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  1. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 23.08.2024
    Summer School: New Approaches and Methods for Research in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    The Summer School: New Approaches and Methods for Research in Children’s Media will be held at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (Germany) and aims at students interested in Children’s and YA-media in Germany and abroad. Numerous...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Didactics of Literature,  Literary theory and 10 more
    Created on: 21.11.2023
  2. 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
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The first annual conference of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU) discusses a variety of understandings of the political novel as a genre. It probes genre-theoretically and genre-historically informed...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 14 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  4. 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
  5. Winfried Eckel
    University or institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
    Fields of research: Literary theory; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Literature and cultural studies; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century

  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2023
    CFP GSA 2023 "Comparison Literature Revisited: Genres, Forms, Media", Montréal (15.03.2023)
    Submitted by: Kristina Petzold

    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 Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 5 more
    Created on: 27.01.2023
  7. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 19.01.2023
    Lehrkraft (m/w/d) für besondere Aufgaben im Fach Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Bielefeld
    Submitted by: Mona Körte

    Der Studiengang Literaturwissenschaft an der Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Bielefeld ist sowohl allgemein als auch vergleichend ausgerichtet. Die Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft widmet sich den die...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.01.2023
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2023
    CfP: Zwischen Resistenz und Resilienz. Erscheinungsformen der Populär- und Popularkulturen in der Romania, Spannungsverhältnisse und Herausbildung von kollektiven Zugehörigkeiten
    Submitted by: Minerva Peinador

    Call for Contributions Panel: „Zwischen Resistenz und Resilienz. Erscheinungsformen der Populär- und Popularkulturen in der Romania, Spannungsverhältnisse und Herausbildung von kollektiven Zugehörigkeiten“ ...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  French literature,  Spanish literature and 12 more
    Created on: 21.11.2022
  9. 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
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 07.07.2022
    Walter Benjamin in the East – Networks, Conflicts, and Reception
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    In late and post-Socialist contexts in Eastern Europe, the works of Walter Benjamin—a historical materialist thinker who travelled to the young Soviet Union in the 1920s—have incited various theoretical transfers, artistic engagements, and political...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary),  South Eastern European literature (Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey) and 5 more
    Created on: 23.06.2022
  11. 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
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.05.2022
    12. Studierendenkongress der Komparatistik: „Literatur & Zukunft“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Mittwoch, 25.05.22 18.00–20.30 Uhr Pre-Conference Workshop (via Zoom) Zur Einstimmung auf die Tagung bieten wir allen Teilnehmenden, Vortragenden und weiteren Interessierten die Möglichkeit, einer virtuellen Diskussionsrunde...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography and 11 more
    Created on: 08.04.2022
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 24.03.2022
    Michael Ende: Poetik und Positionierungen (DLA Marbach)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In den letzten Jahren rückte Michael Endes Werk immer stärker in den Blick einer literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung, die auch über genuin adressatenorientierte Fragestellungen hinausgeht. Insbesondere für die Phantastikforschung hat sich Endes Die...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 6 more
    Created on: 18.03.2022
  14. 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
  15. Judith Kasper
    University or institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: French literature; Italian literature; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; World Literature; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Lyric poetry