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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Varieties of the Impersonal (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Elias Kleinbock Co-Organizer: Joseph Henry Contact the Seminar Organizers Impersonality has long been invoked as a marker of modernity and of its literary-aesthetic correlate in modernism: anonymity and ennui ...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 23.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    What Are the Key Concepts of Literary Study? (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Delineating the Concept-Field of Literature: What Are the Basic Units of Analysis of Literary Study? In contrast to many other academic fields where the subject matter is clearly defined across its given scalar range—such as the cell and the...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 3 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 09.10.2024
    Magier, Heiler, Ingenieure. Reputationskarrieren und publizistische Tricks zwischen dem 15. und 17. Jahrhundert, Heidelberg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Der Typus des frühneuzeitlichen Magus erscheint abhängig vom höfischen, klösterlichen oder städtischen Kontext in je unterschiedlicher Ausprägung. Er wird einerseits als Betrüger und Teufelsbündner verfemt, andererseits als Unterhaltungskünstler,...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century),  Literature of the 16th century and 1 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Writing about extinction is an aporetic coming together of our current geological reality and imagination that borders on speculation. It is an act that opens up the ecological, the ontological, and simultaneously interrogates the disappearance of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2024
    Republic of Letters: The Scholar and Scholarly Communities from Petrarch to the Present, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Republic of Letters: The Scholar and Scholarly Communities from Petrarch to the Present Graduate Student Conference at Johns Hopkins University April 4–5, 2025 Submission Deadline for Abstracts: November 15 to...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.02.2025
    CfP: Alma Mater – Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies (March Issue 2025) / Alma Mater – Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Kulturforschungen (Ausgabe März 2025)
    Submitted by: Habib Tekin

    Alma Mater – Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies is pleased to announce the call for papers for its upcoming issue, to be published in March 2025. We welcome high-quality, original research articles from a wide range of cultural studies...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 18 more
    Created on: 20.09.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Zeitgenoss*innenschaften. Formen von Gegenwartsteilnahme
    Submitted by: Fabian Lampart

    Die Tagung soll aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, anhand verschiedener Medien und Gattungen und mit Blick auf unterschiedliche historische und kulturelle Kontexte konzeptionelle Zugänge zu „Zeitgenoss*innenschaften“ vorstellen, vorschlagen und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 19.09.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Alternative Poetics of Environment in South Asia (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Sumera Saleem Co-Organizer: Bharatwaj Iyer In his 2009 text entitled Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz describes the political power of art in imagining and reimagining “other ways of...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Dismantling the matrix of oppression in Atwood's "the Testaments" and Parsipur's "Women without Men" (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Marjan Heidari Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men may seem to be different works due to different settings and the writers’ backgrounds. The Testaments, written in 2019, narrates the lives of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Near Eastern literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 16.09.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Orientation to Texts and Knowledge: From Antiquity to AI (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How do we orient ourselves to texts and knowledge across time and technological advancements? How do texts and knowledge in turn orientate and transform us, and how do they influence the world we navigate, particularly in an increasingly...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and philosophy,  Poetics
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  11. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 03.11.2024
    Stellen als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*innen am Exzellenzcluster 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" in Verbindung mit einem Promotionsplatz an der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule
    Submitted by: Rebecca Mak

    Ziel des Exzellenzclusters EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" ist es, die Konzeption von Literatur in globaler Perspektive grundlegend neu zu denken. Mit dem Konzept der „Temporal Communities“ wird dabei...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 10.09.2024
  12. 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
  13. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 03.11.2024
    Ausschreibungen der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für 2025
    Submitted by: Rebecca Mak

    An der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für Literaturwissenschaftliche Studien (FSGS) und am Exzellenzcluster “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” (EXC TC) werden theoretisch und konzeptionell herausragende...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Call for Participants: "The Return of Myths in the 21st Century: How Cultural Narratives Shape Reality" (Paris, May 13-16, 2025)
    Submitted by: Christian Baier

    The contemporary world is marred by division. Everywhere, antagonistic factions are locked in apparently irreconcilable opposition, incapable of finding common ground. Beneath all ideological differences lies an epistemic fragmentation of society ...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 09.09.2024
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 17.09.2024
    Tagung Konzepte und Wahrnehmungsmodi der Natur in der neueren Lyrik – komparatistische Zugänge
    Submitted by: Adela Sophia Sabban

    17.9. – 19.9.2024 Universität Trier, Konferenzsaal: N2 Organisiert von: Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl (Slavische Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Trier), Prof. Dr. Ralph Müller (Neuere deutschsprachige...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 8 more
    Created on: 06.09.2024