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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2024
    “The Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Decay and destruction have long been sources of fascination, inspiration and contemplation in artistic and cultural contexts. From the crumbling ruins of ancient civilizations to the ravages of time on natural landscapes, from the haunting beauty of...

    Fields of research Intermediality,  Poetics,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 29.04.2024
  2. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 17.05.2024
    Workshop: Utopia in German Idealism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his commentary on Hegel, Subject-Object: Erläuterungen zu Hegel (1951), Ernst Bloch criticises the closed structure of Hegel’s system as the ‘spell of anamnesis’ that makes it impossible to think something really new. At the same time, he...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and philosophy,  Poetics and 3 more
    Created on: 15.04.2024
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 02.05.2024
    Martin Opitz und die große Wende? 400 Jahre Buch von der deutschen Poeterey (1624–2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Tagung: Martin Opitz und die große Wende? 400 Jahre Buch von der deutschen Poeterey (1624–2024) 2.–4. Mai 2024, Tübingen, Alte Aula Donnerstag, 2. Mai 2024 16:00 Uhr Begrüßung und Einführung (Prof. Dr. Jörg Robert, Prof. Dr....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Poetics and 6 more
    Created on: 15.04.2024
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 22.04.2024
    Ringvorlesung: Fake, Lüge, Desinformation. Über die Literatur zwischen Fiktion und Täuschung, Saarbrücken
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Saarbrücker literaturwissenschaftliche Ringvorlesung im Festsaal des Rathauses Sankt Johann der Landeshauptstadt Saarbrücken Sommersemester 2024, montags 19 Uhr Fakes, Lügen und Desinformationen sind Instrumente der hybriden...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor),  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 12.04.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.03.2024
    MLA-Panel 2025: Narrating Spectacle around 1800, New Orleans
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Modern Language Associate Conference New Orleans, LA January 9-12, 2025 Narrating Spectacle around 1800 Audiences for eighteenth-century theater were more likely to be reading accounts of performances on the page than seeing them...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Novel,  Drama and 3 more
    Created on: 18.03.2024
  6. 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
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 13.03.2024
    Die Praxeologie der Schreibszene. Schreiben und Lesen als Raum- und Beziehungspraxis 1750–1900, Hildesheim
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Tagung: Die Praxeologie der Schreibszene. Schreiben und Lesen als Raum- und Beziehungspraxis 1750–1900 Universität Hildesheim, 13.–15. März 2024 Kulturcampus Domäne Marienburg Hohes Haus, Raum HS 50/302 Organisation...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Poetics and 2 more
    Created on: 04.03.2024
  8. Julia Soytek
    University or institution: Universität Hamburg
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Poetics; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)

  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.02.2024
    Making Sense of Experience: Analyses of Sensation after Mach - Yale German Graduate Student Conference, Yale
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In “Die Analyse der Empfindungen” (1886), Ernst Mach introduces sensation [Empfindung] as the fundamental condition of possibility for experience [Erfahrung]. Exceeding conventional understandings of external sense experience as opposed to internal...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and philosophy and 5 more
    Created on: 22.01.2024
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.02.2024
    XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture - CULTURE AT WAR (Lisbon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture CULTURE AT WAR Lisbon, June 24 – 29, 2024 Deadline for submissions: February 29, 2024 We are living in times of war. Now, more than ever, war occupies a central role in both national...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 05.01.2024
  11. 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

  12. Stephan Krause
    University or institution: Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO)
    Fields of research: Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey); Literary theory; Reader-response criticism; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and media studies; Poetics; Lyric poetry; Prose; Children's and young adult literature; Themes, motifs, thematology; Translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2024
    Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What happens when literature–and even language–is used for subversion? When authors write in response to political action, literature functions as a tool. When authors represent their times and their worlds, literature functions symbolically. When...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and law and 6 more
    Created on: 13.11.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 24.12.2023
    After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics - Sapienza-Silesia Graduate Forum 2024
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the face of ongoing disasters including the climate crisis, the pandemic, war in Europe and conflicts worldwide, as well as blatant manifestations of social injustice taking place on both a localised and a planetary scale, we might be prone to...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Rhetoric,  Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor) and 1 more
    Created on: 03.11.2023
  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