Jennifer Leetsch: Travelling and Translating between Worlds: Early Modern Mobility in Leo Africanus’ The Cosmography and Geography of Africa (1526) (Forum) | 31 Oct 2024
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 6-8 PM Casino Cas 1.802 This lecture is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures This talk explores the multifaceted exchanges and mediations at work in The Cosmography and Geography of Africa (1526), an account written by the diplomat and scholar al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Wazzān al-Zayyātī (today more […]
Between Empathy and Innocence: Prosthetic Memory and its Pitfalls in Iben Mondrup’s Greenland Trilogy (FMSP Guest Lecture) | 29 October 2024
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 16:15Campus Westend, Casino 1.812 Emilie Dybdal (Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen) The dominant narrative in Denmark has long been that Danish colonialism in Greenland was particularly mild and benign, emphasizing the Danes’ altruistic efforts to protect the Greenlandic ‘people of nature’ and help them transition gently into […]
Book Launch: Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell’s “Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature” | 11 July 2024, 6pm
Thursday 11 July 2024, 6-8m, IG 1.314 (Eisenhower room), Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt, and on Zoom This lecture is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures This event will also be streamed on Zoom. To join on us Zoom, please use the following details:Meeting ID: 636 5786 0914Passcode: 326944 With statements by Victoria Herche (Cologne), Geoff Rodoreda (Stuttgart) […]
Guest Lecture: Melanie Ashe (Monash): ” 40 Years of the Wasteland: The Making of Mad Max in Far West New South Wales, Australia” | 4 July 2024, 4pm
Thursday 4 July 2024, 4-6pm, IG 1.314 (Eisenhower room), Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt, and on Zoom This lecture is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures This guest lecture will also take place on Zoom. To join on us Zoom, please use the following details:Meeting ID: 629 9728 6450Passcode: 776261 The Mad Max franchise has […]
Guest Lecture: Prof. Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, FBA (King’s College): “Transoceanic Belonging: Activating Memories of Portuguese Presence in Goa” | 6 June 2024
Thursday 6 June 2024, 6-8pm, Cas 1.801 (Renate von Metzler-Saal), Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt, This lecture is part of the Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures This lecture will explore how the memory of Portuguese presence in Goa has been recollected by authors of Goan heritage representing different generations — e.g. Lambert Mascarenhas’ […]
TraCe Event: “Rethinking Cosmopolitan Memory in Post-Colonial Contexts” | An international and interdisciplinary Roundtable
Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 6 pm (18:00 s.t.) Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, Casino, Room 1.811 The increasing globalization of collective memories has been at the centre of debates within the interdisciplinary field of Memory Studies for more than two decades. In the early 2000s, Daniel Levy’s and Natan Sznaider’s book The Holocaust and Memory […]
TraCe Book Talk on May 2: Anoma Pieris on Decolonial Memorialisation and Intersectional Sovereignty
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 3-6pm Campus Westend, Casino, Room 1.811 In this talk, Professor Anoma Pieris discusses the design, intellectual framing for and methodological approach to her most recent publication, The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press 2022), co-authored with Japanese-American scholar Lynne Horiuchi. The book takes the arc of the Pacific Basin and incarceration […]
Read the Room: Environmental Humanities Slow Reading Group
Bi-weekly meetings, starting Tuesday 23 April, 4pm | Room SH 0.109 Dr. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Clara Hebel (M.A.) are running an Environmental Humanities slow reading group on Astrida Neimanis’ Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology this summer term. What it is The format of this group follows the principles of slow, emergent, and collective scholarship. We want to try […]
Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora (2019) | Film Screening, Tuesday 14 November, 6pm | SH 2.105
Tuesday 14 November, 6pm, SH 2.105 (Seminarhaus, Campus Westend, Max-Horkheimer-Str. 4) Am 14. November wird Christopher L. Ballengee seine Dokumentation Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora über Musik, Politik und Zugehörigkeit in Trinidad und Tobago am Institut für Musikwissenschaft vorführen. Der Regisseur und Musikethnologe wird eine Einführung geben und nach dem Film für Diskussion und […]
Terra Estrangeira (1996) | Film Screening, Thursday 9 November, 6pm | SH 3.107
Thursday 9 November, 6pm, SH 3.107 Original Portuguese Version with English Subtitles Terra Estrangeira: Cinematographic Constructions of Lisbon from the Perspective ofMigrationDuring Bolsonaro’s presidency (2019-22), many Brazilians migrated to Europe. This heavymigration movement was preceded by the one in 1990 (Plano Collor) and the one around 1999(devaluation of the real / “efeito samba”). Many Brazilians […]