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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 02.05.2024
    Martin Opitz und die große Wende? 400 Jahre Buch von der deutschen Poeterey (1624–2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Tagung: Martin Opitz und die große Wende? 400 Jahre Buch von der deutschen Poeterey (1624–2024) 2.–4. Mai 2024, Tübingen, Alte Aula Donnerstag, 2. Mai 2024 16:00 Uhr Begrüßung und Einführung (Prof. Dr. Jörg Robert, Prof. Dr....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Poetics and 6 more
    Created on: 15.04.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.04.2024
    Feminisms in the 21st-Century Science Fiction Novel (PAMLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 121st annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 7, to Sunday, November 10, 2024, at the Margaritaville Resort, Palm Springs, California. Feminisms in the...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 12.04.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    Writing Angst: The Gothic / Schauerliteratur in Scotland and Germany from 1800 until Today”, Universität Göttingen/TU Dresden
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Göttingen University, September 4-6, 2024 Few literary genres are better suited to give voice to cultural, social and political anxieties in periods of collective crises and disorientation than the Gothic, or Schauerliteratur. In our own age of...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary genre and 5 more
    Created on: 16.02.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.03.2024
    GSA-Panel 2024: Literary Kinships in Contemporary German Literature, Atlanta
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    German Studies Association Conference September 26-29, 2024 Atlanta, GA CfP: Literary Kinships in Contemporary German Literature For this panel series we are interested in exploring literary kinships in their varied...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Intermediality,  Literary genre and 2 more
    Created on: 22.01.2024
  5. 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

  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.11.2023
    CFP for an Edited Collection on the Contemporary Global Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    We are seeking proposals for contributions to an edited collection of essays, titled Unruly Fictions: Geographies of Genre in the Contemporary Global Novel, focused on how the contemporary global novel expands the generic boundaries of fiction. This...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Thinking Modern Epic (ACLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What can be said about epic today? Although M.M. Bakhtin famously declared the impossibility of epic in a modern, polyphonic world in 1941, the category has remained a dynamic source of artistic and critical interest. The works considered in studies...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.10.2023
    Science-fiction et politique en littérature et dans les arts (Séminaire, Toulouse)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Science-fiction et politique en littérature et dans les arts L’objectif de ce séminaire filé du laboratoire LLA-Créatis de l’Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès est de développer une réflexion ouverte sur les questionnements « politiques », au...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 04.09.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2023
    Räume als Gattungscodes? Die deutschsprachige Novelle im ›Topographical Turn‹, Bochum/online
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: Räume als Gattungscodes? Die deutschsprachige Novelle im ›Topographical Turn‹ »Totgesagte leben länger«, konstatieren Sascha Kiefer und Torsten Mergen (2021) für die deutschsprachige Novelle, die häufig als Relikt einer...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and geography/cartography,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 24.03.2023
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 03.02.2023
    Opferdramaturgie und Viktimologie der Geschlechter in Prosa und Film (19. Jh. bis zur Gegenwart) Berlin, 3./4. Februar 2023
    Submitted by: Anna Maria Spener

    Opferdramaturgie und Viktimologie der Geschlechter in Prosa und Film (19. Jh. bis zur Gegenwart) Berlin, 3./4. Februar 2023 Exposé Augenscheinlich vermehren sich gegenwärtig wieder die Diskurse ums Opfer. Das ist freilich keine...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Italian literature and 9 more
    Created on: 16.01.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2023
    International Conference "Afterlives of Empire in the Public Imagination" (Sapienza University of Rome)
    Submitted by: Tiziano De Marino

    CALL FOR PAPERS The resurgence of nationalist ideologies in Europe and the US has reignited interest in the histories and legacies of modern Empires. As of late, this has been strongly visible in the UK. The role of imperial nostalgia...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 20 more
    Created on: 21.12.2022
  13. Joelle Renstrom
    University or institution: Boston University
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Literature and computer science/cybernetics; Literary genre; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2022
    Jud Süß 1925-2025: Literatur gegen Feindbilder in Krisenzeiten
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Prof. Dr. Eugenio Spedicato (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italien) apl. Prof. Dr. Anne-Rose Meyer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Deutschland) Dr. Gernot Wimmer (Universität Wien, Österreich) XV. IVG Graz 2025: „Sprache und Literatur...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and sociology,  Intermediality and 3 more
    Created on: 26.09.2022
  15. 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