Moving Cultures, Transcultural Encounters

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Dr. Pavan Malreddy / Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler
Department of English and American Studies
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
To make an appointment:
Phone: 069/798-32352
Email: c.argast@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Prof. Dr. Jacopo Torregrossa
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
To make an appointment:
Phone: 069/798-32021
Email: salerno-petersen@em.uni-frankfurt.de

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 […]

NELK Research Colloquium: Flora Veit-Wild

Flora Veit-Wild – A Reading and Conversation Thursday, Oct 21, 2021 | 6-8 pm, c.t. Hybrid event | Room IG 4.201 | ZOOM Flora Veit-Wild reads from her recently published memoir They Called You Dambudzo Moderated by Dr. Magdalena Pfalzgraf They Called You Dambudzo is a memoir with a ‘double heartbeat’. At its centre is […]

A Touch of the Divine: A Conversation with Yann Martel

In Transit|ion – Frankfurt Lectures in Literary and Cultural Studies A Touch of the Divine: A Conversation with Yann Martel Moderator: Pavan Malreddy Thursday 15 July 2021 | 17-18:30 hrs. CET | via ZOOM | Register at pavanmalreddy@protonmail.com Yann Martel is a world-renowned writer, with a readership in over forty languages. He has authored four […]

NELK Research Colloquium Guest Lecture: Chandani Lokuge

Chandani Lokuge (Australian National University) The Right to Belong: Literary Activism and Australian Citizenship Politics Tuesday, July 6, 2021 | 10-12 am, c.t. (CET) 6-8 pm, c.t. (AEST) | ZOOM link One compelling aspect of the power of literature is that it transforms encompassing public issues into humanist stories, whose emotive and cognitive resonances transcend […]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies Lecture Series: Tatjana Louis

Tatjana Louis (Los Andes University, Bogotá) Peace, War, and how we Talk about it: A Discourse Analysis of Colombian History Schoolbooks Tuesday 13 July | 6pm | online via Zoom | click here to register Desaprender la guerra – “unlearning” war – is a central demand of peace education in Colombia, which is intended to […]

Memory Studies Association Event: Indian Network for Memory Studies Launch Event

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 | 12.30 CEST | 16.00 IST | Online Participating: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Dean (Global Engagement), IIT Madras Mr. Rajendra Prasad Narla, Chief Archivist, Tata Central Archives Prof. Astrid Erll, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Director, Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform Dr. Hanna Teichler, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Co-Director, Frankfurt […]

NELK Research Colloquium Guest Lecture: Sourit Bhattacharya

Sourit Bhattacharya (Glasgow) Operation Genocide: Civil War and Postcolonial Literature Thursday, June 10, 2021 | 6-8 pm, c.t. | ZOOM link Frantz Fanon famously argued (1967) that colonialism was marked by an unprecedented use of violence on the minds and bodies of the colonised people. Postcolonial societies have further witnessed widespread violence and trauma in […]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Lecture by Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Jessica Ortner

Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Jessica Ortner (University of Copenhagen) Mnemonic Migration – Transcultural Circulation and Reception of Post-Yugoslav War Time Memories Tuesday 08 June | 6 pm | online via Zoom | click here to register The idea that mnemonic media have the capability to make recipients adopt other people’s memories is central to memory […]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Lecture by Magdalena Zolkos

Magdalena Zolkos (Goethe University Frankfurt) Cultural Heritage Repatriation in the Post-colonial Arctic: Materiality, Memory, Assemblage Friday 28 May | 4 pm | online screening | click here to register Recent struggles for repatriation of cultural heritage and traditional knowledge to their indigenous custodians have thrown into relief the question of affordance and potentialities of material […]