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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: 06.03.2020
    Writing a Cosmos: European Literature and Popular Astronomy, 1890-1950
    Submitted by: Christoph Richter-Rodiek

    The symposium Writing a Cosmos: European Literature and Popular Astronomy (February 6, KU Leuven) investigates the relationship between literature and astronomy during the modernist period (1890-1950) in Europe, addressing the vast literary...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 2 more
    Created on: 09.01.2020
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    The Poetics of Precarity
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The financial and economic collapse in 2007/2008 has increased the interest for the literary reflection on economic crises and their social consequences. This project takes this contemporary sensibility and the ways in which it is reflected in...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Poetics,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 28.10.2019
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2020
    Lines of Heredity: Eugenics and Gender in European Literature, 1880-1935
    Submitted by: Fatima Borrmann

    May 18-19, 2020 MDRN First keynote speaker: Prof. Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter). Second keynote speaker to be announced later. During the late 19th and early 20th century evolutionary theory and new...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 9 more
    Created on: 17.10.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Eugenic Women
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Eugenic Women is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project researches literature by German and British female authors who engaged in the widespread debate on...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Colonised Citizens
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colonized Citizens is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project focuses on colonial literature in Belgium and Germany, both ‘late participants’ in the European...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Popular Astronomy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Popular Astronomy is a subproject of the larger research programme, Literary Knowledge, 1890-1950: Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe , funded by the KU Leuven Research Council. This project aims to arrive at a better understanding of the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and natural science and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019