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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
    Pandemics and Coloniality: Biopolitical Entanglements in Early Modern Chronicles and COVID-19 Narratives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project's key question asks how structures of coloniality are inherent to COVID-19 narratives, and how their biopolitical mechanisms relate to early colonial accounts of disease. As a key result, the project will provide a rich set of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science and 4 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE),  Universität zu Köln
    Climate Change Literacy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Vor dem Hintergrund einseitig naturwissenschaftlicher Debatten zu science literacy, die geisteswissenschaftliche Beiträge weitgehend ausblenden, will das Projekt einen Beitrag zum rasch wachsenden Feld interdisziplinärer Klimawandelforschung leisten....

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science and 4 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  3. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
    Literary Organisms. La littérature des 20e et 21e siècles, entre esthétique et biologie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Fondé en 2012 au sein du département d’études anglophones de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, le groupe [Science+Littérature] vise à élucider les relations entre les sciences du vivant (biologie, écologie, neurosciences) et la littérature des XX e et XXI e ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Birmingham
    Narrativising Dinosaurs: Science and Popular Culture from 1850 to the Present
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Encountering dinosaurs is a routine experience for most of us. They tower over us in museums, entertain us in books and films, and peer out at us from our cereal boxes. Though increasingly well-understood from a scientific standpoint, dinosaurs are...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science and 3 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Die wandernden Grenzen der Biologie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt schließt an die bereits vorliegenden begriffsgeschichtlichen Untersuchungen im Historischen Wörterbuch der Biologie an; anders als in diesem Wörterbuch stehen aber nicht die biologischen Grundbegriffe im Mittelpunkt, sondern die...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019