Guest Lecture: Migration in Digital Memory: Navigating Identities, Narratives, and Politics
Tuesday, 10 February 2026, 4pm-6pm CETCampus Westend, IG 1.414 Dr. Tuğba Hasrak Hasdemir (Department of Public Relations and Advertising at the Faculty of Communication at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University): “Migration in Digital Memory: Navigating Identities, Narratives, and Politics“ This presentation explores how migration and migrant experiences are represented and mediated through digital texts and visuals […]
Decolonial Mourning and Political Memory Work–Thinking through (Dis-)compassion and towards a Caring Commons
Thursday, 5 February 2026, 2pm-4pm CETCampus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, room HZ 15 Encarnación Gutierrez Rodriguez (Goethe University Frankfurt) This talk looks at how communal grief work makes the suffering and pain of loss visible and speakable. It reinvents as Liz Stanley (2002, 2) suggests the “political life of the community.” The unfolding of mourning as a […]
Hanna Teichler (Frankfurt): “Transoceanic Memory. Environment, Narrative and Temporality in Anglophone Literature” | Transoceanic Exchanges
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 2pm-4pm CETCampus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, room HZ 8 Co-organised by Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt and Prof. Dr. Barbara Alge, funded by ZIAF. The lecture series is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Hanna Teichler (University of Frankfurt, Germany) This lecture introduces two formative scholarly and discursive paradigms: memory […]
Anne Kraume (Constance): “‘Todavía huelo la espuma del mar que me hicieron atravesar.’ Transoceanic Memory in 20th-Century Afro-Latin American Poetry” | Transoceanic Exchanges
Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 2pm-4pm CETCampus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, room HZ 8 Co-organised by Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt and Prof. Dr. Barbara Alge, funded by ZIAF. The lecture series is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Anne Kraume (University of Constance, Germany) In my talk, I will explore how 20th-century Afro-Latin American […]
Romana Radlwimmer (Frankfurt): “Book Launch Lavapiés liegt am Meer. Historische Poetik eines Madrider Stadtviertels [Lavapiés by the Sea. Poetics of a neighborhood in Madrid]” | Transoceanic Exchanges
Tuesday, 20 January 2026, 2pm-4pm CETCampus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, room HZ 8 Co-organised by Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt and Prof. Dr. Barbara Alge, funded by ZIAF. The lecture series is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Romana Radlwimmer (University of Frankfurt) This book launch deals with oceanic imaginaries in Lavapiés, a neighborhood […]
Rodrigo Chocano (Vienna): “Afro-Diasporic sensibilities, transoceanic dialogues, and fusion music in the Black Pacific: A Peruvian experience” | Transoceanic Exchanges
Tuesday, 13 January 2026, 2pm-4pm CETCampus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, room HZ 8 Co-organised by Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt and Prof. Dr. Barbara Alge, funded by ZIAF. The lecture series is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Rodrigo Chocano (University of Vienna, Austria) This presentation explores how contemporary Peruvian musicians reimagined Afro-Peruvian music […]
Barbara Alge (Frankfurt): “Transoceanic Exchange in the Music of São Tomé and Príncipe” | Transoceanic Exchanges
Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 2pm-4pm CETCampus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, room HZ 8 Co-organised by Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt and Prof. Dr. Barbara Alge, funded by ZIAF. The lecture series is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Barbara Alge (University of Frankfurt, Germany) This lecture looks at musical phenomena resulting from colonial and […]
Axel Fanego Palat (Frankfurt): “Luso-oceanic colonial textures: The African-Portuguese longue durée in literature and other cultural production” | Transoceanic Exchanges
Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 2pm-4pm CETCampus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, room HZ 8 Co-organised by Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt and Prof. Dr. Barbara Alge, funded by ZIAF. The lecture series is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Axel Fanego Palat (University of Frankfurt, Germany) Among the parts of Africa that experienced particularly long-standing […]
Fabian Krautwald (UCL): “Fluid Remembrance: Oceanic Crossings and Colonial Memories in the Rise of African Nationalism” | Transoceanic Exchanges
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 2pm-4pm CETCampus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, room HZ 8 Co-organised by Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt and Prof. Dr. Barbara Alge, funded by ZIAF. The lecture series is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Fabian Krautwald (University College London) After the Second World War, anticolonial activists across Africa began to […]
Daniel Mulugeta (SOAS): “Oceanic Pan-Africanism: Mobility, Memory, and the Struggle for Belonging” | Transoceanic Exchanges
Tuesday, 4 November 2025, 2pm-4pm CETCampus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, room HZ 8 Co-organised by Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt and Prof. Dr. Barbara Alge, funded by ZIAF. The lecture series is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Daniel Mulugeta (School of Oriental and African Studies, UK) This lecture reconceives Pan-Africanism through the lens […]