International symposiums and conferences
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International conferences at the Faculty of Philology

International symposiums and conferences regularly take place at the Faculty of Philology. You can find an overview of all conferences which have been held here since 2011. To view the current calls for papers of upcoming conferences, click the heading "Calls for Papers" [de], and for the latest conference announcements, click the menu heading "News" [de] and view the Faculty event calendar [de].

  • International conferences 2024

    German-Georgian colloquium "Sprache und Kultur"
    1. - 2. October
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Conference program

    13th „International Conference for Meroitic Studies“
    9. - 13. September
    Institute of Egyptology and Coptology
    Interview

    Conference "Textual Transmission in the Islamic Manuscript Age"
    5. - 7. September
    Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
    Conference program

    Early Medieval China Workshop
    3. - 5. May
    Institute of Sinology and East Asian Studies
    Conference program

    Foreign Language Listening Comprehension (LiCo)
    6. - 7. March
    English Department
    Conference program

  • International conferences 2023

    Arabische Literatur im Dialog mit der Natur
    7. - 9. December
    Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
    Conference program

    Religiöse Parodien: "Lachen und Kritik"
    23. - 24. October
    Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
    Conference program

    Morfologiedagen 2023
    5. - 6. Oktober
    Institute of Dutch Philology
    Conference program

    Hör! Spiel! Kunst! – radiophone Literatur
    5. - 7. September
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Conference program

    La querelle des anciens et des modernes au XIXe siècle en France: Zur Quelle des anciens et des Modernes im 19. Jahrhundert in Frankreich
    16. - 19. July
    Department of Romance Studies
    Conference program

    Harmonie und Rhytmus des Mikrokosmos und Makrokosmos in der frühen Neuzeit und Heute
    9. - 10. June 2023
    Department of Romance Studies
    Conference program

    Personennamen in Migration: Onymische Indizes hybrider sozialer Zugehörigkeiten
    1. - 2. June 2023
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    More information

  • International conferences 2022

    Study India Day: "India at 75 from a Law and Literature Perspective"
    22 November 2022
    CRC 1385 "Law and Literature"
    Press release

    Recht und Literatur in Europa / Law and Literature in Europe
    17 October 2022
    CRC 1385 "Law and Literature"
    Conference program

    YouTube, WhatsApp, WeChat: Linguistische Nachwuchstagung zu "Grammatik, Interaktion und Sprachvergleich"
    8 -  9 September 2022
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Conference program

    El teólogo en la españa de la temprana modernidad
    18 - 20 July 2022
    Department of Romance Studies
    Conference program

    Der Körper als Forschungsgegenstand
    15 - 17 July 2022
    Institute for Egyptology and Coptology
    Press release

    Teatro y reclusión / Eingeschlossene Gesellschaften: Formen und Funktionen von Vereinzelung, Isolation, Gefangenschaft und Exil im spanischen Gegenwartsdrama
    23 - 25 June 2022
    Department of Romance Studies
    More information

    Expressivität in der Dialektgrammatik. Germanistisches Institut und LWL-Kommission für Mundart- und Namenforschung Westfalens laden zum Kolloquium ein
    23 - 24 June 2022
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    More information

    Die Verwandlung von Paris: Repräsentation, Inszenierung, Ironie. Charles Baudelaire zum 200. Geburtstag
    15 - 18 June 2022
    Department of Romance Studies
    Press release

    Design-Based Research in Foreign Language Education
    10 June 2022
    English Department
    Conference website

  • International conferences 2021

    Conference "Rhetorics. Interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches"
    05 and 06 November 2021
    Collaborative Research Center 1385 "Law and Literature"
    Call for Papers

    International LMET Conference
    04 - 06 October 2021
    Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    Call for Papers

    Conference "Moving Texts: From Discovery to Delivery“
    26 - 30 July 2021
    Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
    Website

    Vögel aus Federn. Verschriftlichungen des Vogels seit 1800
    7. - 8. May 2021
    Institute of German Language and Literature / GSPoL
    News

    Münster Conference Linguistic Representations and Language Processing (LIRLAP)
    25 - 27 March 2021
    Graduate School Empirical and Applied Linguistics
    Call for Papers

  • International conferences 2019

    Protagonists of Production
    6 - 9 November 2019
    Department of Romance Studies
    Press release [de]

    Bewegte Namen / Names in Motion
    11 - 13 September 2019
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Press release [de]

    Intellectuals Across Borders: Writers, Artists, Activists
    4 - 6 September 2019
    English Department
    Press release [de]

    Digital Conversation Analysis
    20 - 21 August 2019
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Press release [de]

    Recht und Gesellschaft im vormodernen Ostasien
    26 - 28 July 2019
    Institute of Sinology and East Asian Studies
    Press release [de]

    The Jewish Book 1400 – 1600: From Production to Reception
    24 - 27 June 2019
    Institute for Jewish Studies
    Press release [de]

    Astrolabes in Pre-Modern Cultures
    5 June 2019
    Institute for Jewish Studies and Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
    Press release [de]

    Deine Angst – Dein Paradies. Gedichte aus Syrien
    24 May 2019
    Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Institute of Dutch Philology
    Homepage

    Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality – Models, Varieties, Approaches
    8 - 10 February 2019
    Graduate School Empirical and Applied Linguistics (GSeal)
    Press release [de]

    Reisen und Entdecken im Literarischen Norden
    30 January 2019
    Institute of Nordic Philology
    Press release [de]

  • International conferences 2018

    Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpara 3
    Discourse and Information Structure
    Institute of Linguistics
    07 - 08 December 2018
    Press release [de]

    Beyond Endings. Past Tenses and Future Imaginaries
    Forum for Life Writing Research
    26 - 28 September 2018
    Presse release [de]

    28. Jahrestagung der European Second Language Association (EuroSLA)
    English Department, Institute of German Language and Literature, Institut of Dutch Philology
    05 - 08 September 2018
    Press release [de]

    6. Internationale Konferenz der EAM (Europäisches Netzwerk für Studien zur Avantgarde und Moderne)
    Realismen der Avantgarde
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    05 - 07 September 2018
    Press release [de]

    Gesprochene Sprache in der kommunikativen Praxis
    Analysen authentischer Alltagssprache und ihr Einsatz im DaF-Unterricht
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    20.-22. June 2018
    Press release [de]

    The Racecourse of Literature
    An-Nawāǧī and His Contemporaries
    Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
    04.-05. May 2018
    Press release [de]

    Rituale und Magie in Ugarit
    Praxis, Kontexte und Bedeutung
    Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies
    25.-27. April 2018
    Press release [de]

    Anderswo im Anderswann - Autofiktion als Utopie
    21. - 23. March 2018
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Press release [de]

    Pop Hero and Action Princess?
    Negotiating Gender in Popular Culture
    12  - 13 January 2018
    English Department
    Press release [de]

  • International conferences 2017

    Der deutsche Schlager
    09 - 11 October 2017
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Press release [de]

    UPSideDown - Circus and Space
    28 - 30 June 2017
    Project Zirkus|Wissenschaft
    Press release [de]

    Germanic Sandwich 2017
    16 - 18 March 2017
    Institute of Dutch Philology
    Conference programme (pdf)

    Elizitationsverfahren in der Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung
    GAL Research School
    08 - 10 March 2017
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Press release [de]

    Citizenship and Literature
    Past Concerns, Present Issues, Future Trajectories
    20 - 21 February 2017
    English Department
    Conference programme | More information [de]

  • International conferences 2016

    Miguel de Cervantes y el humanismo europeo
    15 - 16 December 2016
    Department of Romance Studies / University of Geneva
    Conference programme [sp; pdf]

    Aus der Vergangenheit lernen
    Altorientalistische Forschungen in Münster im Kontext der internationalen Fachgeschichte
    30 November - 2 December 2016
    Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies
    Conference programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    The Fantastic Now
    Tendenzen der Fantastikforschung im 21. Jahrhundert
    22  - 24 September 2016
    English Department
     Conference programme (pdf) | Press release [de]

    AIH Congreso Münster 2016 (19. Weltkongress der Hispanistik)
    11 - 16 July 2016
    Department of Romance Studies
    Conference programme [sp] | Press release [de]

    Crisis y Creatividad en el teatro español y latinoamericano del siglo XIX al siglo XXI
    7 - 10 July 2016
    Department of Romance Studies
    Conference programme [sp; pdf] | Press release [de]

    Stationen auf dem Weg niederländischer Bücher zum ausländischen Lesepublikum
    30 June - 1 July 2016
    Institute of Dutch Philology
    Conference programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    Alfred Döblin und die frühe Moderne
    27 - 29 June 2016
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Conference programme [de; pdf]

    Challenging Reading: English-Language Education with Children and Teenagers
    11 - 12 March 2016
    English Department
    Conference programme

  • International conferences 2015

    Media Transitions in the Arab World: Actual and Historical Perspectives on Literature and Culture
    International Workshop
    30 - 31 October 2015
    Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
    Conference programme | Press release [de]

    Literaturkontakte Ugarits
    Wurzeln & Entfaltungen
    13 - 15 October 2015
    Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies
    Conference programme [de] | Press release [de]

    Literarische Form
    Geschichte und Kultur ästhetischer Modellbildung
    5 - 7 October 2015
    Research Training Group "Literary Form. History and Culture of Aesthetic Modelling"

    Im Wandel. Veranderingen in de taal, literatuur en samenleving in Nederland en Vlaanderen
    Neuntes Kolloquium der Fachvereinigung Niederländisch e.V.
    21 - 22 September 2015
    Institute of Dutch Philology
    Conference programme [de]

    Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe
    Fifth Biennial Conference 2015
    16 - 19 September 2015
    English Department
    Conference programme [pdf] | Press release [de]

    Archaeological Bayuda Conference
    First International Conference on the Archaeology of the Bayuda Desert in Sudan
    10 - 12 September 2015
    Institute of Egyptology and Coptology
    Conference programme | Press release [de]

    Transdiziplinäre Konferenz
    Briefe als Träger und Trigger von Affekten
    3 - 4 July 2015
    Graduate School "Practices of Literature" / Research Training Group "Literary Form"
    Conference programme [de; pdf]

    Prayer and Power
    The God's Wives of Amun in Egypt during the First Millenium BC
    25 - 27 June 2015
    Institute of Egyptology and Coptology / Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
    Conference programme [pdf] | Press release [de]

    Diskurse des Sonalen
    Interdisziplinäre und internationale Tagung
    24 - 26 June 2015
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Conference programme [de; pdf]

    Jahrestagung der "Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien"
    14 - 16 May 2015
    English Department
    Press release [de]

    Semiotics of the Circus
    International Conference
    15 - 17 April 2015
    Institute of German Language and Literature / Cirque Bouffon
    Conference programme [pdf] |  More information [de]

    The Sultan's Anthologist
    Ibn Abī Ḥaǧala and His Work
    Internationale Konferenz der Leibnizpreis-Forschungsstelle "Arabische Literatur und Rhetorik, 1100 - 1800"       
    1 - 2 April 2015
    Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
    Conference programme [pdf]

  • International conferences 2014

    Recht und Gerechtigkeit
    XXV. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien e.V. (DVCS)
    7 - 9 November 2014
    Institute of Sinology and East Asian Studies
    Conference programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    Westfälisch
    Geschichte - Strukturen - Perspektiven
    8 - 10 October 2014
    Centre for Low German (CfN)
    Conference programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    Schnittstellen / Interfaces
    9. Frankromanistenkongress
    24 - 27 September 2014
    Department of Romance Studies
    Conference programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    "Die Hölle, das sind die Anderen"
    Repräsentationen und Konnotationen des Anderen in der zeitgenössischen deutschen und arabischen Literatur
    Symposium mit öffentlichen Vorträgen
    4 - 6 September 2014
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Conference programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    Figuras del bien y del mal
    La construcción cultural de la masculinidad y de la feminidad en el teatro calderoniano
    XVII. Coloquio Anglogermano sobre Calderón (XVII. Kolloquium zur Calderón-Forschung)
    16 - 19 July 2014
    Department of Romance Studies / Department of Romance Studies at the University of Bochum
    Conference programme [sp; pdf]

    Urbane Räume und Urbanität im spanischen Theater des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts / Espacios urbanos en el teatro español de los siglos XX y XXI
    26 - 30 June 2014
    Department of Romance Studies
    More information [de]

    Projekt 1814 – Demokratisierung in Skandinavien und Europa
    Kulturwissenschaftliches Symposium
    14 May 2014
    Department of Nordic Philology
    More information [de]

    Die zehn Gebote zwischen frühneuzeitlicher spanischer Heterodoxie und Orthodoxie
    Workshop
    8 - 9 May 2014
    Department of Romance Studies
    Programme [de; pdf]

    41. Jahrestagung des "Fachverbands Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache" (FaDaF)
    20 - 22 March 2014
    Organisation: Dr. Alexis Feldmeier (Institute of German Language and Literature)
    Press release [de]

  • International conferences 2013

    Mirabiliratio
    Das Wunderbare im Zugriff der frühneuzeitlichen Vernunft
    15 - 18 December 2013
    Department of Romance Studies
    Conference programme [de; pdf]

    Ethik & Politik des Aristoteles in der Frühen Neuzeit
    11 - 14 December 2013
    Prof. Dr. Strosetzki (Department of Romance Studies), Prof. Dr. Mesch (Department of Philosophy), Prof. Dr. Pietsch (Institute of Classical Philology)
    Conference programme [de; pdf] | More information [de]

    Genus, Klassifikation und Kategorisierung
    28 - 30 November 2013
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Conference programme [de; pdf]

    32. Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT 2013)
    23 - 27 September 2013
    Programme [de] | Press releases [de]

    Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging
    22 - 24 September 2013
    English Department / Marie Curie Initial Training Network "Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging" (CoHaB)
    Conference programme [pdf] | Press release [de]

    Crimes of Passion
    Repräsentationen der Sexualpathologie im frühen 20. Jahrhundert
    24 - 26 July 2013
    Graduate School "Practices of Literature"
    Conference programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    Austausch, Chancen und Herausforderungen
    Konferenz chinesischer Germanisten in Deutschland
    4 - 5 July 2013
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Press release [de]

    European Female Authorship: Networks and Obstacles
    3 - 5 April 2013
    Department of Romance Studies
    Conference programme | Press release [de]

    Hispanistische Brückenschläge - La Hispanística tendiendo puentes
    19. Deutscher Hispanistentag
    20 - 24 March 2013
    Department of Romance Studies
    Press release [de]

    Durch (W)Orte
    Reisen und Schreiben im niederländisch- und deutschsprachigen Raum zwischen 1800 und 1950
    1 - 2 March 2013
    Institute of Dutch Philology
    Flyer / Programme [pdf] | Press release [de]

    Ugarit und Kanaan
    Kulturelle, sprachliche und wirtschaftliche Beziehungen zwischen der nördlichen Levante und Phönizien-Palästina
    13 - 15 February 2013
    Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
    Conference programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

  • International conferences 2012

    Konstruktionen im Spannungsfeld von sequenziellen Mustern, Gattungen und Textsorten
    15 - 16 November 2012
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Conference programme [de; pdf]

    Wissen und Kritik
    Perspektiven universitärer Deutschlehrerausbildung
    25 - 27 October 2012
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Flyer / Programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    Public Notion of Crime and Law in East Asia
    03 - 05 September 2012
    Institute of Sinology and East Asian
    Conference programme (PDF)

    Mosaiksteine der Steinzeit
    Sprachliche und kulturelle Fragmente des Indogermanischen in den Sprachen Asiens und Europas
    9. Indo-European Leiden/Münster Colloquium
    18 - 19 June 2012
    Institute of Indo-European Linguistics
    Conference programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    Grammar and Dialogism
    Sequential, Syntactic and Prosodic Patterns between Emergence and Sedimentation
    13 - 15 June 2012
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Flyer / Programme [pdf] | Press release [de]

    Zwischen Genus(s) und Kontrolle
    Funktionale Aspekte morpho-semantischer Prozesse im Deutschen
    20 - 22 March 2012
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Flyer / Programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    Deutsche Literatur 1920-1960
    Zur (Dis-)Kontinuität literarischer Verfahren
    9 - 11 February 2012
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Conference programme [de] | Press release [de]

    Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA)
    10 - 11 February 2012
    Institute of Dutch Philology
    Conference programme [pdf] | Press release [de]

  • International conferences 2011

    Das Faszinosum Metapher
    Erwerb – Bedeutung – Struktur – Funktion und Verstehen eines komplexen Phänomens aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive
    8 - 10 December 2011
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Flyer / Programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    Wohin steuert die Schulgrammatik/der Sprachunterricht?
    Kontinuität und Wandel
    24 - 26 November 2011
    Institute of German Language and Literature
    Flyer / Programme [de; pdf] | Press release [de]

    Realismus bei Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
    Religion, Macht und Mythos
    6 - 8 October 2011
    Department of Romance Studies
    Conference programme [de; pdf]

    Ägypten und sein Umfeld in der Spätantike
    Vom Regierungsantritt Diokletians 284/285 bis zur arabischen Eroberung des Vorderen Orients um 635-646
    7 - 9 July 2011
    Institute of Egyptology and Coptology/ Centre for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
    Conference programme [de; pdf]

    Das Verhältnis zwischen Islamwissenschaft und Islamischer Theologie
    Profile und Perspektiven
    1 - 2 July 2011
    Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies/ Center for Religious Studies
    Flyer / Programme [de; pdf]

    Skandinavische Sub/Kulturen als gesellschaftliche Praxis
    30 June - 1 July 2011
    Institute of Nordic Philology