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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: 31.05.2024
    Citer, éditer, réécrire : réception et représentation de la poésie latine fragmentaire (Grenoble)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    AAC - Colloque international "Citer, éditer, réécrire : réception et représentation de la poésie latine fragmentaire" Deadline 31/05/2024 Université Grenoble Alpes, 4-6 Decembre 2024 La manière dont notre accès aux textes...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Reader-response criticism and 4 more
    Created on: 19.04.2024
  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: 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
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.03.2024
    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts
    Submitted by: Johanna Schubert

    (Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts The creation of texts can take various forms. One seemingly obvious method is to copy an already existing text. The material evidence of this practice in Antiquity and the Middle Ages...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary theory,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 12.02.2024
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2023
    Du film au roman, du roman au film : l'affiche pour passerelle (Tours)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’Etudes « Du film au roman, du roman au film : l’affiche comme passerelle » Le jeudi 21 mars 2024 à la Bibliothèque des Cinémas Studio laboratoire ICD (Université de Tours) Les affiches de films sont une...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Intermediality,  Novel
    Created on: 21.12.2023
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    ‘Novel Media/Media Novel: Theorising Digital Media Cultures in the Contemporary Novel’ -- Special Issue of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
    Submitted by: Sandro Eich

    Contemporary novels are marbled with representations of digital media. Despite the notable attention to digital technologies already present in post-war literature, the twenty-first century has witnessed the unprecedented integration of digital media...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Australian/Oceanian literature and 7 more
    Created on: 11.10.2023
  15. 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