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  1. Alexandra Juster
    University or institution: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Italian literature; Ecocriticism; Literature and law; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    Le rôle de la littérature dans la réflexion sociale sur les catastrophes naturelles, de l’Antiquité à nos jours
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’études Le rôle de la littérature dans la réflexion sociale sur les catastrophes naturelles, de l’Antiquité à nos jours 30 mai 2024 Journée d’étude en ligne (sur Teams) organisée par le CELIS sous la direction de Kim...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.),  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 7 more
    Created on: 05.02.2024
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Mythenschlüssel und Urkultur: Antiquarismus und Aitiologie im 19. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Teilprojekt befasst sich mit Universalmythologien des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts und ihrer Bedeutung für die Mythenexegese der späteren Folkloristen und Anthropologen, denen das gesammelte und zu mythologischen Systemen verdichtete Material im...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Die Anfänge des Schreibens in den Anfängen der Welt: Schöpfung und Auktorialität
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Teilprojekt untersucht das Verhältnis von Schöpfung und Auktorialität in der Literatur der Vormoderne. Dabei wählt es die Ambiguität von ‘Schöpfung’ als Erschaffung von Welt und Hervorbringung von Text zum Ausgangspunkt und fragt, wie die darin...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 6 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.01.2024
    Littérature et événements politiques dans un horizon méditerranéen (revue Autres Modernités)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Littérature et événements politiques dans un horizon méditerranéen. Nouvelles voix dans le milieu culturel après les mouvements citoyens en Espagne, France et Italie (2011-2021) Propositions de contribution en français, italien, espagnol ou...

    Fields of research French literature,  Italian literature,  Spanish literature and 6 more
    Created on: 22.12.2023
  6. 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

  7. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    Die Gegenwärtigkeit der Courasche. Grimmelshausens Roman im Kontext aktueller Theoriedebatten
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Gegenwärtigkeit der Courasche. Grimmelshausens Roman im Kontext aktueller Theoriedebatten Hgg: Daniela Fuhrmann (Universität Zürich) & Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia) Grimmelshausens Courasche (1670) diente als...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Feminist studies and 3 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  8. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 22.09.2023
    Tenure-Track Position, Pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies (Harvard)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Position Description The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures seeks to hire a tenure-track professor of French and Francophone literatures and cultures specializing in any of the periods prior to the nineteenth century, from the...

    Fields of research French literature,  Didactics of Literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.05.2023
    Flower Power - Blossoms and Petals Between Beauty, Classification, and Dominance
    Submitted by: Sophie Emilia Seidler

    Following the vegetal turn in the humanities, our conference aims to explore the literary, cultural, and philosophical implications of flowers. Flowers are far less innocent than bridal bouquets and Mother’s Day kitsch might suggest. For Alice...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 9 more
    Created on: 26.04.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2023
    Violent Child-Animal Encounters in Literature. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Submitted by: Marina Ortrud Hertrampf

    In the last decades, we have witnessed a variety of theories and approaches - from multispecies ethnography to trans- and posthumanist philosophy - that aim to decentralize the category of the human. Introducing a posthuman perspective into the study...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 27 more
    Created on: 06.12.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2022
    Posthumanism, Biocentrism, and Ecocriticism in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (NeMLA 2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Posthumanism, biocentrism, and ecocriticism have profoundly impacted the fields of literary studies and critical theory in the last two decades: more and more scholars have investigated how literature engages with the relationship between humans...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Ecocriticism,  Narratology and 2 more
    Created on: 16.09.2022
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2022
    CFP-Kremenets Comparative Studies-Vol. 12-2022-2023
    Submitted by: Denys Chyk

    Dear Colleague, Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets and NGO “Volyn Cultural Initiatives” (Ukraine) invites you to submit a paper to the 12th annual scientific journal “Kremenets Comparative Studies” ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 75 more
    Created on: 18.08.2022
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2022
    Bookscapes in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American World – SEAA XVII-XVIII Conference (Strasbourg)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Considering, on the one hand, that the development of printing and the spread of the printed word across the Western world contributed to shaping representations of the known and unknown world, and secondly, that geographical metaphors structure...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 08.08.2022
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Heidelberg
    TRENKER – (DIS-)KONTINUITÄTEN EINER TRANSALPINEN MEDIENMARKE
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Luis Trenker, 1892 im Grödnertal in Südtirol geboren und 1990 in Bozen gestorben, ist wohl die populärste transalpine Medienfigur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ab den 1920er Jahren ist er als Schauspieler, Regisseur, Produzent und Autor in Deutschland und...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Italian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 24.09.2021
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2021
    La nature dans la cité : émotions et représentations
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Université d’Oxford, 20, 21 et 22 avril 2022 L’idée que la ville peut avoir des effets délétères sur la santé des citadins ne date pas du XIXe siècle. Les médecins du XVIIe siècle et surtout du XVIIIe siècle, se référant au Traité des airs,...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 6 more
    Created on: 28.06.2021