New Course Added to MCTE Syllabus for the Winter Term 2022/23
The course “Transcultural Ecocriticism: Moving Cultures in Times of Ecological Crisis”, taught by Dr. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, has been included in the MCTE syllabus for the winter term 2022/23. You can find all information about this course here.
Internship Position Available at the Office for Multicultural Affairs of the City of Frankfurt am Main
The Office for Multicultural Affairs of the city of Frankfurt offers an internship starting on 01.06.2022. Please find all details here. Applications must be submitted by 25.04.2022.
NELK Congratulates Stefanie Kemmerer, the winner of GAPS Graduate Award
Stefanie Kemmerer, an Alumni of the Moving Cultures Masters programme, is the winner of 2022 GAPS (German Asocciation of Anglophone Postcolonial Studies) Graduate Award for her Masters thesis titled “Yogascapes: The Visual Politics of Transcultural Yoga as seen on Instagram“ (supervised by Dr. Pavan Malreddy & Prof. Dr. Schulze-Engler). Both NELK and MCTE proudly celebrate […]
NELK Book Club
AlterNatives by Drew Hayden Taylor Thursday 31.03.2022 | 6pm on Zoom A very liberal contemporary couple—Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer, and Colleen, a “non-practising” Jewish intellectual who teaches Native literature—hosts a dinner party. The guests at this little “sitcom” soirée are couples that represent what by now have become the clichéd extremes of […]
GAPS 2022 – Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien / GAPS) Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Goethe University Frankfurt | 26-29 May, 2022 Keynotes/Plenary Speakers/Writers: Sinan Antoon (Iraq/USA) | Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria) | Blessing Obada (Germany/Nigeria) | Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya) | Michael […]
New Publication by Moving Cultures Professor Emeritus Jürgen Erfurt: Transkulturalität – Prozesse und Perspektiven
Der Band befasst sich mit kulturellen Verflechtungs- und Austauschbeziehungen. Er geht davon aus, dass sich Gemeinschaften wie Individuen mit ihren Sprachen, Literaturen, Medien nicht in ethnisch abgeschlossenen, sprachlich homogenen und territorial abgegrenzten Räumen konstituieren, sondern durch Verflechtungen, die sich im Wesentlichen aus Migration, Mobilität und Kontakt ergeben. Er geht der Frage nach, was es bedeutet, […]
NELK Research Colloquium Guest Lecture: Anna-Leena Toivanen
Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Eastern Finland) Reading Postcolonial Mobilities: A Mobility Studies Perspective on Afrodiasporic Return Travelogues Thursday, Feb 17, 2022 6-8 pm, c.t. CET | ZOOM Based on the premise that mobilities are full of meaning, mobility studies is a field that places the very act of movement at the centre of analysis. Approaching […]
THE FUTURE OF RETURNS: Can works of fiction precipitate restitution?
SHIFT Δ SESSION #2 THE FUTURE OF RETURNS Can works of fiction precipitate restitution? by SHIFT collective (FR/GER) and Down River Road (KE) Saturday, January 29th, 2022 | 5 pm EAT / 3 pm CET | online event | please register here The last few years have seen seismic shifts in the thinking around the […]
Student Assistant Position Available
Prof. Frank Schulze-Engler is looking for a Student Assistant to help with organizing editorial work for an international journal Duration: 20 hours per month from February 2022 to March 2023 Qualifications: Excellent knowledge of English, advanced organisational skills, willingness to work with online editorial computer software. Applications: Please send your application letter and CV directly […]
New Frontiers in Memory Studies Lecture Series: John Sutton
John Sutton (Durham University) Memory and Distributed Cognition: Inhabiting the Past Together – Notes on Place, Memory, and Re-enactment Tuesday 30 November 6:15 pm | online via Zoom –> register here Place and memory are deeply entangled. Their connections are studied in many disparate fields, which are often difficult to move between. After outlining a […]