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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 04.04.2024
    Materialität: magisch wirksame Schriftträger (Inauguralworkshop des DFG-Netzwerks 'Wort – Wirkung – Wunder'), Greifswald
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Netzwerks fragt nach den kulturellen Paradigmen, die den wortmagischen Vorstellungen vormoderner Gesellschaften im Hinblick auf die Macht von Sprache und Schrift zugrunde liegen, und zwar an den Schnittstellen...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  World Literature,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2024
    Beyond Nationalism and Populism: National Identities Studies in the 21st Century (National Identities 25th anniversary conference)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    A special conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the journal National Identities will be held at the University of Westminster, London on 12-14 September 2024. This journal was founded in 1999 in a context of globalisation,...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 19.02.2024
  3. Arvi Sepp
    University or institution: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary theory; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Literature and sociology; autobiography; Diary; Translation; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.02.2024
    Call for Papers zur Konferenz Grenzüberschreitende Literatur(en) in einer polyphonen Welt: Mehrsprachigkeit als Quelle der literarischen Kreativität Eine Synergie zwischen globale° – Festival für grenzüberschreitende Literatur Bremen und dem Forschungszen
    Submitted by: Daniel Schmidt

    Deutsch (English below): In der deutschsprachigen Kulturlandschaft sind Festivals, die Musik, Kunst und Film zelebrieren und eine Bühne bieten, etabliert und werden von der Gesellschaft breit rezipiert. Aber auch Literaturfestivals, in denen...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 13 more
    Created on: 29.11.2023
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.04.2024
    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (Spring 2025 issue) -- Call for articles and book reviews
    Submitted by: Nicoletta Pireddu

    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 27.10.2023
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.11.2023
    Transnational Activisms: Reimagining Boundaries in Political Cultural Production Conference, Dublin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear all, We warmly invite papers for the conference ‘Transnational Activisms: Reimagining Boundaries in Political Cultural Production’, taking place at University College Dublin, March 25th-26th, 2024. Please see the call for papers below....

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 4 more
    Created on: 16.10.2023
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 05.10.2023
    Doing Queer Literature in a Global Perspective
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Doing Queer Literature in a Global Perspective Organised by Michail Leivadiotis, Samira Spatzek, Nina Tolksdorf, Research Area 1: "Competing Communities". The conference seeks to discuss the role of literature in the construction of queer...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  World Literature,  Interdisciplinarity and 2 more
    Created on: 21.08.2023
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.09.2023
    CfP Eternal Peace in Speculative Fiction
    Submitted by: Johannes Kaminski

    Dear colleagues, I am currently putting together a special issue of World Literature Studies (WLS) dedicated to speculative fiction. Looking forward to see your abstracts by September 15! See CfP below. Best wishes Johannes Kaminski ...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 6 more
    Created on: 30.06.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 13.10.2023
    Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (Spring 2024 issue) -- Call for articles and book reviews
    Submitted by: Nicoletta Pireddu

    _Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism_ is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 7 more
    Created on: 16.06.2023
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.06.2023
    Conference | Rethinking Lyric Communities in Premodern Worlds
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organised by Laura Banella, Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, and Nicolas Longinotti. In cooperation with Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame . From the circulation of...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  Oral poetry / Orality,  World Literature and 9 more
    Created on: 12.05.2023
  12. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 15.04.2023
    1 postdoctoral position and 3 PhD positions, University of Leuven (COLLAB - ERC StG project)
    Submitted by: Núria Codina

    As part of the ERC Starting Grant project “Making Migrant Voices Heard Through Literature: How Collaboration is Changing the Cultural Field” ( COL LAB , 2023-2028), led by Núria Codina, the University of Leuven (Belgium) is recruiting one...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 01.03.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.01.2023
    „F WIE FÄLSCHUNG“. Gefälschte Provenienzen in der Literatur und ihren Wissenschaften, Marbach (31.01.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Internationale Tagung Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach 21. – 22. September 2023 Die Erwerbsentscheidungen von Kulturgut sammelnden Institutionen wie Bibliotheken, Literaturarchiven und -museen basieren in der Regel...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography and 5 more
    Created on: 02.01.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2023
    International Conference "Afterlives of Empire in the Public Imagination" (Sapienza University of Rome)
    Submitted by: Tiziano De Marino

    CALL FOR PAPERS The resurgence of nationalist ideologies in Europe and the US has reignited interest in the histories and legacies of modern Empires. As of late, this has been strongly visible in the UK. The role of imperial nostalgia...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 20 more
    Created on: 21.12.2022
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2022
    Seminar: Rethinking Lyric Communities, Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (Chicago, March 16-19, 2023)
    Submitted by: Francesco Giusti

    From the circulation of poetic forms across different languages and traditions around the globe, through the envisioning of national and transnational discursive communities, to the use of poetry in contemporary episodes of political resistance and...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary theory,  Reader-response criticism and 14 more
    Created on: 20.10.2022