research in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    The Summer School: New Approaches and Methods for Research in Children’s Media will be held at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (Germany) and aims at students interested in Children’s and YA-media in Germany and abroad. Numerous...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Didactics of Literature,  Literary theory and 10 more
    Created on: 21.11.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Gendered Allegories: Origen of Alexandria and the Representation of the Feminine in Patristic Literature (CFP)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CALL FOR PAPERS for a topical issue of Open Theology GENDERED ALLEGORIES: ORIGEN OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE FEMININE IN PATRISTIC LITERATURE "Open Theology” (https://www.degruyter.com/opth) invites...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 24.12.2023
    After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics - Sapienza-Silesia Graduate Forum 2024
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the face of ongoing disasters including the climate crisis, the pandemic, war in Europe and conflicts worldwide, as well as blatant manifestations of social injustice taking place on both a localised and a planetary scale, we might be prone to...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetoric,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor) and 1 more
    Created on: 03.11.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    Call for Book Chapters for an edited volume: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology - Utopia and Dystopia in German Literature, Film, and Television
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    Call for Book Chapters for an edited volume: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology - Utopia and Dystopia in German Literature, Film, and Television In modernist thinking, utopias are considered as representations of imaginary...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Ecocriticism and 6 more
    Created on: 21.10.2023
  14. Roberta Colbertaldo
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: French literature; Italian literature; Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary theory; Narratology; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Comedy; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 20th century

  15. Jasmin Wrobel
    University or institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Literature and visual studies; Comic