Guest Lectures and Events
Guest Lectures and Events 2015
- Niq Mhlongo:?"'Way Back Home' and Post-Apartheid South African Literature" - 27.10.2015
- Philipp K?psell:?"Black German Identity in Arts and Culture" - 08.12.2015
- Dorothea Smartt: "Gaps Summer School Poetry Reading" - 07.09.2015
Guest Lectures and Events 2016
- Dr. Joseph Farquharson, Bielefeld:?"Performance Poetry and the Sociolinguistics of Diaspora: The Case of Jamaicans in Canada" - 13.01.2016
- Dr. Christine Vogt-William, Nürnberg:?"Bodies and Homes: Diversity and the Postcolonial" - 02.12.2016
Guest Lectures and Events 2017
- Exkursion Nordamerika-Studien: Kanada, 02.-14.08.2017
- Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama, University of West Indies, Jamaica:?"Rum, Sweat and Tears: Danish Colonialism and its Legacy in Flensburg, Ghana and the Virgin Islands of the United States“ - 09.02.2017
- Doreen Baingana, Entebbe, Uganda:?Reading and Discussion: "Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe“ - 26.06.2017
- Dr. Nedine Moonsamy, University of Pretoria, South Africa:?“Fish Out of Water: Women in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon” - 27.11.2017
- Workshop in Seminar Program "The World Needs More Canada": Prof. Dr. Annika McPherson: "Diversity in Canadian Literature and Culture" - 29.11.2017
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Poetry Readings and Creative Writing Workshops:?
- Malika Booker: Reading and Creative Writing Workshop - 18.-19.07.2017
- Catherine Johnson: Reading and Creative Writing Workshop - 19.-20.07.2017
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Spring Academy 2017 : Critical Diversity Studies, 24.-31.05.2017
- Karen Thorsen:?"The Price of a Ticket" -?23.05.2017
- Mathilda Légitimus-Schleicher:?"Panafrikanismus" -?23.05.2017
- Modupe Laja: "Panafrikanismus" -?23.05.2017
- Dr. Olusoji Cole: "Performance and Cultural Memory" -?24.05.2017
- Ajeet Pankaj:?"Caste and Dalits in India" -?26.05.2017
- Dr. Lydia Potts:?"Diversity and Migration" -?26.05.2017
- Prof. Paula Banerjee:?"Peace, Security and Gender" - 27.05.2017
- Prof. Melissa Steyn:?"Critical Diversity Literacy in Theory and Practice" -?30.05.2017
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Guest Lectures and Events 2018
- Dr. Sarah Lawson Welsh, York, St. John University, UK:?"Caribbean Cravings: Food and text in the Anglophone Caribbean“ - 05.02.2018
- Study Trip Flensburg: "Rum City, Colonialism & Vrigin Island Transfer": 04.09.03.2018
- Josheph D. Jordan, Amsterdam, the Netherlands:?"Between the World and Wakanda: Intermedial Notes on Diaspora and Nation in Marvel’s Black Panther“ - 18.06.2018
Guest Lectures and Events 2019
- Dr. Christine Vogt-William, Nürnberg:?"The 'Trialectics of Space': Maternal Space and the Material Culture of 'Home‘“ - 08.01.2019
- Julian Wacker:?"Fringes of an Empire: Notes on the Black Presence in Neo-Victorian Gothic Television“ - 17.07.2019
- Felipe Espinoza Garrido, University of Münster:?"Empire and the Neo-Victorian Arctic: Re-imagining the Franklin Expedition“ - 17.07.2019
- Marlena Tronicke, University of Münster:?"Neo-Victorianism and the Troubled Memory of Empire: Taboo’s Imperial Surface“ - 17.07.2019
- Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatca, Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg:?"Creolizing the Nation-State Norm: Lessons from the Caribbean“ - 05.11.2019
Guest Lectures and Events 2020
- Veronika Keller, Munich: "Music in Television" - 13.01.2020
- Dr. Deborah Nyangulu, University of Münster:?"Hashtag Movements and Decolonial Pedagogy" - 07.07.2020
Guest Lectures and Events 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
- Lisa King, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA:?”The Evolving Humboldt Forum – Possibilities and Challenges for Native American/Indigenous Decolonization” - 09.02.2021
- Jessica Seymour, Australia:?"Adaptation, Homage, and Intervention: Why intention matters in researching retellings" - 12.05.2021
- NIcolle Lamerichs, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands:?"Material Fandom: Cosplay, Affect and Sustainability" - 16.07.2021
- Experimental and Interactive Storytelling (EIS)
Guest Lectures and Events 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 and Events 2023
Guest researcher:
- Dr. Razinat Talatu Mohammed, University of Abuja, Nigeria: "African Women’s Writing" - 01.02.-30.04.2023
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Guest lecture series:
- Dr. Razinat Talatu Mohammed, University of Abuja, Nigeria: "Nigerian Women’s Writing" - 13.04.2023
- 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: "Precariousness in Zimbabwe" - 15.04.2023
Guest Lectures and Events 2024
- Dr. Jayana Jain, Heidelberg: "(Imperso)Nation and Justice in Popular Hindi Films: A Case Study of Rang De Basanti" - 25.01.2024
- Dr. Jayana Jain, Heidelberg: "Never Have I Ever... Found A Match: Examining Identity Politics and Gendered Performances on Netflix." - 25.06.2024
- The Ruins of Empire: Postcolonial Hauntings (Annual conference of the Postgraduate Forum Postcolonial Narrations in cooperation with GAPS - Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies)