Call for Papers: Situated Narratives. Textual Techniques, Aesthetic Strategies, Knowledge Practices (CH)
The University of Zurich invites submissions for the workshop “Situated Narratives. Textual Techniques, Aesthetic Strategies, Knowledge Practices,” to be held in Zurich from 23 to 25 April 2026. The deadline for proposals is 31 October 2025.
The workshop “Situated Narratives. Textual Techniques, Aesthetic Strategies, Knowledge Practices”, to be held in Zurich from 23 to 25 April 2026, aims to begin a collective exploration of situated narratives and to lay the groundwork for further theoretical reflection.
Contributions that engage closely with primary material from the Scandinavian context are invited. Possible guiding questions include:
What textual, generic, and media strategies shape situated narratives? What forms of collaboration do they employ?
How do situated narratives reflect their embeddedness in geographical, social, discursive, and aesthetic networks? How do they respond to the institutional dynamics of the literary field?
What kind of politics do situated narratives articulate? What ethical or socio-political claims do they make?
What forms of knowledge do situated narratives produce? What metaphors and frameworks of understanding do they develop?
Proposals of no more than 400 words, accompanied by a short biographical note, should be submitted by 31 October 2025 to patrizia.huber@ds.uzh.ch.
Languages of the workshop are English, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian. Presentations should be approximately 20 minutes in length.
Organisers: Patrizia Huber, University of Zürich; Eliane Jaberg, University of Zürich; Hanna Rinderle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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