Moving Cultures, Transcultural Encounters
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Decolonial Mourning and Political Memory Work–Thinking through (Dis-)compassion and towards a Caring Commons
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Hanna Teichler (Frankfurt): “Transoceanic Memory. Environment, Narrative and Temporality in Anglophone Literature” | Transoceanic Exchanges
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Anne Kraume (Constance): “‘Todavía huelo la espuma del mar que me hicieron atravesar.’ Transoceanic Memory in 20th-Century Afro-Latin American Poetry” | Transoceanic Exchanges
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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
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Rodrigo Chocano (Vienna): “Afro-Diasporic sensibilities, transoceanic dialogues, and fusion music in the Black Pacific: A Peruvian experience” | Transoceanic Exchanges
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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
Thursday, 5 February 2026, 2pm-4pm CET
Campus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, room HZ 15
Encarnación Gutierrez Rodriguez (Goethe University Frankfurt)
This talk looks at how communal grief work makes the suffering and pain of loss visible and speakable. It reinvents as Liz Stanley (2002, 2) suggests the “political life of the community.” The unfolding of mourning as a material act makes us realize “with what consequences ‘lives’ are written about, and the complex and ultimately unknowable relationship that ‘written lives’ have to ‘lives lived’” (ibid., 3). By giving voice to the experiences of justice and injustice in the process of mourning of family members that have lost their loved ones to racist attacks in Germany, but also by asserting the (im-)possibility of mourning in Gaza, this talk discusses the work that goes into mourning’s justice.
Bio Note:
Encarnación Gutierrez Rodriguez is professor of sociology of culture and migration and Goethe University Frankfurt.
