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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.05.2023
    Flower Power - Blossoms and Petals Between Beauty, Classification, and Dominance
    Submitted by: Sophie Emilia Seidler

    Following the vegetal turn in the humanities, our conference aims to explore the literary, cultural, and philosophical implications of flowers. Flowers are far less innocent than bridal bouquets and Mother’s Day kitsch might suggest. For Alice...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 9 more
    Created on: 26.04.2023
  2. Pia Lobodzinski
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Postcolonial studies; Narratology

  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2022
    Flower Power. Florales zwischen Schönheit, Ordnung und Dominanz, München (31.12.2022)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Blumen sind weit weniger unschuldig, als Brautsträuße und Muttertagskitsch vermuten lassen. Für Alice Walker symbolisiert der aufwändige Blumenschmuck, mit dem ihre Mutter selbst schäbigste Wohnungen veredeln konnte, nicht nur Trost und Hoffnung...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 21.11.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2022
    Flower Power. Florales zwischen Schönheit, Ordnung und Dominanz
    Submitted by: Sophie Emilia Seidler

    Blumen sind weit weniger unschuldig, als Brautsträuße und Muttertagskitsch vermuten lassen. Für Alice Walker symbolisiert der aufwändige Blumenschmuck, mit dem ihre Mutter selbst schäbigste Wohnungen veredeln konnte, nicht nur Trost und Hoffnung...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 7 more
    Created on: 03.10.2022
  5. Wasim Khatabe
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Reader-response criticism; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology

  6. Philipp Sperner
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: South Asian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Deconstruction; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and cultural studies; Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor)

  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 04.06.2019
    Un/masking. On a mimetic form
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    6th Conference of the IDP Mimesis 4th – 6th July 2019, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich and LMU Munich Masks are an integral part of human cultural practice. Their innate tension springs from the mimetic faculty to show and...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Poetics,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 08.04.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Abenteuerdiskurse zwischen Kolonialismus und Nationalsozialismus
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ziel des Teilprojekts ist die Rekonstruktion literarischer und nicht-literarischer Abenteuerdiskurse im Deutschen Reich in der Zeit zwischen ca. 1884 (dem Eintritt Deutschlands in die europäische Kolonialpolitik) und der Machtergreifung der...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Transformationen viktorianischer Abenteuerliteratur: Großstadtfiktionen der Moderne und postkoloniale Rewritings
    Submitted by: Manuel Mühlbacher

    Das geplante Teilprojekt untersucht, in welcher Weise populäre Abenteuernarrative aus der viktorianischen Hochphase des British Empire später aufgegriffen und unter z. T. gänzlich anderen historischen wie kulturellen Bedingungen fort- bzw....

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  10. Mahamat Ali Alhadji
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; French literature; North African literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; Oral poetry / Orality; World Literature; Literature and natural science; Literature and geography/cartography; Prose; Novel; Novella; Narrative; Short prose; Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale; travel literature; Essay; Literature of the 20th century

  11. Fabienne Imlinger
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; North African literature; Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; New Historicism; Feminist studies; Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Postcolonial studies; Writtenness; World Literature; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; autobiography; Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century); Literature of the 16th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century

  12. Franziska Jekel
    University or institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Spanish literature; North African literature; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Postcolonial studies; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and sociology; Literature and law; Literature and geography/cartography; Prose; Novel; travel literature; Literature of the 20th century