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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 […]

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 […]

Karina Horsti: Memorializing Border Deaths in Europe (FMSP) | 21 Jan 2025

Tuesday, 21 January 2025, 4pm CETCampus Westend, Casino 1.812 Karina Horsti (Communication Studies, Minnesota) From states to activists, people and communities insert their politics into memorialisation of deaths of unknown strangers at Europe’s borders. Memorializing tells something about those who memorialize. This talk discusses the intersections of different memorials and memorial performances, focusing on a […]

The “Creative” Manipulation of Human Memory by AI (FMSP) | 19 Nov 2024

19 November 2024, 4.15 pmCampus Westend, Casino 1.812 Amar Singh (Banaras Hindu University) The vast amount of data that is readily uploaded through the internet and cloud computing and made accessible to the public has produced a substantial archive of information, which requires the excavation from artificial intelligence now to allow the biological memory to cope […]

John McLeod: Sanctioned Migration and the Figure of the Trespasser (Forum) | 13 Nov 2024

Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 6-8 PM Room IG 311 This lecture is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures For minoritised persons allowed to move across territories or given leave to remain, human mobility is usually “sanctioned” in the double sense of this term: permitted and penalised. Sanctioned travellers (and their locally […]

Intertwining Memory with Narrative Tempo: Examining Memory through Narrative Pace in select Indian Novels (FMSP) | 12 Nov 2024

12 November 2024, 4.15 pmCampus Westend, Casino 1.812 Shipra Tholia (Banaras Hindu University) Narrative Pace offers a unique perspective for the analysis of memory literature. In memory literature, the change in narrative pace is particularly evident because the representation of memory encourages a variety of narrative pacing strategies – from acceleration to deceleration. My argument is […]