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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.07.2024
    Literaturgeschichte und Buchmarkt, 1500–1700‘, Heidelberg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Literaturgeschichte und Buchmarkt, 1500–1700 Heidelberg, 26.–28. März 2025 (unter Vorbehalt) Die Literaturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit scheint in einem nicht unerheblichen Ausmaß von der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Autoren und Offizinen geprägt zu...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Translation and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2024
    Reisen ins Osmanische Reich. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, Irsee
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Reisen ins Osmanische Reich. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. VII. Philipp-Hainhofer-Kolloquium der Schwabenakademie Irsee, 4. – 6. April 2025, Irsee Die Tagung widmet sich deutschsprachigen Reisen ins Osmanische Reich sowie den...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey),  Near Eastern literature and 3 more
    Created on: 14.06.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 12.06.2024
    Small Forms in Circulation: Infrastructures, Practices, Publics
    Submitted by: Morten Schneider

    Call for Papers Small Forms in Circulation: Infrastructures, Practices, Publics Humboldt University of Berlin, November 28-30, 2024 Submission deadline: June 12, 2024 Acceptance letters in August Small textual and material...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and sociology and 10 more
    Created on: 07.05.2024
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  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: 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2024
    Konvergenz, Zerstreuung, Konfusion. Wissen übersetzen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (1. Sektion des 14. Kongress des Frankoromanistikverbands)
    Submitted by: Roberta Colbertaldo

    Unsere Sektion beschäftigt sich mit der mehrsprachigen Genese von Wissen in Übersetzungsprozessen. Komplementär zu den bereits rezipierten naturwissenschaftlichen Diskursen im Frankreich des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts möchten wir anhand dreier...

    Fields of research French literature,  Translation,  Theory of translation and 2 more
    Created on: 12.10.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    Die Gegenwärtigkeit der Courasche. Grimmelshausens Roman im Kontext aktueller Theoriedebatten
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Gegenwärtigkeit der Courasche. Grimmelshausens Roman im Kontext aktueller Theoriedebatten Hgg: Daniela Fuhrmann (Universität Zürich) & Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia) Grimmelshausens Courasche (1670) diente als...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Feminist studies and 3 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  13. 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
  14. 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
  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