Gastvorträge & Diskussionen | Guest Lectures & Discussions
Talk
"'Dog parks are for people': Canine-Gentrifier Cohabitation in Contemporary Literature"
Monday, February 12, 3 pm | FRIAS seminar room
On Monday, February 12, Maria Sulimma will give the talk ’Dog parks are for people’: Canine-Gentrifier Cohabitation in Contemporary Literature in the FRIAS research colloquium. The talk is open to anyone interested and takes place in the FRIAS seminar room.
Abstract: The dog park and the over-burdened dog walker are a staple setting and character respectively in stories about the city. However, in the gentrifying city, consumer practices, leisure activities, and commercial and public spaces associated with dog ownership have specialized and spread: this talk explores literary representations of human-dog relationships, for example in Eileen Myles’ Afterglow (2017), Sigrid Nunez’ The Friend (2018), and Jen Beagin’s Big Swiss (2023). It considers the ambiguous role of dogs in the transforming urban environment, as members of what Laurent-Simpson calls the “multispecies family,” and at the same time as symbols of privileged lifestyles and entitlement of their owners/dog parents.
Archive
Vernissage des Buches von Nikolaus Henkel:
"Sebastian Brant: Studien und Materialien zu einer Archäologie des Wissens um 1500"
11. Juli, 18.15 Uhr | Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
Online Vortrag und Live-Diskussion via Zoom:
"Fotografie und Tourismus – ein untrennbares Paar"
Freitag, 19.11.2021 | 14-15.30 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Lobinger ist Senior Assistant Professor für Online-Kommunikation am Institut für Digitale Technologien der Kommunikation. Zu ihren Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören vernetzte Fotografie, Online-Kommunikation, digitale (visuelle) Kultur, Ethik im digitalen Zeitalter sowie kreative und visuelle Forschungsmethoden. Sie ist Herausgeberin des „Handbuchs Visuelle Kommunikationsforschung“ und Vizepräsidentin der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Medienforschung. Für das Forschungskolleg „Neues Reisen – Neue Medien“ hält sie einen Video-Vortrag zum Thema
„Fotografie und Tourismus – ein untrennbares Paar. Was uns visuelle Analysen über Reisen und Tourismus im Zeitalter der vernetzten Fotografie vermitteln können.“
Der aufgezeichnete Video-Vortrag (20 min.) steht ab sofort im Medienportal der Universität Freiburg zur Ansicht zur Verfügung.
Am Thema Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen, sich den Video-Vortrag anzusehen und für die Teilnahme am LIVE-Diskussionspanel (via Zoom) mit Prof. Lobinger anzumelden; dazu genügt eine kurze E-Mail bis spätestens 18.11. an anna.sennefelder@neuesreisen.uni-freiburg.de.
Online Talk on Olfactory Landscapes with Hsuan L. Hsu (UC Davis):
"Racial Atmospheres and Olfactory Experiments in American Literature and Culture"
December 6, 2021 | 4-6pm
This talk explores the productive point of intersection between recent efforts to theorize race in atmospheric terms and research on the aesthetics of olfaction. I discuss how medical experts, jurists, racial scientists, and novelists mobilized olfactory discourse to produce and uphold racial distinctions, even as the uneven distribution of material odors has enacted environmental and bodily transformations that, among other things, biochemically differentiate racialized populations. I then consider works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People-of-Color) writers and artists such as Rudolph Fisher, Helena Maria Viramontes, Beatrice Glow, Anicka Yi, and Larissa Lai, who both expose these modes of olfactory violence and experiment with olfaction's capacities for producing alternative, expansive modes of material intimacy and more-than-human kinship.
Furher information can be found here. If you are interested in attending the talk, please send an email to Monka Monalescu.
Guest Lectures
"Neo-hosers up north: Locally constructed meaning and FACE and GOAT ungliding in rural Ontario" & "Ethnic patterns in /u/-fronting: Evidence from Filipinos in Toronto"
December 6, 2021, 7.30-9pm | Online
You are cordially invited to attend the following guest talk(s), which will take place within the frame of Miriam Neuhausen's Proseminar "Third Wave Sociolinguistics –Language Variation in Canada and the US":
- Lauren Bigelow (University of Toronto) — "Neo-hosers up north: Locally constructed meaning and FACE and GOAT ungliding in rural Ontario"
- Pocholo Umbal (University of Toronto) — "Ethnic patterns in /u/-fronting: Evidence from Filipinos in Toronto"
When? Monday, December 6 | 7.30 – 9pm
Where? Zoom | Meeting-ID: 647 7406 0732 | Password: r36FBfnPh
Freiburger Afrikagespräche
Onookome Okome – Contemporary racism and the rest of us
Onookome Okome, Professor of Anglophone Literature and Cinema at the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada | ACT - Africa Centre for Transregional Research
”Donald Trump, former President of the United States of America, gave a speech during which he said, among other incendiary things, "Why are we allowing these people from shit-hole countries to come here?" Although not directly meant for the general public, this utterance, as always, questions Black presence in the US, more specifically recent Haitian migrants looking to make the good life in America, "the land of the free." Describing people of African descent in this manner is common, uncensored. This is not unique to this President. Indeed, anti-Black sentiments have always been part of the linguistics map of the Americas for over 600 years. Perhaps, what is unique about former President Trump’s declaration is the brazenness of the utterance of what has always been the dinner-table banter. Not surprisingly, the descriptor, “shit-hole,” comes with associations that are political and cultural; political because it panders to presumed sense of white superiority, and cultural because it is taken from the playbook of this history of linguistic violence against people of African descent. In this presentation, I will briefly investigate the cultural history of this linguistic violence by privileging personal and anecdotal evidence of its persistence in Canada. Prefacing iteration of this language register in the works of three major European authors allows me to show patterns in the use of linguistic violence against black bodies in historical and political perspective. My hope is not only to track the continuity of this violence but also to provide practical evidence if its persistency in contemporary time.” (Text: Onookome Okome)
When? Tuesday, January 25 | 8pm
Where? Via Zoom
Podiumsdiskussionen zum Krieg in der Ukraine
In der laufenden Woche lädt die Universität Freiburg zu zwei öffentlichen Veranstaltungen zum Krieg in der Ukraine. Am Mittwoch, 9. März 2022, um 18 Uhr veranstalten die Universität Freiburg und das das Graduiertenkolleg „Dynamischer Wandel, Temporalität und nachimperiale Ordnungen“ eine Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema „Die Rückkehr der Imperien? Putins Krieg und seine globalen Implikationen“. Am Freitag, 11. März 2022, um 14 Uhr wird auf Einladung der Theologischen Fakultät eine Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema „Putins Krieg in der Ukraine und die Not der Menschen“ stattfinden.
Carl-Schurz-Haus | "Crude Creatures": The Representation of Black People in Yiddish Culture
Prof. Dr. Gil Ribak | Freitag, 11. März um 19 Uhr | Konferenzraum des Carl-Schurz-Hauses, Eisenbahnstr. 62
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In seinem Vortrag untersucht Gil Ribak, Professor für Jewish Studies an der University of Arizona und External Senior Fellow am FRIAS, die historische Darstellung von schwarzen Menschen in der jiddischen Kultur in den USA: Oftmals klaffte eine erstaunliche, verstörende Kluft zwischen dem aufrichtigen Entsetzen jiddischer Schriftsteller*innen und Zeitungen über Phänomene wie Lynchjustiz, Gewalt gegen Afroamerikaner*innen, Entrechtung und Rassentrennung einerseits und der Art und Weise, wie sie schwarze Menschen insgesamt repräsentierten, andererseits. Schwarze erschienen jiddischen Schriftstellern nicht etwa als „Amerikas Juden“ – wie manche Gelehrte behaupteten –, sondern als die Reinkarnation osteuropäischer slawischer Bauern. Neben diesem diskriminierenden Bilderreservoir aus der „Alten Welt“ spiegelte die jiddische Kultur die vorherrschenden sozialen und rassischen Konzepte des Amerikas des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts wider, das „nordische“ Menschen an die Spitze des menschlichen Fortschritts gestellt hatte, sowie gängige Darstellungen von Afroamerikaner*innen in der Populärkultur. Veranstaltungssprache ist Englisch. Eintritt frei.
Die Veranstaltung findet hybrid statt: Anmeldung für das Live-Event unter folgenden Link
Streaming Link: https://youtu.be/HfrYbz1_yt0
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PhiloTalks – Guest lecture series
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PhiloTalks is a series of guest lectures by and for doctoral students in Philology and Philosophy at the University of Freiburg. The lectures will be presented online in English language with subsequent discussion in English & German. For registration & information, contact philotalks@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de. You can find the program for the event here. |
Carl-Schurz-Haus:
Amerikas Gotteskrieger: Wie die religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet
Lesung und Gespräch mit Annika Brockschmidt, Berlin | Im Rahmen der Reihe "Transatlantic Tuesday"
Dienstag, 22 März, 19 Uhr | Hörsaal 1010, KG I der Universität
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Sie halten Joe Bidens Wahlsieg für Lug und Trug, glauben an „White Supremacy“, kämpfen gegen Abtreibung, befürworten erzkonservative Geschlechterrollen und wähnen sich im Krieg gegen satanische Mächte: die Religiöse Rechte in den USA. Seit Jahrzehnten baut diese Bewegung ihre landesweite Infrastruktur aus, errichtet Medienimperien. Unter der Regierung Trump konnten viele ihrer Vertreter*innen Posten im Weißen Haus und an den Gerichten besetzen. Die Journalistin Annika Brockschmidt geht der Geschichte der heutigen Religiösen Rechten in den USA von den 1960er Jahren bis heute nach und entfaltet das Spektrum einer vielschichtigen Gruppierung, die mittlerweile über Sieg und Niederlage bei Präsidentschaftswahlen entscheiden kann – und den Ton in einer der beiden großen Parteien des Landes angibt. Sie deckt auf, wie Geschichtsrevisionismus, Nationalismus, Autoritarismus, Verschwörungsdenken, Apokalypse-Sehnsucht und Rassismus die Religiöse Rechte von Beginn an geprägt haben. Trumps Niederlage war nicht das Ende der Religiösen Rechten in den USA – genauso wenig, wie seine Präsidentschaft ihr Beginn war. Annika Brockschmidt hat für das ZDF-Hauptstadtstudio gearbeitet, sie schreibt u.a. für den Tagesspiegel und Zeit Online. |
Screening & Lecture
"Simulations and Shenanigans — The Holodeck between Cyber Archive and Genre Setting"
Vortrag und Diskussion
"Zwischen Diskursverweigerung und Wirkungshoffnung. Die Geisteswissenschaften und ihre Öffentlichkeit"
Coffe Lectures organized by the University Library |
Enjoy our coffee & stay up to date ... in 15 minutes
Informieren Sie sich kurz und kompakt über interessante Themen rund um das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten. Wir bieten Ihnen immer mittwochs um 13 Uhr in der Mittagspause 15-minütige Wissenshäppchen bei einer Tasse Kaffee.
| "Auf Spurensuche in den Büchern der UB: Abenteuer Provenienzforschung" |
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| "Stay up to date — Digitale Tages- und Wochenzeitungen" |
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| "Alle nutzen sie, niemand zitiert sie: Die Wikipdia im Studium" |
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Guest Lecture:
"From ELF and other giants in the language classroom: Implications of lingua franca research for language teaching and teacher education"
23. November, 18:15 Uhr | R 01 014 (Wilhelmstr. 26)
An diesem Abend wird Katharina Beuter, Dozentin für Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachpraxis und Fachdidaktik an der Universität Bamberg und Gymnasiallehrerin für Englisch und Biologie, ihre Forschung zu transkultureller Pragmatik und Englisch als Lingua Franca vorstellen. Sie untersucht, wie Schüler:innen Englisch als Lingua Franca bei einem Schulaustauschen verwenden und dabei Bedeutungen, Identitäten und Beziehungen aushandeln. An diesem Abend wird sie vor allem ausführen, wie sich wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse in diesem Forschungsbereich ganz konkret auf den fremdsprachlichen Schulunterricht und Lehrer*innenbildung auswirken (sollten).
Nach einem Impulsvortrag führt Dr. Anna Rosen, Sprachwissenschaftlerin und Gymnasiallehrerin für Englisch und Französisch, durch Diskussion und Austausch.
Das Angebot richtet sich vor allem an Lehramtsstudierende aus den fremdsprachlichen Fächern.
Fakultative Anmeldung in HISinOne.
Lecture:
"The Space of the List:The Nine Worthies in Medieval English Literature"
24. November, 16:15 Uhr | Zoom
On November 24, TT-Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen will give the special lecture The Space of the List: The Nine Worthies in Medieval English Literature, which will be followed by an open discussion.
Everyone is free to attend the lecture via the following link:
https://uni-freiburg.zoom.us/
Meeting ID: 341 599 6905
Passcode: 6cjLupftD
Guest Lecture:
"Karriereperspektiven am Goethe-Institut"
Berufspraxis für Philolog:innen
30. November, 18:15 Uhr | R 3301 (Deutsches Seminar)
Im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe der Philologischen Fakultät zur Berufsorientierung für Philolog:innen zeigt Kay Hug, Leiter des Goethe-Institut Freiburg, die Karriereperspektiven am Institut auf. Das Goethe-Institut ist das offizielle Kultur- und Sprachinstitut der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, das in über 90 Ländern Deutschkurse und -prüfungen anbietet.
Guest Lecture:
"The (Lost) American Dream on TV: Television Homes and Millennial Home Ownership"
30. November, 08.30-14.30 Uhr | Online
On Wednesday, Nov. 30th, Maria Sulimma will give the talk “The (Lost) American Dream on TV: Television Homes and Millennial Home Ownership” as part of an online teachers seminar organized by the Atlantische Akademie. The online seminar is called “Rude Awakening? The American Dream and Its Reality.” It will feature further talks by political scientist Christian Lammert (Freie Universität Berlin), novelist Lydia Stryk, and educator Anna Schönbach (Pädagogisches Landesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz).
The seminar is aimed at school teachers teaching US-American culture and society but open to anyone interested. Students of the English Department studying to become teachers are especially encouraged to attend. The online seminar will take place from 8:30am to 2:30pm.
For more information and to sign up, visit: https://www.atlantische-akademie.de/programm/veranstaltungen/americandream.
Guest Lecture:
"Endlessly Repetitive Futures: Climate Change, Reproduction Logics, and Linear Time in Blade Runner 2049"
1. Dezember, 10-12 Uhr | HS 1016
On December 1, from 10:00-12:00, Prof. Dr. Kathleen Loock from the University of Hannover will give the guest lecture: “Endlessly Repetitive Futures: Climate Change, Reproduction Logics, and Linear Time in Blade Runner 2049.” The lecture will take place as part of Maria Sulimma’s seminar on Climate Change Screen Cultures but is open for anyone interested. The room will be Kollegiengebäude I/HS 1016.
Kathleen Loock is a junior professor of American Studies and Media Studies. Her research is concerned with remakes, sequels, and reboots, seriality, and the role memory and cultural repetition perform on the levels of identity formation and for the construction and maintenance of imagined communities. She is director of the research group “Hollywood Memories: Cinematic Remaking and the Construction of Global Movie Generations” (funded by the German Research Foundation).
Guest Lecture:
"Literature Between Psychotropic Utopia and Everyday Healing"
15. Dezember, 18 Uhr | HS 1009
On Thursday, December 15, Prof. Dr. Soltysik Monnet (English Department, University of Lausanne) will give the lecture titled "Literature Between Psychotropic Utopia and Everyday Healing" as part of the seminar "Narconarrativas / Narrativas de la modernidad psicoactiva", taught by Prof. Dr. Hermann Herlinghaus. The guest lecture is open to anyone interested and will take place in HS 1009, KG I at 6 pm.
Guest Lecture:
"Digitales Marketing: ein Berufsfeld für Linguist:innen?!"
11. Januar, 18.15 Uhr | HS 1009
Im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe der Philologischen Fakultät zur Berufsorientierung für Philolog:innen spricht Gloria Esposito (Google Switzerland) über digitales Marketing als Karriereperspektive für Linguist:innen.
Guest Lecture:
"Language Attitudes in the UK"
12. Januar, 10:15 | HS 1016
On Thursday January 12, 2023, there will be a guest lecture by Prof. Erik Schleef (University of Salzuburg) on Language Attitudes in the UK. Schleef is currently fellow at FRIAS (Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies) and belongs to the leading experts in the study of language variation in the UK. The guest lecture is open to anyone interested.
Online Guest Lecture:
"Theorizing Black Anthroposcreens: Queen Sugar and Black Panther"
12. Januar, 10:15-12 Uhr | Zoom
On Thursday January 12, 2023, there will be an online guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Julia Leyda (NTNU Trondheim) titled "Theorizing Black Anthroposcreens: Queen Sugar and Black Panther" based on her upcoming book Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious (Cambridge University Press). The lecture will take place from 10.15-12 am. If you are interested, please email JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma for the Zoom link.
Guest Lecture:
"Kulturwissenschaften und Klimagerechtigkeit"
18. Januar, 18 Uhr | HS 1221 & online
On wednesday, January 18th, Sieglinde Lemke and Maria Sulimma will give the talk “Kulturwissenschaften und Klimagerechtigkeit“ as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series “Nachhaltigkeit.” Their talk provides an overview over humanities' contributions to the study of global warming and sustainability. Specifically, they aim at demonstrating how cultural studies methods and approaches allow for an exploration of stories surrounding climate change, including questions of climate justice and intersectionality. The talk will take place at 6pm in room 1221, KG 1, as well as online. For more information, see https://www.zfs.uni-freiburg.de/de/zertifikat-nachhaltigkeit/oeffentliche-vortragsreihe or our lecture series section.
Screening:
"The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)"
19. Januar, 19:00 Uhr | Carl-Schurz-Haus
As a preview event for Black History Month, the Carl-Schurz-Haus will host a screening of the movie The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019), co-organized with the participants of the seminar “African American Urbanism – From "Black Metropolis" to "We Own This City” taught by JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma at the English Department of the University of Freiburg.
The Sundance award-winning film, written and directed by Joe Talbot and based on his friend Jimmie Fails’s real-life experiences, tells the story of gentrification greatly affecting black San Franciscans, one of home, belonging and friendship and the city's artists, oddballs and crumbling architecture. The plot centers on a regal Victorian house in San Francisco’s historic Fillmore district, supposedly built by Jimmie’s grandfather in 1946. When the house is vacated by its white, middle-class tenants, Jimmie becomes king of his empty castle, at home among its stained-glass windows, dusty library and abandoned games room. It’s a welcome change from the mattress he sleeps on in his friend Montgomery’s (Jonathan Majors) cramped bedroom in Hunters Point, a low-income neighbourhood built on toxic waste.
The screening will include a short introduction by Sarah Al Jufaily, Diego Contreras-Briones, Nicole Faller, Felicitas Fischer, Sophie Gerstner, and Maria Sulimma. The speakers will offer a framework for the movie by introducing different African American authors and thinkers and their “blackplacemaking” in US-American cities across different historical contexts and storytelling formats.
Book Launch & Screenings
"Networked: David Lynch - Critical Perspectives on Cinematic Transmediality"
4. Februar | Kommunales Kino Freiburg
Guest Lecture
"Die Zukunft der Stadt erzählen: Urbane Microscripts und Gentrifizierung"
17. Februar, 14 Uhr | R 1134
On Friday, February 17th, Maria Sulimma will give a lecture on her current research on urban transformations, narration, and futurity. The title of the lecture is “Die Zukunft der Stadt erzählen: Urbane Microscripts und Gentrifizierung.” It will take place in room 1134, KG I at 2pm, and is open to anyone interested.
"Researchers using diaries: how, why, when and what for?"
14. April, 17.00 Uhr | Bürgersaal Altes Rathaus Emmendingen
Das Deutsche Tagebucharchiv Emmendingen lädt zu einem Impulsreferat der Historikerin Li Gerhalter von der Sammlung Frauennachlässe an der Universität Wien ein. Es bildet den Auftakt für eine Diskussionsrunde, die sich mit den Möglichkeiten wissenschaftlicher Quellforschung in Tagebüchern und den Auswirkungen der Forschung auf die tradierte Geschichtsschreibung und die Literaturschaffung beschäftigt. Weitere Teilnehmer:innen sind:
- Julien Corbel, Musikwissenschaftler und Historiker an der Universität Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
- Joris van Casteren, Writer in Residence am Nederlands Dagboekarchief, Amsterdam
- Leonike Vermeer, Historikerin an der Universität Groningen.
Die Runde wird moderiert von Monica Soeting, Herausgeberin des European Journal of Life Writing und Mitglied des Leitungsgremiums des Nederlands Dagboekarchief Amsterdam. Im Anschluss an den Runden Tisch besteht die Möglichkeit für das Publikum, Fragen zu stellen und sich an der Diskussion zu beteiligen.
"The Future of Archives? Possibilities and Limitations of Computer-Assisted Handwritten Text Recognition"
15. April, 09.00 Uhr | Bürgersaal Altes Rathaus Emmendingen
Achim Rabus, Professor für Sprachwissenschaft am Slavischen Seminar der Universität Freiburg, stellt sein Forschungsprojekt Transkribus vor, eine Künstliche Intelligenz zur multilingualen Erkennung und Transkription von Handschriften, darunter auch Sütterlin und Stenografie. Er erläutert auch die Grundprinzipien, die eine KI wie Transkribus mit anderen Formen von KI wie ChatGPT verbinden, und gibt einen Ausblick auf die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von KI-Anwendungen im Hinblick auf das kulturelle Erbe. Im Anschluss an den Vortrag besteht die Möglichkeit für das Publikum, Fragen zu stellen.
Anmeldungen unter Angabe der Teilnehmerzahl richten Sie bitte an: veranstaltung@tagebucharchiv.de.
'Sprachenvielfalt, Sprachräume und Sprachpolitik in Europa'
20. Mai, 11.15 Uhr | HS 1010
Im Rahmen der Samstags-Uni: Blicke auf Europa des Studium generale spricht Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann über das Thema Sprachenvielfalt, Sprachräume und Sprachpolitik in Europa.
Im Vordergrund dieses komplexen und vielschichtigen Themas sollen folgende Fragen stehen: Welche Sprachfamilien und Sprachräume prägen die mehr als 100 im geographischen Europa gesprochenen Sprachen (darunter allein 24 EU-Amtssprachen)? Gibt es Struktureigenschaften, die, im Vergleich mit den mehr als 6000 anderen Sprachen der Welt, weitgehend auf Europa beschränkt sind - und gibt es vielleicht sogar einen 'Sprachbund Europa'? Wo sehen wir im Europa der letzten Jahrzehnte - und nicht zuletzt aktuell - einen Zusammenhang von Politik und ihrem Einfluss auf Sprache? Welche Rolle spielen speziell das Deutsche und das Englische in Europa, gerade auch unter dem Eindruck der Migrations- und Flüchtlingsbewegungen der letzten Jahre? Welche Bedeutung hat die Sprachenfrage für den Erfolg gesellschaftlicher Integration und für Deutschland als Wirtschafts- und Wissenschaftsstandort? Wie sollte eine vernünftige Mehrsprachigkeitspolitik an Schulen und Hochschulen aussehen? Und wie kann man sich dabei das Zusammenspiel mit den neuen Möglichkeiten der Künstlichen Intelligenz vorstellen?
"Von Gärten und Windrädern. Klima, Raum und Gender."
June 13, 10-12 am | HS 1016
On June 13, JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma will visit the interdisciplinary lecture series KLIMA: Kulturen, Künste, Medien organized by Prof. Dr. Evi Zemanek (Cultural Media Studies) and JProf. Dr. Dominik Zink (German Department). She will give the talk Von Gärten und Windrädern. Klima, Raum und Gender. The talk will take place from 10-12, in room HS 1016. More information can be found here.
'Vita Contemplativa oder Von der Untätigkeit: eine Auseinandersetzung mit Hannah Arendt'
Dienstag, 13.06., 18 Uhr c.t. | HS 1199
"'The Laurel Hedge Was Nothing But Itself': Daphne in Contemporary Women’s Poetry"
June 19, 4.15 pm | HS 1231
On June 19, Dr. Tamás Bényei (University of Debrecen) will give a talk about 'The Laurel Hedge Was Nothing But Itself': Daphne in Contemporary Women’s Poetry.
The talk is concerned with the various ways the story and figure of Daphne has been revisited in contemporary (and not so contemporary) poetry by women. Given the centrality of Daphne (and Apollo) in the poetic tradition, most rewritings self-consciously tackle the Petrarchan heritage – besides the obvious Ovidian Ur-text –, which means that the gendered reappropriations of the myth are also necessarily exercises in a self-reflexive, metapoetical thinking through of the implications of this tradition. The talk will therefore begin by introducing some relevant aspects of this generic and representational heritage, looking at Petrarch’s Canzone XXIII and Bernini’s famous sculpture. This will be followed by a brief consideration of the way Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh uses the story (and its Ovidian and Petrarchan rendering) in its attempt to establish a viable female poetic identity. 20th- and 21st-century women’s poetry resorted to diverse strategies in this work of reappropriation; the concluding section of the talk will discuss some of these strategies through taking a closer look at three contemporary Daphne poems: one by Fiona Benson and two by Eavan Boland.
Tamás Bényei is Professor of English Literature at the Department of British Studies, University of Debrecen. His main research fields are 20th-century British fiction, crime fiction, (post)colonial fiction and British women’s writing, metamorphosis, and more recently, ecological criticism and animal studies.
"Transmedia Practices and Political Meaning - Making in the Marvel Cinematic Universe"
June 20, 10.15-11.45 am | R 00016 (Wilhelmstr. 26)
On June 20, Lea Espinoza Garrido (University of Wuppertal) will join JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma’s Seminar Popular Culture and Seriality to give the talk Transmedia Practices and Political Meaning-Making in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The session is open to anyone interested. It will take place from 10.15-11.45 am in room R 00016 (Wilhelmstr. 26). That evening, Lea Espinoza Garrido will also visit the Carl-Schurz-Haus for a Televisionary Talk Club on the The Marvel TV Universe. For more information please visit the website of the Carl-Schurz-Haus.
'"Remember how deep we go" – Stories of Oceanic Cities'
Mittwoch, 21.06., 14 Uhr c.t. | Aula (KG I)
Am Mittwoch, dem 21.06., wird JProf. Maria Sulimma ihre Antrittsvorlesung zum Thema "Remember how deep we go" – Stories of Oceanic Cities halten. Alle interessierten Zuhörer:innen sind herzlich dazu eingeladen!
'Boarding School Stories: Collaborative Re-membering in/with Indigenous Communities'
June 26, 10-12 am | HS 1098
Monday, June 26, Prof. Dr. Michael P. Taylor will give a guest lecture on Boarding School Stories: Collaborative Re-membering in/with Indigenous Communities:
Intended to erase all traces of Indigenous kinship and cultural identity, and thereby forever extinguish tribal claims to Indigenous lands and waters, Indian boarding/residential schools continue to influence the intergenerational realities and resulting narratives of what it means to be Indigenous in settler states and in Indigenous communities today. While the forced removal of tens of thousands of Indigenous children from their homelands/waters, languages, and kinship networks continues to negatively impact Indigenous populations, Indigenous communities have remained resilient, developing communal ways of ensuring cultural continuity and healing that sustain ongoing acts of individual and collective resurgence. Dr. Taylor’s research brings together community-centered stories surrounding Indian boarding/residential schooling and the ongoing impacts across generations and across Turtle Island (North America). His work is especially interested in the diverse ways through which Indigenous students, survivors, and their descendants have remembered, reclaimed, and even reconciled boarding/residential school stories.
Dr. Michael P. Taylor is associate professor of English and associate director of American Indian studies at Brigham Young University. He is a Fulbright scholar at the University of Graz and he currently holds the Butler Young Scholar award from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies. He is coauthor of Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School, published with the University of Arizona Press, and is co-editor of a current collection-in-progress tentatively titled Boarding School Stories: Collaborative Acts of Indigenous Remembering. His scholarship has appeared in such venues as American Quarterly, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and Modernism/modernity. His research focuses on federal Indian boarding schools, Indigenous modernity, and Indigenous literary activism.
"'No Gentleman Goes on a Bus': H.C. Wyld and the Historical Study of English"
July 3, 4-6 pm | HS 1231
H. C. Wyld was a leading British philologist; his book A History of Modern Colloquial English (1920) defined the subject for the first half of the twentieth century. But, despite his claim to scientific objectivity, Wyld’s account of the history of English was built upon a number of assumptions about correctness and class. In this paper, I will consider how Wyld’s assumptions influenced the way he approached the historical study of English and how they continue to affect the way we study the subject today.
Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College. He has published extensively on the history, structure, and uses of the English language. He is the author of Does Spelling Matter? (2013), How English Became English (2016) and The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (2018).
Televisionary Talk Club with Eva von Contzen and Maria Sulimma: "Rings of Power"
July 6, 7 pm | Carl-Schurz-Haus
On July 6,Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen and JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma will visit the Televisionary Talk Club at the Carl-Schurz-Haus to talk about the Lord of the Rings prequel series Rings of Power (Amazon, 2022-). They join the Talk Club hosts René Freudenthal and Sabine Pawletta to discuss Tolkien, Medieval-influenced fantasy, seriality, and the self-proclaimed most expensive television show ever made. The talk club is open to anyone interested. Watching the series beforehand helps enjoy the discussion but is not a necessity. The event begins at 7pm.
"At the Movies: Film Serials of the Silent and Sound Eras."
July 11, 10.15-11.45 pm | R 00016 (Wilhelmstr. 26)
On July 11, Dr. Ilka Brasch (University of Hannover) will join JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma’s Seminar Popular Culture and Seriality to give the talk At the Movies: Film Serials of the Silent and Sound Eras. The session is open to anyone interested. It will take place from 10:15-11:45 in room R 00016 (Wilhelmstr. 26).
"'Und was macht man dann damit?' vom Studium MKW/Spanisch zu Journalismus, Podcast und Moderation
12. Juli, 18.00 Uhr | HS 3043
Im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe Berufspraxis für Philolog:innen spricht am 12. Juli Julia Nestlen, Journalistin und Moderatorin. Sie arbeitet freiberuflich und beim SWR und wird von ihrem beruflichen Weg während und nach dem Studium an der Universität freiburg erzählen.
"Stadt als Festival / Festival als Stadt"
July 13 | University of Freiburg
On July 13-14, 2023, JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma will give a talk at the conference Zukunft leben oder überleben? Zukunftslaboratorien als Möglichkeitsräume für ein gutes Leben jenseits der Gegenwartsgesellschaft organized by the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology. She will give the talk Stadt als Festival / Festival als Stadt on July 13.
Guest Lecture:
"On Spivak's Essay 'Can the Subaltern Speak?'"
Monday, July 17 | 16.15-17.45 | HS 1231
On July 17, at 16.15-17.45, Dr. Sourav Kargupta (Kolkata), a specialist on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak will be in Freiburg and provide an introduction to Spivak's difficult essay Can the Subaltern Speak?. Since this is a key text in postcolonial studies, which is extremely taxing, Dr. Kargupta has agreed to explain the arguments in the essay and discuss the essay with students. He will first present a few introductory remarks about Spivak and her importance for literary theory and then outline the main arguments of the text and provide the opportunity for students to ask questions about the text.
Students interested to participate in the session are requested to send an email to tanja.haferkorn@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de so that she can send them the scan of the essay to (re)read before the session.
Schachmatt: Jugendförderung, öffentliche Plattform und Verantwortung – Publikumsgespräch mit Jan Gustafsson
23. Oktober, 18.15 Uhr | Aula (KG I)
TEAM, ein SVB-Projekt am Englischen Seminar, lädt zu einem ganz besonderen Abend ein – einem Publikumsgespräch mit dem Schachgroßmeister, Bundestrainer und Influencer Jan Gustafsson! In diesem exklusiven Gespräch ist es möglich, in die Welt des Schachs einzutauchen und sich auf faszinierende Weise mit den Themen Jugendförderung, pädagogische Stärken des Schachs und Jan Gustafssons einzugartiger Rolle als Bundestrainer und Influencer zu befassen.
Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. TEAM freut sich auf einen unvergesslichen Abend voller Schachbegeisterung und Inspiration.
Weitere Infomationen zur Veranstaltung finden Sie hier.
Discussion of Fragile (2023) with the author Alexa Weik von Mossner
November 9, 2.15 pm | R 1023
The Contemporary Literature Book Club will host Alexa Weik von Mossner on November 9 to discuss her recently published book Fragile (2023). All interested students are welcome to join! Please register: sophia.philomena.wolf@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de.
Guest Lectures
Symposium Decolonial Imaginaries in Literary and Urban Studies
November 9-10, 2023
On November 9-10, 2023, the interdisciplinary symposium Decolonial Imaginaries in Literary and Urban Studies will take place at University of Basel. Organized by Tamara Dima Imboden and Andreea Midvighi, the symposium brings together urban and literary scholars to discuss how the imaginary of urban dwellers can be mobilized to challenge ongoing colonialities of power. Three members of the English Department, Ece Ergin, Klara Machata, and JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma, will give talks at the symposium. Ece Ergin will speak on Indigenous Mobility and Urban Identity in Michelle Good’s 'Five Little Indians': Tracing Early Signs of Gentrification in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Klara Machata’s lecture is called Reclaiming Urban Spaces: Imagining Anti-Imperial resistance in the Garden City, and Maria Sulimma will present Stories of Dogs and Cities: Approaching Urban Transformations through Multispecies and Decolonial Frameworks. More information can be found here.
Guest Lecture
Of Waves and Wakes: The Work of Metaphor in Cultural Studies
Thursday, November 16, 12.15-1 pm | R 1009
On Thursday, November 16, 2023, JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma will give a talk for the FRIAS Lunch Lectures 2023-24. The topic of the interdisciplinary lecture series is Cells, Turns, and Footprints – Metaphors in Science and Maria’s lecture is titled Of Waves and Wakes: The Work of Metaphor in Cultural Studies. The lecture will take place from 12:15 pm to 1:00 pm in room R 1009.
More information on the lecture can be found here.
Guest Lecture
From Wilson to Constable: Landscape and Nature in the Long 18th Century
Monday, November 20, 6.15 pm | HS 1098
On Monday, November 20, art historian Timothy Wilcox (Oxford) will give a guest lecture titled From Wilson to Constable: Landscape and Nature in the Long 18th Century. All interested students are invited to attend this lecture!
Online Forum
'Replication and Replicability'
Wednesday, November 22, 8 am | Online
On Wednesday, November 22, the 3rd ISLE Online Forum will take place, this time on Replication and Replicability, with three internationally highly distinguished experts: Joseph Flanagan (Helsinki), Martin Schweinberger (Brisbane) and Lukas Soenning (Bamberg).
The online event will last between 60 and 90 minutes - with ample opportunity for interacting with the three experts. Everyone in the global English linguistics community is welcome!
- Zoom link: https://uni-freiburg.zoom.us/j/67202394028?pwd=cGI4c0Y1anAyRjRHM1JHdml3bU9Kdz09
Meeting ID: 672 0239 4028
Passcode: gm4CZjxb6this
You can find more information on the Online Forum on the ISLE website.
Guest Lecture
'21st-Century British Theatre and/as an Imoperative Community'
Monday, November 27, 2.15 pm | HS 1036
On Monday, November 27, 2023, Prof. Dr. Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg) will give a guest lecture on 21st-Century British Theatre and/as an Inoperative Community. All interested are welcome!
Guest Lecture
'William Blake and the Romantic Imagination'
Monday, December 4, 6.15 pm | HS 1098
We would like to invite you to an the upcoming lecture on British art history: William Blake and the Romantic Imagination. Our guest speaker will be Professor Colin Trodd (Manchester University) - he is one of the UK's leading experts on British art of the 1700s and 1800s.
Roundtable
'Wie überwinden wir Eurozentrismus in der Forschung?'
Tuesday, December 5, 6.15-7.45 pm | HS 1015
On Tuesday, December 5, 2023, JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma will participate in a roundtable on the topic Wie überwinden wir Eurozentrismus in der Forschung? together with Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă (Department of Sociology) and Prof. Dr. Michaela Haug (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology). The event is part of the lecture Forschungspraktiken erforschen – Zur kritischen Reflexion akademischer Wissensproduktion organized by Nadja Germann, Anne Koch, and Frieder Vogelmann. It will take place from 6:15 to 7:45 pm in R 1015.
Guest Lecture:
"Turbulence and Trouble in the Work of JMW Turner"
Monday, December 18, 6.15 pm | HS 1098
Guest Lecture
"The Pre-Raphaelites: Poetry and Painting"
Monday, January 15, 6.15 pm | HS 1098
On Monday, January 15, Nicholas Tromans (London) will speak on The Pre-Raphaelites: Poetry and Painting at 6.15 pm in HS 1098. All interested are welcome!
ISLE Online Forum
'English Linguistics in Teacher Education'
Wednesday, January 17, 6 pm | Online
On Wednesday, January 17, the next ISLE Online Forum with Julia Schlüter (Bamberg), Marcus Callies (Bremen) and Ignacio Palacios Martinez (Santiago de Compostela) on English Linguistics in Teacher Education will take place. You can attend the Forum under this Zoom link:
https://uni-freiburg.zoom.us/j/67202394028?pwd=cGI4c0Y1anAyRjRHM1JHdml3bU9Kdz09
Meeting-ID: 672 0239 4028
Code: gm4CZjxb6
Recordings of the previous online fora and expert talks are available here.
Guest Lecture
"American Landscape Painting in the 19th Century"
Monday, January 29, 6.15 pm | HS 1098
On Monday, January 29, another exciting art lecture is taking playce! Dr. Oliver O'Donnell (The Courtauld Institute of Art) will speak on American Landscape Painting in the 19th Century. All interested are welcome!
Talk
"Less Significant Others: Marginalized Characters and Cultural Homogenization in the Berlin Gentrification Novel"
Wednesday, January 31, 12 pm | FRIAS seminar room
As part of the seminar Gentrification on the Page and Screen: Tracking Stories of Urban Change, Dr. Hanna Henryson will give the talk Less Significant Others: Marginalized Characters and Cultural Homogenization in the Berlin Gentrification Novel. All interested are welcome!