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  1. 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

  2. Reto Rössler
    University or institution: Europa-Universität Flensburg
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; Media studies; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and natural science; Intermediality; Literary genre; Novel; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Essay; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)

  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2025
    EXPLORING THE SCANDALOUS: SCANDAL AS A CATALYST OF PROGRESS?
    Submitted by: Kevin Potter

    International Conference: 24 th (evening)-26 th September 2025 Location: University of Vienna Language of presentations: English Deadline for abstracts (500-750 words and a short list of references): 15 th March...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 20.01.2025
  6. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 27.02.2025
    DIAS Professor of Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark, The Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) and the Department of Culture and Language
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) and the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invite applications for a fully tenured professorship in the study of literature. The candidate is expected...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 10.01.2025
  7. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 16.01.2025
    The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    This workshop will explore the literary and political challenges posed by the digital age to the genre of the novel. In her essay Digital Modernism. Making It New in New Media (2014), Jessica Pressman defines “modernism” as “a strategy of...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 18 more
    Created on: 10.01.2025
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 11.04.2025
    Research Network “Ephemeral Epistemologies and Encounters”
    Submitted by: Tanja Kapp

    We are currently seeking contributions from the humanities and social sciences for a scientific network that explores ephemerality in both its material forms and theoretical conceptualizations. This interdisciplinary network aims to bring into...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 13 more
    Created on: 29.12.2024
  10. Sebastian Lederle
    University or institution: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
    Fields of research: Media studies

  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2025
    Studierendenkongress der Komparatistik (SKK) 2025: Literatur und Grenzen
    Submitted by: Carolin Slickers

    Literatur und Grenzen Als Wissenschaft und Methode erforscht und überschreitet die Komparatistik permanent Grenzen - seien sie genrespezifisch, medial oder disziplinär. In der globalisierten Welt und dicht vernetzten Wissenschaft, deren...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 8 more
    Created on: 17.12.2024
  12. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 28.11.2024
    Small Forms in Circulation: Infrastructures, Practices, Publics
    Submitted by: Morten Schneider

    Workshop of the Research Training Group “The Literary and Epistemic History of Small Forms” Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Main Building, 1st Floor | Room 2070 A | Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin This conference investigates how the...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 06.11.2024
  13. Paula Friedericke Hartmann
    University or institution: Universität Greifswald
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Media studies; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Comic; autobiography

  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2024
    Deadline extended: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    Workshop, 16–17 January 2025, Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin In her epistolary novel La Toile (2017), Sandra Lucbert contrasts literary language with digital language as two clashing constraints: the...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 9 more
    Created on: 02.10.2024
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.10.2024
    International Conference "Romanticism’s Colonial Legacies in and Beyond Europe: Critical Perspectives on Art and Visual Culture" (10-12 October 2024, Goethe University Frankfurt)
    Submitted by: Frederike Middelhoff

    Romaticism's Colonial Legacies in and beyond Europe: Critical Perspecives on Art and Visual Culture International Conference 10-12 October 2024, Goethe University Frankfurt, GER Organised by Prof. Dr. Mechthild Fend (Frankfurt),...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Media studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 10.09.2024