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 […]
Guest Lecture by Ananya Jahanara Kabir
“Activating the archive-repertoires of memory: movement between texts and bodies” Thu 28 November | 6-8 pm | IG 1.414 Ananya Kabir (King’s College London) is a literary and cultural historian who works at the intersection of embodiment, memory, affect work, and post-trauma in the global South, so as to re-examine the regimes and pleasures of […]
Guest Lecture by Maryam Mirza
Resisting Activism: The Politics of Apathy and Disengagement in South Asian Women’s Fiction Thursday, Nov 14, 6-8 pm | Room IG 4.201 My talk will draw on an ongoing book project which focuses on the theme of resistance in Anglophone fiction by South Asian women writers. Moving beyond a conceptualization of resistancedeveloped purely in response to colonialism and/or […]
Jornada de literatura argentina
Jornada de literatura argentina ESCRIBIR EN OTRO LUGAR/SCHREIBEN ANDERNORTS 21 October 2019 IG Casino 823| 3PM Programme/ Poster
Reading by Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah at Frankfurter Mousonturm
Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 8 -11 pm PM|Frankfurter Mousonturm am 9. Oktober dürfen wir die simbabwische Autorin Petina Gappah bei uns im Frankfurter Mousonturm begrüßen. Sie wird ihren postkolonialen Roman Aus der Dunkelheit strahlendes Licht (engl. Out of Darkness, Shining Light) vorstellen und Rede und Antwort zu ihrem Schreiben stehen. Ich könnte vorstellen, dass diese […]
Guest Lecture by Elmar Schenkel
Interlopers: Mapping Creative and Destructive Encounters between Asia and the West Thursday, July 11, 6-8 pm | Room IG 4.201 This talk aims to uncover a pattern of encounters East/West by looking at biographical and ideological lines that cross and fertilize each other in many ways. This may result in very creative and productive encounters, […]
InTransition Lecture by Colin Graham
June 27, 6-8 pm, Campus Westend, IG 1.414 (Wine Reception to follow) ‘A Real Event in Slow Motion’: (Northern) Irish Poetry after Brexit The event of Brexit, as it unfolds uncertainly, has the capacity to change the political and cultural landscape of Northern Ireland. This paper considers the potential effects of Brexit on Northern Ireland […]
Einladung zum Studiengangsentwicklungsgespräch
MA Moving Cultures – Transcultural Encounters / Cultures en mouvement – rencontres transculturelles / Culturas en movimiento – encuentros transculturales Dienstag, 18. Juni 2019, 12.00 c.t., Raum IG 4.301 Alle Studierenden des Masterstudiengangs MCTE sind herzlich eingeladen, sich am Studiengangsentwicklungsgespräch zu beteiligen. Themen werden u.a. sein: Studieneinstieg Studien- und Prüfungsorganisation Einhaltbarkeit der Regelstudienzeit Workload Inhalte […]
Guest Lecture by Florian Florian Stadtler
Narrating Globalisation, Contesting Politics of Space in the Work of Amitav Ghosh 18:00 c. t. – room IG 4.201 Much attention has focused on the South Asian novel’s connection to nation, language and its impact on processes of narration. However, the question of history and its relation to wider questions of genre have thus far […]