Guest lecture by Beatrice Lamwaka (Uganda)
Queer Writing in Uganda: The Struggle for Literary Space 09.05.2019, 18:00 c.t., IG 4.201 Uganda today is vibrant with literary activities − poetry performances, book clubs, publishing, public readings − despite repressive laws that limit freedom of expression. With the 2021 elections forthcoming, spaces are becoming narrow and narrower. The internet, which should have provided […]
Guest lecture by Geoffrey Rodoreda
Australia’s Postcolonial Turn: the Mabo Decision and Australian Fiction 25.04.2019, 18:00 c.t., IG 4.201 More than any other event in Australia’s history, the Mabo decision of 1992, which legally recognised Indigenous Australians’ occupation and ownership of the continent, has challenged previous ways of thinking about land and space, settlement and belonging, race and relationships, and […]
Guest lecture by Birte Heidemann-Malreddy
Towards a Narrative of (Re)Conciliation? Post-War Sri Lankan Literature in English 17.017.2019, 18:00 c.t., IG 4.201 We are fast approaching the tenth anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s three decades long civil war between the army and the insurgents of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). And yet, since the war’s brutal ending […]
Silvia Dapía im Argentinischen Generalkonsulat und Juan Gabriel Vásquez am Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen
22.11.2018, 13:30, PEG 1G 131 Juan Gabriel Vásquez liest aus seinem großen Erinnerungsroman “La forma de las ruinas” Mehr Informationen hier … 27.11.2018, 18:30, Argentinisches Generalkonsulat, Eschersheimer Landstraße 19-21 Prof. Dr. Silvia Dapía: “El Etnógrafo” de Jorge Luis Borges: ¿Una Incusión en la Teoría de la Traducción
Guest lecture by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
The Return of the Admiral: Re-fashioning Swahili waters in the ‘Dragonfly Sea’ 15.11.0218, 18:00 c. t., IG 411 What does China’s creeping return to Eastern Africa, by way of the seas, portend for intimate and personal histories of a people whose far and deep life stories are embedded in these waters? What future might the […]
SchriftstellerInnen am Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen im WS 18-19
15.10.18, 14:00, Cas 1.802: LA HORA DE LAS ESCRITORAS: VERA GIACONI, CARLA MALIANDI & JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ 09.11.18, PEG 1G 165: LECTURA Y CONVERSACIÓN: RODRIGO REY ROSA 22.11.18, PEG 1G 131: LECTURA Y CONVERSACIÓN: GABRIELA CABEZÓN CÁMARA Mehr Informationen hier …
Lesung und Gespräch mit Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Fr. 9.11. 2018, 14:00, PEG 1. G 165 – Mehr Informationen hier …
Guest lecture by Campbell Jefferys
Soundtrack included: How music adds an extra layer of storytelling to a Bildungsroman Do. 1.11.2018, 18:00 c. t. – room IG 411 Award-winning Australian author Campbell Jefferys talks about his latest book, Rowan and Eris, a coming-of-age novel about redheads, musicians, pranksters and parents, and which includes an original soundtrack, One Hand Clapping. Campbell will […]
Guest lecture by Mala Pandurang
Bandhani, emankeeki and kanga – Three Sisters of an Asian-African Heritage. The Complexities of Gendered and Race Relations in the Work of Sultan Somjee Mi. 24.10.2018, 18:00 c. t. – IG 454 My talk will focus on two novels by Sultan Somjee, a fourth generation Asian African born and raised in Kenya, now located in […]
Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform: Writer’s Talk mit Verena Boos
Ein Werkstattgespräch über die Schichten der Erinnerung in der urbanen Topografie Barcelonas Di 26.06.2018, 12:00 c.t. – IG 1.414 Die katalanisch-spanische Aktualität ist ohne die Geschichte nicht zu verstehen. Im Konflikt um Katalonien wird weniger das katalonische Steuerdefizit als vielmehr Erinnerung verhandelt und aus einem spezifischen Geschichtsbewusstsein heraus Zukunft zu gestalten versucht. Ein historisch aufgeladener […]