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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2025
    Zwischen Zäsuren lesen: Literatur und Lesekulturen im 21. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Marie-Theres Stickel

    Workshop – 3.-4.12.2025, Universität Gießen Wie verändert unsere Art zu lesen die Literatur? Aus Sicht der Literaturgeschichte ist die Antwort klar: Literatur konnte nur im Zusammenspiel mit ihren Rezipienten und Rezipientinnen...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Literature and media studies and 2 more
    Created on: 30.04.2025
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.08.2025
    Deadline Extended: 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...

    Fields of research Reader-response criticism,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.04.2025
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2025
    Die Kunst des Beschreibens. Ästhetische Diskurse von Autorinnen in der Frühen Neuzeit und Aufklärung (Berlin)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Sechste transphilologische ‚Femmes de Lettres‘-Jahrestagung der FONTE-Stiftung 9.-10.10.2025, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin, Raum 3.246 Die Kunst des Beschreibens. Ästhetische Diskurse von Autorinnen in...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 7 more
    Created on: 11.04.2025
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.06.2025
    Reduktionismen und Minimalismen in Serie: Zeitgenössische Strategien der Verknappung, Verkürzung, Verdichtung im Medienvergleich
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Höher, schneller, teurer: spätestens mit den finanzintensiven Content-Schlachten der Streaming Wars wurde der Exzess zum facettenreichen Leitmotiv moderner Serienkultur ernannt (vgl. Maeder 2021, 11–14). Als »supersize audiovisual narrative«...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 4 more
    Created on: 11.04.2025
  5. Eric Dewald
    University or institution: Universität des Saarlandes
    Fields of research: Literature and media studies

  6. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 22.09.2025
    SYNAPSIS – European School of Comparative Literature - Call for Applications
    Submitted by: Anna Chiara Corradino

    SYNAPSIS – EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE San Miniato (Italy), 22-26 September 2025 Knots, Bonds Date: September 22–26, 2025 Location: San Miniato, PI (Italy) Synapsis 2025 Theme: Knots, Bonds ...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) and 16 more
    Created on: 08.04.2025
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2025
    Spektakel, Schaulust, Subalternität – Diskursive Verhandlungen von Identität und Alterität im Kontext populärer Wissensmedien (1850–1950)
    Submitted by: Magdalena Watrin

    Online-Workshops Organisation: Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Hagen, Magdalena Watrin, Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Institut für Romanistik Abgabefrist für Abstracts: 15.06.2025 Das DFG- Projekt „Spektakel, Schaulust,...

    Fields of research French literature,  Spanish literature,  Literature and other forms of art and 5 more
    Created on: 03.04.2025
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2025
    Schwerpunktheft der KWZ (Frühjahr 2026): MOTHERING Formen, Politiken und Potentiale des gegenwärtigen Booms von Mutterschaftserzählungen
    Submitted by: Anna-Maria Post

    CFP für Schwerpunktheft der KWZ (Frühjahr 2026) zum Thema MOTHERING Formen, Politiken und Potentiale des gegenwärtigen Booms von Mutterschaftserzählungen Dr. Anna-Maria Post (Universität Konstanz, Germanistik) ...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 9 more
    Created on: 01.04.2025
  9. Anna-Lena Eick
    University or institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; Media studies; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and visual studies; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Comic; Digital literature; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 21st century

  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.05.2025
    Die Kraft der Avantgarden. Formen und Funktionen einer ästhetischen Bezugsgröße zwischen 1900 und 1940
    Submitted by: Julia Soytek

    Internationale und interdisziplinäre Tagung, 04.-06.02.2026, DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe "Imaginarien der Kraft", Universität Hamburg Organisation: Caroline Adler, Dr. Adrian Renner, Dr. Julia Soytek Die suggestive und emphatische...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Interdisciplinarity and 8 more
    Created on: 19.03.2025
  11. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 27.02.2025
    WORKSHOP: NEW READING SCENES. On Machine Reading and Reading Machine Learning Research
    Submitted by: Miriam Wienhold

    Reading has undergone dramatic transformations over the past few decades. Media and literary theorist N. Katherine Hayles has discussed how forms of reading, modes of attention, and even neurological architecture are heavily influenced by the medium...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies
    Created on: 03.02.2025
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2025
    »Visuelle Chiffren in Bildender Kunst, Literatur, Film und anderen Medien« (Workshop)
    Submitted by: Sascha Rothbart

    Soziokulturelle Vorstellungswelten – sei es als »soziales Imaginäres« (Castoriadis, Taylor) oder »imaginierte Gemeinschaft« (Anderson) – produzieren Bilder, die sich nicht als Symbole, Metaphern oder andere gängige Figuren begreifen lassen. ...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies and 5 more
    Created on: 03.02.2025
  13. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 13.02.2025
    Digital Tools, Radical Views, Appealing Aesthetics. Comparative Approaches to Popular Culture from Eastern Europe
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Digital media and practices have fundamentally changed our understanding of the public sphere and play an increasingly important role in the formation of political opinion. Especially populist movements and authoritarian governments are using digital...

    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 10 more
    Created on: 31.01.2025
  14. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 13.02.2025
    Workshop "Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950)", Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop Zukunftsdenken und Zukunftsästhetik in literarischen, kulturellen und medialen Diskursen der Moderne (1880–1950) 13. und 14. Februar 2025, Universität Bonn, Genscherallee 3 In Verbindung mit dem...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and media studies and 4 more
    Created on: 30.01.2025
  15. 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