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  1. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 30.04.2025
    Georgi Demidow und die Sprache der Repression (Literatur, Film, Geschichte)
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Der sowjetische Physiker und Schriftsteller Georgi Demidow (1908–1987) zählt zu den bedeutendsten Autoren der Lagerliteratur. Jahrzehntelang wurden seine Werke unterdrückt – erst nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion konnten seine Erzählungen, die...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Literary historiography,  Literature and law and 2 more
    Created on: 15.04.2025
  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. Philip Iser
    University or institution: Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary historiography; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Novel; Non-fictional literature; The fictional; Aesthetics; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 10.01.2025
    Hermann Borchardt und der Club der Harmlosen. Wiederentdeckung eines Romans
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    1944 beendete der Schriftsteller Hermann Borchardt (1888–1951) im New Yorker Exil die Geschichte einer Edelfrau . Obwohl sein erster Roman Die Verschwörung der Zimmerleute ein Jahr zuvor in englischer Übersetzung in den USA erschienen war,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography and 1 more
    Created on: 06.01.2025
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Carlo Arrigoni Co-Organizer: Irene Bulla What makes a narrator unreliable, and through which textual strategies is unreliability established? What is the role of unreliable narration in the development of the novel...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 6 more
    Created on: 11.10.2024
  8. 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
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.09.2024
    Subjekt im Aufbruch. Transnationale Wiederaufnahmen von Goethes Werther
    Submitted by: Raphael Stübe

    Upheavals of the Self. On the Transnational Reception of Goethe's Werther Internationale Tagung am Freien Deutschen Hochstift Frankfurt am Main, 20. und 21. September 2024 Gefördert von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Reader-response criticism,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2024
    The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    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 8 more
    Created on: 14.08.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2024
    Le roman d'espionnage (revue Fixxion) - prolongé jusqu'au 31 août
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel prolongé jusqu'au 31 août Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine, n°30 : « Le roman d’espionnage » Numéro coordonné par Chloé Chaudet et Alexandre Gefen Appel à contributions / Call for papers Scroll...

    Fields of research Novel,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 05.08.2024
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2024
    Novels and Book History at MAPACA 2024 (2024 Annual MAPACA Conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This cfp welcomes all explorations of the novel and/or the history of the book as they interact with American and/or popular culture. Subjects include genre fiction, authors and authorship, literary time periods, cultures, settings, reading,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies and 2 more
    Created on: 21.06.2024
  13. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 06.06.2024
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 15 more
    Created on: 22.05.2024
  14. Charlotte Rathjen
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Literary historiography; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Novel; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    MLA-Panel 2025: Narrating Spectacle around 1800, New Orleans
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Modern Language Associate Conference New Orleans, LA January 9-12, 2025 Narrating Spectacle around 1800 Audiences for eighteenth-century theater were more likely to be reading accounts of performances on the page than seeing them...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Novel,  Drama and 3 more
    Created on: 18.03.2024