Guest lecture by Venugopalrao Nellutla
Ngũgĩ in India: A Transcultural Dialogue Do. 03.05.2018, 18:00 c. t. – IG 4.201 The talk will explore the dynamics of transcultural dialogue between Telugu-speaking areas of India and the legendary Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Though separated by more than 5,000 km distance and without any common bonding in political, social, cultural and economic […]
Guest lecture by Alex Tickell
Can the Slum-dweller Speak? Katherine Boo and the Postcolonial Politics of Literary Journalism Do. 08.02.108, 18:00 c. t. – IG 4.201 My paper examines the rise of forms of narrative reportage and creative non-fiction in representations of the city and urban subaltern communities in India. Drawing on my recent research on citizenship, infrastructure and writings […]
Guest lecture by Martina Kopf
Concepts of Development in Postcolonial Kenyan Writing Do. 01.02.2018, 18:00 – IG 4.201 In his seminal work on the colonial origins of developmentalism in Africa in the first half of the 20th century, Frederick Cooper proposes that at its very roots there is a problem of knowledge. Colonial officials approached social phenomena with a specific […]
Moving Cultures im UniReport
“Der Masterstudiengang Moving Cultures ist einmalig in Deutschland”, stellt Julia Wittenhagen in der aktuellen Ausgabe des UniReport fest. Ihr Artikel bietet Einblicke in Themen und Schwerpunkte des Studiengangs, stellt künftige Arbeitsfelder von Absolventen vor und lässt Dozenten und Studierende zu Wort kommen. Den Artikel als pdf finden Sie hier …
Guest lecture by Nadia Butt
‘Travelling Cultures’: Reading Nineteenth-Century British Narratives about Movement and Mobility Do., 30.11.2017, 18:00 –IG 4.201 In the last years, the idea of ‘travelling cultures’, particularly expounded by American anthropologist James Clifford, has captured the imagination of a significant number of historians, philosophers, anthropologists, cultural and literary studies scholars who are actively engaged with it. Indeed, […]
Guest lecture by Laura Marcus
Rhythmical Subjects and Modern Utopias Do., 30.11.2017, 18:00 – Nebengebäude 2.731 This paper explores the intense focus on and fascination with questions of ‘rhythm’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the development of ‘rhythmics’ and ‘rhythm-science’ in the period. One significant dimension of this ‘rhythmic turn’ was found in developments in dance […]
Guest Lecture by Ranjan Ghosh
In Transition: The Aesthetics and Politics of the ‘Across Factor’ Thursday, 26 October 2017, 6pm – Casino 1.812 Over the last decade, I have invested myself in framing critical departures and discriminative correspondences between disciplines, across the humanities and sciences, training myself in poetics and philosophy across cultures both European and non-European. This sustained investment […]
Guest Lecture by Galvan-Alvarez
Sovereignty On Camera: Documentary, Performance and War in Syria As the Syrian revolution, which began as a peaceful grassroots movement, became militarised in 2012, the Syrian government started losing ground in different parts of the country. From the early days, these ‘liberated areas’ became experimental spaces of difference where new forms of governance were […]
Guest Lecture by Roman Bartosch
Towards Transcultural Ecology: Learning | Reading The ‘New World Literature’. The ‘Anthropocene’. Two of the most recent and most vitally flourishing critical concepts currently discussed in literary studies seem to demand a move towards a planetary scale. Not only may this move conflict with traditional tenets of poetics and interpretation because, as Dominic Head says, […]
Guest Lecture by D. N. Rodowick
Hannah Arendt’s Care for Culture 29. Juni 2017, 18:00 in Cas 1.812 –In her long philosophical career, Arendt wrote relatively little on aesthetics nor did she seem overly concerned with the criticism of art. At the same time, she was deeply concerned about the humanities and its connection to politics. Of central interest here is […]