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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Pariser Str. 1, Eingang Meierottostr. 8, 10719 Berlin Organisiert von Kyung-Ho Cha, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ivana Perica (alle ZfL), Johanna-Charlotte Horst...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  5. Nicoletta Pireddu
    University or institution: Georgetown University
    Fields of research: Literary theory; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Novel; Narrative; Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  6. Lisa Damm
    University or institution: Freie Universität Berlin
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Feminist studies; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Prose; Novel; Literature of the 20th century

  7. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 02.03.2023
    "Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse". Literatur und Zeitgeschichte
    Submitted by: Kevin Drews

    Seit der Covid-19-Pandemie sind einige literarische Versuche entstanden, den medizinischen, geschäftlichen, politischen, kulturellen Ausnahmezustand zu dokumentieren. Vom klassischen Feuilleton über digitale Tagebücher und Blogs bis hin zu ersten...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Interdisciplinarity and 6 more
    Created on: 17.02.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2022
    Liebesgeflüster und Wutgeschrei: Affektkommunikation in Antike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit / Whisperings of Love - Cries of Anger: Communicating Emotions in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
    Submitted by: Thomas Kullmann

    Emerging Scholars Workshop des Interdisziplinären Instituts für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN) Osnabrück | 12.–14.10.2022 Spätestens seit dem ‚Emotional Turn‘ der (späten) 1990er-Jahre ist die Emotionsforschung in den Kultur- und...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature and 33 more
    Created on: 15.02.2022
  9. Hudzik , Agnieszka
    University or institution: Freie Universität Berlin
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Postcolonial studies; Media studies; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and philosophy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Prose; Novel; Aesthetics; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.01.2022
    The Past as Nightmare: An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Reading (UK)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    6-7 September 2022 Confirmed keynote speakers: Dr Ailise Bulfin (University College Dublin) Professor Laurence Talairach (Toulouse Jean Jaurès University) Call for papers: Gothic...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 6 more
    Created on: 16.08.2021
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 30.09.2021
    Song in the novel: a multidisciplinary conference, British Academy (Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    30 Sep - 1 Oct, 13:30 - 17:30 British Academy Conferences bring together scholars and specialists from around the world to consider and evaluate new research in the humanities and social sciences. What role does song have in the novel?...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and music/sound studies,  Novel
    Created on: 13.08.2021
  12. Fabian Lampart
    University or institution: Universität Potsdam
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; Italian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Deconstruction; Media studies; Narratology; World Literature; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and music/sound studies; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Prose; Novel; Comic; Non-fictional literature; Drama; The fictional; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor); Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  13. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.01.2021
    Impasse
    Submitted by: Soapbox Journal

    For the next volume of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit work that critically engages with the theme of the impasse. [Border] In its first...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary theory and 49 more
    Created on: 28.12.2020
  14. Alfonso de Toro
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; North African literature; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Postcolonial studies; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Novel; autobiography; Drama; Tragedy; Comedy; Tragicomedy; The fictional; 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

  15. Christian Josef Rechberger
    University or institution: Universität Innsbruck
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Interdisciplinarity; Novel