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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. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 18.07.2022
    Literary Acts of Agency
    Submitted by: Ivana Perica

    Contemporary society has been shaped and sometimes vexed by the notion of the Rechtsstaat (the state of law, or just/ified state) – a culturally key word in which the state, justice and the law meet. There are inevitable tensions in that meeting....

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and law
    Created on: 08.07.2022
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 12.05.2022
    From Âventiure Novels to Adventure Games: Adventure Narratives in Popular Images and Texts, München/online (12–14 May 2022)
    Submitted by: Carina Breidenbach

    How popular was adventure? Medieval âventiure built a model of heroes traversing limits and journeying to wonderful and dangerous encounters. In many European languages, the term adventure has since referred to...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 6 more
    Created on: 10.05.2022
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 01.07.2021
    Real Adventure? Abenteuererzählungen zwischen Fiktion und Tatsachenbericht
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Jahrestagung der DFG-Forschungsgruppe "Philologie des Abenteuers" an der LMU München Laut Encyclopédie ist ein Abenteuer ein "évenement extraordinaire ou surprenant, soit réel soit imaginaire". Allerdings ist diese Alternative, derzufolge das...

    Fields of research Narratology,  World Literature,  Literary genre and 2 more
    Created on: 17.05.2021
  5. 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