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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.01.2024
    The GDR Today VII, Liverpool
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The University of Liverpool invites papers for a one-day postgraduate colloquium focusing on the history and memory of GDR politics, culture and society as part of The GDR Today series. The event will be held at the University of Liverpool on 7 June...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 10.11.2023
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 22.11.2023
    (Un)Vereintes Europa? Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen in der deutschen und österreichischen Literatur nach 2000, Prag
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Themen wie die (De)Konstruktion von europäischen Außengrenzen und die (Nicht)Existenz der Binnengrenzen innerhalb der EU, die Frage nach dem Vereinenden und Trennenden nicht nur im Hinblick auf die verschwundene bzw. immer noch präsente...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 03.11.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.12.2023
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example at the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 30.10.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2023
    Enfants de la honte - enfants de l'amour: textes littéraires et témoignages / Kinder der Schande – Kinder der Liebe: Literarische Bearbeitungen und Zeitzeugenberichte
    Submitted by: Alina Fritz

    Studientag Universität Passau 26.7.2024 Organisation: Alina Fritz und Marina Ortrud Hertrampf „Mit den Besatzungs- und Soldatenkindern gebar der Krieg Menschen, die allein durch ihre Existenz die Paradigmen des Kriegerischen...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 3 more
    Created on: 29.10.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2023
    Kafka Transformed (University of Oxford)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Kafka Transformed International Conference; University of Oxford, 18-20 September 2024 Franz Kafka’s role as a world author is inextricably linked to his reception and afterlife. His global legacy has been shaped by academic as well as...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 8 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    Postmigration und Postkolonialismus in frankophoner und deutschsprachiger Literatur und Musik
    Submitted by: Martina Kopf

    Eine postmigrantische Perspektive hat in den letzten Jahren vor allem in der deutschsprachigen interdisziplinären Migrationsforschung, aber auch im europäischen Kontext an Bedeutung gewonnen. Ästhetisch umgesetzt wurde die postmigrantische Idee in...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 19.10.2023
  7. Martina Kopf
    University or institution: Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Postcolonial studies; Ecocriticism; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.10.2023
    Les autochtones et/dans les arts et les littératures du Canada francophone contemporain (Passau, Allemagne)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque international Les autochtones et/dans les arts et les littératures du Canada francophone contemporain du 12 au 13 juillet 2024 à l’Université de Passau (Allemagne) Comme le souligne Simon Harel dans son essai...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  French literature,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 16.10.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    ‘Novel Media/Media Novel: Theorising Digital Media Cultures in the Contemporary Novel’ -- Special Issue of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
    Submitted by: Sandro Eich

    Contemporary novels are marbled with representations of digital media. Despite the notable attention to digital technologies already present in post-war literature, the twenty-first century has witnessed the unprecedented integration of digital media...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Australian/Oceanian literature and 7 more
    Created on: 11.10.2023
  10. Sandro Eich
    University or institution: University of St Andrews
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from UK and Ireland; New Criticism; Media studies; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and media studies; Drama; Formula literature; Literature of the 21st century

  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Category: Collaborative Research Centres
    Institutions: Universität Siegen
    SFB 1472: Transformationen des Populären
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Populäre ist in unserem Alltag allgegenwärtig. Für die meisten Menschen scheint klar, was darunter zu verstehen ist. Fasst man das Populäre positiv, dann ist es das Beliebte, das Reizvolle. Vielleicht etwas Volkstümliches, das im Gegensatz zum...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Intermediality,  Poetics and 4 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  15. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.12.2023
    Fellowships im Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE)
    Submitted by: Kaja Hauser

    Am 1. April 2024 startet das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation an der Universität des Saarlandes. Für das erste Kollegjahr (Oktober 2024 bis September 2025) bitten wir um Bewerbungen für Junior- (Postdoc) und...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 21 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023