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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.02.2024
    Bridges and Borders: Media (In)Forms
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A Graduate Student Virtual Conference presented by the Department of English Literary & Cultural Studies Colloquia in Collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages. Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Cait McKiney. “Studying information...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies and 2 more
    Created on: 21.12.2023
  3. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 23.08.2024
    Summer School: New Approaches and Methods for Research in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    The Summer School: New Approaches and Methods for Research in Children’s Media will be held at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (Germany) and aims at students interested in Children’s and YA-media in Germany and abroad. Numerous...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Didactics of Literature,  Literary theory and 10 more
    Created on: 21.11.2023
  4. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.11.2023
    Professeur adjoint ou professeure adjointe dans le domaine de la littérature comparée / Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (Université de Montréal)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description du poste Le Département de littératures et de langues du monde sollicite des candidatures pour un poste de professeure ou de professeur à temps plein au rang d’adjoint en littérature comparée avec une spécialisation en théories...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 06.11.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 21.12.2023
    Borders/Freedom/Civility (Gettysburg, PA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Exit West, Mohsin Hamid writes, “We are all migrants through time.” Hamid’s words speak to the growing crisis of statelessness, precipitated and accelerated by the extractive expansion of colonial and imperial powers, endless war, and intensifying...

    Fields of research Deconstruction,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 06.11.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics, Manisa, Turkey
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics, to be held by 9-11 May, 2024 in Manisa, Turkiye, as did its predecessors, aims to bring together academics of language studies in sharing their scholarly...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Feminist studies and 5 more
    Created on: 23.10.2023
  7. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 30.11.2023
    PhD Research Position (male/female/diverse), »Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe«, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, befristet auf 3 Jahre (TV-L E13 65 %)
    Submitted by: Christian Scheerhorn

    The project »Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe« at the Media Faculty of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is hiring a Research Assistant (male/female/diverse) The PhD research position is funded through a...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Poststructuralism,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.09.2023
    Tagung "Gender & Sexualität in der Literatur- und Mediendidaktik" an der Universität Osnabrück
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gender & Sexualität in der Literatur- und Mediendidaktik Gender, Diversität und Feminismus sind gesellschaftlich kontrovers diskutierte Themen, die innerhalb der Literatur- und Mediendidaktik noch deutlicher aufgegriffen und reflektiert werden...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 1 more
    Created on: 04.09.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.09.2023
    She Said, He Said, They Said: (Un)Reliable Narrators in Literature (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From monologues offering invectives about various characters in Shakespearean plays and poetry; suspicious narrations involving characters in Hawthorne’s short stories and novels; distrustful narrators in Marge Percy’s sci-fi stories, novels and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Narratology,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Émigré Berlin: The Russian Diaspora in Exile (NeMLA 2024) (Northeast MLA (NeMLA) Convention 2024) (Boston, MA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Russian émigré community in Berlin arose in response to one political crisis and was destroyed by another soon after. Before its destruction, however, the exuberance of émigré Berlin combined the energy of a lively Western city undergoing a...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.06.2023
    4. Studientag der Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft: „Über Menschen… und darüber hinaus“ (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 14.07.2023)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Die studies haben in den letzten Jahren Hochkonjunktur: von den animal über die plant bis hin zu den critical future studies – verhandelt wird die Stellung des Menschen in einem Geflecht wechselseitiger Abhängigkeiten. Was ist...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary theory and 13 more
    Created on: 05.06.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    Material Girls & Boys: Narrated Fashion in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    (March 7th - 9th, 2024 Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Clothing is a daily feature of every child’s life and this significance carries through into the media created for children and young people. From picture books for toddlers...

    Fields of research Empirical Aesthetics,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 13 more
    Created on: 02.05.2023
  15. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 08.05.2023
    Auerbach Lectures | Vorlesungsreihe des Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies | Köln
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies lädt Sie herzlich zu den Auerbach Lectures im Sommersemester 2023 ein. Die Vorlesungsreihe wird montags um 18 Uhr stattfinden. Gäste sind herzlich willkommen! Montags 18:00 Uhr Ort: Bibliothek...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 24.04.2023