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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    MLA-Panel 2025: Narrating Spectacle around 1800, New Orleans
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Modern Language Associate Conference New Orleans, LA January 9-12, 2025 Narrating Spectacle around 1800 Audiences for eighteenth-century theater were more likely to be reading accounts of performances on the page than seeing them...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Novel,  Drama and 3 more
    Created on: 18.03.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2024
    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period, Frankfurt a. M.
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period at Frankfurt am Main, September 2025 Comedy, satire, Lucianism – whenever one of these keywords is used in connection with Early Modern literature, it...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 13.03.2024
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    GSA 2024 Panel - Herder on Colonialism and Imperialism, Atlanta
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Throughout his work, Herder developed a subtle and multi-facetted understanding of colonialism and imperialism. In many respects, Herder’s writings point to a strong anti-colonialism, particularly when he is addressing European activities overseas in...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 19.02.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    Writing Angst: The Gothic / Schauerliteratur in Scotland and Germany from 1800 until Today”, Universität Göttingen/TU Dresden
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Göttingen University, September 4-6, 2024 Few literary genres are better suited to give voice to cultural, social and political anxieties in periods of collective crises and disorientation than the Gothic, or Schauerliteratur. In our own age of...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary genre and 5 more
    Created on: 16.02.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    Die Vor- und Frühindustrialisierung (1750 und 1850) im Spiegel der Literatur, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Vor- und Frühindustrialisierung (1750 und 1850) im Spiegel der Literatur. Internationale Tagung, Saarbrücken, 13. und 14. November 2024. Literaturarchiv Saar-Lor-Lux-Elsass der Universität des Saarlandes Dass die Industrialisierung in den...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 12.02.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.03.2024
    Magical Things, Haunted Objects II: The Clock Strikes Back! Gender and Object-Oriented Ontology in German Women’s Literature up to 1918
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Pre-20th Century Panel, Women in German Conference, Online, October 24-26, 2024 “Nur was uns anschaut sehen wir...”--Franz Hessel, “Spazieren in Berlin” In Annette von Droste Hülshoff’s Die Judenbuche, the eponymous tree stands as a silent...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 4 more
    Created on: 09.02.2024
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2024
    GSA Seminar: The Diversities of Care in the Long 19th Century (Atlanta)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Seminar: The Diversities of Care in the Long 19th Century 48th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia September 26-29, 2024 Submission Deadline: February 23, 2024 Recently, the concept of “care”...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 05.02.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2024
    Imagining Italy: Space, Gender and Discourse in Women’s Writing 1789-1914 // L’Italie sous la plume des femmes : espace, genre, discours 1789-19
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International conference / colloque international : Université de Lorraine, Nancy, 7-8 novembre 2024 Imagining Italy: Space, Gender and Discourse in Women’s Writing 1789-1914 // L’Italie sous la plume des femmes : espace, genre, discours...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 22.01.2024
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women's Fiction, Huelva (Spain)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Seminar Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women’s Fiction University of Huelva, Spain 17-18 October, 2024 Traditional approaches to the ‘origins of the novel’ question in...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literary genre and 5 more
    Created on: 18.12.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2024
    Sex and the Writing Scene (GSA), Atlanta
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Sex and the Writing Scene around 1800 (Panel Series at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Assocation, September 26-30, sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America.) Writing can be a medium of sex – a union that underwent a phase...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 2 more
    Created on: 18.12.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.12.2023
    Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network 2024
    Submitted by: Sarah Fengler

    The Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network (a TORCH Student Network at the University of Oxford) is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone working on or interested in Scandinavia, regardless of their home institution. The Network offers an...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature of the 16th century and 5 more
    Created on: 06.12.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2024
    Transnational Narratives: European Women's Fiction in the Early Modern Period (ESSE Conference, Laussane)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) CONFERENCE, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 26-30 August, 2024 Convenors of Seminar 38: Gerd Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, FAU, Germany) gerd.bayer@fau.de ...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  World Literature,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 01.12.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    CfP [REMINDER]: Krisen als Impulse für die Germanistik? Überlegungen, Untersuchungen, Reflexionen (Frist: 15. Januar 2024)
    Submitted by: Christian Baier

    Internationale Konferenz in Zusammenarbeit mit der „Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik“ (GiG) Krisen als Gegenstand der wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung haben in der germanistischen Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 5 more
    Created on: 15.11.2023