Dec 4, 5 & 7 – Lectures by Dorota Filipczak (ERASMUS exchange lecturer from the University of Łódź) 🗓

Dec 4, 5 & 7 – Lectures by Dorota Filipczak (ERASMUS exchange lecturer from the University of Łódź) 🗓

Events, Lectures, News

Series of lectures
by ERASMUS exchange lecturer
Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź)

Disrupting the Textual Monolith: Malcolm Lowry’s Through the Panama as a Precursor of a Multimodal Novel
Monday, December 4, 2017
12-2 p.m., 02-432 (SB II) and
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
12-2 p.m., P 106 (Philosophicum)

Speaking Identity Through Trauma: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
4-6 p.m., P 101 (Philosophicum)

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood as a Cautionary Text on the Oppression of Women
Thursday, December 7, 2017
10-12 a.m., 01-611 (GFG)

You can download the series’ poster here.

 

 

Oct 26-28 – From Abolition to Black Lives Matter: Past and Present Forms of Transnational Black Resistance 🗓

Oct 26-28 – From Abolition to Black Lives Matter: Past and Present Forms of Transnational Black Resistance 🗓

Conferences, Events, News

From Abolition to Black Lives Matter: Past and Present Forms of Transnational Black Resistance

October 26-28, 2017, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.

Conference organizers: Nele Sawallisch, Johanna Seibert, Pia Wiegmink, Frank Obenland

This conference hosted by the Transnational American Studies Institute aims at assessing and theorizing past and present forms of black intellectual, political, and cultural resistance from the era of abolitionist campaigns against the transatlantic slave trade to the recent global protest formation of Black Lives Matter.

For more information, please visit the conference page.