#CfP zu "Die Kunst des Beschreibens.
#Ästhetische Diskurse von Autorinnen in der Frühen Neuzeit und #Aufklärung", dem Thema der sechsten transphilologischen ‚Femmes de Lettres‘-Jahrestagung der FONTE-Stiftung, die am 9. und 10. Oktober 2025 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin stattfinden wird.

Deadline für Abstracts: 30. April 2025

Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/die-kunst-des-beschreibens-asthetische-diskurse-von-autorinnen-in-der-fruehen-neuzeit-und-aufklarung/ #LiteratureGender #LiteratureHistory #LiteraryHistory #Aesthetics #Poetics

#CfP for the conference "Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts: Performance, #Performativity, Agents and #Genres", which will take place in Ghent on November13-14, 2025.

Deadline for abstracts: May 16, 2025

Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/medieval-texts-and-their-social-contexts-performance-performativity-agents-and-genres/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @litstudies @italianstudies #LiteratureMiddleAges #LiteraryHistory #LiteratureHistory #Poetics #LiteratureGenre #LiteraryGenre

#CfP für die Konferenz "Denken und schreiben zwischen den Sprachen: Gekreuzte Blicke auf die deutsch-französische #Avantgarde", die vom 6. bis 8. November 2025 am Campus Germersheim der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz stattfinden wird.

Deadline für Abstracts: 15. Juni 2025

Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/denken-und-schreiben-zwischen-den-sprachen-gekreuzte-blicke-auf-die-deutsch-franzosische-avantgarde/ #fidavlnews
#Multilingualism @germanistik @litstudies @italianstudies #LiteraryHistory #LiteratureHistory #Poetics #LiteratureTranslation #Translation #LiteratureCulture

#CfP for the workshop "Figures, Types, and Images of the Social in the 19th and 20th Century: Practices of Social Imagining in the History of Knowledge and the Sciences", which will take place at the University of Erfurt on November 20–21, 2025.

Deadline for abstracts: May 2, 2025

Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/figures-types-and-images-of-the-social-in-the-19th-and-20th-century-practices-of-social-imagining/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #LiteraryHistory #LiteratureHistory #LiteratureCulture

Die Konferenz "Mediävalismus in der Mediävistik – Epochenschwellen 1900/2000" wird vom 29. bis 31. Mai 2025 an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel stattfinden.

Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/event/mediavalismus-in-der-mediavistik-epochenschwellen-19002000-kiel/ #fidavlnews @germanistik #intermediality #LiteraryHistory #LiteratureHistory @litstudies

A GLORIOUS MEDITATION ON BLUE, and on the blues, and on the centrality of the color, the mood, and the music to all of African and diaspora life, but particularly to Black life in the US. Elegant, eloquent, erudite, yet profoundly direct. SOLID A

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-in-blues-imani-perry/1145525940?ean=9780062977397

@bookstodon

Die "Studierendentagung: Speis und Trank in Versen – Kulinarische Streifzüge durch die Lyrik vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart" wird am 4. und 5. April 2025 an der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg stattfinden.

Weitere Informationen + Programm:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/event/studierendentagung-speis-und-trank-in-versen-kulinarische-streifzuege-durch-die-lyrik-vom-barock-b/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik #LiteratureHistory #LiteraryHistory

Die Konferenz "Literaturgeschichte und Buchmarkt, 1500–1700" wird vom 26. bis 28. März 2025 an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg stattfinden.

Weitere Informationen + Programm:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/event/literaturgeschichte-und-buchmarkt-1500-1700-heidelberg/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #LiteratureHistory #LiteraryHistory

The conference "Modes of Modernism. Vienna 1900 and Beyond" will take place at the School of Advanced Study, University of London on May 8 and 9, 2025.

Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/event/modes-of-modernism-vienna-1900-and-beyond-london/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @litstudies #LiteraryHistory #LiteratureHistory

#CfP für den Workshop ""Formen des Erinnerns in der Frühen Neuzeit", der am 7. November 2025 an der Universität Wien stattfinden wird.

Deadline für Abstracts: 4. April 2025

Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/workshop-formen-des-erinnerns-in-der-fruehen-neuzeit-wien-07112025/ #Poetics #Aesthetics #LiteratureGenre #LiteratureHistory #LiteraryHistory #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #MemoryStudies

#CfP for the panel "#Queer Print Infrastructures in #Literary #Modernism" at the 2025 #Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Conference, which will take place in Boston on October 9-12, 2025.

Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2025

Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/msa-boston-2025-queer-print-infrastructures-in-literary-modernism-modernist-studies-association-co/ #LiteratureGender #LiteratureHistory #LiteraryHistory @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies

7.2: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Why Must Utopia Be Cruel?

In this episode, Ariel and Christina try to get to the bottom of why our fictional visions of utopia are so negative. They often involve mindless acquiescence to an authoritarian nanny state, the oppression and labor of an underclass, or both. It’s as if we can’t imagine a situation in which we all voluntarily treat each other (reasonably) decently and life can be good for everyone. We discuss the literary origins of utopia, how it has evolved (or not) as a concept, and Ariel gives a few examples of sci-fi futures that are about as close to her style of solarpunk utopia as can be. Ultimately, the topic of utopia raises more questions than answers.

https://youtu.be/WR8yg2cOcMk?si=AwMMgH2MNFHmO8Ct

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Season7 #Episode #PodcastEpisode #YouTube #utopia #SirThomasMore #SaintThomasMore #ThomasMore #Dystopia #Protopia #WakandaForever #BlackPanther #Indigenous Futurisms #Afrofuturism #Utopias #Anti-Utopia #LiteraryHistory #Cruelty #Despair #Hope #UntopiaParadox #Omelas #TheOnesWhoStayAndFight #TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas

#CfP for the seminar "Literaturgeschichte intersektional weiterschreiben", which will take place at the 49th German Studies Association (GSA) meeting on September 25-28, 2025 in Arlington, VA.

Deadline for abstracts: February 19, 2025

Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/cfp-gsa-seminar-literaturgeschichte-intersektional-weiterschreiben-25-28092025-arlington-v/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @litstudies #LiteraryHistory #LiteratureHisotry #LiteratureGender

#CfP für die Konferenz "Einmal ist keinmal. Formen und Funktionen von Wiederholung im mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen #Erzählen", die vom 25. bis 27. September 2025 an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal stattfinden wird.

Deadline für Abstracts: 28. Februar 2025

Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/einmal-ist-keinmal-formen-und-funktionen-von-wiederholung-im-mittelalterlichen-und-fruehneuzeitliche/ #fidavlnews @litstudies #fidavlnews @germanistik @italianstudies @litstudies #LiteraryHistory #LiteratureHistory #Rhetoric

Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach will host the conference "The #Modernisms Scandinavian-German #Literary Connections, 1870-1930" on February 19-21, 2025.

Further information + program:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/event/the-modernisms-scandinavian-german-literary-connections-1870-1930-marbach/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik #LiteratureHistory #LiteraryHistory

#CfP for the conference "Cinema’s First Epics in Focus: Silent Epic #Film from #Literary #Adaptation to Contemporary #Epic #Narratives", which will take place at online on May 22nd, 2025

Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2025

Further information: https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/cinemas-first-epics-in-focus-silent-epic-film-from-literary-adaptation-to-contemporary-epic-narrat/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #intermediality #LiteratureFilm #LiteraryHistory #LiteratureHistory

#CfP for the edited volume "Polyglot Women as Agents of Transfers in the European Romantic Public Space", which will be submitted to Palgrave Macmillan for publication consideration.

Deadline for abstracts: January 30, 2025

Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/polyglot-women-as-agents-of-transfers-in-the-european-romantic-public-space/ #avldigitalnews #LiteratureGender @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #LiteraryHistory #LiteratureHistory

The conference "Common Grounds: Towards a Medieval Comparative #Literature" will take place in Würzburg on January 15-17, 2025.

Deadline for registration: January 15, 2025

Further information: https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/event/common-grounds-towards-a-medieval-comparative-literature/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @litstudies @italianstudies #LiteraryHistory #LiteratureHistory

#bookstodon #publishing #writers #reading #LiteraryHistory

The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024 https://lithub.com/the-50-biggest-literary-stories-of-2024/