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 […]
Isabela de Aranzadi (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain): “Musical culture and Afro-Atlantic itineraries: Living memories among the Fernandino-Krio and Annobonese people of Equatorial Guinea” | Transoceanic Exchanges
Tuesday, 28 October 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. Isabela de Aranzadi (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) In Equatorial Guinea, two groups of black Africans […]
Transoceanic Exchanges in African Culture, Music and Literature | An International Lecture Series
Selected Tuesdays in winter semester 2025/26, 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 In the last years, oceans have become important spaces of academic inquiry beyond the […]
Jephta U. Nguherimo: The Struggle Continues. Transgenerational Memory of the Ovaherero People’s Genocide (TraCe) | 17 June 2025
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 6pm CETCampus Westend, Casino 1.811 Jephta U. Nguherimo (TraCe) Jephta U. Nguherimo is a reparation activist, poet and a former professional labor negotiator of Herero-descent based in Washington D.C. He has been instrumental in the reparation movement for the OvaHerero and Nama genocides over the last three decades and was the […]
Jie-Hyun Lim: Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age (TraCe) | 24 June 2025
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 2pm CETCampus Westend, Casino 1.812 Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University, South Korea) The term “victimhood nationalism” is designed to illustrate competing memories of victimhood in the postwar Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the global memory space. I try to investigate global memory culture, focusing on victimhood memories critically. Once put into the dichotomy of victimizers and victims […]