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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Nicoletta Pireddu
    University or institution: Georgetown University
    Fields of research: Literary theory; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Novel; Narrative; Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. 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
  5. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.02.2023
    Lecturer on Comparative Literature, Harvard University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Title Lecturer on Comparative Literature School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area This is a one-year appointment, potentially renewable for another two years. The appointment is expected to begin on...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 27.01.2023
  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: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 08.02.2023
    Vom Umgang mit Ungewohntem. Zugänge zum Übersetzen weiblicher Weltliteratur. Öffentliche Abschlussveranstaltung im Rahmen der August-Wilhelm-von-Schlegel-Gastprofessur mit Karen Nölle und Studierenden der Freien Universität Berlin.
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2023, 19.00 Uhr im Literarischen Colloquium Berlin Vom Umgang mit Ungewohntem. Zugänge zum Übersetzen weiblicher Weltliteratur. Öffentliche Abschlussveranstaltung im Rahmen der August-Wilhelm-von-Schlegel-Gastprofessur mit...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  World Literature,  Translation and 1 more
    Created on: 16.01.2023
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2022
    CFP-Kremenets Comparative Studies-Vol. 12-2022-2023
    Submitted by: Denys Chyk

    Dear Colleague, Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets and NGO “Volyn Cultural Initiatives” (Ukraine) invites you to submit a paper to the 12th annual scientific journal “Kremenets Comparative Studies” ...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 75 more
    Created on: 18.08.2022
  12. 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
  13. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2022
    Der Autor SAID - Sammelband zum Gesamtwerk
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Wenn die Presse über deutschsprachige Autoren nicht-deutscher Herkunft berichtet, bedient sie sich zumeist reduktionistischer Kategorien wie „Grenzgänger“, „Grenzüberwinder“, „Brückenbauer“ und „Kulturvermittler“. An ihren Geburts- und Herkunftsorten...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  World Literature,  Lyric poetry and 1 more
    Created on: 11.02.2022
  14. 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

  15. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 03.02.2022
    Fanny Mendelssohn's 'Divan' (Institute of Modern Languages Research London, Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Date 3 February 2022, 6.00pm - 7.30pm Institute Institute of Modern Languages Research Type Lecture Venue Online Description English Goethe Society Prawer Lecture Speaker: ...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and music/sound studies,  Literature and media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 21.01.2022