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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 04.03.2024
    National Epic, Nationalepos: Problematics and Difficult Cases
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Research Area 3, "Future Perfect". David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania): National Epic, Nationalepos: Problematics and Difficult Cases The turn to studying nationalism signalled by my new project, and its companion...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology and 4 more
    Created on: 26.02.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    Writing Angst: The Gothic / Schauerliteratur in Scotland and Germany from 1800 until Today”, Universität Göttingen/TU Dresden
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Göttingen University, September 4-6, 2024 Few literary genres are better suited to give voice to cultural, social and political anxieties in periods of collective crises and disorientation than the Gothic, or Schauerliteratur. In our own age of...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary genre and 5 more
    Created on: 16.02.2024
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 06.03.2024
    Land-Wirtschaft. Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf agrarische Arbeit
    Submitted by: Mareike Schildmann

    LAND-WIRTSCHAFT. Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf agrarische Arbeit Tagung im LWL-Museum Zeche Zollern , Grubenweg 5, 44388 Dortmund, Seminarraum 3 6.–8. März 2024 Organisation: PD Dr. Sandra...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 2 more
    Created on: 08.02.2024
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.03.2024
    Ethik der Emotionen im Drama vom Ende des 17. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Neue Perspektiven der kulturgeschichtlichen Forschung
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ethik der Emotionen im Drama vom Ende des 17. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Neue Perspektiven der kulturgeschichtlichen Forschung Tagung im Interdisziplinären Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung (IZEA) in Halle an der...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 6 more
    Created on: 02.02.2024
  5. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 04.02.2024
    Gesucht: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (DFG) in deutsch-britischem Forschungsprojekt zu "Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment" (DFG/AHRC)
    Submitted by: Hania Siebenpfeiffer

    Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (DFG) in deutsch-britischem Forschungsprojekt zu "Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment" (DFG/AHRC) Am Institut für Neuere deutsche Literatur der ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary theory and 7 more
    Created on: 19.01.2024
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Imagining Dark Age Britain. Die Geburt der Literatur aus dem Dunkel der Geschichte
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Teilprojekt will anhand exemplarischer Texte eine paradoxe historisch-literarische Figuration untersuchen: die Vergangenheit vor dem Ursprung, wie sie in der englischsprachigen Literatur insbesondere im Konzept der Dark Ages begegnet. Der...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  7. Kai Merten
    University or institution: Universität Erfurt
    Fields of research: Literature from UK and Ireland

  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 11.12.2023
    Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World Turin, Italy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World University of Turin, Italy Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures March 21-22, 2024 In her 1951 work The Sea Around Us, Rachel...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Ecocriticism and 1 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 02.11.2023
    Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. British and Continental Perspectives, Freiburg/Schweiz
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    „Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. British and Continental Perspectives“ International Conference at the chair of Medical Humanities, 2.-4.11. 2023 (Funded by the German Research Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science and 1 more
    Created on: 23.10.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.11.2023
    Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CfP Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature (deadline 3rd November 2023) What happens when we look away from modernism/s? We are inviting academics to consider this question with a specific...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 13.10.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    ‘Novel Media/Media Novel: Theorising Digital Media Cultures in the Contemporary Novel’ -- Special Issue of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
    Submitted by: Sandro Eich

    Contemporary novels are marbled with representations of digital media. Despite the notable attention to digital technologies already present in post-war literature, the twenty-first century has witnessed the unprecedented integration of digital media...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Australian/Oceanian literature and 7 more
    Created on: 11.10.2023
  13. Sandro Eich
    University or institution: University of St Andrews
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from UK and Ireland; New Criticism; Media studies; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and media studies; Drama; Formula literature; Literature of the 21st century

  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    REMINDER CFP Conference: Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century.
    Submitted by: Carolin Loyens

    Two-day Workshop at the Department of Literary Studies KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts December 14-15, 2023 Decades of scholarship on the mechanisms of knowledge formation have generated a wide awareness that the transhistorical...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 17 more
    Created on: 06.10.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.10.2023
    Hamlet et l'ubi sunt (Limoges)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’étude sur Hamlet “Where be your gibes now?”: Le motif de l’ubi sunt 13 Décembre 2023. Salle des Actes, FLSH, Université de Limoges (English version below) Dans le cadre du programme de l’agrégation, l’équipe...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.) and 3 more
    Created on: 02.10.2023