A Conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Author meets Students: A Conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor February 15th 2021 ZOOM/ 12.00-14.00 CET To register, please click HERE We kindly invite you to participate in a discussion with Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. The conversation will focus on her novel Dust (2013), which explores the many facets of post-independent Kenya. Her novel was shortlisted for the […]
Guest Lecture: Kai Wiegandt (Tübingen), 04.02.21, 6.pm., c.t.
Kai Wiegandt (Tübingen) Neo-Imperial Gothic: Western Migrant Fiction’s Imagination of Reverse Domination Thursday, 4 Feb 21, 6 pm, c.t. Zoom Late nineteenth and early twentieth century reverse colonization narratives, subsumed under the rubric ‘imperial gothic’ by Patrick Brantlinger, featured invasions from the colonial periphery to the imperial centre. This paper argues that recent decades have […]
A Reading & Conversation with Arundhati Roy
The Syntax of Everyday Injustice: A Reading & Conversation with Arundhati Roy Moderator: Pavan Malreddy 22 January 2021 ZOOM/ 10.00-12.00 hrs. CET, 14:30-16:30 hrs. IST No Registration for IEAS members. All others, register at: pavanmalreddy@protonmail.com Arundhati Roy is a world-renowned writer. She writes of the connections between caste, class, capitalism and imperialism. Her two novels, […]
Guest Lecture by Kylie Crane, 3 Dec 20, 6-8 pm
Kylie Crane (Potsdam) Concrete ruins ruins made of concrete, or specific ruins; also processes of ruining caused by concrete Thursday, Dec 10, 6-8 pm | Zoom Join Zoom Meeting https://uni-frankfurt.zoom.us/j/99255048613?pwd=a0xLcUswci9OUFZmS0NQUnJ3Nkp2dz09 Meeting ID: 992 5504 8613 Passcode: 318481 In this talk, I will bring the (media representation of the) Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh together with […]
Frank Wlater: Eine Retrospektive
Im Dialog mit JOHN AKOMFRAH, KHALIK ALLAH, KADER ATTIA, MARCEL BROODTHAERS, JULIEN CREUZET, BIRGIT HEIN, ISAAC JULIEN, KAPWANI KIWANGA, CAROLYN LAZARD, JULIA PHILLIPS, HOWARDENA PINDELL, ROSEMARIE TROCKEL https://www.mmk.art/de/whats-on/frank-walter-eine-retrospektive/ „Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.“ James Baldwin Es gibt keinen typischen Frank Walter. Sein malerisches […]
Lecture by Daniel O’Gorman (Oxford Brookes)
‘None of the Guilty Will Be Spared’: Atmospheric terror in George Brant’s Grounded Daniel O’Gorman (Oxford Brookes) Thursday, Feb 06 6-8 pm | Room IG 4.201 George Brant’s play Grounded (2013) takes the form of a one-actress monologue in which a fighter pilot tells the story of her forced reskilling as a drone operator after giving birth. She recounts […]
Lecture by Valentina Carbonara and Andrea Scibetta
Pluralistic approaches and translanguaging: A potential pathway within the Italian educational system Thursday 30.01.20, 12- 14 hours, SH 0.107 Valentina Carbonara and Andrea Scibetta (University of Siena) will present the talk: “Pluralistic approaches and translanguaging: A potential pathway within the Italian educational system” within the “Kolloquium für Examskandidaten und Promovierende (Romanistik)” on Wednesday 29.01 from […]
Gestrandet! Gespräch mit Autor Youssouf Amine Elalamy
23 Januar 2020, 14 – 16 Uhr Seminarhaus 4.108, Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität Im Rahmen eines Seminars zur Repräsentation von Transkulturalität in der frankophonen und anglophonen Gegenwartsliteratur unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Christine Ott und Prof. Dr. Astrid Erll spricht der marokkanische Schriftsteller Youssouf Amine Elalamy mit den Studierenden über seinen preisgekrönten Roman Les […]
In Transition Lecture by Tom McCarthy
Tom McCarthy In Conversation with Pavan Malreddy & Reading from Satin Island Wednesday, 29.01.2020, 18:00, Cas 1.802 (cheese and wine reception to follow) Tom McCarthy is the author of four novels and two volumes of literary essays. He won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2013. His novels have been translated into more than […]
In Transition Leture by Stephen Morton (Southampton)
Allegories of the World System Stephen Morton Thursday, 12 December|6-8 pm |IG 411 This paper presents research from my current book project, Allegories of the World System. Against the histories of dispossession and extraction which have shaped the development of the modern world economy, the book considers how postcolonial art and literature variously draws on the […]