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  1. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 13.05.2024
    Auerbach Lectures im Sommersemester 2024, Köln
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies lädt Sie herzlich zu den Auerbach Lectures im Sommersemester 2024 ein. Die Vorlesungsreihe findet montags um 18 Uhr statt. Gäste sind herzlich willkommen! Für mehr Informationen besuchen Sie...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Poetics
    Created on: 26.04.2024
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2024
    GSA Seminar CfA: Poetry Doing Things (2/23/2024; German Studies Association; 9/26-29/2024)
    Submitted by: May Mergenthaler

    Please consider applying to participate in the seminar "Poetry Doing Things" at the annual German Studies Association conference (Forty-Eighth Annual Conference, Sept. 26-29 2024, Atlanta, Georgia). Conveners: ● May Mergenthaler,...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 12.02.2024
  5. Julia Soytek
    University or institution: Universität Hamburg
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Poetics; Aesthetics; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)

  6. 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
  7. OTHERNESSES – Towards Humanisms Beyond BorderThinking
    Submitted by: Diana Mariam Popal

    A Workspace for anti-violent, anti-racist, Postcolonial and Decolonial Thought as Praxis Othernesses provides a platform for critical exchange and dialogue on an international and cross-disciplinary level between different critical...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Deconstruction and 6 more
    Created on: 04.12.2023
  8. 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
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2023
    Red World Literature: Periphery, Theory, Form, System
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    RED WORLD LITERATURE : Periphery, Theory, Form, System Co-editors: Hunter Bivens, University of California, Santa Cruz and Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, University of Iceland The promise of a new ‘red’ dawn in the history of World Literature...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 09.10.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    "Transnational Literature and Transnational Aesthetics: Developments and Negotiations" (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his 2021 book Transnational Literature: The Basics, Paul Jay describes transnational literature as “a particular type of literature, emergent at an identifiable historical moment and dealing, collectively, with a set of issues and themes...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures (Saarbrücken)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures" 8. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft e.V. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken Ein Interesse an wissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung mit dem ›Populären‹ ist wohl...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and media studies and 6 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  12. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 03.10.2023
    California State University Long Beach: Assistant Professor Of Comparative Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Job no: 529995 Work type: Instructional Faculty – Tenured/Tenure-Track Location: Long Beach Categories: Unit 3 - CFA - California Faculty Association, Faculty - Letters/Humanities, Tenured/Tenure-Track, Full Time ...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 3 more
    Created on: 14.08.2023
  13. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 20.10.2023
    The Tropes of Theory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Organisiert von Zaal Andronikashvili (ZfL), Susanne Strätling (FU Berlin) Annual workshop of the Research Committee on Literary Theory of the International...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  New Historicism and 6 more
    Created on: 11.08.2023
  14. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 20.10.2023
    The Tropes of Theory Annual workshop of the Research Committee on Literary Theory of the International Comparative Literature Association
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Tropes of Theory Annual workshop of the Research Committee on Literary Theory of the International Comparative Literature Association Berlin, October 20-21, 2023 Venue: Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) ...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  New Historicism,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 17.04.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2023
    GSA 2023 "Comparison Literature Revisited: Genres, Forms, Media", October 5–8, 2023, Montréal (15.03.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    As an epistemological practice or as a social custom, comparison has been the subject of much debate in recent decades. “Why compare?,” R. Radhakrishnan has asked in an essay that spells out the asymmetries implicit in many acts of comparison which...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 03.02.2023