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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: 31.01.2024
    Transnational Narratives: European Women's Fiction in the Early Modern Period (ESSE Conference, Laussane)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) CONFERENCE, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 26-30 August, 2024 Convenors of Seminar 38: Gerd Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, FAU, Germany) gerd.bayer@fau.de ...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  World Literature,  Literary genre and 4 more
    Created on: 01.12.2023
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 21.11.2023
    Der globale Roman, Düsseldorf (21.11. und 28.11.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gastvorträge im Rahmen des Seminars "Der globale Roman" am Institut für Germanistik der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Der globale Roman erzählt entweder über die Welt oder er adressiert ein länderübergreifendes Publikum oder er...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  World Literature,  Novel and 2 more
    Created on: 20.11.2023
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    CfP Eternal Peace in Speculative Fiction
    Submitted by: Johannes Kaminski

    Dear colleagues, I am currently putting together a special issue of World Literature Studies (WLS) dedicated to speculative fiction. Looking forward to see your abstracts by September 15! See CfP below. Best wishes Johannes Kaminski ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 30.06.2023
  7. 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

  8. Denys Chyk
    University or institution: Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets
    Fields of research: Literature from UK and Ireland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and cultural studies; Literary genre; Prose; Novel; The fictional; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2022
    Les metamorphoses de Diderot: Philosophie, art et science (Lo Sguardo, rivista internazionale di filosofia)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Parmi les penseurs du XVIIIe siècle, Denis Diderot est sans doute l’un des plus difficiles à classer. Auteur de romans, de pièces de théâtre, d’essaies scientifiques et d’art, ainsi que de philosophie, il est difficile séparer ses œuvres proprement «...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literary historiography,  World Literature and 9 more
    Created on: 14.02.2022
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2021
    Pouvoir(s), responsabilités et cas de conscience en science-fiction, Colloque Stella Incognita, Reims
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à communications Colloque Stella Incognita Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, les 6-7-8 avril 2022 Pouvoir(s), responsabilités et cas de conscience en science-fiction Champ d’exploration de tous les...

    Fields of research Narratology,  World Literature,  Literature and other forms of art and 9 more
    Created on: 19.07.2021
  12. Camilo Del Valle Lattanzio
    University or institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Reader-response criticism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and natural science; Poetics; Literary genre; Lyric poetry; Prose; Novel; Non-fictional literature; autobiography; Essay; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Translation; Theory of translation; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  13. Ivana Perica
    University or institution: Leibniz Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL)
    Fields of research: World Literature; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and cultural studies; Novel; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  14. 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

  15. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 09.02.2021
    Zoom-Gespräch: Der gute Soldat Švejk in der Weltliteratur
    Submitted by: Frances Jackson

    Švejk mag als »urtschechischer« Held gelten, aber mit seinem unvollendeten Magnum Opus hat sich der Autor Jaroslav Hašek nicht nur einen Weg ins tschechische Nationalbewusstsein gebahnt, sondern auch in die Weltliteratur. Wer sind die...

    Fields of research Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  World Literature,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 02.02.2021