In this section, we will provide you with abstracts for our planned seminars. Please note that these will only be available in English.

Dr. des. Nadia Butt: Mourning and Memory: Women Novels on the Partition of India

Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Davis: Black and South Asian British Theatre

Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig: Meshack Asare's African Children's and Young Readers' Texts

Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch: The representation of slavery and post-emancipation in Anglophone Caribbean literature - only Wednesday to Friday in connection with the seminar by Dr. Plasa

Dr. Jörg Heinke: (Re-)Connecting Past and Present - Seminal Writings from Colonial, Imperial and Post-colonial Perspectives

Dr. Jürgen Martini: Post-Colonial Shakespeares – Post-Colonial Brechts

Dr. Carl Plasa: The Middle Passage: History, Literature, Art - only Monday and Tuesday in connection with the seminar by Prof. Dr. Gohrisch

Prof. Dr. Andrea Sand: New Englishes and New English Literatures: Politics of English as a World Language

Unfortunately, we cannot offer the following seminars any longer:

Prof. Dr. Sabine Doff: Beavers and Bilingualism: Teaching about Culture as a Movable Target (Example: Canada)
Dr. Tabish Khair: The Gothic and the Postcolonial: Negotiating and Narrating Difference