Guest Lectures & Events
Annual conference of the Postgraduate Forum Postcolonial Narrations in cooperation with GAPS - Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies:
- The Ruins of Empire: Postcolonial Hauntings, 6.-7.09. 2024
Guest lectures 2024:
- Dr. Jayana Jain, Heidelberg: "Never Have I Ever... Found A Match: Examining Identity Politics and Gendered Performances on Netflix.", 25.06.2024
- Dr. Jayana Jain, Heidelberg: "(Imperso)Nation and Justice in Popular Hindi Films: A Case Study of Rang De Basanti", 25.01.2024
International guest researcher 2023:
- Dr. Razinat Talatu Mohammed, University of Abuja, Nigeria: "African Women’s Writing", 01.02.-30.04.2023
Guest with lecture series 2023:
- Dr. Razinat Talatu Mohammed, University of Abuja, Nigeria: "Precariousness in Zimbabwe", 15.04.2023
- Dr. Razinat Talatu Mohammed, University of Abuja, Nigeria: "Women’s Writing in the Islamic World", 14.04.2023
- Dr. Razinat Talatu Mohammed, University of Abuja, Nigeria: "Nigerian Women’s Writing", 13.04.2023
Guest lectures 2022:
- Dr. Priyam Sinha, National University of Singapore, Singapore: "Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy: Disempowered Motherhood, Hierarchised Masculinity and Male Gaze in Postcolonial India", 24.05.2022
Guest lectures 2021:
- NIcolle Lamerichs, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands:?"Material Fandom: Cosplay, Affect and Sustainability", 16.07.2021
- Jessica Seymour, Australia:?"Adaptation, Homage, and Intervention: Why intention matters in researching retellings", 12.05.2021
- Lisa King, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA:?”The Evolving Humboldt Forum – Possibilities and Challenges for Native American/Indigenous Decolonization”, 09.02.2021
- Dr. Jason D. Allen, University of Leeds, UK:?“Thinking with Spirits, or Dwelling and Knowing in the Work of Aimé Césaire”, 29.01.2021
NELK Teaching Workshop 2021:
Guest lectures 2020:
- Dr. Deborah Nyangulu, WWU Münster:?"Hashtag Movements and Decolonial Pedagogy", 07.07.2020
- Veronika Keller, Munich: "Music in Television",?13.01.2020
Guest lectures 2019:
- Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatca, Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg:?"Creolizing the Nation-State Norm: Lessons from the Caribbean", 05.11.2019
- Marlena Tronicke, WWU Münster:?"Neo-Victorianism and the Troubled Memory of Empire: Taboo’s Imperial Surface", 17.07.2019
- Felipe Espinoza Garrido, WWU Münster:?"Empire and the Neo-Victorian Arctic: Re-imagining the Franklin Expedition", 17.07.2019
- Julian Wacker, WWU Münster:?"Fringes of an Empire: Notes on the Black Presence in Neo-Victorian Gothic Television", 17.07.2019
- Dr. Christine Vogt-William, Nürnberg: "The 'Trialectics of Space': Maternal Space and the Material Culture of 'Home'", 08.01.2019
Study Trip Flensburg:
- "Rum City, Colonialism & Vrigin Island Transfer":?in cooperation with Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama, geust curator of "Rum, Schwei? und Tr?nen – Flensburgs koloniales Erbe am Schifffahrtsmuseum Flensburg" and Dr. Diana Fox, Bridgewater State University,?USA, 04.-09.03.2018
Guest lectures 2018:
- Prof. Dr. Kirsten Twelbeck, Universit?t Regensburg: "The Legacy of Reconstruction", 11.12.2018
- Prof. Dr. Julia Roth, Universit?t Bielefeld: "Los Belzares de Augsburg: German Investment in the Conquest and Trade in Enslaved Humans", 6.11.2018
- Dr. Christine Vogt-William,?Nürnberg: "Twins, Monstrous Mothers and Gothic Homes in Helen Oyeyemi’s White is For Witching and Audrey Niffeneggers’s Her Fear-ful Symmetry",?9.07.2018
- Josheph D. Jordan, Vanderbilt University, USA:?"Between the World and Wakanda: Intermedial Notes on Diaspora and Nation in Marvel’s Black Panther", 18.06.2018
- Prof. Dr. Sarah Lawson Welsh, York, St. John University, UK:?"Caribbean Cravings: Food and text in the Anglophone Caribbean", 05.02.2018
Workshop in Seminar Program "The World Needs More Canada":
- Prof. Dr. Annika McPherson: "Diversity in Canadian Literature and Culture", 29.11.2017
Guest lectures 2017:
- Dr. Nedine Moonsamy, University of Pretoria, South Africa: "Fish Out of Water: Women in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon", 27.11.2017
- Doreen Baingana, Entebbe, Uganda:?Reading and Discussion: "Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe",?26.06.2017
- Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama, Schifffahrtsmuseum Flensburg/University of West Indies, Jamaica:?"Rum, Sweat and Tears: Danish Colonialism and its Legacies in Flensburg, Ghana and the Virgin Islands of the United States",?09.02.2017
Exkursion Nordamerika-Studien:
- Field trip to Canada (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal), 02.-14.08.2017
Author Readings 2017:?
- Catherine Johnson (Gastpoetenprogramm): Reading and Creative Writing Workshop, 19.-20.07.2017
- Malika Booker (Gastpoetenprogramm): Reading and Creative Writing Workshop, 18.-19.07.2017
- Doreen Baingana: Lecture and Reading, June 2017
Spring Academy 2017: Critical Diversity Studies, 24.-31.05.2017
- Prof. Melissa Steyn, Johannesburg: "Critical Diversity Literacy in Theory and Practice",?30.05.2027
- Prof. Paula Banerjee, Calcutta:?"Peace, Security and Gender",?27.05.2017
- Dr. Lydia Potts, Oldenburg:?"Diversity and Migration",?26.05.2017
- Ajeet Pankaj, Mumbai:?"Caste and Dalits in India",?26.05.2017
- Dr. Olusoji Cole, Ibadan: "Performance and Cultural Memory",?24.05.2017
- Modupe Laja and?Mathilda Légitimus-Schleicher, Munich:?"Panafrikanismus" -?Round Table Critical Diversity,?23.05.2017
- Karen Thorsen, James Balwin Project:?"The Price of a Ticket",?23.05.2017
International guest researcher 2016:
- Prof. Shoba Ghosh, University of Mumbai, Indien
With guest lecture and seminar 2016:
- Prof. Shoba Ghosh, University of Mumbai, Indien:?“Speculations on the Materiality of Gendered Spheres in Indian Cinematic Contexts”
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Prof. Shoba Ghosh, University of Mumbai, Indien:?B.A.-Proseminar “Engaging the Nation, Engaging the Popular,” 02.05.-10.06.2016
Guest lectures 2016:
- Dr. Christine Vogt-William,?HU Berlin:?"Bodies and Homes: Diversity and the Postcolonial",?02.12.2016
- Dr. Joseph Farquharson, Universit?t?Bielefeld:?"Performance Poetry and the Sociolinguistics of Diaspora: The Case of Jamaicans in Canada",?13.01.2016
Poetry Readings and Creative Writing Workshops 2015:?
- Philipp Khabo Koepsell:?Lecture and Reading, December 2015
- Niq Mhlongo:?"'Way Back Home' and Post-Apartheid South African Literature",?27.10.2015
- Dorothea Smartt: "Gaps Summer School Poetry Reading",?07.09.2015
Guest lectures 2015
- Linda Hess, WWU Münster: "Queer Aging in North American Fiction", 15.12.2015
- Philipp K?psell:?"Black German Identity in Arts and Culture",?08.12.2015
- Joseph D. Jordan,?Vanderbilt University, USA: "On Homosocial Marronage", 20.01.2015
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