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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2025
    CONGIST’26 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    CONGIST’26-Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis Date: 13-15 May 2026 Venue: Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul, Turkey In the context of social sciences, crisis is broadly defined as a period of severe...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 49 more
    Created on: 01.06.2025
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.07.2025
    Rethinking Human Interaction in the Age of Transhumanism
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    Rethinking Human Interaction in the Age of Transhumanism As the boundaries of the human body and mind are increasingly expanded through technological augmentation, the nature of communication is undergoing radical transformation. In the age of...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 6 more
    Created on: 01.06.2025
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.05.2025
    HORIZONTE. Netzwerktagung zum 10-jährigen Jubiläum der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft / HORIZONS. 10th Anniversary Networking Conference of the German Society for Cultural Studies
    Submitted by: Minerva Peinador

    ( Deutsch, English version below ) Universität Regensburg | 18.–20. September 2025 Mit der Tagung zum 10. Jubiläum der deutschen Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KWG) möchten wir die Vielfalt der kulturwissenschaftlichen...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 14 more
    Created on: 09.05.2025
  4. 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
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2025
    Diaspora, Transnationalism, Transculturalism, and the Layered Self (PAMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The PAMLA 2025 Conference (its 122th one) will be held at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference runs from Thursday, November 20 until November 23, 2025. As part of PAMLA's 2025 theme “Palimpsests:...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 07.04.2025
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2025
    Denken und schreiben zwischen den Sprachen: Gekreuzte Blicke auf die deutsch-französische Avantgarde, Germersheim
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Denken und schreiben zwischen den Sprachen: Gekreuzte Blicke auf die deutsch-französische Avantgarde (Tagung an der JGU Mainz/Campus Germersheim, 6.-8.11.2025) Organisiert von Prof. Dr. Eva Wiegmann (Mainz) Die europäischen...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 5 more
    Created on: 07.04.2025
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 12.03.2025
    Script-switching in Literary Texts (online conference)
    Submitted by: Marianna Deganutti

    This conference brings together scholars from around the world to explore the phenomenon of script-switching in literary texts. Thirty contributions have been selected for presentation, representing diverse geographical regions and historical...

    Fields of research Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality
    Created on: 27.02.2025
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 19.03.2025
    Swiss Literature in a Transnational Context - A Case Study in Entanglements (GSA 2025 Seminar)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Conventional histories of Swiss literature emphasize a literary canon that is seen as the result of a linear national development. Our seminar argues that this national-historical paradigm does not do justice to the diversity that is inherent to all...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality
    Created on: 14.02.2025
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 06.08.2025
    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism -- Call for submissions for Vol. 4, Issue 1 (Spring 2026)
    Submitted by: Nicoletta Pireddu

    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique,...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 7 more
    Created on: 06.01.2025
  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: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.01.2025
    A New Babel: Multilingualism, Translingualism, and Translation in Contemporary Literature, Verona
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers Verona, 26-27 maggio 2025 “A New Babel: Multilingualism, Translingualism, and Translation in Contemporary Literature” Multilingualism and translingualism (acquired, learned, practiced, lost, abandoned) are an increasingly...

    Fields of research Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Translation,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 05.12.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2024
    Transformation and Multilingualism: German Speakers and Writers in Contact Zones, Columbus
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers: Transformation and Multilingualism: German Speakers and Writers in Contact Zones. February 14th – 15th, 2025 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Julia Ruck, Department of German Studies, Emory University The Germanic Graduate...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 1 more
    Created on: 18.11.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.02.2025
    Call for Papers African Theater Association 2025 Conference: African and Afrodiasporic Theatre in the Digital Age
    Submitted by: Sven Thorsten Kilian

    “The evolution of new technologies and media in the knowledge era has had a huge impact on the field of the arts and culture” (Tajtáková, Theatre in the Digital Age, 2014) In the new millennium internet access has increased considerably in...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Digital Humanities and 5 more
    Created on: 04.11.2024
  15. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 13.11.2024
    Dualla Misipo: »Der Junge aus Duala«. Literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf ein frühes Werk der Schwarzen deutschen Literatur
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Dualla Misipos Der Junge aus Duala. Ein Regierungsschüler erzählt ... wird als der »erste Roman eines Schwarzen Deutschen« und als einer der frühesten postkolonialen literarischen Texte in deutscher Sprache bezeichnet. Obwohl der zwischen den...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literary historiography and 6 more
    Created on: 31.10.2024