Interdisciplinary Event Series: Pandemic Storytelling

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To capture the relations between the current pandemic and storytelling as a narratological, psychological, medical and historical phenomenon, this event series includes viewpoints from different disciplines on pandemic storytelling. Therefore, renowned scholars from disciplines such as narratology, linguistics, cultural studies and literary studies, history, narrative medicine and illness narratives will use this event series to engage with us in an interdisciplinary discussion of the relations between pandemics and storytelling.

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Young Researchers Conference April 2021: Narratives of Body and Mind

In the upcoming interdisciplinary young researchers conference entitled "Narratives of Body and Mind", ACCELS wants to examine the various research areas in which narrative theory meets narratives of the body, narratives of the mind or the common ground between them. We plan to publish selected papers from the conference in an edited volume. Applications are accepted until October 5th. 

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Workshop "The Study of Literature, Reading, and Cognition: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Concepts, and Terms"

The Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies (ACCELS) hosted a two-day online workshop on "The Study of Literature, Reading, and Cognition: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Concepts, and Terms" in October (5th-6th) 2020.The aim of the workshop was to install a transdisciplinary dialogue (or polylogue, rather) between psychology, literary studies, and linguistics. We discussed phenomena of literary reception for which the disciplines involved have used similar, but not always congruent, concepts and terms. Panels focused on concepts that are potentially problematic because of their use in multiple contexts, their fuzziness, their metaphoricity, etc.

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Teaching

The lecturers of the ACCELS team offer a series of courses that deal with empirical-cognitive questions in literary studies. These courses are offered for Bachelor and Master students and can be offered in lecture, seminar, colloquium or workshop format. 

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Research Papers and Theses

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Interested students can approach us at any time to look for interesting Bachelor's and Master's theses topics. Empirical and cognitive literary studies are a highly innovative field in which both interdisciplinary and purely literary ideas can be implemented very well. 
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Course of Study Key Info

The activities of the Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies cover smaller workshops, lecture series featuring international specialists, and larger conferences. The ACCELS profile, however, is also effective in our teaching in the M.A. Literary Studies and Linguistics. Students will thus be engaged in current research and can contribute to it in their Master theses. As with the scholars active in the academic events, interdisciplinary profiles are also welcomen in teaching and in the final theses.

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