Guest lectures (archive)
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2019
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
>> What makes literature diasporic? Reflections on Like mule bringing ice cream to the sun <<
Tuesday, 5 November | 12:15 s.t. | JO1
Akoss Ofori-Mensah
>> West African publishing, diasporic connections: A publisher's perspective <<
Tuesday, 15 October | 12:15 s.t. | JO1
Prof. Sridhar Rajeswaran
>> Thru' Words that Still, Frames that Freeze: A Backward Glance at the Cracked Earth and its Fragmented Worlds <<
Tuesday, 9 April | 12:15 s.t. | JO1
Prof. Nilufer E. Bharucha
>> The Idea of South Asia and the Construct of South Asian Diasporic Literatures <<
Tuesday, 2 April | 12:15 s.t. | JO1
Prof. Bénédicte Ledent
>> Windrush: The second generation <<
Monday, 14 January | 12:15 s.t. | JO1
2018
Johny Pitts
>> Afropean ways of seeing: Transnational photography <<
Saturday, 7 July | 17:45 pm (c.t.) | JO 1
>> Afropean Photography: Black images matter <<
Monday, 9 July | 12 pm (c.t.) | JO 1
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
>> A Defiant Mind: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's Life-Writing| <<
Reading and Discussion
Thursday, 14 June | 6:00 pm (s.t) | Freiherr-von-Vincke Haus
World Literature in Gikuyu: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (UC Irvine) in Conversation with Mark Stein (Uni Münster)
Friday, 15 June | 7 pm (s.t.) | Freiherr-von-Vincke-Haus (Domplatz 36, 48143 Münster)
2017
Sharon Dodua Otoo
>> Thinking Things and Sharing Visions: Creative Writing and the Pursuit of Social Change <<
27 June 2017, 10-12 c.t. | AudiMax, English Department, Uni Münster
2014
Prof. Dr. Susanne Reichl (University of Vienna)
Judging a book by its cover: Black British literature in the marketplace
18 June 2014, 10-12 (c.t.) / room Jo 101 / Johannisstr. 4 / 48163 Münster
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2013
Miriam Nandi - Run Biju Run - Acceleration and Deceleration in Anglophone Indian Novels
28 June 2013, 10-12h | Johannisstraße 1, room 101, English Department, Uni Münster
Further information Englisches Seminar Freiburg
2012
PD Dr. Susanne Reichl (Wien)
Learning how to look with postcolonial picturebooks
03 July 2012, 18-20h | ES131 (formerly H19), English Department, Uni Münster
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet (Gießen)
Novelistic narration across modes and media: The multimodal novel
26 June 2012, 18-20h | ES131 (formerly H19), English Department, Uni Münster
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Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler (Frankfurt a.M.)
Transcultural encounters: Coming to terms with Aboriginal modernity in Australian literature and film
05 June 2012, 18-20h | ES131 (formerly H19), English Department, Uni Münster
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Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril (Oldenburg)
The making of (non-)migrants: Integration as dispositif
22 May 2012, 18-20h | ES131 (formerly H19), English Department, Uni Münster
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Please note that Prof. Mecheril's lecture has been cancelled due to sickness!
Dietmar Dath
Der Sinn der Arbeit (Part 2)
16 May 2012, begin: 18 h | Festsaal des Historischen Rathauses, Münster
More information: Fachbereich 9 | Münster Lectures - Literatur und Theorie im Dialog
Richard Sennett (New York University/ London School of Economics)
Der Sinn der Arbeit (Part 1)
15 May 2012, begin: 18 h | Erbdrostenhof, Salzstraße 38, Münster
More information: Fachbereich 9 | Münster Lectures - Literatur und Theorie im Dialog
Prof. Dr. Laurenz Volkmann (Jena)
Reconsidering the issue of transcultural vs. ethnocentric uses of literature: The case of Arundhati Roy’s award-winning bestseller The God of Small Things
15 May 2012, 18-20h | ES131 (formerly H19), English Department, Uni Münster
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Prof. Dr. Kylie Crane (Mainz)
Whales, waste and wilderness: Postcolonial environmentalism
08 May 2012, 18-20h | ES131 (formerly H19), English Department, Uni Münster
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Prof. em. Dr. Dr. Peter Freese (Paderborn)
"What, then, is the American, this new man?" (Crèvecœur): National identity in a country of immigrants
17 April 2012, 18-20h | ES131 (formerly H19), English Department, Uni Münster
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Suzanne Scafe (South Bank University, London)
Bronte's Jane Eyre and Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
10 January 2012, 14-16h | AudiMax, English Department, Uni Münster
2011
Dr. Markus Schmitz
Decolonization 2.0? Reflections on the Arab Facebook revolution
10 May 2011, 16-18h | AudiMax, English Department, Uni Münster
Lynda Ng
Death in the face of technology: DeLillo, McCarthy and Kafka’s ‘Odradek’ in the Digital Age
3 May 2011, 16-18h | AudiMax, English Department, Uni Münster
2010
Prof. Dr. Rachel Dwyer, SOAS, Univ. of London
Hindi cinema: Bollywood and beyond
13 July 2010, 16-18h | AudiMax, English Department, Uni Münster
Prof. Sofian Merabet, The University of Texas at Austin
Border Crossing and (Un)Critical Cosmopolitanism between the US and the Arab World
23 June 2010, 12-14h | H19, English Department, Uni Münster
Contact: Dr. Markus Schmitz markus.schmitz@wwu.de
Dr. Briar Wood, London Metropolitan Univ.
"Whale Rider in the context of New Zealand cinema"
22 June 2010, 16-18h| AudiMax, English Department, Uni Münster
Dr. Claudia Sternberg, Univ. of Leeds
"Migrant and diasporic cinema in Europe: The case of Postcolonial Britain"
15 June 2010, 16-18h| AudiMax, English Department, Uni Münster
Dr. Dirk Naguschewski, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
"Re-situating South African cinema in Africa"
8 June 2010, 16-18h| AudiMax, English Department, Uni Münster
Dr. Kerstin Knopf, Univ. of Greifswald
“Indigenous film in Canada and the USA: A survey”
1 June 2010, 16-18h | AudiMax, English Department, Uni Münster
Prof. Patrick Williams, Nottingham Trent University
"Palestinian cinema: The visible and the invisible"
18 May 2010, 16-18h | AudiMax, English Department, Uni Münster
2009
PD Dr. Susanne Reichl, Universität Wien
"Postcolonial children's literature"
09 December 2009, 16:15-17:45 | English Department, Uni Münster (AudiMax)
Dr. Marga Munkelt, Uni Münster
"Crossing borders: Chicano/Chicana writing"
02 December 2009, 16:15-17:45 | English Department, Uni Münster (AudiMax)
Dr. Markus Schmitz, Uni Münster
"Arab American literature"
02 December 2009, 18:00-19:30 | English Department, Uni Münster (AudiMax)
Prof. Lyn Innes, University of Kent, Canterbury
"Australia: The colonial/postcolonial state and its cultural complexities"
25 November 2009, 16:15-17:45 | English Department, Uni Münster (AudiMax)
Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler, Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main
"Transcultural dimensions of African literature"
18 November 2009, 18:00-19:30 | English Department, Uni Münster (AudiMax) Guest lecture:
Dr. Florian Stadtler, Open University, London
"Narrating the nation: The South Asian novel in English"
11 November 2009, 16:15-17:45 | English Department, Uni Münster (AudiMax)
Prof. Dr. Katja Sarkowsky, Univ. Augsburg
"Canadian literature: A survey"
04 November 2009, 16:15-17:45 | English Department, Uni Münster (AudiMax)
PD Dr. Susanne Reichl, Univ. Wien/Münster
"Black British writing for children and young adults"
28 January 2009 | English Department, Uni Münster
Dr. James Procter, Univ. Newcastle
"The British Asian Renaissance"
07 January 2009, 16:00-18:00 | English Department, Uni Münster
2008
Dr. John McLeod, Univ. Leeds
"Interrogating 'Black British' in the 1980s and 1990s"
17 December 2008, 16:00 - 18:00 | English Department, Uni Münster
Dr. Lars Eckstein, Univ.Tübingen
"Globalisation, Hip Hop and Post-9/11 Anxiety: Australia and Beyond"
17 July 2008, 12:00 - 14:00
2007
Professor Stanley Wells, CBE (The Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon) will give two lectures in the English Department (Johannisstr. 12-20):
"Romeo and Juliet and Sex"
Thursday, 29 November 2007 | 4 PM Auditorium Maximum, Englisches Seminar and
"Is It True What They Say About Shakespeare"
Friday, 30 November 2007 | 10 AM room H 19, Englisches Seminar
Prof. Dr. Flora Veit-Wild, HU Berlin
"'I am the rape' - Dambudzo Marechera, the Infamous Rebel and Post-Moderniser of Zimbabwean Literature"
19 June 2007
Part of the lecture course "African Literatures"
Dr. Susheila Nasta, Open University, London
"Crossing the Black Waters - Writers of the South Asian Diaspora: Some Snapshots from the Past"
31 January 2007
Part of the lecture course "Literatures of the South Asian Diaspo