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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.04.2024
    Interspecies Friendships and Non-human Companionships (2024 annual conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Friendship and companionship offer complementary relationships with the world as they in various ways undermine the idea of singularity. As Jean-Luc Nancy notes in Being Singular Plural, what makes the idea of the singular pure and simple an...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 22.03.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 05.04.2024
    FORUM Call for Papers (Issue 35): Emotion and Affect (Journal issue)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Affect theory turns our attention towards a re-contextualisation of emotional and affective experiences within past and contemporary constructions of race, gender and sexuality. It leads us towards the para-rational zones of lived experience...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and other forms of art and 2 more
    Created on: 19.02.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2024
    Seminar "Narrating Entanglement: Literary Strategies for a World in Crisis" (GSA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    GSA Seminar "Narrating Entanglement: Literary Strategies for a World in Crisis" German Studies Association Conference in Atlanta, Georgia (26-29 September, 2024) Submission deadline: February 23, 2024 This seminar invites...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Poetics,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 09.02.2024
  4. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 04.02.2024
    Gesucht: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (DFG) in deutsch-britischem Forschungsprojekt zu "Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment" (DFG/AHRC)
    Submitted by: Hania Siebenpfeiffer

    Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (DFG) in deutsch-britischem Forschungsprojekt zu "Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment" (DFG/AHRC) Am Institut für Neuere deutsche Literatur der ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary theory and 7 more
    Created on: 19.01.2024
  5. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin,  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and 1 more
    Aitiologien – Figuren und Funktionen begründenden Erzählens in Wissenschaft und Literatur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe Aitiologien untersucht Schöpfungserzählungen, literarische und wissenschaftliche Urszenen sowie politische Gründungsmotive im Hinblick auf ihre zeitlichen Kontexte und Rhetoriken. In der Forschungsgruppe...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and philosophy and 5 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 22.12.2023
    CfP: Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen (22.12.2023)
    Submitted by: Daniel Wendt

    Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen Literaturwissenschaftliches Symposium, Schloss Rauischholzhausen, 26.-28.9.2024 Der Satire ist nicht leicht beizukommen. Nicht erst die jüngeren Diskussionen um...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 9 more
    Created on: 05.12.2023
  7. Daniel Wendt
    University or institution: Marburg
    Fields of research: Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literary historiography; Literary theory; New Historicism; Reader-response criticism; Ecocriticism; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); Comedy; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Theory of translation; Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  8. OTHERNESSES – Towards Humanisms Beyond BorderThinking
    Submitted by: Diana Mariam Popal

    A Workspace for anti-violent, anti-racist, Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought as Praxis Othernesses provides a platform for critical exchange and dialogue on an international and cross-disciplinary level between different critical...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Deconstruction and 6 more
    Created on: 04.12.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2024
    Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What happens when literature–and even language–is used for subversion? When authors write in response to political action, literature functions as a tool. When authors represent their times and their worlds, literature functions symbolically. When...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 6 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.11.2023
    Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CfP Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature (deadline 3rd November 2023) What happens when we look away from modernism/s? We are inviting academics to consider this question with a specific...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 13.10.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Genre Turn in Multiethnic Literature (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his landmark essay, "The Second Elevation: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative," Ramón Saldívar proclaimed the arrival of a "cohort of contemporary authors . . . [who] all raise as formal and thematic concerns the very...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  12. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures (Saarbrücken)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures" 8. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft e.V. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken Ein Interesse an wissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung mit dem ›Populären‹ ist wohl...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies and 6 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA-Panel 2024: Temporalities of Memory, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Temporalities of Memory Organizer: Michael McGillen (Dartmouth College) A key challenge facing memory studies, despite its central role in interdisciplinary humanities work over the past 30 years, is how the field can survive in the face...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and philosophy,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  15. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 31.10.2023
    Drei Stellen als wissenschaftliche Programmleitungen für die drei Programmbereiche "Geschichte", "Erfahrung" und "Natur" - Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Die Universität des Saarlandes ist eine Campus-Universität, die international bekannt ist durch ihre ausgeprägte Forschungsorientierung. Die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses und die Schaffung idealer Bedingungen für Forschung und Lehre...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 05.09.2023