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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2025
    CONGIST’26 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    CONGIST’26-Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis Date: 13-15 May 2026 Venue: Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul, Turkey In the context of social sciences, crisis is broadly defined as a period of severe...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 49 more
    Created on: 01.06.2025
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.07.2025
    Rethinking Human Interaction in the Age of Transhumanism
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    Rethinking Human Interaction in the Age of Transhumanism As the boundaries of the human body and mind are increasingly expanded through technological augmentation, the nature of communication is undergoing radical transformation. In the age of...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 6 more
    Created on: 01.06.2025
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2025
    Contradictory Signs. Unconventional Narratives in Different Media
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the second conference of our recently established research network Transfictional and Transgeneric (Bremen – Coimbra), we deal with the question of contradiction, dissonance and discrepancy on an aesthetic level. In the conference we will...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Narratology,  Intermediality and 2 more
    Created on: 26.05.2025
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 19.06.2025
    BrAIve New Worlds?! Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Concepts, Genres, and Model Interpretations
    Submitted by: Anna Klambauer

    Wie verändert Künstliche Intelligenz die Literatur? Von maschinell erzeugter Poesie über KI-gesteuertes Erzählen bis hin zur nicht-menschlichen Autorschaft – die rasante Entwicklung im Bereich der KI transformiert die Art und Weise, wie wir Texte...

    Fields of research Reader-response criticism,  Narratology,  Literature and other forms of art and 4 more
    Created on: 21.05.2025
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2025
    Was ist das Politische in der KJL? // What is Political in CYAL?
    Submitted by: Katharina Andrea Kalthoff

    *English version below* CFP: Was ist das Politische in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur? *English version below* Die 20. Ausgabe von undercurrents – Forum für linke Literaturwissenschaft widmet sich dem Politischen in der...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 6 more
    Created on: 20.05.2025
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.06.2025
    Produits dérivés et culture matérielle. Extension du domaine de la fiction (Cahiers de Narratologie)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions : Cahiers de Narratologie – publication pour septembre 2026 Dossier coordonné par Marie Bastien (UCLouvain), Sébastien Fevry (UCLouvain) et Aurélie Huz (Université Paris Nanterre) De la pipe ancienne qu’aurait pu fumer...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 19.05.2025
  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.06.2025
    Fabula-LhT : Moyen Âge métaleptique ?
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à contributions pour un prochain numéro de la revue Fabula-LhT : littérature, histoire, théorie Sous la direction de Marion Uhlig et de Benedetta Viscidi Dans la nouvelle Continuité des parcs de Julio Cortázar...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies and 5 more
    Created on: 16.05.2025
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2025
    2025 Charles F. Fraker Graduate Conference
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    2025 Charles F. Fraker Conference Capitalism and Desire Department of Romance Languages and Literatures University of Michigan 17-18 October 2025 Ann Arbor, Michigan / Zoom (Hybrid) Deadline for abstracts: June 30th (up...

    Fields of research French literature,  Italian literature,  Spanish literature and 6 more
    Created on: 05.05.2025
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2025
    Narrationen und Ressourcenproteste: Fiktionale und faktuale Perspektiven aus Literaturwissenschaft und Soziologie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Narrationen und Ressourcenproteste: Fiktionale und faktuale Perspektiven aus Literaturwissenschaft und Soziologie Interdisziplinärer Workshop, 05.–07. November 2025, Bergische Universität Wuppertal Organisation: Dr. Sabrina Huber ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Narratology,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 05.05.2025
  10. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 12.06.2025
    Lust am Untergang. Die Rechte als Erzählgemeinschaft
    Submitted by: Miriam Wienhold

    Mit Vorliebe erzählt die extreme Rechte Geschichten: Vom „Untergang des Abendlands“ und der „jüdischen Weltverschwörung“ bis zum „Großen Austausch“ oder einer Virenverbreitung über das Mobilfunknetz. Krisennarrative, Halbwahrheiten und...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Rhetoric
    Created on: 24.04.2025
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.06.2025
    Reduktionismen und Minimalismen in Serie: Zeitgenössische Strategien der Verknappung, Verkürzung, Verdichtung im Medienvergleich
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Höher, schneller, teurer: spätestens mit den finanzintensiven Content-Schlachten der Streaming Wars wurde der Exzess zum facettenreichen Leitmotiv moderner Serienkultur ernannt (vgl. Maeder 2021, 11–14). Als »supersize audiovisual narrative«...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 4 more
    Created on: 11.04.2025
  12. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 22.09.2025
    SYNAPSIS – European School of Comparative Literature - Call for Applications
    Submitted by: Anna Chiara Corradino

    SYNAPSIS – EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE San Miniato (Italy), 22-26 September 2025 Knots, Bonds Date: September 22–26, 2025 Location: San Miniato, PI (Italy) Synapsis 2025 Theme: Knots, Bonds ...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) and 16 more
    Created on: 08.04.2025
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2025
    Diaspora, Transnationalism, Transculturalism, and the Layered Self (PAMLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The PAMLA 2025 Conference (its 122th one) will be held at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference runs from Thursday, November 20 until November 23, 2025. As part of PAMLA's 2025 theme “Palimpsests:...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and sociology and 2 more
    Created on: 07.04.2025
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2025
    Denken und schreiben zwischen den Sprachen: Gekreuzte Blicke auf die deutsch-französische Avantgarde, Germersheim
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Denken und schreiben zwischen den Sprachen: Gekreuzte Blicke auf die deutsch-französische Avantgarde (Tagung an der JGU Mainz/Campus Germersheim, 6.-8.11.2025) Organisiert von Prof. Dr. Eva Wiegmann (Mainz) Die europäischen...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 5 more
    Created on: 07.04.2025
  15. Anna-Lena Eick
    University or institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; Media studies; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and visual studies; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Comic; Digital literature; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 21st century