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  1. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 15.10.2019
    Assistant professor in francophone studies, Cornell University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The department of Romance Studies at Cornell University is searching for an Assistant Professor (tenure line) in Francophone Studies. Preference will be given to a researcher working on Sub-Saharan Francophone literatures and/or cultures (including...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 30.09.2019
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.02.2020
    Philosophische Fragen im Spiegel der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    CFP: Philosophische Fragen im Spiegel der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - Symposion der Oldenburger Forschungsstelle für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (OLFOKI) vom 10. bis 12. November 2020 Philosophische Fragen, Gedanken und Haltungen spielen...

    Fields of research Didactics of Literature,  Literature and philosophy,  Children's and young adult literature
    Created on: 18.10.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université de Genève (UNIGE) / University of Geneva
    Luxus und Moderne: Die Ambivalenz des Überflüssigen in Kulturkonzeptionen der Literatur und Ästhetik seit dem 18. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt untersucht die ebenso fundamentale wie ambivalente Rolle des Luxus für die moderne Konzeption von Kultur seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, indem es literarische und ästhetische (d.i. kunst- / literaturtheoretische) Luxus-Darstellungen analysiert...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics and 3 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 05.06.2019
    Baudelaire and Philosophy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    An international conference supported by the British Society of Aesthetics and organised by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought Goldsmiths, University of London, 5-6 June 2019 Charles Baudelaire is a pivotal reference for...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 31.05.2019
    Naturkraft. Wissensgeschichtliche Annäherung an ein Begriffsfeld
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Vortrag & Workshop // Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (31.05.2019) In Kooperation mit der Graduate School of Humanities (Würzburg) und der DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Imaginarien der Kraft" (Hamburg) Über 'Naturkraft' wurde...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology,  Aesthetics and 3 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Monash University
    Demanding the impossible: utopianism in philosophy, literature and science fiction
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In a society like ours, which is subject to more or less continuous and often rapid social change, the question of how to imagine the future is of paramount importance. The study of how better and worse futures have been imagined for Australia, and...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Principles of An-Archy: Hannah Arendt, Reiner Schürmann, and the Politics of the Many
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Facundo Vega’s project, Principles of An-archy: Hannah Arendt, Reiner Schürmann, and the Politics of the Many , compares Arendt’s and Schürmann’s shared but unacknowledged interest in ‘principles’ and ‘beginnings’ inherent to politics. Vega...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Residues of Presence: Between Physics and Metaphysics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project attempts to open a space of convergence between the insights arising from continental philosophy and modern physics. Both have challenged a naive faith in the horizon of constant presence that have long regulated both philosophical and ...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    When History Merges into Setting: Walter Benjamin and the Decreation of Human Sovereignty
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This monograph turns to the writings of Walter Benjamin with the hope of renewing a critical language for addressing the philosophical pre-conditions of ecological and racialized violence. The project explores how Benjamin re-theorizes notions of...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    'Nuclear Afterlives'
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This research project, tentatively titled ‘Nuclear Afterlives’, examines the complex and conflicting residues of nuclear contamination, and some of nonhuman harborers of these residues. Following Sperling’s first book project on weird embodiment in...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Possibility and the Utopian Imagination in the Poetic Practice of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Peripheral but central, external but inner, between being and non-being—possibility has the multi-stable ontology of utopias and their creative and transformative power. Through possibility, writers, philosophers, and artists through the ages have...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Literature and law,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Con-Science and The Whole: Sara Lidman s Literary Philosophy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose of this project is to investigate the complex relation between philosophy and literature through a study of the Swedish modernist author Sara Lidman (1923-2004). At the center of the investigation lies Lidman’s concepts ”con-science”...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    The voice of conscience; Shakespeare, imagination and judgment
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The idea that we may be beset by an inner voice of conscience has been negotiated in philosophy and literature over the centuries. This book project, which builds on articles and lectures written by myself during the last few years, offers a new...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Transcendental Translations: The Making of New England’s Literary Culture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Translation was central to New England Transcendentalism, the literary culture of antebellum New England. This project focuses on how its translation activities shaped American literature and politics. It pays particular attention to translations...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  World Literature,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: University institutes
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Subject Comparative Literature, Södertörn University Stockholm
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Research in the subject of Comparative Literature has a particular focus on literature from the long 19th century. It brings together researchers who are interested in the aesthetics of the 18th century, the relationship between humans and...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  16. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Reassessing the Rise of Aesthetics. Aesthetic Heteronomy from Shaftesbury to Schelling
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 18th century is traditionally regarded as the Grand Siècle of modern aesthetic autonomy. A longstanding diachronic narrative holds that such autonomy originated in British early 18th-century theories on disinterestedness and was fulfilled by the...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  17. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Man builds and gets destroyed himself: Aesthetics of the sublime in Soviet Russian Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This is a multidisciplinary project at the crossroads of Russian cultural history, post-Soviet studies, literary theory, aesthetics, and philosophy. The purpose of the project proposed is to study the aesthetics of the sublime in selected works in...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  18. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Decolonizing Phenomenologies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project combines a decolonial critique of Husserl’s phenomenology (Smith) with an analysis of contemporary forms of subjectivation as expressed in decolonial art in postcommunist Eastern Europe (Tlostanova). Phenomenology was important in...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  19. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 25.05.2020
    Jennifer Fay, Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell: Lecture (online event)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This talk connects the writings of Hannah Arendt and Stanley Cavell to questions of thinking: what it is and how it appears in the world and on film. For both philosophers, thinking may be understood as a form of leave-taking, roaming, even of...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 13.12.2019
  20. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.06.2020
    Quel temps fait-il ? Journée d'études transdiciplinaire sur la notion de temps
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Quel temps fait-il ? Journée d'études transdiciplinaire sur la notion de temps Appel à contributions/communications Le laboratoire interdisciplinaire PRISM (Perception/Representation/Image/Sound/Music, sous tute- lles...

    Fields of research Interdisciplinarity,  Literature and philosophy,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 18.05.2020
  21. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2020
    La fiction posthumaniste : projections, représentations et critiques du transhumanisme
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    La fiction posthumaniste : projections, représentations et critiques du Transhumanisme - Colloque organisé dans le cadre du projet « Transhumanisme et posthumanisme entre réalités et imaginaires » géré par ...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology
    Created on: 22.05.2020
  22. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2020
    Jahrbuch Vormärz Forschung 2021: Vormärz, Nachmärz/Risorgimento, Postrisorgimento: Deutsch-italienische Perspektiven
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call für das Jahrbuch Vormärz Forschung 2021: Vormärz, Nachmärz/Risorgimento, Postrisorgimento: Deutsch-italienische Perspektiven Hg. Anne-Rose Meyer Wie kein anderes Land ist Italien im deutschsprachigen Raum seit mehr als...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Italian literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 25.05.2020
  23. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 14.06.2020
    Internationales Promovierendensymposium Kunst | Literatur | Stadt. Zum Verhältnis von Geisteswissenschaften und Öffentlichkeit
    Submitted by: Ángela Calderón Villarino

    Universität Heidelberg, 20.-21. Juli 2020 Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg Bewerbungsfrist: 14. Juni 2020 Ausrichtung | Was ist der Eigenwert von kunst- und literaturwissenschaftlicher...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Literature and other forms of art and 1 more
    Created on: 20.05.2020
  24. Reinhard M. Möller
    University or institution: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; South Asian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Novel; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); travel literature; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  25. Historische Texte und Wörterbücher (textlog.de)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "textlog.de ist eine Sammlung historischer Texte und Wörterbücher mit Schwerpunkt Philosophie, Kunst und Ästhetik. Die in dem Projekt enthaltenen Online-Ausgaben sind neu überarbeitet und editiert. Derzeit stehen über 41000 Seiten zur Lektüre und...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 22.05.2020