Workshop for PhD Students (Transnational Periodical Cultures) đź—“

Workshop for PhD Students (Transnational Periodical Cultures) đź—“

News, Workshops

Transnational Periodical Cultures
Workshop for PhD Students

Jan 23, 2019, 10-16
Philosophicum II (Ground Floor, Conference Room)

 

On January 23, 2019, the research group Transnational Periodical Cultures will hold a workshop for PhD students where the participants’ current projects, dissertations, or masters theses will be discussed.

All those who are interested in participating are kindly asked to hand in their topics (to Prof. Ernst or Prof. Scheiding) until mid-December 2018.

The presentation format will be a short talk (approx. 20min.) followed by a discussion (not longer than 45min. for each project).

Oct 23/24 – Four Lectures by Dr. Justyna Fruzinska (U of Lodz) 🗓

Oct 23/24 – Four Lectures by Dr. Justyna Fruzinska (U of Lodz) 🗓

General, Lectures, News

The ERASMUS Exchange Lecturer Dr. Justyna Fruzinska (University of Lodz, Poland) will give four lectures in various seminars on Oct 23 and 24. Everyone is welcome!

You can find the list of talks below and on this poster here.

 

Identity and Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s Garden of Eden

Tuesday, October 23, 2018
10 a.m.-12 noon, 00-025 SR 03 (BKM)

 

James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man” and Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”:
Two 20th-Century Approaches to Blackness

Tuesday, October 23, 2018
6-8 p.m., P 15 (Philosophicum)

 

Late Nineteenth-Century Women’s Literature:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Edith Wharton’s “The Other Two”

Wednesday, October 24, 2018
12 noon-2 p.m., P 102 (Philosophicum)

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The Father of Transcendentalism

Wednesday, October 24, 2018
4-6 p.m., P 103 (Philosophicum)

 

Oct 17 – Markets, Standardization and Adaptation (Workshop) 🗓

Oct 17 – Markets, Standardization and Adaptation (Workshop) 🗓

Call for Papers, News, Workshops

Research Group “Transnational Periodical Cultures”

Markets, Standardization and Adaptation (Workshop I)

Oct 17, 2018, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Senatssaal (NatFak, 07-232)

 

The research group “Transnational Periodical Cultures” (Jutta Ernst, Dagmar von Hoff, Bjørn von Rimscha, Oliver Scheiding) holds a series of workshops on the following dates:

Oct 17, 2018 – Workshop I – Markets, Standardization and Adaptation
Nov 21, 2018 – Workshop II  – Unternehmen und Akteure
Dec 12, 2018 – Workshop III – Zeitschriften und Digitalisierung
Jan 16, 2019 – Workshop III – Zeitschriften, Gestaltung, Design

You can find the program for the event on Oct 17, 2018 here.

If you are interested in attending one of the workshops or specific talks, please contact one of the organizers mentioned above.

For further information, please visit www.transnationalperiodicalcultures.net.

Oct 16 – The Self-Written Epitaph: Chinese Autobiographical Writing 🗓

Oct 16 – The Self-Written Epitaph: Chinese Autobiographical Writing 🗓

Lectures, News

Wang Ying (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing)

Oct 16, 2018, 4-6 p.m., P 7 (Philosophicum)

 

Dr. Ying WANG is a Research Fellow, Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Her main field of research is Life Writing Studies as well as Literary and Cultural Studies. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Society for Aesthetics and was a visiting scholar and visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge. She has published research papers in The Medieval History Journal and the Global Journal of Human Social Science. She is co-author of the English monograph Fashioning the Elusive Self: Autobiography in China and the West (Cambridge: Bringfield’s Head Press, 2015).

You can find the poster for the event here.

The event is sponsored by: