29 november 2024 | KB Den Haag
De buitenkant van een boek beïnvloedt de lezer direct: is het aantrekkelijk? Bevat het foto’s, illustraties of alleen tekst? Is het bedoeld om gelezen te worden of functioneert het meer als een kunstobject? De vormgeving hangt vaak af van wat op dat moment in de mode is en wie het publiek is.
De deadline voor het indienen van voorstellen is 15 december 2024.
De Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, gevestigd te Leiden, werd in 1766 opgericht als een vereniging van letterkundigen, taalkundigen en historici. De Maatschappij heeft als doel de beoefening van de schone letteren en de studie van de Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde, geschieden oudheidkunde in hun onderlinge samenhang te bevorderen. Vanaf 2019 reikt de Maatschappij fellowships uit aan maximaal twee onderzoekers per jaar.
23-25 October 2024 | University of Groningen
Initiated in 2007, the area of study called ‘Graphic Medicine’ has developed into an impressive field of research that is today broadly understood as “the intersection of the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare” (Czerwiec et al. 2015). As a discipline, it understands itself as an ‘emerging area of interdisciplinary academic study’ including both theoretical and methodological developments from several disciplines connected to comics studies as well as practical insights and applications from medical practitioners in the healthcare context.
The deadline for submission is 31st January, 2025
The Anna Balakian Prize is presented at the Triennial Congress of the ICLA, in order to reward an exceptional first monograph in the field of comparative literary studies, written by a single author who has not attained the age of 40 years. The prize, in the amount of U.S.$ 1000, comes from a joint donation from the family of Anna Balakian and the Friends of the AILC-ICLA. Its purpose is to promote the scientific research of the young comparatists and to honour the memory of Professor Anna Balakian, a reputed comparatist.
Aarhus – Denmark | 3 December 2024
We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Digital Methods for Mythological Research (#dm4myth) taking place on December 3rd, 2024. The workshop aims to bring together a network of researchers from various disciplines and backgrounds who are passionate about mythological narratives and their study using digital methods. This includes research efforts such as the automatic or semi-automatic analysis and modeling of mythological narratives, comparative efforts using digital tools, or the study and representation of mythological characters.
20 november 2024 | Universiteit Utrecht
Dit mini-symposium brengt een diverse groep van jongeren, bookfluencers, leerkrachten, leesbevorderaars, onderzoekers en beleidsmakers samen om vanuit verschillende perspectieven en ervaringen tot een dieper begrip te komen van digitale bookish platforms, de lezersgemeenschappen die zich hierop manifesteren en eventuele mogelijkheden om (kenmerken van) deze digitale bookish platforms in te zetten in het voortgezet literatuuronderwijs.
We are inviting extended proposals by June 10th, 2024
Can we speak of a turn to absence? Across the contemporary academic conjuncture, theory is reapproaching the absent in all its varying fleshly and rhetorical forms, revalorizing ‘absence’ itself as a critical matter. Enduring scholarly investments in re-presenting and re-presencing the absented body (from the archive and media, from power and institutions, from theory and writing) have become supplemented in current critical work by an affirmative interest in staying with absence as such.
18 & 19 April 2024 | Brechthaus Berlin
On 18 and 19 April 2024, there will be a conference on the work of German writer Helga Schütz at the Brechthaus in Berlin. Helga Schütz, now almost 87 years old, was involved in many DEFA films as a screenwriter and scenarist and is still active as a writer.
23-25 October 2024 | University of Groningen
Deadline: 15 April 2024
This conference will bring together theoretical and methodological developments on Graphic Medicine, as well as practical insights and applications, and hopes to offer a fruitful place for discussion and critical evaluation of the field and its most recent developments and insights.
Application deadline: 15 April 2024
This project is funded by the Christine Mohrmann Foundation at Radboud University to support research initiated by Professor Dr Marjolein Oele, Professor of Philosophy of the Humanities. It is organised around the concept of affectivity (Greek: pathos), which has been crucial to theorising ancient Greek notions of undergoing, suffering, emotion, illness, and qualitative change. In the 20th and 21st centuries, notions of affect and affectivity are at the forefront of research in continental philosophy (e.g. Heidegger, Henry, Irigaray) and affect theory more broadly (e.g. Ahmed, Berlant). The prominence of these concepts is such that scholars even speak of an “affective turn” in the humanities (e.g. Clough and Halley).