Ksenia Robbe (Groningen): Postcolonial/postsocialist memories as constellations. Reading ‘returning transitions’ in Anglophone and Russophone literatures (FMSP) | 11 June 2026
11 June 2026, 4-6 pmCampus Westend, Casino 1.812 Ksenia Robbe (Groningen) This talk is part of New Frontiers in Memory Studies (FMSP) This talk will reflect on the study of intersections between memories of the Cold-War aftermaths in postcolonial and postsocialist contexts and will propose ‘constellational reading’ as an approach for discerning and initiating dialogues […]
Eva von Contzen (Freiburg): Telling Again, Anew, Against: Repetition and Literary History (FMSP) | 23 June 2026
23 June 2026, 6-8 pmCampus Westend, IG 1.314 (Eisenhower) Eva von Contzen (Freiburg) This talk is part of New Frontiers in Memory Studies (FMSP) What does it mean to retell a story? In recent Anglophone literature, retellings have become extremely popular, from Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to Percival Everett’s James. Retellings use existing, often much older, […]
Natalie Braber (Nottingham Trent): Working with ‘pit talk’, the language of coal miners in the East Midlands | 7 May 2026
7 May 2026, 4-6 pmCampus Westend, Casino 1.812 Natalie Braber (Nottingham Trent) This talk is part of New Frontiers in Memory Studies (FMSP) This talk explores the unique words and phrases used by coal miners in the East Midlands, revealing how language shaped their working lives and communities. Through oral history interviews, miners shared stories about […]
Paul Leworthy (Newcastle): Public Memory in Postmigrant Germany. Remembering Hanau in Das deutsche Volk (FMSP) | 28 May 2026
28 May 2026, 4-6 pmCampus Westend, Casino 1.812 Paul Leworthy (Newcastle) Directed by Marcin Wierzchowski, Das deutsche Volk (2025) is a black-and-white feature-length documentary about the events and the aftermath of the shootings in Hanau, Germany, in 2020, in which a far-right extremist killed nine people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Rather than simply recounting what happened on […]