Memory in Africa: State of the Field (Conference)
The Africa Chapter of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) will be holding its annual conference as an online event on November 24 & 25, 2021: “Memory in Africa: State of the Field” Please click here for the programme (includes all Zoom links). The event is convened by Atabongwoung Gallous & Bridget Modema (University of Pretoria), and Hanna Teichler […]
NELK Research Colloquium Guest Lecture: Johannes Riquet
Johannes Riquet (Tampere) Circumpolar Planetarities and Transcultural Geographies in Contemporary Arctic Cinema Thursday, Nov 4, 2021 6-8 pm, c.t. CET | ZOOM This talk examines how Arctic landscapes mediate migrant and refugee experiences in recent filmic mediations of the high north, focusing on Nigerian-American Chinonye Chukwu’s alaskaLand (2012), Inuk filmmaker Lucy Tulugarjuk’s Tia and Piujuq […]
NELK Research Colloquium: Flora Veit-Wild
Flora Veit-Wild – A Reading and Conversation Thursday, Oct 21, 2021 | 6-8 pm, c.t. Hybrid event | Room IG 4.201 | ZOOM Flora Veit-Wild reads from her recently published memoir They Called You Dambudzo Moderated by Dr. Magdalena Pfalzgraf They Called You Dambudzo is a memoir with a ‘double heartbeat’. At its centre is […]
The Department of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (NELK) congratulates Abdulrazak Gurnah on winning the Nobel Prize for Literature 2021!
Click here for information on the work of the Nobel laureate and his visits to Goethe University Frankfurt.
A Touch of the Divine: A Conversation with Yann Martel
In Transit|ion – Frankfurt Lectures in Literary and Cultural Studies A Touch of the Divine: A Conversation with Yann Martel Moderator: Pavan Malreddy Thursday 15 July 2021 | 17-18:30 hrs. CET | via ZOOM | Register at pavanmalreddy@protonmail.com Yann Martel is a world-renowned writer, with a readership in over forty languages. He has authored four […]
NELK Research Colloquium Guest Lecture: Chandani Lokuge
Chandani Lokuge (Australian National University) The Right to Belong: Literary Activism and Australian Citizenship Politics Tuesday, July 6, 2021 | 10-12 am, c.t. (CET) 6-8 pm, c.t. (AEST) | ZOOM link One compelling aspect of the power of literature is that it transforms encompassing public issues into humanist stories, whose emotive and cognitive resonances transcend […]
New Frontiers in Memory Studies Lecture Series: Tatjana Louis
Tatjana Louis (Los Andes University, Bogotá) Peace, War, and how we Talk about it: A Discourse Analysis of Colombian History Schoolbooks Tuesday 13 July | 6pm | online via Zoom | click here to register Desaprender la guerra – “unlearning” war – is a central demand of peace education in Colombia, which is intended to […]
Memory Studies Association Event: Indian Network for Memory Studies Launch Event
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 | 12.30 CEST | 16.00 IST | Online Participating: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Dean (Global Engagement), IIT Madras Mr. Rajendra Prasad Narla, Chief Archivist, Tata Central Archives Prof. Astrid Erll, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Director, Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform Dr. Hanna Teichler, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Co-Director, Frankfurt […]
NELK Research Colloquium Guest Lecture: Sourit Bhattacharya
Sourit Bhattacharya (Glasgow) Operation Genocide: Civil War and Postcolonial Literature Thursday, June 10, 2021 | 6-8 pm, c.t. | ZOOM link Frantz Fanon famously argued (1967) that colonialism was marked by an unprecedented use of violence on the minds and bodies of the colonised people. Postcolonial societies have further witnessed widespread violence and trauma in […]
New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Lecture by Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Jessica Ortner
Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Jessica Ortner (University of Copenhagen) Mnemonic Migration – Transcultural Circulation and Reception of Post-Yugoslav War Time Memories Tuesday 08 June | 6 pm | online via Zoom | click here to register The idea that mnemonic media have the capability to make recipients adopt other people’s memories is central to memory […]