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Recent guest lectures
Guest lecture:
Dr. Markus Schmitz
Decolonization 2.0? Reflections on the Arab Facebook revolution
10 May 2011, 16-18h | AudiMax, English Department, WWU Münster
Guest lecture:
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, WWU Münster
Guest lecture:
Prof. Dr. Rachel Dwyer, SOAS, Univ. of London
“Hindi cinema: Bollywood and beyond”
13 July 2010, 16-18h | AudiMax, English Department, WWU Münster
Guest Lecture:
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, WWU Münster
Contact: Dr. Markus Schmitz markus.schmitz@wwu.de
Guest lecture:
Dr. Briar Wood, London Metropolitan Univ.
"Whale Rider in the context of New Zealand cinema"
22 June 2010, 16-18h| AudiMax, English Department, WWU Münster
Guest lecture:
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, WWU Münster
Guest lecture:
Dr. Dirk Naguschewski, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
“Re-situating South African cinema in Africa”
8 June 2010, 16-18h| AudiMax, English Department, WWU Münster
Guest lecture:
Dr. Kerstin Knopf, Univ. of Greifswald
“Indigenous film in Canada and the USA: A survey”
1 June 2010, 16-18h | AudiMax, English Department, WWU Münster
Guest lecture:
Prof. Patrick Williams, Nottingham Trent University
"Palestinian cinema: The visible and the invisible"
18 May 2010, 16-18h | AudiMax, English Department, WWU Münster
Guest lecture:
PD Dr. Susanne Reichl, Universität Wien
"Postcolonial children's literature"
09 December 2009, 16:15-17:45 | English Department, WWU Münster (AudiMax)
Guest lecture:
Dr. Marga Munkelt, WWU Münster
"Crossing borders: Chicano/Chicana writing"
02 December 2009, 16:15-17:45 | English Department, WWU Münster (AudiMax)
Guest lecture:
Dr. Markus Schmitz, WWU Münster
"Arab American literature"
02 December 2009, 18:00-19:30 | English Department, WWU Münster (AudiMax)
Guest lecture:
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, WWU Münster (AudiMax)
Guest lecture:
Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler, Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main
"Transcultural dimensions of African literature"
18 November 2009, 18:00-19:30 | English Department, WWU 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, WWU Münster (AudiMax)
Guest lecture:
Prof. Dr. Katja Sarkowsky, Univ. Augsburg
"Canadian literature: A survey"
04 November 2009, 16:15-17:45 | English Department, WWU Münster (AudiMax)
Guest lecture:
PD Dr. Susanne Reichl, Univ. Wien/Münster
"Black British writing for children and young adults"
28 January 2009 | English Department, WWU Münster
Guest lecture:
Dr. James Procter, Univ. Newcastle
"The British Asian Renaissance"
07 January 2009, 16:00-18:00 | English Department, WWU Münster
Guest lecture:
Dr. John McLeod, Univ. Leeds
"Interrogating 'Black British' in the 1980s and 1990s"
17 December 2008, 16:00 - 18:00 | English Department, WWU Münster
Guest lecture:
Dr. Lars Eckstein, Univ.Tübingen
"Globalisation, Hip Hop and Post-9/11 Anxiety:
Australia and Beyond"
17 July 2008, 12:00 - 14:00
Guest lecture:
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
Guest lecture: 
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"
Guest lecuture:
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 Diaspora"
Recent readings
Dieter Riemenschneider reads from his anthology
"Wildes Licht. Gedichte aus Aotearoa/Neuseeland":
Thur., 3 Feb. 2011
7.30pm
Admission free.
Further information
Worldwide reading against Robert Mugabe - English/Deutsch
If you wish to partake in the world-wide reading against the regime of Robert Mugabe, please contact:
worldwidereading@literaturfestival.com
For further information please visit:
http://www.literaturfestival.com/
Poetry performance & guest lecture/ presentation:
Baba Brinkman (Canadian Hip Hop artist, actor, and medieval scholar)
"The Rap Canterbury Tales - Hip-hop Versions of Chaucer's 14th Century Classic"
Performance 21 May 2007
Lecture/ presentation 22 May 2007
Recent conferences
POSTCOLONIAL PIRACY: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South
International Symposium, Literaturwerkstatt and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin)
December 2-4, 2011
Download: Further Information
http://postcolonialpiracy.wordpress.com/
'Other' Indias: The Richness of Indian Multiplicity
II Biennial Conference of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
November 23-26, 2011
Deadline CfP: 30 June 2011
Further information
Is Big Brother (Still) Watching Us? Britain under Surveillance
Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of British Cultures
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
November 17-19, 2011
Further information
Love, Sex, Desire & the (Post)Colonial
International and interdisciplinary conference, Senate House, University of London
28–29 October, 2011
Deadline CfP: 1 May 2011
Information
World Languages and World Literatures
FILLM Congress, Østfold University College, Halden, Norway
5-8 October 2011
Conference website
Europe: Out of Many, One People
AFROEUROPE@NS III: CULTURES AND IDENTITIES
Third international conference, Cádiz, Spain
28-30 September 2011
Due to server problems, the conference homepage is not always online.
You can find the conference programme below:
Programme
Homepage
Further information
British India, French India: Comparative Perspectives
Centre Culturel de l’Entente Cordiale, Château d’Hardelot, France [Near Eurostar Calais-Fréthun]
15–16 September, 2011
Further information
Crossing the Borders: Reality, desire and Imagination in Australian, New Zealand and the Pacific lives, literatures and cultures
11th Biennial European Association for Studies on Australia (EASA), University of Prešov, Slovakia
12-15 September 2011
Download: CFP and further information
http://easa-australianstudies.net/node/192
Spectres of World Literature
International confercence
Institute of English Studies, University of London
8-9 September 2011
Further information
Between the National and the Transnational, 1980 TO THE PRESENT: Masculinities in Britain and the U.S.
The Second of Three International Workshops: Kent State University
4-7 August 2011
Download: CFP
http://www.comparativemasculinities.com/
Tracks and Traces of Violence.
Representation and Memorialisation of Violence in Art, Literature and Anthropology in Africa.
Conference of Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth (Germany)
14-16 July 2011
Further Information
Postcolonialism, Economies, Crises: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
2nd Biennial Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association, University of Birmingham
7-8 July 2011
Download: CFP and further information
http://postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk/id63.html
Beyond Calypso: New Perspectives on Samuel Selvon
Warwick University Yesau Persad Centre for Caribbean Studies
2 July 2011
Further information
African Engagements: On whose terms?
AEGIS 4th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 4), Uppsala, Sweden
15-18 June 2011
Download: CFP and further information and Flyer
http://www.nai.uu.se/ecas-4/
Postcolonial Studies across the Disciplines
ASNEL/GNEL annual conference hosted by the University of Hannover
2-4 June 2011
Further information
Future Postcolonialisms: Comparing, Converting, Queering, Greening
International Colloquium in the Wake of the twentieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Empire Writes Back, Paris
27-28 May 2011
Further information
Under Construction: Gateways and Walls
EACLALS Triennial conference 2011, Bogazici (Bosphorus) University, Istanbul, Turkey
26-30 April 2011
Download
CFP and further information
http://www.eaclals.ulg.ac.be/conferences.html
Gendering the Black Diaspora
2nd Workshop of the DFG Young Scholars Network “Black Diaspora and Germany”
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
15-16 April
Further information and programme
Cultural Translations
Postgraduate Symposium, University of Malta, Valletta, Malta
14-16 April 2011
Further information
http://www.um.edu.mt/arts/english/notices/cultural_translations_2011
Postcolonialism and Labour
EACLALS Postgraduate Conference, Chemnitz University of Technology
26-27 March 2011
Flyer
CFP (new deadline: 1 Dec 2010!)
http://www.eaclals.ulg.ac.be/pg-conference/
New Geographies: Studies in Postcoloniality and Globalization
Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
24-27 March 2011
Further information
Border Crossing
International conference, Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco
22-23 March 2011
CFP and further information
Dealing with the Universal
Conference, Stuttgart
03-04 February 2011
For further information click here.
"Rasse" und Raum - Dynamiken, Formationen und Transformierungen anthropologischen 'Wissens' im Raum
Tagung des Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungszentrums (HKFZ) Trier, Universität Trier
28-30 January 2011
Further information
Transcending Diaspora: Whiteness, Performativity and the Politics of the Body
Inaugural Workshop of the DFG Young Scholars Network “Black Diaspora and Germany”
3-4 December 2010 | English Department, WWU Münster
Programme and further information
Memory and Forgetting
Bologna/Ravenna, Bologna University
27-29 October 2010
Download: Programme
http://www.magazine.unibo.it/Magazine/Eventi/2010/10/27/Memory_and_Forgetting.htm
“States of Emergency – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Dynamics of Crisis”
3rd International Conference
John F. Kennedy Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin
11-12 June 2010
Download: CFP
Between the National and the Transnational, 1945-1980:
Masculinities in British and American Literature between World War II and Thatcher/Reagan
Workshop, Dresden University of Technology
9-11 June 2010
Download: CFP
http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_sprach_literatur_und_kulturwissenschaften/anglistik_und_amerikanistik/fachgebiete/englische_literaturwissenschaft
Strokes Across Cultures
The 15th Triennial ACLALS Conference, Nicosia (Cyprus)
6-11 June 2010
http://www.cyprusconferences.org/aclals2010/index.php?page=home
Networking the Globe. Information Technologies and the Postcolonial
PSA Postgraduate Conference, Universiy of Stirling (Scotland)
21-22 May 2010
http://www.postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk/id63.html
Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination
2010 ASNEL conference, University of Bayreuth
13-16 May 2010
Download: CFP
http://www.gnel2010.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html
See also: http://www.gnel.de/
EXOTICISM / the EXOTIC
International Conference, Beni Mellal, Morocco
21-22 April 2010
CFP and further information
Making Europe, The Global Origins of the Old World
Conference, University of Freiburg
27-29 May 2010
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=13559
Being Black and Becoming European: Un/Settled Migration and Hidden Histories
DePaul University of Chicago
15 March 2010
CFP and further information
Conventions and Conversions - Generic Innovations in African Literatures
Humboldt-University Berlin
1-4 March 2010
http://conventionsconversions.hu-berlin.de/
Critical Perspectives: Turns, Trends and Theories
9th Grad-Conference
Erlangen
20-22 November 2009
http://geschichte-transnational.clio-online.net/termine/id=11925
"A World without Walls"
An International Congress on "Soft Power", Cultural Diplomacy and Interdependence
Berlin
6-9 November 2009
Download: Information
http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/index.php?en_symposium_world-without-walls
"'The Islands in Between': Language, Literature and Culture of the Eastern Caribbean"
Twelfth Annual Eastern Caribbean Island Cultures Conference
Roseau - Dominica
5-7 November 2009
Download: CFP
http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/students/resources/islandsinbetween.htm
Postcolonial Translocations
20th annual GNEL/ASNEL conference, University of Muenster
21-24 May 2009
www.gnel2009.de
Dambudzo Marechera: A Celebration
TrinityCollege, Oxford
May 15-17 2009
www.marecheracelebration.org
Black Knowledges. Black Struggles. Civil Rights
8th international CAAR conference, University of Bremen
25-29 March 2009
www.caar2009.eu
Things Fall Apart at 50
Institute of English Studies, University of London
10-11 October 2008
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2008/Achebe/index.htm
Afroeuropeans: Cultures and Identities
Leon, Spain
6-10 October 2008
www.afroeuropa.eu
The Edward Said Symposion: Locations - Readings - Legacies
Lake Griebnitzsee (Berlin)
25-27 September 2008
edwardsaid2008.de
Crime Cultures: Figuring Criminality in Literature, Media and Film
University of Portsmouth, UK
14-16 July 2008
www.port.ac.uk/special/crimecultures/
Crossing Borders. Orality, Interculturality, Memory Archives and Technology
7th conference of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA), Lecce, Italy
11-15 June 2008
www.africaisola.org/Lecce2008.htm
Commodifying (Post-) Colonialism
Annual GNEL/ASNEL Conference 2008, University of Regensburg
22-25 May 2008
www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_IV/Anglistik/institut/material/cpc.html
try freedom - Rewriting Rights in/through Postcolonial Cultures
EACLALS Triennal Conference, Venice, Italy
25-29 March 2008
www.maldura.unipd.it/eaclals2008/index.html
On Whose Terms: Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts
University of London, University of Muenster
13-14 March 2008
onwhoseterms.org
Additional information here!
"Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States - Insecurity and Anxiety in Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World"
University of Münster
10-12 May 2007
hybrid-cultures.eu
Other news
CHAIRMAN of ASNEL
In June 2011, Mark Stein was re-elected as Chair of GNEL (Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen)/ASNEL (Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English). Click here for a press release.
