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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.04.2023
    Translation and the Periodical (International Conference, Ghent University)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Translation and the Periodical - International Conference Ghent University, Belgium Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication September 13-15, 2023 Keynote Speakers Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar (Glendon College York...

    Fields of research Literature and publishing/booktrade,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 17.04.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2021
    Workshop: Revisiting Revenge. New Perspectives for the Study of Revenge Tragedies (late 16th–early 18th century).
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Workshop: Revisiting Revenge. New Perspectives for the Study of Revenge Tragedies (late 16th–early 18th century) Ghent University (Belgium), 16-17 September 2021 Keynote speakers: Prof. Russ Leo (Princeton University) and Prof. Helen...

    Fields of research Tragedy,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 16th century and 2 more
    Created on: 27.11.2020
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2020
    Sugar and Spice and the Not So Nice: Comics Picturing Girlhood
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Symposium 22- 23 April 2021 Het Pand, Ghent University Sugar and Spice and the Not So Nice: Comics Picturing Girlhood Comics have long relied on reinforcing reader identity formation whether through interest,...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Comic
    Created on: 13.07.2020
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2020
    Ökologische Vorstellungswelten der Gegenwart: Literatur und Umwelt
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ökologische Vorstellungswelten der Gegenwart: Literatur und Umwelt Internationales Kolloquium Universität Gent – 7.-9. Dezember 2020 Die Umweltproblematik nimmt seit den 1980er Jahren einen immer größeren Raum in der zeitgenössischen...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 16.03.2020
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.03.2020
    L’imaginaire écologique contemporain : littérature et environnement
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque International Université de Gand – 7-9 décembre 2020 La problématique environnementale occupe, depuis les années 1980, une place grandissante dans la fiction contemporaine. Si la relation de l’homme avec la nature, de Théocrite...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 20.12.2019
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.02.2020
    Ein Telefonat mit den Toten. Totengespräche und Medien im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert / A Phone Call with the Dead: Dialogues with/of the Dead and Media in the 20th and 21st Century (Ghent University, 9-11 September 2020)
    Submitted by: Elena Fabietti

    Call for Papers Ein Telefonat mit den Toten Totengespräche und Medien im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert (Universität Gent, 9-11 September 2020) Seit jeher ist die Kommunikation mit und zwischen den Toten durch...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology,  Literature and media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 14.11.2019
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2020
    Traduire l’Avant-Garde en Poésie. Avant-Garde Poetry in Translation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Traduire l’Avant-Garde en Poésie Université de Gand Département de traduction, d’interprétation et de communication 12 Mars 2020 Gand, Belgique Depuis le début du XX e siècle, les avant-gardes poétiques...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Lyric poetry,  Translation and 2 more
    Created on: 11.11.2019
  8. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 04.11.2019
    Ph.D.-Position, Universität Gent
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Forschungsteam Deutsche Literatur an der Universität Gent vergibt bis zum frühestmöglichen Datum im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes „Literatur, Natur und Ökologie. Eine ökopoetische Studie zeitgenössischer fiktional-narrativer Prosa auf...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 6 more
    Created on: 04.11.2019
  9. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 01.09.2019
    Two postdoctoral positions and one research assistant post, ERC-project "Novel Echoes. Ancient Novelistic Receptions and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique and Medieval Secular Narrative from East to West", Ghent University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Novel Echoes project is a new ERC-funded research project at Ghent University (Belgium), which researches the reception of the ancient novel in medieval secular literature. We are delighted to advertise two three-year full-time postdoctoral...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Novel,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
    Created on: 09.08.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in Cyberspace: Fan Fiction and Cognitive Narratology
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    I examine how the storyworld of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is re-presented in fan fiction from the Derbyshire Writers’ Guild (Dwiggie.com). I argue that, unlike Austen, the members of this fan community tend to prioritise the individual...

    Fields of research Narratology,  The fictional,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    (Re)writing the Machine: Modernism, Gender and Technology
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project researches the relations between literature, gender and technology in the works of three early twentieth-century British women writers: Bryher (pseudonym of Annie Winifred Ellerman), Mina Loy and Nancy Cunard. It starts from the...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Enlightenment at War: Epic Poetry, the Citizen and Discursive Bridges to the Military (1740-1800)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In current debates about Western identity, the Enlightenment is associated with reason and civic emancipation, but not with war enthusiasm. It was however Enlightenment thinking that brought representations of civic and military behaviour into a...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Narratology and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Poet-Collectors during the Cold War: Poetry as Queer Archive
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores the ways in which American experimental poets struggled to create poetry that countered the Cold War ideology, and examines how the method of collecting-archiving was used in their efforts. The Cold War ‘containment culture’...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Conjuring Phantoms: A Comparative Study of Trauma in Comics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Maaheen Ahmed's postdoctoral project is on trauma in contemporary comics, relying on a broad definition of trauma to encompass the aftermath of large-scale events (the two world wars, 9/11) as well as the reverberations of psychological damage in...

    Fields of research Comic,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    The Voices of Literature: Radio, Periodicals, and Cultural Conflict (1922-1939)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project is situated at the intersection of periodical studies and literary radio studies. With the introduction of sound studies into literary studies, radio has become an important focal point in modernist studies. Modernist authors made use of...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Intermediality,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019