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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Colonised Citizens
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colonized Citizens is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project focuses on colonial literature in Belgium and Germany, both ‘late participants’ in the European...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Eugenic Women
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Eugenic Women is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project researches literature by German and British female authors who engaged in the widespread debate on...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 3 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Modern Etruscans
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Modern Etruscans is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project explores the ways in which an increasingly specialized knowledge of Etruscan culture affected not only...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Avant-Garde Egypt
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Avant-Garde Egypt is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project investigates literary interactions between the European historical avant-gardes and the...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Wirkungsgeschichte von Goethes Werk „Zur Farbenlehre“ in Berlin 1810-1832
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ziel des Projekts ist die Untersuchung der Rezeption von Goethes 1810 erschienenem Werk „Zur Farbenlehre“ in Berlin in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Goethe selbst hat der Nachwelt die Ansicht überliefert, sein Werk sei vor allem...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Digital Humanities,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  6. 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
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Zürich (Uzh)
    Welt im Winkel. Idylle als Denkraum in der Prosa des Realismus
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Spätestens seit Jean Pauls Definition in der Vorschule der Ästhetik (1813) hat sich die überlieferte Gattung der Idylle aus ihren arkadischen Szenerien herausgelöst: Für die Idylle ist der Schauplatz gleichgültig, "ob Alpe, Trift, Otaheiti, ob...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Wien
    Zensur der italienischsprachigen Literatur in der Habsburgermonarchie, 1750-1918
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    An der Schnittstelle zwischen italienischer Literaturgeschichte und der Geschichte der Habsburgermonarchie, politisch vom Widerspruch zwischen Einigungsbemühungen und nationalistischen Tendenzen geprägt, versucht unser Projekt eine umfassende...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Italian literature,  Literary historiography and 3 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  9. 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
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Caricatures of Man-Made Nature: Reflections on Environmental Change in German Magazines from the Era of Industrialization
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    My research project focuses on a selection of long-forgotten caricatures that appeared in literary and satirical magazines during the era of industrialization. These caricatures depict man-made environmental transformations and address their...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies and 4 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    The Portuguese Representations of India: Power and Knowledge in a Peripheral Orientalism (19th and 20th Centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The main goal of this project (besides critically bringing to light the literary and scientific production on India from the 19th and 20th centuries) is to determine the extent to which the Portuguese accumulation of knowledge on the Orient can be...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  South Asian literature,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Digital Map of Iberian Literary Relations (1870-1930)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description By showcasting divers materials referring to Iberian literary relations (images, texts, secondary bibliography), this project aims at contributing both to the field of Iberian Studies, and to Digital Humanities in Portugal. This...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    TECOP. Texts and Contexts of Portuguese Orientalism - The International Congresses of Orientalists (1873-1973)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The TECOP project focuses on the study of Portuguese Orientalism within a comparative and interdisciplinary framework. It seeks to give visibility to the Portuguese orientalists taking part in the International Congresses of Orientalists and to...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université de Genève (UNIGE) / University of Geneva,  Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    "Barbarisch": Geschichte eines europäischen Grundbegriffs und seiner literarischen Reflexion vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    „Barbarisch“ ist ein Begriff, der abendländisch-westliches Selbstverständnis mitbegründet hat und zur tendenziell globalen Durchsetzung dieses Selbstverständnisses verwendet worden ist und wird. Bis heute hat der Begriff die im klassischen...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Themes, motifs, thematology and 4 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Literature as Event and Action: The Performativity of Literature in Sweden 1800 - 2008
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    When Selma Lagerlöf appears in front of an audience to read from her work, the capacity of the literary text for interacting with and affecting its receivers is manifested. This is literature in the form of action and it is most clearly manifested in...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  16. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 19.06.2019
    Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Fachbereich Neuere Philologien, Institut für Deutsche Literatur und ihre Didaktik
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Am Institut für Deutsche Literatur und ihre Didaktik , Fachbereich Neuere Philologien, der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main ist zum 01.10.2019 die Stelle einer/eines Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin/Mitarbeiters (E13 TV-G-U) ...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  17. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 10.06.2019
    Offre de contrat doctoral au sein d’un projet de recherche sur l’opéra-comique pendant la Révolution française
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Offre de contrat doctoral au sein d’un projet de recherche sur l’opéra-comique pendant la Révolution française Le Département de littérature et de langue de l’Université des sciences et techniques de Norvège offre un contrat doctoral de trois...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  18. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Reine Form. Formalistische Ästhetik und formalistisches Wissenschaftsprogramm im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776 - 1841) beeinflusste mit seiner Ästhetik das Denken seiner Zeit, formulierte er doch eine entschiedene Gegenposition zur Gehaltsästhetik und wirkte mit seinem mit der Ästhetik verbundenen Wissenschaftsprogramm auf das...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Aesthetics,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  19. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 18.07.2019
    Lebenskunst nach Leopardi. Anti-pessimistische Strategien im Werk Giacomo Leopardis
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Leopardi-Tag 2019 Internationale Tagungder Deutschen Leopardi-Gesellschaft und der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Leopardis Dichtung und Philosophie werden gemeinhin als ausschließlich oder zumindest überwiegend pessimistisch...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  20. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Plymouth
    Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel, 1880-2015
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores how the novel has been used since the late nineteenth century to imagine better forms of community, and the problems and opportunities revealed by such attempts. Insights from this research are employed with local communities,...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Novel,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  21. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Birmingham
    Narrativising Dinosaurs: Science and Popular Culture from 1850 to the Present
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Encountering dinosaurs is a routine experience for most of us. They tower over us in museums, entertain us in books and films, and peer out at us from our cereal boxes. Though increasingly well-understood from a scientific standpoint, dinosaurs are...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science and 3 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  22. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Network: Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900
    Network: Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’ is a research network studying the rise of literary institutions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and considering their ongoing influence in modern literary culture. It is funded by the Arts and...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  23. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Melbourne
    Architectures of Imagination: Bodies, Buildings, Fictions, and Worlds
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores the roles played by fiction and imagination in the production of space during the long eighteenth-century (1700-1835), through studies of key buildings (the list includes Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, William Beckford’s...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  24. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Melbourne
    Gothic Fictions: Emotion, Contagion, and the Transformation of Experience in Modernity
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gothic Fiction is the most important prose genre of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Drawing on recent developments in cultural theory, this project is the first to study Gothic Fiction as a literary system, marked by its...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  25. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Tasmania (UTAS)
    Antarctic Imaginations: A Study of Creative Responses to the Continent for Science
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Antarctica has for two centuries been the subject of numerous novels, poems and plays, both by writers who have never seen the continent, and by expeditioners and explorers themselves. Apart from a small number of canonical nineteenth-century texts,...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019