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 […]
Guest lecture by Nadia Butt
‘Travelling Cultures’: Reading Nineteenth-Century British Narratives about Movement and Mobility Do., 30.11.2017, 18:00 –IG 4.201 In the last years, the idea of ‘travelling cultures’, particularly expounded by American anthropologist James Clifford, has captured the imagination of a significant number of historians, philosophers, anthropologists, cultural and literary studies scholars who are actively engaged with it. Indeed, […]
Guest lecture by Laura Marcus
Rhythmical Subjects and Modern Utopias Do., 30.11.2017, 18:00 – Nebengebäude 2.731 This paper explores the intense focus on and fascination with questions of ‘rhythm’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the development of ‘rhythmics’ and ‘rhythm-science’ in the period. One significant dimension of this ‘rhythmic turn’ was found in developments in dance […]
Guest Lecture by Ranjan Ghosh
In Transition: The Aesthetics and Politics of the ‘Across Factor’ Thursday, 26 October 2017, 6pm – Casino 1.812 Over the last decade, I have invested myself in framing critical departures and discriminative correspondences between disciplines, across the humanities and sciences, training myself in poetics and philosophy across cultures both European and non-European. This sustained investment […]
Guest Lecture by Galvan-Alvarez
Sovereignty On Camera: Documentary, Performance and War in Syria As the Syrian revolution, which began as a peaceful grassroots movement, became militarised in 2012, the Syrian government started losing ground in different parts of the country. From the early days, these ‘liberated areas’ became experimental spaces of difference where new forms of governance were […]
Guest Lecture by Roman Bartosch
Towards Transcultural Ecology: Learning | Reading The ‘New World Literature’. The ‘Anthropocene’. Two of the most recent and most vitally flourishing critical concepts currently discussed in literary studies seem to demand a move towards a planetary scale. Not only may this move conflict with traditional tenets of poetics and interpretation because, as Dominic Head says, […]
AFRASO Lecture and Film Screening by Shihan de Silva
Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants 13 June 2017, 12:00 c. t., Casino 1.801 – We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming AFRASO Film Screening and Lecture in cooperation with the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform: “Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants” by Shihan de Silva (University of London). More information here …
Kolumbien: Historisches Gedächtnis, Postkonflikt & Transmigration
Simposio Internacional Colombia: memoria histórica, posconflicto y transmigración – Internationales Symposium Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 03. bis 05. Mai 2017 Nach mehr als fünf Jahrzehnten des sozialen und bewaffneten Konflikts in Kolumbien haben die kolumbianische Regierung und die FARC, die zwei wichtigsten Akteure, im November 2016 ein Abkommen zur Beendigung dieser militärischen Konfrontationen unterzeichnet, die bisher annähernd […]