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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    REMINDER CFP Conference: Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century.
    Submitted by: Carolin Loyens

    Two-day Workshop at the Department of Literary Studies KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts December 14-15, 2023 Decades of scholarship on the mechanisms of knowledge formation have generated a wide awareness that the transhistorical...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 17 more
    Created on: 06.10.2023
  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: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 04.04.2022
    European Literatures of Military Occupation 1938-1955 (Loveno di Menaggio & Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The conference aims to shed light on the literary and cultural representation of occupation as a European experience. Literary scholars from all over Europe will come together to discuss the outlines and implications of a comparative perspective on...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 6 more
    Created on: 21.03.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2021
    Gender and Colonialism: Cultures, Histories, and Theories
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Chunjie Zhang and Elisabeth Krimmer (UC Davis) This edited volume explores the nexus between gender and colonialism in German, Austrian, Swiss, and Dutch colonial and neocolonial entanglements. While England, France, and Spain are...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography and 4 more
    Created on: 19.07.2021
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2020
    Journée d’étude virtuelle: Le multilinguisme évité, contourné et caché : Le monolinguisme, le multilinguisme et la (non-)traduction au 19e siècle
    Submitted by: Olga Springer

    Comment le multilinguisme se manifeste-t-il dans la littérature du 19e siècle ? Notre journée d’étude place cette question au cœur des réflexions. Nous analysons les ambivalences de la relation entre mono- et multilinguisme et la traduction dans une...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 8 more
    Created on: 06.12.2020
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2020
    Imagining inclusive communities in European culture / Imaginer des communautés inclusives dans la culture européenne / Immaginare comunità inclusive nella cultura europea
    Submitted by: Olga Springer

    20th-century criticism and theory have acquainted us with the ability of fictional narratives to build or strengthen the identity ofnations and classes, often at the expense of other communities.Investigations of the ideological significance of...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 26 more
    Created on: 09.02.2020
  7. Kitty Millet
    University or institution: San Francisco State University (SFSU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey); North African literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Literature from Israel; Near Eastern literature; East Asian literature; South Asian literature; Textual criticism, editing, codicology; Didactics of Literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; New Criticism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Empirical Aesthetics; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Narratology; Oral poetry / Orality; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Game Studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Prose; Novel; Narrative

  8. Horst Schmidt
    Fields of research: Literary historiography; Literary theory; Reader-response criticism; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; travel literature; Themes, motifs, thematology; Translation; Literature from North America; Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century); Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century); 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

  9. Claudia Schmitt
    University or institution: Universität des Saarlandes (UdS)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Ecocriticism; Narratology; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Prose; Drama; The fictional; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  10. Rolf Parr
    University or institution: Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE)
    Fields of research: Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Digital Humanities; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Postcolonial studies; Media studies; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and publishing/booktrade; Literature and media studies; Game Studies; Intermediality; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  11. Sophie Wennerscheid
    University or institution: Ghent University (UGent)
    Fields of research: Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from the Benelux Countries; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and theology/study of religions; Literature and philosophy; Literature and visual studies; Intermediality; autobiography; travel literature; Children's and young adult literature; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century