Tag: Germany
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Applications for a Junior-Professorship (W1) in Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Würzburg (Germany) invites applications for a Junior-Professorship (W1) in Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies at the Institute for Modern Philologies at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, starting at the next possible entry date. The holder of the post in question must have an academic background in American Studies and/or…
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CFP: International Conference -The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry
International Conference The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry University of Bamberg, Germany, November 25-26, 2016 The environmental crisis and intensifying migration movements are among the greatest challenges of our time, yet they are only beginning to be understood as interrelated. So far, this junction has mainly been studied in the social…
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Cultural and Literary Animal Studies
Journal of Literary Theory Vol. 9, No. 2 (2015) Cultural and Literary Animal Studies Guest Editor: Roland Borgards (University of Würzburg, Germany) In recent years, animal studies have become established as an important interdisciplinary field of research. Cultural and literary studies, too, have dealt in a new way with the discourse on animals and the…
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Workshop & Conference: Imagining Earth at Zukunftsakademie NRW
Workshop & Conference Imagining »Earth« Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ 29.-31.05.2014 Zukunftsakademie NRW, Humboldtstr. 40; 44787 Bochum (Germany) Web: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/imagining-earth Contact: Solvejg Nitzke [email protected] Title: Imagining Earth. Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ To call upon the ›whole Earth‹ has become a common way to evoke significance.…
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5th EASLCE Webinar: Literature and/as Cultural Ecology
The 2014 webinar series will start off with a webinar hosted by Prof. Dr. Hubert Zapf (University of Augsburg, Germany) on Literature and/as Cultural Ecology. This 5th EASLCE webinar takes place on February 27th at 4:00 pm (Central European Standard Time). In the webinar, Prof. Zapf will position the concept of “literature as cultural ecology”, which he has developed in some of his recent…
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33 Scholarships – Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies
Call for Applications: 33 Scholarships for the Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies (CLAS) Sep 23-Sep 28, 2013, at the University of Würzburg 1. Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies, Funded by VolkswagenStiftung In the Humanities and in Cultural Studies, animals have increasingly become the focus of interest in recent years. In its interdisciplinary…
