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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.06.2024
    Seminar Special Issue: Conceptions of “Race” in Premodern German Studies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    While Black German Studies has become an important field in our discipline, scholarship in premodern German studies is only beginning to show the same level of engagement with Critical Race Studies as evidenced in Anglo- and Francophone premodern...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 4 more
    Created on: 26.04.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.05.2024
    Bin ichʼs oder bin ichʼs nicht? Bachmanns Echos. Ein Nachwuchs-Kolloquium
    Submitted by: Henrike Ribbe

    * English version see below* Ort der Veranstaltung: Literaturhaus München / Ausstellung „Ingeborg Bachmann. ‚Ich bin es nicht. Ich bin ʼ s.‘“ (Mai – November 2024) Datum: Fr., 25. und Sa., 26. Oktober 2024 ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Poststructuralism,  Deconstruction and 5 more
    Created on: 05.04.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Medieval Literature Panel at PAMLA 2024, Palm Springs
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Abstract: Medieval Literature will study multiple aspects of medieval literature, with special consideration for work that engages with the conference theme, "Translation in Action." This panel welcomes a broad interpretation of the theme as it...

    Fields of research Translation,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century),  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century)
    Created on: 22.03.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.04.2024
    The Poetics of Early Modern Scientific Poetry
    Submitted by: Friederike Altmann

    The Poetics of Early Modern Scientific Poetry 28 – 30 November, 2024 – University of Bayreuth, Germany Inaugural conference of the international AHRC/DFG research consortium, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and...

    Fields of research Literature and natural science,  Poetics,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 27.02.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    Le rôle de la littérature dans la réflexion sociale sur les catastrophes naturelles, de l’Antiquité à nos jours
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’études Le rôle de la littérature dans la réflexion sociale sur les catastrophes naturelles, de l’Antiquité à nos jours 30 mai 2024 Journée d’étude en ligne (sur Teams) organisée par le CELIS sous la direction de Kim...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.),  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 7 more
    Created on: 05.02.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.01.2024
    Von Erfolg gekrönt – Arturische Erfolgsgeschichten im Wandel der Zeit (Studierendentagung)
    Submitted by: Hannah Semrau

    Studierendentagung Frankfurt am Main 20.–22. Juni 2024 Von Erfolg gekrönt – Arturische Erfolgsgeschichten im Wandel der Zeit Swer nâch êren sinne, triuwe und êre minne, der volge guoter lêre daz vürdert in vil sêre unde vlîze...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 11.12.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    Epic in the Latin West (4th-15th Centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Epic in the Latin West (4th-15th Centuries), Nuremberg, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 - Saturday, 28 September 2024 Congress organizer: Lehrstuhl für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (Prof. Dr. Michele C. Ferrari),...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary genre,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.) and 2 more
    Created on: 04.12.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2023
    Activating Margins: Destabilizing the Canon from the Periphery – 16th Ohio State German Graduate Student Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    February 23rd – 24th, 2024 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mari Jarris, Department of German Studies, Cornell University In geology, active margins are where edges of tectonic plates meet and cause friction as well as develop new formations....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Deconstruction and 3 more
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 21.12.2023
    Borders/Freedom/Civility (Gettysburg, PA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Exit West, Mohsin Hamid writes, “We are all migrants through time.” Hamid’s words speak to the growing crisis of statelessness, precipitated and accelerated by the extractive expansion of colonial and imperial powers, endless war, and intensifying...

    Fields of research Deconstruction,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 06.11.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.10.2023
    Hamlet et l'ubi sunt (Limoges)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’étude sur Hamlet “Where be your gibes now?”: Le motif de l’ubi sunt 13 Décembre 2023. Salle des Actes, FLSH, Université de Limoges (English version below) Dans le cadre du programme de l’agrégation, l’équipe...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.) and 3 more
    Created on: 02.10.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    Gebaut, gesprochen und geschrieben: Raum, Architektur und Sprache, Bergell/Schweiz
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gebaut, gesprochen und geschrieben: Raum, Architektur und Sprache Werkstatt-Tagung, 9. bis 14. September 2024 Tagungsort: Tagungszentrum Villa Garbald, Bergell (GR) / Schweiz https://www.garbald.ch/en/ Organisation ...

    Fields of research Hermeneutics,  Deconstruction,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 08.09.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2023
    Dante Without Borders: Translation, Transcultural Heritage, and Reception of the Dantean Works in non-Western Culture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dante Without Borders: Translation, Transcultural Heritage, and Reception of the Dantean Works in non-Western Culture Deadline for abstract proposals (300 words): August 31st, 2023 Publisher: Brill - Literary Reception & Art Reception series...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Italian literature,  North African literature and 7 more
    Created on: 25.08.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain (NEMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss,...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 6 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.09.2023
    Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Date: November 4-5, 2023 Location: University of Oxford, UK Online option available Cost: 170 GBP 90 GBP (Online) Abstract: Deadline September 17, 2023 “Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and natural science and 3 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.08.2023
    RSA 2024 Staging History: Ancient Subjects in Early Modern Performance (Renaissance Society of America)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Staging History: Ancient Subjects in Early Modern Performance In his Poetics, Aristotle famously distinguishes poetry from history, claiming that “the distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Drama,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century) and 3 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023