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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: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.04.2023
    1 postdoctoral position and 3 PhD positions, University of Leuven (COLLAB - ERC StG project)
    Submitted by: Núria Codina

    As part of the ERC Starting Grant project “Making Migrant Voices Heard Through Literature: How Collaboration is Changing the Cultural Field” ( COL LAB , 2023-2028), led by Núria Codina, the University of Leuven (Belgium) is recruiting one...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 01.03.2023
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 16.09.2021
    The tales of Archaeology: Towards a Literary Memory Map of the Mediterranean Space, Rome
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    2-day Conference: 16-17 September 2021 Academia Belgica, Rome In collaboration with Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia Working languages: English, French, Italian When visiting the Etruscan necropolis of Cerveteri, near...

    Fields of research French literature,  Italian literature,  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 7 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 15.09.2021
    Biofiction as world literature, KU Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Day 1 (15 September): Genre and gender Day 2 (16 September): Genealogies and precursors Day 3 (17 September): Truth and representation Day 4 (18 September): Politics, oppression, negotiation WEDNESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER (DAY 1 –...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Poststructuralism and 5 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  9. 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
  10. 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