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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    Prague German Circle(s): Stable Values in Turbulent Times?
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Renowned Max Brod scholar Margarita Pazi has argued that the historical and geographical constellation of Czech-German writers is unique and provided the context for some of the world’s greatest literature, including but not limited to Franz Kafka...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Literary historiography and 1 more
    Created on: 03.11.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 18.12.2023
    CfP: Ernst-Weiß-Jahrbuch 1 (2024): Allgemeine Beiträge und Schwerpunkt „Ernst Weiß und Franz Kafka“ (18.12.2023)
    Submitted by: Diego León-Villagrá

    Mit dem Ernst-Weiß-Jahrbuch , das ab 2024 voraussichtlich im Universitätsverlag Winter erscheinen soll, schließen wir an die von 1973–76 und 1983–89 von Peter Engel herausgegebenen Weiß-Blätter als Organ für die internationale...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 31.10.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.12.2023
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    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 at the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 30.10.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Enfants de la honte - enfants de l'amour: textes littéraires et témoignages / Kinder der Schande – Kinder der Liebe: Literarische Bearbeitungen und Zeitzeugenberichte
    Submitted by: Alina Fritz

    Studientag Universität Passau 26.7.2024 Organisation: Alina Fritz und Marina Ortrud Hertrampf „Mit den Besatzungs- und Soldatenkindern gebar der Krieg Menschen, die allein durch ihre Existenz die Paradigmen des Kriegerischen...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 3 more
    Created on: 29.10.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2023
    Kafka Transformed (University of Oxford)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Kafka Transformed International Conference; University of Oxford, 18-20 September 2024 Franz Kafka’s role as a world author is inextricably linked to his reception and afterlife. His global legacy has been shaped by academic as well as...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 8 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2023
    Friständerung: Das lyrische Flugblatt im Expressionismus – Benn und andere, Marbach
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das lyrische Flugblatt im Expressionismus – Benn und andere Workshop am Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach am 4./5. April 2024 Organisation: Samuel Müller und Stephan Kraft (Würzburg) In den „Lyrischen Flugblättern“ Alfred Richard...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 3 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2023
    Deadline Extended: USHMM Faculty Seminar: Jewish Responses to the Holocaust: Dispossession, Restitution, and Reconstructing the Home
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies announces the call for applications for the 2024 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar on " Jewish Responses to the Holocaust: Dispossession, Restitution, and Reconstructing the...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.10.2023
    Les autochtones et/dans les arts et les littératures du Canada francophone contemporain (Passau, Allemagne)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque international Les autochtones et/dans les arts et les littératures du Canada francophone contemporain du 12 au 13 juillet 2024 à l’Université de Passau (Allemagne) Comme le souligne Simon Harel dans son essai...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  French literature,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 16.10.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2023
    Spaniards across the Americas after the Spanish Civil War: “I am from the Country Called Exile” / Españoles en las Américas después de la Guerra Civil: “Soy del país del exilio” (Special Cluster Journal a/b: Auto/Biography)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for papers for a Special Cluster in a/b: Autobiography Studies Spaniards across the Americas after the Spanish Civil War: “I am from the Country Called Exile” / Españoles en las Américas después de la Guerra Civil: “Soy del país del exilio”...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Spanish literature and 3 more
    Created on: 16.10.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2023
    Red World Literature: Periphery, Theory, Form, System
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    RED WORLD LITERATURE : Periphery, Theory, Form, System Co-editors: Hunter Bivens, University of California, Santa Cruz and Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, University of Iceland The promise of a new ‘red’ dawn in the history of World Literature...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    REMINDER CFP Conference: Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century.
    Submitted by: Carolin Loyens

    Two-day Workshop at the Department of Literary Studies KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts December 14-15, 2023 Decades of scholarship on the mechanisms of knowledge formation have generated a wide awareness that the transhistorical...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 17 more
    Created on: 06.10.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP for an Edited Collection on the Contemporary Global Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are seeking proposals for contributions to an edited collection of essays, titled Unruly Fictions: Geographies of Genre in the Contemporary Global Novel, focused on how the contemporary global novel expands the generic boundaries of fiction. This...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Genre Turn in Multiethnic Literature (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his landmark essay, "The Second Elevation: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative," Ramón Saldívar proclaimed the arrival of a "cohort of contemporary authors . . . [who] all raise as formal and thematic concerns the very...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Thinking Modern Epic (ACLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What can be said about epic today? Although M.M. Bakhtin famously declared the impossibility of epic in a modern, polyphonic world in 1941, the category has remained a dynamic source of artistic and critical interest. The works considered in studies...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century.
    Submitted by: Carolin Loyens

    Decades of scholarship on the mechanisms of knowledge formation have generated a wide awareness that the transhistorical nature of knowledge and authoritative statements of truth need to be approached critically. It has become a truism that...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 19.09.2023