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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2025
    Oxford English Graduate Conference (OEGC) 2025: Artifice
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How do we distinguish between the artifical and the real? How does literature reshape and reinforce this distinction? From the formal constraints of Shakespeare's sonnets to the metafiction of Nabokov's Pale Fire to the magical realism of Garcia...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary theory,  Literature and philosophy and 2 more
    Created on: 28.04.2025
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.12.2024
    Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network 2025
    Submitted by: Sarah Fengler

    The Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network is an interdisciplinary TORCH Student Network (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities) established in 2023 and based at the University of Oxford. The Network is led by Sarah Fengler, Leif Hammer, Marie...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature of the 16th century and 5 more
    Created on: 03.12.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2025
    Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Keynote Speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University) In a time of planetary crisis, our understanding of the earth as a whole is a matter of ecological and geopolitical consequence. What extinguished worldviews might be salvaged from...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 7 more
    Created on: 22.11.2024
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 18.09.2024
    Kafka Transformed, Wadham College Oxford
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear Colleagues, Registration for ' Kafka Transformed', a three-day international conference funded by the AHRC project 'Kafka's Transformative Communities', is now open. The conference will take place at Wadham College Oxford on 18-20...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Reader-response criticism,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 12.07.2024
  5. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 06.09.2024
    Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Modern Languages (All Souls College, Oxford)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Five-Year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships Location: All Souls College, Oxford Salary: £46,996 to £50,211 (including housing allowance of £10,865 if eligible) Hours: Full-Time Contract: Contract/Temporary All Souls College invites...

    Created on: 24.06.2024
  6. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 08.04.2024
    Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Languages (Literature & Culture) at St Hugh's College, Oxford
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Applications are invited for the Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Languages at St Hugh’s College, Oxford (currently £35,308 per annum). This two-year Fellowship is open to those working in the following fields, in any period: ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Italian literature
    Created on: 25.03.2024
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2023
    Kafka Transformed (University of Oxford)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Kafka Transformed International Conference; University of Oxford, 18-20 September 2024 Franz Kafka’s role as a world author is inextricably linked to his reception and afterlife. His global legacy has been shaped by academic as well as...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 8 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 17.09.2023
    Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Date: November 4-5, 2023 Location: University of Oxford, UK Online option available Cost: 170 GBP 90 GBP (Online) Abstract: Deadline September 17, 2023 “Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and natural science and 3 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.06.2023
    Conference | Rethinking Lyric Communities in Premodern Worlds
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Laura Banella, Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, and Nicolas Longinotti. In cooperation with Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame . From the circulation of...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  Oral poetry / Orality,  World Literature and 9 more
    Created on: 12.05.2023
  11. Roberto Interdonato
    University or institution: University of Oxford

  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 24.03.2022
    The Heritage of Humanism and Enlightenment in Exile Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Heritage of Humanism and Enlightenment in Exile Literature International Conference, Thursday 24 and Friday 25 March 2022 Maplethorpe Seminar Room, St Hugh’s College, Oxford OX2 6LE Organisers: Ritchie Robertson (Queens, Oxford),...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 11.03.2022
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2022
    Lendings, signifying, identities (Oxford)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Day conference Saturday 5 November 2022 Corpus Christi College, Oxford The discovery of an identity can be important in narratives. When he gets home, Odysseus after so long away is not easily recognised. King Lear, storm-wracked and ousted...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Structuralism and 4 more
    Created on: 25.02.2022
  14. Sarah Fengler
    University or institution: University of Oxford

  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2021
    International Conference on Poetry Studies: “Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation“
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Poetry is a constant, being produced by all known civilisations from ancient to modern times. Throughout its extensive history, the individual art of high emotions sublimated into perfect language has approached a vast array of subject matters,...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Lyric poetry
    Created on: 18.10.2021