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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2024
    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period, Frankfurt a. M.
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International Conference on Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period at Frankfurt am Main, September 2025 Comedy, satire, Lucianism – whenever one of these keywords is used in connection with Early Modern literature, it...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 13.03.2024
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    Die Vor- und Frühindustrialisierung (1750 und 1850) im Spiegel der Literatur, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Vor- und Frühindustrialisierung (1750 und 1850) im Spiegel der Literatur. Internationale Tagung, Saarbrücken, 13. und 14. November 2024. Literaturarchiv Saar-Lor-Lux-Elsass der Universität des Saarlandes Dass die Industrialisierung in den...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 12.02.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    Le rôle de la littérature dans la réflexion sociale sur les catastrophes naturelles, de l’Antiquité à nos jours
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Journée d’études Le rôle de la littérature dans la réflexion sociale sur les catastrophes naturelles, de l’Antiquité à nos jours 30 mai 2024 Journée d’étude en ligne (sur Teams) organisée par le CELIS sous la direction de Kim...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.),  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century) and 7 more
    Created on: 05.02.2024
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.03.2024
    Ethik der Emotionen im Drama vom Ende des 17. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Neue Perspektiven der kulturgeschichtlichen Forschung
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ethik der Emotionen im Drama vom Ende des 17. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Neue Perspektiven der kulturgeschichtlichen Forschung Tagung im Interdisziplinären Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung (IZEA) in Halle an der...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology and 6 more
    Created on: 02.02.2024
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Die Anfänge des Schreibens in den Anfängen der Welt: Schöpfung und Auktorialität
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Teilprojekt untersucht das Verhältnis von Schöpfung und Auktorialität in der Literatur der Vormoderne. Dabei wählt es die Ambiguität von ‘Schöpfung’ als Erschaffung von Welt und Hervorbringung von Text zum Ausgangspunkt und fragt, wie die darin...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 6 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2024
    Sex and the Writing Scene (GSA), Atlanta
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Sex and the Writing Scene around 1800 (Panel Series at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Assocation, September 26-30, sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America.) Writing can be a medium of sex – a union that underwent a phase...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 2 more
    Created on: 18.12.2023
  8. 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

  9. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 06.01.2024
    3 Promotionsstellen im GRK 2212 "Dynamiken der Konventionalität (400–1550)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Zum 1. April 2024 schreibt die Philosophische Fakultät der Universität zu Köln im Rahmen des Graduiertenkollegs 2212 „Dynamiken der Konventionalität ( 400–1550 )“ 3 Promotionsstellen für einen Zeitraum von drei Jahren aus. Das...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and other forms of art and 8 more
    Created on: 27.11.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2023
    Queering the Family : Exploring Non-Normative Family Figures in Literature, Arts, and the Media (Whatever, 7, 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Queering the Family: Exploring Non-Normative Family Figures in Literature, Arts, and the Media" Call for papers Whatever. A Transdisciplinary Journal of Queer Theories and Studies, 7 (Summer 2024), themed section Serena...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art,  Intermediality and 4 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2023
    Workshop: Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century, Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

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

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 3 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 21.09.2023
    Schreckliche Sehnsucht. Apokalyptisches Erzählen in der Vormoderne, Wien
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Tagung: „Schreckliche Sehnsucht. Apokalyptisches Erzählen in der Vormoderne“ 21.-23.9.2023, Universität Wien, Schreyvogelsaal der Hofburg Organisation und Kontakt: Dr. Lea Braun ( lea.braun@hu-berlin.de ) und Sarah Lehner ( ...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 8 more
    Created on: 08.09.2023
  13. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 14.09.2023
    Virtueller Master-Info-Tag: "Klassische und Moderne Literaturwissenschaft" (Heidelberg) am 14.09.23 um 14 Uhr
    Submitted by: Joséphine Jacquier

    Liebe Studierende, an diesem virtuellen Info-Tag möchten wir Ihnen unseren komparatistischen Master-Studiengang "Klassische und Moderne Literaturwissenschaft" vorstellen: Was macht diesen Studiengang so einzigartig? Inwiefern erlaubt dieser...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 19 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain (NEMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss,...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 6 more
    Created on: 23.08.2023
  15. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 20.09.2023
    Figurationen des Erbe(n)s in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organisiert von Patrick Hohlweck, Luisa Drews und Stefan Willer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies". Der literaturwissenschaftliche Workshop untersucht Figurationen des Erbes und Erbens in der Literatur der...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century),  Literature of the 16th century and 3 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023