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 […]
Kritish Rajbhandari: India from the Indian Ocean: Ananda Devi’s Queer Archive of Indenture (Forum) | 30 Apr 2026
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 6-8 PM Room IG 254 & on Zoom This lecture is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures This talk will examine the rhetoric of loss and recovery in Indian Ocean discourse through an intertextual reading of Mauritian writer Ananda Devi’s novel Indian Tango (2005), as a transnational queer rewriting […]
Read the Room: Environmental Humanities Slow Reading Group
Bi-weekly meetings, starting Thursday 23 April 2026, 4pm | Zoom In summer term 2026, Dr. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Clara Hebel (M.A.) are running an Environmental Humanities slow reading group on Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation (1990; 1997). What it is This Reading Group is open to all researchers (specifically Master’s students, PhDs, and Postdocs) interested in the […]
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 […]