Moving Cultures, Transcultural Encounters

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Dr. Pavan Malreddy / Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler
Department of English and American Studies
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
To make an appointment:
Phone: 069/798-32352
Email: c.argast@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Prof. Dr. Jacopo Torregrossa
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
To make an appointment:
Phone: 069/798-32021
Email: salerno-petersen@em.uni-frankfurt.de

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]