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  1. 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
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The first annual conference of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU) discusses a variety of understandings of the political novel as a genre. It probes genre-theoretically and genre-historically informed...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 14 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2023
    Writing a British Childhood in a Global Context? Critical Perspectives on Enid Blyton, Potsdam
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Dr. Aileen Behrendt (University of Potsdam), Dr. Hadassah Stichnothe (University of Bremen), Dr. Stefanie Jakobi (University of Bremen) Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Kim Reynolds (Newcastle University) Prof. Emer O’Sullivan...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 1 more
    Created on: 23.06.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 25.05.2023
    Uncovering British Chinese Cultures. Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In current academic work, the British Chinese perspectives are predominantly characterised by their absence. Only a single collection of articles dealing with the topic, Ashley Thorpe and Diana Yeh’s Contesting British Chinese Culture (2018),...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  East Asian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 15.05.2023
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.06.2023
    Postcolonial Narrations Postgraduate Forum: Queering Postcolonial Worlds
    Submitted by: Corina Wieser-Cox

    In Queer Phenomenology (2006), Sara Ahmed explores racial and sexual orientations in the world, writing “Queer orientations are those that put within reach bodies that have been made unreachable by the lines of conventional genealogy. Queer...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from UK and Ireland and 8 more
    Created on: 05.04.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2023
    Beziehungsweise(n) dichten – Freundinnenschaft in der europäischen Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts (HU Berlin)
    Submitted by: Gudrun Weiland

    CFP: Beziehungsweise(n) dichten – Freundinnenschaft in der europäischen Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts. Transphilologische Jahrestagung ‚Femmes de Lettres‘ im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (FONTE-Stiftung) am 5.-6. Oktober 2023 an der HU Berlin Von...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 6 more
    Created on: 15.03.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 25.01.2023
    CFP: [kon]-paper No. 10 zum Thema ›Raum‹
    Submitted by: Pia Lobodzinski

    Das interdisziplinäre Literatur- und Kulturmagazin [kon]-paper schreibt seit 2015 mit jeder Ausgabe ein Wort aus, dem sich Feuilleton- und Essaybeiträge sowie Gedichte, kurze Prosa und szenische Texte widmen. Das Thema der zehnten Ausgabe, die...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 13 more
    Created on: 04.01.2023
  9. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 02.01.2023
    Wissenschaftlicher Koordinator (m/w/d, TV–L E13, Teilzeit 75 %, befristet auf fünf Jahre)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Am von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten Graduiertenkollegs 2845 „ Family Matters. Figuren der Ent-Bindung“ an der LMU München ist zum 01.04.2023 eine Stelle als Wissenschaftlicher Koordinator (m/w/d, TV–L E13, Teilzeit...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries and 9 more
    Created on: 16.12.2022
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2022
    Gender Performance on the Elizabethan Stage and Beyond: Radicality or Run-of-the-mill?
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Université de Poitiers U.F.R Sciences Humaines et Arts U.F.R Lettres et Langues MAPP & CESCM Co-organisers: Oliver NORMAN & Louis ANDRE “Viola. I am all the daughters of my father’s house, / And all the brothers too” ( Twelfth Night, Or...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Drama and 1 more
    Created on: 05.09.2022
  11. 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
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 21.08.2022
    Automobility in Literature and Film / Représenter la locomotion automobile dans la littérature et le cinéma
    Submitted by: Melanie Schneider

    Addition: The conference can also be attended online. The only condition for a contribution online is the use of a powerpoint presentation to guarantee a good understanding for the participants. Representing Automobility in Literature...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 5 more
    Created on: 15.06.2022
  13. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 08.05.2022
    “The Fatal Curve”–Female Outsiders in 19th century Literature
    Submitted by: Des Batziou

    The Idea GIRES, the Global Institute for Research, Education & Scholarship is proud to introduce a series of short seminars dedicated to literature. We embrace Scott Fitzgerald’s opinion about the beauty of this fine craft: “ You discover that...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine) and 4 more
    Created on: 13.03.2022
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.04.2022
    Transmediale und interdisziplinäre Analysen des Traums und Träumens in Kinder- und Jugendmedien
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    In dieser Ringvorlesung werden Expert*innen verschiedener literatur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen kritische Einsichten in kulturelle, historische, medienspezifische, ästhetische und theoretische Charakteristiken der Phänomene des Traums...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 21 more
    Created on: 07.03.2022
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2022
    Liebesgeflüster und Wutgeschrei: Affektkommunikation in Antike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit / Whisperings of Love - Cries of Anger: Communicating Emotions in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
    Submitted by: Thomas Kullmann

    Emerging Scholars Workshop des Interdisziplinären Instituts für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN) Osnabrück | 12.–14.10.2022 Spätestens seit dem ‚Emotional Turn‘ der (späten) 1990er-Jahre ist die Emotionsforschung in den Kultur- und...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 33 more
    Created on: 15.02.2022