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

Dr. Katrin Berndt: Manifestations of Blackness: Intertextual Approaches to Canadian History in Selected Novels by George Elliott Clarke and Lawrence Hill

Prof. Dr. Tobias Döring: Connecting Cultures? Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land (1992)

Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig: Meshack Asare’s Sosu’s Call: Reading an African Children’s Story Theoretically – Without Getting Scared

Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch: Introductory Lecture - How exactly does it all connect – or doesn’t it?: A very short introduction into postcolonial studies

Dr. Sissy Helff: The New Britons: The Image of Refugees in Multicultual Britain

Dr. Lucia Krämer: Connecting Cultures in Globalisation Novels

Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen: Postcolonial Translation

Dr. Carl Plasa: Unearthing the Past: Resistance and Revision in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald: A Long Way from Africa: Claude McKay on African-American encounters in post world war one Marseille

PD Dr. Kirsten Rüther: Encounters and Discoveries: Africans and the British Connecting Across the Empire at the Turn of the Century

Prof. Dr. Cecile Sandten: Indian English Literature and the Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity

Prof. Dr. Christiane Schlote: (Dis)Connections and (Dis)Orientations in the Middle East: Arab Writers and War

Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler: Transcultural Connections: Indigenous Literatures in a Globalized World

Prof. Dr. K. H. Stoll: Anglophone Globalisation

Kirsten Twelbeck: From Sugar Cane to Fortune Cookie: Asian American Culture as an Intervention in History