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  1. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 13.05.2024
    Auerbach Lectures im Sommersemester 2024, Köln
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies lädt Sie herzlich zu den Auerbach Lectures im Sommersemester 2024 ein. Die Vorlesungsreihe findet montags um 18 Uhr statt. Gäste sind herzlich willkommen! Für mehr Informationen besuchen Sie...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Poetics
    Created on: 26.04.2024
  2. 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
  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. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 13.01.2023
    Politische Ideen in der Literatur (1800–2000), Tübingen (13.01.2023)
    Submitted by: Max Roehl

    Workshop an der Universität Tübingen, 13. Januar 2023 Organisation: Dr. Max Roehl Tagungsort: Deutsches Seminar, R. 215, Wilhelmstr. 50, 72074 Tübingen Die Veranstaltung wird unterstützt durch die Projektförderung für Postdocs der...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 12.12.2022
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 07.10.2021
    Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium: Transnationale Literaturen und Literaturtransfer im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Flensburg/online
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium: Transnationale Literaturen und Literaturtransfer im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert Organisation: Prof. Dr. Margot Brink (Leitung), Matteo Anastasio, Lisa Dauth, Andrew Erickson, Dr. Isabelle Leitloff,...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 2 more
    Created on: 27.09.2021
  12. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 09.12.2021
    13. Tagung des Arbeitskreises AIM Gender: Männlichkeiten und Natur(-Verhältnisse); Stuttgart-Hohenheim
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    13. Tagung des Arbeitskreises AIM Gender Männlichkeiten und Natur(-Verhältnisse) 9.–11. Dezember 2021, Tagungszentrum Hohenheim Nicht erst mit den prominenten Naturbeschreibungen des norwegischen Schriftstellers Karl Ove Knausgård...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 20.09.2021
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 15.06.2022
    ACLA 2022: The American Comparative Literature Association's Annual Meeting, National Taiwan Normal University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Join us for the 2022 Annual Meeting at National Taiwan Normal University, June 15-18, 2022. This will be a fully in person conference. Conference Timeline 08.15.2021 - 09.30.2021 Call for seminar proposals 10.01.2021 -...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 2 more
    Created on: 27.08.2021
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 15.09.2021
    Biofiction as world literature, KU Leuven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Day 1 (15 September): Genre and gender Day 2 (16 September): Genealogies and precursors Day 3 (17 September): Truth and representation Day 4 (18 September): Politics, oppression, negotiation WEDNESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER (DAY 1 –...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Poststructuralism and 5 more
    Created on: 02.08.2021
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.03.2022
    NeMLA 2022 conference: NeMLA's 53rd Annual Convention
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 2022 NeMLA conference theme is CARE. We understand CARE as the practice of interdependency, admitting our vulnerabilities as humans, animals, and other living organisms of the Anthropocene. The NeMLA theme of CARE will embrace but not be limited...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 4 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021