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Category:
CfP/CfA events
Abstract submission deadline:
08.11.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Keynote speaker: Silke-Maria Weineck, University of Michigan “I know what I’m doing but I’m doing it nevertheless” - Slavoj Žižek’s description of modern cynicism echoes its definition by German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk as “false enlightened consciousness”. The 20th century has turned cynicism into a mass phenomenon (Peter Sloterdijk), a “condition of disillusion” (Timothy Bewes). But cynicism can also be understood and theorized more generally as a general distrust of other’s...
Fields of research
Ecocriticism,
Literature and other forms of art,
Literature and sociology
and 2 more
Created on:
20.09.2019
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Category:
CfP/CfA events
Abstract submission deadline:
22.11.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Vom „Heiligen“ sprechen heißt, sich tief hineinbegeben in ein Feld anhaltender Definitionskämpfe. Ausgetragen wurden und werden sie mit teils harten Bandagen als Streit um Legitimations- und Machtansprüche, um Meinungsführerschaft und Aufmerksamkeit. Dabei hatte das Heilige über Jahrhunderte hinweg die Bedeutung einer starken, nicht hinterfragbaren Setzung gehabt. In den durch die Säkularisierung hindurchgegangenen Gesellschaften schien sie diese Bedeutung zwar vorübergehend verloren zu haben,...
Fields of research
Interdisciplinarity,
Literature and sociology,
Literature and cultural studies
Created on:
21.10.2019
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University or institution:
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Fields of research:
Textual criticism, editing, codicology;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Structuralism;
Poststructuralism;
Deconstruction;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Oral poetry / Orality;
Writtenness;
World Literature;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Prose;
Drama;
Aesthetics;
Rhetoric;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.);
Literature of the Early modern period (14th and 15th century);
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 20th century
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Category:
CfP/CfA publications
Abstract submission deadline:
15.01.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
This proposed essay collection, which will be published as the second installment in the Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and the Arts‘ Symphilologus book series, focuses on theoretical concepts and lived ideals of the good as well as manifestations of evil through the prism of literature, philosophy, art history, theology, ethics, and cultural studies. In a letter from 1802 to his friend Friedrich Schiller, the German poet Goethe described the plot of his tragedy Iphigenie auf Tauris,...
Fields of research
Literature and sociology,
Literature and theology/study of religions,
Literature and philosophy
Created on:
12.12.2018
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Category:
CfP/CfA events
Abstract submission deadline:
31.01.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
In times of global deterritorialisation and transnational cultural exchange, the prominence of local places of production and reception has become more, rather than less, significant: Writers' museums, for example in Weimar and Stratford-upon-Avon, Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence in Istanbul, chapbook presses across the globe, literary institutions such as Copenhagen's LiteraturHaus, UNESCO Cities of Literature, for instance in Cracow and Prague, and slam events in many cities have emerged in...
Fields of research
Textual criticism, editing, codicology,
Reader-response criticism,
Interdisciplinarity
and 8 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
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Category:
CfP/CfA events
Abstract submission deadline:
14.01.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
KEYNOTE: Michael Taussig, Professor für Anthropologie, Columbia University The beach has recently become the site of important transformations: understood in the context of mass tourism for many years, nowadays we perceive the beach as bearing witness to the arrival of refugees, to pollution and climate change (e.g. tsunamis, rising sea levels), and to a growing number of sociocultural conflicts (e.g. over dress codes as in the case of burkini / nudist debates). As an area of unregulated...
Fields of research
Narratology,
Interdisciplinarity,
Literature and other forms of art
and 4 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
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University or institution:
Ain Shams Universität
Fields of research:
Hermeneutics;
Feminist studies;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Postcolonial studies;
Narratology;
World Literature;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and law;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and theology/study of religions;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and pedagogy;
Literature and natural science;
Literature and geography/cartography;
Literature and media studies;
Novel;
Novella;
Narrative;
Short prose;
Folk literature;
Children's and young adult literature;
Formula literature;
The fictional;
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Translation;
Theory of translation;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
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);
North African literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Near Eastern literature;
Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century);
Literature of the 20th century
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Category:
CfP/CfA events
Abstract submission deadline:
28.04.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
A one-day symposium at the Institute of Modern Languages (IMLR), Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK With support from the Cassal Endowment Fund Friday 20 September 2019 Keynote Speaker: Dr Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast) What is sickness, and how is it represented in literature? In his twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart novel cycle (1871–93), Émile Zola creates pathological bodies living within Napoleon III’s Second Empire (1852–70), a...
Fields of research
Feminist studies,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
Interdisciplinarity
and 7 more
Created on:
04.04.2019
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Category:
CfP/CfA publications
Abstract submission deadline:
30.04.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Undercurrents – Forum für linke Literaturwissenschaft veranstaltete Anfang März einen Workshop und eine Podiumsdiskussion zum 100. Jahrestag der Novemberrevolution 1918/19. Die 13. Ausgabe der Zeitschrift schließt daran an. Am 02.03.1919 war es in Berlin zu Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Bewohner_innen des proletarischen Scheunenviertels sowie Matrosen auf der einen und Armee plus Polizei auf der anderen Seite gekommen. Am 04.03. begann eine Million Berliner_innen den Generalstreik. In den...
Fields of research
Literature and sociology,
Literary genre,
Themes, motifs, thematology
Created on:
04.04.2019
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Category:
Lecture series
Beginning:
01.04.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Was ist relevante Literaturwissenschaft? „Und was bringt mir das beim Frühstück?“ Mit dieser Frage zielte die Autorin Marlene Streeruwitz in ihrer Tübinger Poetikvorlesung Sein. Und Schein. Und Erscheinen auf die Literatur. Ihre polemische Frage eröffnet ein kritisches Nachdenken über die gesellschaftliche Funktion von Kunst, die selbstverständlich auch ihr eigenes Schreiben betrifft. Das Lehrexperiment #RelevanteLiteraturwissenschaft greift die Fragen nach der gesellschaftlichen und...
Fields of research
Literary theory,
Feminist studies,
Literature and sociology
Created on:
02.04.2019
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Category:
CfP/CfA events
Abstract submission deadline:
01.02.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Spring School 2018 des Doktoratsprogramms „Soziologie und Geschichte der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften“ Organisation Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaften und Institut für Soziologie Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 25.-27. April 2018 Key Note: Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller (Universität Augsburg) Vorschläge aus allen Fächern der Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften sind willkommen. Die vom Doktoratsprogramm Soziologie und Geschichte der Sozial- und...
Fields of research
Literature and sociology,
Literature and cultural studies
Created on:
12.12.2018
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Category:
CfP/CfA events
Abstract submission deadline:
15.01.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Sektionsleitung : Sandra Issel-Dombert & Aline Wieders-Lohéac (Universität Kassel) Sprachwissenschaftliche Sektion beim 11. Kongress des Frankoromanistenverbands Call for Abstracts Krisen haben ihre eigene Sprache. Krisen spiegeln sich in Sprache. Krisen entstehen durch Sprache. Was eine Krise ist, verhandelt die Öffentlichkeit in Parlamenten, Medien und persönlichen Gesprächen in sprachlichen Aushandlungsprozessen. Die Krise ist dabei – auch in der Sprache – die Gegenspielerin...
Fields of research
Literature and sociology,
Literature and cultural studies
Created on:
12.12.2018
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Category:
CfP/CfA events
Abstract submission deadline:
05.01.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The graduate students of the Departments of Germanics, French & Italian, and Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington, with generous support from the Simpson Center for the Humanities, are pleased to announce their second interdisciplinary graduate student conference on May 11th and 12th, 2018: Being a Hedgehog: Isolation, Creativity, and Destruction “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and...
Fields of research
Literature and sociology,
Literature and cultural studies,
Themes, motifs, thematology
Created on:
12.12.2018
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Category:
CfP/CfA events
Abstract submission deadline:
30.07.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Trinity College Dublin, 29-30 Octobre 2019 Funded by the French Department of Trinity College, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TCD), the Society for French Studies (SFS) and the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF). ‘There’s a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with...
Fields of research
Literary theory,
Gender Studies/Queer Studies,
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
and 3 more
Created on:
01.07.2019
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Category:
Conferences, Congresses
Beginning:
28.09.2018
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Tagung: The International Reception of Existentialism (28.-29.09.2018) Veranstalter: Abteilung für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Wien, Sartre-Gesellschaft (AT, DE, CH) Datum der Veranstaltung: 28. und 29. September 2018 Ort: Alte Kapelle, Campus der Universität Wien, Hof 2.8, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien From his emergence as a world-famous philosopher, dramatist, and novelist to his becoming the ‘world’s conscience’ through his political commitment,...
Fields of research
Reader-response criticism,
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,
Literature and sociology
and 1 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
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Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
An exploratory, collaborative blog on revolution, revolutionaries, and the idea itself. The blog is participating in the humanities, surveying revolutionary changes in history, encouraging the comparative study of revolutions, and exploring the hopes imbued in the term “revolution.”
Fields of research
Literature and sociology,
Literature and cultural studies,
Themes, motifs, thematology
Created on:
12.12.2018
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Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Seit 1979 lädt die EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) einmal jährlich einen Referenten über ein aktuelles Thema an die Sorbonne ein. Bisherige Vorträge beschäftigten sich mit Philosophie, Soziologie, Kulturwissenschaft oder Literatur, Vortragende waren u.a. Gershom Sholem, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jorge Semprún, Jan Assmann und Paul Ricœur. Die Seite bietet Zusammenfassungen und teilweise die gesamten Vorträge als Text oder als Videoaufzeichnung.
Fields of research
Literature and sociology,
Literature and cultural studies,
Literature and philosophy
Created on:
12.12.2018
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Category:
Projects
Institutions:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
The project [...] investigates the thesis that travel writing is a fundamental medium in the process of the major political and social changes in Europe from the late 18th to the middle of the 19th century. In particular, the processes of the formation of collective national identities and cultures as well as the process of the formation of the middle class with its emphasis on the individual’s identity are implicitly depicted, performed and negotiated in travel writing of the period. The...
Fields of research
Literature and sociology,
travel literature,
Literature of the 18th century
and 1 more
Created on:
12.12.2018
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Category:
Various (summer schools etc.)
Beginning:
24.06.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Call for Applications READING GROUP »Engagement« 24.–27.06.2019, Leipzig (max. 20 participants) and FSGS-SUMMER SCHOOL 2019 »The Politics of Literature – Literature and Politics« 01.–04.07.2019, Berlin (max. 30 participants) This year’s FSGS Summer School is conceived as a contribution within the Excellence Cluster Temporal Communities. By raising the question of the political dimensions of literature and, more specifically, of literature’s potential for...
Fields of research
Literature and sociology
Created on:
18.03.2019
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Category:
Conferences, Congresses
Beginning:
11.04.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Tagung der LWL-Literaturkommission für Westfalen, der Annette von Droste-Gesellschaft, des Deutschen Instituts der JGU Mainz und der Akademie des Bistum Mainz Mainz, Erbacher Hof, 11.-13. April 2019 Die Tagung widmet sich dem Zusammenhang zwischen Modernisierungsprozessen und Aktualisierungen der Romantik im Zeitraum zwischen 1815 und 1848, in den das literarische Schaffen der Autorin Annette von Droste-Hülshoff fällt. Sie greift Anregungen des Ecocriticism und der Environmental...
Fields of research
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Ecocriticism,
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
and 3 more
Created on:
25.03.2019
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Category:
Workshops, seminars
Beginning:
25.04.2019
Submitted by:
Redaktion avldigital.de
Das von der DFG geförderte Projekt „Literaturpreise im deutschsprachigen Raum seit 1990“ unter Leitung von Prof. Alexandra Pontzen erforscht das Phänomen Literaturpreise und fragt nach deren innerliterarischen, kulturpolitischen und literaturbetrieblichen Funktionen und Wirkungen. Während Literaturpreise (zurzeit ca. 900) nach konventioneller Lesart die Hierarchien des literarischen Feldes reproduzieren, untersucht das Projekt, ob Preise zur Diversifikation des literarischen Feldes und zur...
Fields of research
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Literature and sociology
Created on:
14.03.2019
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University or institution:
Purdue University
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
French literature;
Literary historiography;
Literary theory;
Hermeneutics;
Poststructuralism;
New Historicism;
Reader-response criticism;
Ecocriticism;
Media studies;
Narratology;
Writtenness;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and other forms of art;
Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and philosophy;
Literature and visual studies;
Literature and social and cultural anthropology;
Literature and natural science;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Poetics;
Literary genre;
Lyric poetry;
Ballad;
Elegy;
Sonett;
Other lyrical forms;
Prose;
Novel;
Novella;
Narrative;
Short prose;
Fairy tale/Literary fairy tale;
Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment);
Comic;
Non-fictional literature;
Drama;
The fictional;
Aesthetics;
Rhetorical figure (allegory, symbol, metaphor);
Theory of translation;
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.);
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
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University or institution:
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (OFU Bamberg)
Fields of research:
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
Literature from UK and Ireland;
Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine);
Literary historiography;
New Historicism;
Gender Studies/Queer Studies;
Interdisciplinarity;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and law;
Literature and cultural studies;
Literature and media studies;
Intermediality;
Novel;
Literature of the 20th century
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University or institution:
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
Fields of research:
Literature from North America;
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Italian literature;
Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary);
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Literary theory;
Postcolonial studies;
World Literature;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and cultural studies;
travel literature;
Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.);
Literature of the 17th century;
Literature of the 18th century;
Literature of the 19th century;
Literature of the 20th century
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University or institution:
Aristoteleio Panepistēmio Thessalonikēs (APTH) / Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
Fields of research:
Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean);
Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland;
French literature;
Spanish literature;
Portugese literature;
North African literature;
Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa;
Postcolonial studies;
Ecocriticism;
World Literature;
Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality;
Literature and sociology;
Literature and cultural studies;
Novel;
Formula literature;
Themes, motifs, thematology;
Literature of the 16th century;
Literature of the 17th century
