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 2023
Arabische Literatur im Dialog mit der Natur
7. - 9. December
Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Conference programReligiöse Parodien: "Lachen und Kritik"
23. - 24. October
Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
Conference programHör! Spiel! Kunst! – radiophone Literatur
5. - 7. September
Institute of German Language and Literature
Conference programLa 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 programHarmonie und Rhytmus des Mikrokosmos und Makrokosmos in der frühen Neuzeit und Heute
9. - 10. June 2023
Department of Romance Studies
Conference programPersonennamen in Migration: Onymische Indizes hybrider sozialer Zugehörigkeiten
1. - 2. June 2023
Institute of German Language and Literature
More informationInternational conferences 2022
Study India Day: "India at 75 from a Law and Literature Perspective"
22 November 2022
CRC 1385 "Law and Literature"
Press releaseRecht und Literatur in Europa / Law and Literature in Europe
17 October 2022
CRC 1385 "Law and Literature"
Conference programYouTube, WhatsApp, WeChat: Linguistische Nachwuchstagung zu "Grammatik, Interaktion und Sprachvergleich"
8 - 9 September 2022
Institute of German Language and Literature
Conference programEl teólogo en la españa de la temprana modernidad
18 - 20 July 2022
Department of Romance Studies
Conference programDer Körper als Forschungsgegenstand
15 - 17 July 2022
Institute for Egyptology and Coptology
Press releaseTeatro 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 informationExpressivität 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 informationDie Verwandlung von Paris: Repräsentation, Inszenierung, Ironie. Charles Baudelaire zum 200. Geburtstag
15 - 18 June 2022
Department of Romance Studies
Press releaseDesign-Based Research in Foreign Language Education
10 June 2022
English Department
Conference websiteInternational conferences 2021
Conference "Rhetorics. Interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches"
05 and 06 November 2021
Collaborative Research Center 1385 "Law and Literature"
Call for PapersInternational LMET Conference
04 - 06 October 2021
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Call for PapersConference "Moving Texts: From Discovery to Delivery“
26 - 30 July 2021
Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
WebsiteVögel aus Federn. Verschriftlichungen des Vogels seit 1800
7. - 8. May 2021
Institute of German Language and Literature / GSPoL
NewsMünster Conference Linguistic Representations and Language Processing (LIRLAP)
25 - 27 March 2021
Graduate School Empirical and Applied Linguistics
Call for PapersInternational 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
HomepagePluricentricity 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 programmeInternational 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