Moving Cultures, Transcultural Encounters
// Moving Cultures – Transcultural Encounters // Culturas en movimiento – encuentros transculturales // Cultures en mouvement – rencontres transculturelles // Culture in Movimento – Incontri Transculturali // Moving Cultures – Transcultural Encounters // Culturas en movimiento – encuentros transculturales // Cultures en mouvement – rencontres transculturelles // Culture in Movimento – Incontri Transculturali //
Search
News
-
Read the Room: Environmental Humanities Slow Reading Group
-
Guest Lecture: Migration in Digital Memory: Navigating Identities, Narratives, and Politics
-
Decolonial Mourning and Political Memory Work–Thinking through (Dis-)compassion and towards a Caring Commons
-
Hanna Teichler (Frankfurt): “Transoceanic Memory. Environment, Narrative and Temporality in Anglophone Literature” | Transoceanic Exchanges
-
Anne Kraume (Constance): “‘Todavía huelo la espuma del mar que me hicieron atravesar.’ Transoceanic Memory in 20th-Century Afro-Latin American Poetry” | Transoceanic Exchanges
Contact
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
Bi-weekly meetings, starting Thursday 23 April 2026, 4pm | Zoom
In summer term 2026, Dr. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Clara Hebel (M.A.) are running an Environmental Humanities slow reading group on Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation (1990; 1997).
What it is
This Reading Group is open to all researchers (specifically Master’s students, PhDs, and Postdocs) interested in the burgeoning field of the Environmental Humanities.
We will meet online fortnightly during the summer term (please see dates on poster), and venture into reading Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation (1990, transl. 1997). Long recognized as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, Glissant has so far been read mostly in cultural studies, yet his work is increasingly gaining relevance in the Environmental Humanities. Considering the entanglements between cultural and environmental studies, we will discuss and analyse the text’s significance for our contemporary moment.
How to join
The format of this group follows the principles of slow, emergent, and collective scholarship. While gathered online, we will silently read a section of the text, and then discuss it together. This means that no prior preparation is necessary, nor is registration. It doesn’t matter if you show up only once and not from the start; if you’re interested, just come along!
Credit Points for MCTE Module 6
MCTE students can attend the group and their participation will be recognized as part of Module 6. MCTE students can receive up to 2 CPs: 1 CP for regular participation in all sessions and 1 CP for a written report (approx. 5 pages) reflecting on the text discussed throughout the reading group.