Karina Horsti: Memorializing Border Deaths in Europe (FMSP) | 21 Jan 2025
Tuesday, 21 January 2025, 4pm CETCampus Westend, Casino 1.812 Karina Horsti (Communication Studies, Minnesota) From states to activists, people and communities insert their politics into memorialisation of deaths of unknown strangers at Europe’s borders. Memorializing tells something about those who memorialize. This talk discusses the intersections of different memorials and memorial performances, focusing on a […]
The “Creative” Manipulation of Human Memory by AI (FMSP) | 19 Nov 2024
19 November 2024, 4.15 pmCampus Westend, Casino 1.812 Amar Singh (Banaras Hindu University) The vast amount of data that is readily uploaded through the internet and cloud computing and made accessible to the public has produced a substantial archive of information, which requires the excavation from artificial intelligence now to allow the biological memory to cope […]
John McLeod: Sanctioned Migration and the Figure of the Trespasser (Forum) | 13 Nov 2024
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 6-8 PM Room IG 311 This lecture is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures For minoritised persons allowed to move across territories or given leave to remain, human mobility is usually “sanctioned” in the double sense of this term: permitted and penalised. Sanctioned travellers (and their locally […]
Intertwining Memory with Narrative Tempo: Examining Memory through Narrative Pace in select Indian Novels (FMSP) | 12 Nov 2024
12 November 2024, 4.15 pmCampus Westend, Casino 1.812 Shipra Tholia (Banaras Hindu University) Narrative Pace offers a unique perspective for the analysis of memory literature. In memory literature, the change in narrative pace is particularly evident because the representation of memory encourages a variety of narrative pacing strategies – from acceleration to deceleration. My argument is […]
Postcolonial Memory Films in the Dutch-Indonesian and German-Namibian Context: De Oost and Measures of Men (FMSP) | 5 November 2024
Tuesday, 5 November 2024 , 4.15 pm Campus Westend, Casino 1.812 Dr. Arnoud Arps (University of Amsterdam) & Dr. Kaya de Wolff (Goethe University Frankfurt, TraCe) In recent years, postcolonial struggles over memory have produced a wave of film productions across various European cinemas. In 2020, the Dutch film De Oost [The East] was released on Amazon […]
FMSP: Programme for Winter Term 24/25
The semester programme for the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform is now live!
Jennifer Leetsch: Travelling and Translating between Worlds: Early Modern Mobility in Leo Africanus’ The Cosmography and Geography of Africa (1526) (Forum) | 31 Oct 2024
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 6-8 PM Casino Cas 1.802 This lecture is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures This talk explores the multifaceted exchanges and mediations at work in The Cosmography and Geography of Africa (1526), an account written by the diplomat and scholar al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Wazzān al-Zayyātī (today more […]
Between Empathy and Innocence: Prosthetic Memory and its Pitfalls in Iben Mondrup’s Greenland Trilogy (FMSP Guest Lecture) | 29 October 2024
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 16:15Campus Westend, Casino 1.812 Emilie Dybdal (Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen) The dominant narrative in Denmark has long been that Danish colonialism in Greenland was particularly mild and benign, emphasizing the Danes’ altruistic efforts to protect the Greenlandic ‘people of nature’ and help them transition gently into […]
Book Launch: Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell’s “Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature” | 11 July 2024, 6pm
Thursday 11 July 2024, 6-8m, IG 1.314 (Eisenhower room), Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt, and on Zoom This lecture is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures This event will also be streamed on Zoom. To join on us Zoom, please use the following details:Meeting ID: 636 5786 0914Passcode: 326944 With statements by Victoria Herche (Cologne), Geoff Rodoreda (Stuttgart) […]
Guest Lecture: Melanie Ashe (Monash): ” 40 Years of the Wasteland: The Making of Mad Max in Far West New South Wales, Australia” | 4 July 2024, 4pm
Thursday 4 July 2024, 4-6pm, IG 1.314 (Eisenhower room), Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt, and on Zoom This lecture is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures This guest lecture will also take place on Zoom. To join on us Zoom, please use the following details:Meeting ID: 629 9728 6450Passcode: 776261 The Mad Max franchise has […]