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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 22.05.2025
    Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises "Politische Ästhetiken" am Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus (Berlin, 22.-23.05.2025)
    Submitted by: Dîlan Canan Çakir

    Jahrestreffen Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken Die diesjährige Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises »Politische Ästhetiken« im Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus bringt Forschende des Arbeitskreises und Gäst*innen zusammen, um aktuelle Fragen zur...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and other forms of art,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 15.04.2025
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 06.05.2025
    DraCor Summit from 1 until 4 September 2025 in Berlin (CfP deadline: 6 May 2025)
    Submitted by: Julia Jennifer Beine

    Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the DraCor Summit in Berlin from 1 to 4 September 2025 . This four-day event will bring together researchers in computational literary studies, cultural analytics, and related fields to present...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Drama
    Created on: 20.03.2025
  3. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 18.03.2025
    READING READING ROOM: Dealing with Illegibility (18.03.2025, daadgalerie Berlin)
    Submitted by: Barbara Bausch

    Der READING READING ROOM lädt dazu ein, sich dem Lesen von seiner absoluten Grenze her zu nähern: dem Unlesbaren. Ausgehend von der Frage, was geschieht, wenn eine automatisierte und gelingende Lektüre blockiert ist, beleuchtet die Veranstaltung...

    Fields of research Reader-response criticism,  Literature and visual studies,  Literature and music/sound studies
    Created on: 03.03.2025
  4. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 13.02.2025
    Digital Tools, Radical Views, Appealing Aesthetics. Comparative Approaches to Popular Culture from Eastern Europe
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Digital media and practices have fundamentally changed our understanding of the public sphere and play an increasingly important role in the formation of political opinion. Especially populist movements and authoritarian governments are using digital...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 10 more
    Created on: 31.01.2025
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 19.02.2025
    [CfP] GSA Seminar "Literaturgeschichte intersektional weiterschreiben" (25.–28.09.2025, Arlington, VA)
    Submitted by: Dîlan Canan Çakir

    Abstract des Seminars "Literaturgeschichte intersektional weiterschreiben" Das Seminar untersucht, wie der literarische Kanon intersektional erweitert und die Praxis der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung kritisch und konstruktiv weitergedacht...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 9 more
    Created on: 29.01.2025
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2025
    Call for Interest: International Workshop “Early Petropoetics” (15-16 January 2026)
    Submitted by: Anna Seidel

    Call for Interest: International Workshop “Early Petropoetics” Petroleum has had a profound influence on society, economy, politics and culture for over a century, playing a pivotal role in the emergence of “petromodernity” (Steininger/Klose...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 28.01.2025
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2024
    Greek Bodies on the Move: Performing and Representing the Male Greek Body in the Western World through the Ages (eds. Filippo Carlà-Uhink / Florian Freitag / Patricia Gwozdz)
    Submitted by: Patricia Gwozdz

    Since the 18th century, first European philhellenism and later the scholarly disciplines of Classics and Ancient History with their social and political impact have shaped the role of ancient Greece in the historical culture, cultural memory, and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 01.12.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2024
    In search of Expressiveness: exploring the notion within the realms of literature and theatre in the 18th-19th century. Interdisciplinary Workshop
    Submitted by: Marina Sivak

    The workshop deals with the concept of expressiveness, with the objective of elucidating its evolution, transformation, and polysemy. The notion of expression stands as a pivotal concept in art history, generally implying the creation of a vivid...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies and 4 more
    Created on: 01.11.2024
  9. Marina Sivak
    University or institution: Freie Universität Berlin
    Fields of research: Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Short prose; travel literature; Literature of the 20th century

  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2024
    Gatekeeping, Buchmarkt und Publikum
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gatekeeping, Buchmarkt und Publikum Internationale Tagung des Projekts: Verborgen, Verkannt, Vergessen. Negative Zirkulation in der Literatur, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities, FU Berlin 26./27. Juni 2025 Was auf dem...

    Fields of research Literature and publishing/booktrade
    Created on: 31.10.2024
  11. Viviana Macaluso
    University or institution: Freie Universität Berlin

  12. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 16.10.2024
    Ringvorlesung – Gründe erzählen: Aitiologische Narrationen von Ursprung, Gründung und Gegenwart
    Submitted by: Anita Alimadadi

    Interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung Erzählungen über Ursprünge – sei es von Konflikten und Kriegen, von Institutionen und Nationen, von Riten, Konventionen oder Sitten, von Naturphänomenen – sind im gesellschaftlichen und wissenschaftlichen...

    Created on: 02.10.2024
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2024
    Zeitgenoss*innenschaften. Formen von Gegenwartsteilnahme
    Submitted by: Fabian Lampart

    Die Tagung soll aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, anhand verschiedener Medien und Gattungen und mit Blick auf unterschiedliche historische und kulturelle Kontexte konzeptionelle Zugänge zu „Zeitgenoss*innenschaften“ vorstellen, vorschlagen und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 19.09.2024
  14. Andreas Degen
    University or institution: Universität Potsdam
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland

  15. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 03.11.2024
    Stellen als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*innen am Exzellenzcluster 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" in Verbindung mit einem Promotionsplatz an der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule
    Submitted by: Rebecca Mak

    Ziel des Exzellenzclusters EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" ist es, die Konzeption von Literatur in globaler Perspektive grundlegend neu zu denken. Mit dem Konzept der „Temporal Communities“ wird dabei...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 10.09.2024