Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora (2019) | Film Screening, Tuesday 14 November, 6pm | SH 2.105
Tuesday 14 November, 6pm, SH 2.105 (Seminarhaus, Campus Westend, Max-Horkheimer-Str. 4) Am 14. November wird Christopher L. Ballengee seine Dokumentation Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora über Musik, Politik und Zugehörigkeit in Trinidad und Tobago am Institut für Musikwissenschaft vorführen. Der Regisseur und Musikethnologe wird eine Einführung geben und nach dem Film für Diskussion und […]
Terra Estrangeira (1996) | Film Screening, Thursday 9 November, 6pm | SH 3.107
Thursday 9 November, 6pm, SH 3.107 Original Portuguese Version with English Subtitles Terra Estrangeira: Cinematographic Constructions of Lisbon from the Perspective ofMigrationDuring Bolsonaro’s presidency (2019-22), many Brazilians migrated to Europe. This heavymigration movement was preceded by the one in 1990 (Plano Collor) and the one around 1999(devaluation of the real / “efeito samba”). Many Brazilians […]
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 […]