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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context, Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Since the consolidation of world literature as a field of research in the 1990s, the study of literature beyond national frameworks has almost become commonplace. While the focus of this discipline has been on the transformations and shifting...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 1 more
    Created on: 06.10.2023
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    Workshop: Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century, Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

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

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2023
    The International Translation and Circulation of Shakespeare Criticism
    Submitted by: Carmen Reisinger

    This conference will take place in Leuven, Belgium on 26 and 27 June 2023. It is organized by the research team of the project „Bringing the Bard Back Home? The English translation of foreign Shakespear criticism in the long 19th century“, funded by...

    Created on: 29.09.2022
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.05.2022
    Irish Literature and Periodical Culture (KU Leuven)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Leuven Centre for Irish Studies || University of Leuven, Belgium || 1 – 3 December 2022 Since the emergence of periodical studies as a distinct discipline some decades ago, the importance of literary magazines in shaping and influencing...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Hermeneutics,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 07.03.2022
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2021
    Workshop on Re-imagining Class : Working-Class Identity and Intersectionality in Contemporary Culture (Leuven, Belgium)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Re-imagining Class: Working-Class Identity and Intersectionality in Contemporary Culture Workshop, KU Leuven (Belgium), 5-6 May 2022 Call for Papers In the past few years, the concept of class has reemerged as a...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art and 5 more
    Created on: 12.11.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2022
    The Mimetic Turn: Final International Conference on Homo Mimeticus (ERC), KU Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    April 20-22, 2022, KU Leuven Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the value of mimetic representations, but they agreed that humans are mimetic animals—for good and ill. This ancient realization has long remained in the shadow of dominant...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 6 more
    Created on: 05.11.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2021
    Gender, Networks and Collaboration Across Cultures and History
    Submitted by: Núria Codina

    CfP: Gender, Networks and Collaboration Across Cultures and History< 6 May 2022 Organizers: Núria Codina and Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven) Keynote Speakers: Rebecca Braun (NUI Galway) & Hilary Brown (Birmingham) As the...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 05.10.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.02.2021
    Posthuman Mimesis. Embodiment, Affect, Contagion
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CALL FOR PROPOSALS POSTHUMAN MIMESIS: EMBODIMENT, AFFECT, CONTAGION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, 20-22 MAY 2021, KU LEUVEN (ONLINE) Keynotes Katherine Hayles (Duke University) Kevin Warwick (Coventry University) ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 20.11.2020
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2020
    Online Konferenz "World Literature and the Minor: Figuration, Circulation, Translation"
    Submitted by: Núria Codina

    World Literature and the Minor: Figuration, Circulation, Translation 6 – 7 May 2021 University of Leuven, Belgium (online) Keynote Speakers: Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin) B....

    Created on: 14.10.2020
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2020
    Online conference "World Literature and the Minor: Figuration, Circulation, Translation"
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    World Literature and the Minor: Figuration, Circulation, Translation 6 – 7 May 2021 University of Leuven, Belgium (online) Keynote...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 09.10.2020
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2020
    Biofiction as World Literature (15.04.2020)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Biofiction (literature that takes a real biography as its point of departure) is powered by what Colm Tóibín has recently called “the anchored imagination”, which grants the fictional narrative a certain ambiguous (almost duplicitous) credibility. As...

    Fields of research Narratology,  World Literature,  The fictional
    Created on: 21.01.2020
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2020
    Lines of Heredity: Eugenics and Gender in European Literature, 1880-1935
    Submitted by: Fatima Borrmann

    May 18-19, 2020 MDRN First keynote speaker: Prof. Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter). Second keynote speaker to be announced later. During the late 19th and early 20th century evolutionary theory and new...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 9 more
    Created on: 17.10.2019