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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.04.2024
    Call for Abstracts: Studientag: „‚Tipping Points‘. Balanceakte in der Literatur und Kultur“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28. Juni 2024)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Frist für Einreichungen: 23. April 2024 In Zeiten großer Unsicherheit ob der (In-)Stabilität von Strukturen aller Arten sehen sich die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften mehr denn je mit Fragen nach Verantwortung, Abhängigkeiten und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 14.03.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.12.2023
    CfP: Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen (22.12.2023)
    Submitted by: Daniel Wendt

    Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen Literaturwissenschaftliches Symposium, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, 26.-28.9.2024 Der Satire ist nicht leicht beizukommen. Nicht erst die jüngeren Diskussionen um...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 9 more
    Created on: 05.12.2023
  4. Daniel Wendt
    University or institution: Marburg
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary historiography; Literary theory; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comedy; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  5. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 14.09.2023
    "Literarische Sachbücher. Formen – Funktionen – Praktiken", Bonn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Literarische Sachbücher. Formen – Funktionen – Praktiken Workshop von Non Fiktion, gefördert vom Deutschen Literaturfonds und in Verbindung mit dem DFG-Graduiertenkolleg „Gegenwart/Literatur“ Organisation Christian Meierhofer...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Oral poetry / Orality,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 4 more
    Created on: 11.09.2023
  7. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 31.10.2023
    Drei Stellen als wissenschaftliche Programmleitungen für die drei Programmbereiche "Geschichte", "Erfahrung" und "Natur" - Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Die Universität des Saarlandes ist eine Campus-Universität, die international bekannt ist durch ihre ausgeprägte Forschungsorientierung. Die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses und die Schaffung idealer Bedingungen für Forschung und Lehre...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 05.09.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    (Re)reading feminist speculative fiction post-Roe v. Wade (2024 Northeast Modern Language Association )
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the introduction to the collection Technologies of Speculative Fiction (2022), Sherryl Vint writes, “The same technologies that now give women more options regarding reproductive choices are simultaneously utilized by the Christian Right to...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Saying the Unsayable: Narrative Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Trauma is typically considered ‘responsive to and constitutive of “modernity”’ (Micale and Lerner 2001). Certainly, as argued by Mark Seltzer, ‘modernity has come to be understood under the sign of the wound’: ‘the modern subject has become...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Poetics,  The fictional and 1 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    CfP Eternal Peace in Speculative Fiction
    Submitted by: Johannes Kaminski

    Dear colleagues, I am currently putting together a special issue of World Literature Studies (WLS) dedicated to speculative fiction. Looking forward to see your abstracts by September 15! See CfP below. Best wishes Johannes Kaminski ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 30.06.2023
  11. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 30.06.2023
    Univers, métavers, mondes possibles : nouvelles perspectives en théorie de la fiction. Prolongation de l'appel pour un Contrat Doctoral à l'Université de Picardie-Jules Verne
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Suite à un désistement, le CERCLL (Université de Picardie-Jules Verne) prolonge exceptionnellement la période d'appel aux candidatures pour un Contrat Doctoral co-financé par la Région Hauts-de-France à l'ED-SHS de l'Université de Picardie Sujet :...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  The fictional
    Created on: 12.06.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    Material Girls & Boys: Narrated Fashion in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    (March 7th - 9th, 2024 Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Clothing is a daily feature of every child’s life and this significance carries through into the media created for children and young people. From picture books for toddlers...

    Fields of research Empirical Aesthetics,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 13 more
    Created on: 02.05.2023
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.05.2023
    The Politics of Alexander's Fantastic Legacies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Andrew James Johnston, Wolfram Keller, and Jan-Peer Hartmann, project "Imperial Fictions" , Research Area 3: "Future Perfect". David Ashurst (Durham University) Venetia Bridges (Durham University) Christine Chism...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  The fictional,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 4 more
    Created on: 28.04.2023
  14. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 26.01.2023
    Thomas Harlans Täterliteratur, Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin (26.01. – 27.01.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Do 26.01. – Fr 27.01. Thomas Harlans Täterliteratur Vorträge, Lesungen, Diskussionen im Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin (Donnerstag mit Livestream unter: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-bwA6oonJHTp-f4--QQ20g ) Thomas...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Non-fictional literature,  The fictional and 2 more
    Created on: 09.01.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.10.2022
    Into the Other Worlds: The Multiverse as Theoretical Method in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Into the Other Worlds: The Multiverse as Theoretical Method in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives Call for chapter contributions (Edited book to be submitted for consideration with Routledge) Seen as a form of expressing and...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 3 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022