ConTrust International Workshop (Working Group 5) December 2-3, 2022
The two-day event convened by Johannes Voelz and Pavan Malreddy “The Affective Logic of Populism: Trust, Distrust, and the Productivity of Conflict” will take place at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg, December 2-3, 2022. In order to participate you need to please register. To do so click here. The registration deadline is November 18, 2022. […]
MCTE Welcome Event 21.10.22
NELK Book Club
AlterNatives by Drew Hayden Taylor Thursday 31.03.2022 | 6pm on Zoom A very liberal contemporary couple—Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer, and Colleen, a “non-practising” Jewish intellectual who teaches Native literature—hosts a dinner party. The guests at this little “sitcom” soirée are couples that represent what by now have become the clichéd extremes of […]
NELK Research Colloquium Guest Lecture: Anna-Leena Toivanen
Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Eastern Finland) Reading Postcolonial Mobilities: A Mobility Studies Perspective on Afrodiasporic Return Travelogues Thursday, Feb 17, 2022 6-8 pm, c.t. CET | ZOOM Based on the premise that mobilities are full of meaning, mobility studies is a field that places the very act of movement at the centre of analysis. Approaching […]
THE FUTURE OF RETURNS: Can works of fiction precipitate restitution?
SHIFT Δ SESSION #2 THE FUTURE OF RETURNS Can works of fiction precipitate restitution? by SHIFT collective (FR/GER) and Down River Road (KE) Saturday, January 29th, 2022 | 5 pm EAT / 3 pm CET | online event | please register here The last few years have seen seismic shifts in the thinking around the […]
New Frontiers in Memory Studies Lecture Series: John Sutton
John Sutton (Durham University) Memory and Distributed Cognition: Inhabiting the Past Together – Notes on Place, Memory, and Re-enactment Tuesday 30 November 6:15 pm | online via Zoom –> register here Place and memory are deeply entangled. Their connections are studied in many disparate fields, which are often difficult to move between. After outlining a […]
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 […]
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 […]