NELK Literary Workshop: Guest Lecture and Reading with Tanaka Chidora
Tanaka Chidora (Zimbabwe; currently Humboldt Fellow at Goethe University) And Now the Poets Do Not Speak: The Politics of Representation in Zimbabwean Writing, 1957–2023 Thursday, Feb 2, 2023 6-8 pm | Room 1.812 Campus Westend, Casino Building In this talk, Tanaka Chidora analyses the politics of representation in Zimbabwean literature, particularly exploring the policing of […]
NELK Literary Workshop: Guest Lecture and Reading with Remi Raji
Remi Raji (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) An Album of Anglophone Nigerian Poetry, 1952-2022: A Harvest of Traditions, Talents and Trends Thursday, Jan 19, 2023 6-8 pm | Room CAS 1.812 Campus Westend, Casino Building This presentation is a panoptic survey of seven decades of contemporary Nigerian poetry written in English. It is a general discourse […]
MCTE Meeting Holiday Edition 14.12.22

The Global Office Invites to the International Week (07.-10.11.22)
The Global Office invites students to the yearly international week, which takes place virtually from Monday, 7 to Thursday, 10 November 2022. In numerous events, the Global Office, other departments of Goethe University as well as external organisers will present diverse opportunities for a stay abroad during your studies. In addition, former exchange students will […]
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 […]