Guest Lectures & Events

Annual conference of the Postgraduate Forum Postcolonial Narrations in cooperation with GAPS - Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies:

Guest lectures 2024:

Dr. Jayana Jain, Heidelberg: "Never Have I Ever... Found A Match: Examining Identity Politics and Gendered Performances on Netflix.", 25.06.2024
Dr. Jayana Jain, Heidelberg: "(Imperso)Nation and Justice in Popular Hindi Films: A Case Study of Rang De Basanti", 25.01.2024

International guest researcher 2023:

Dr. Razinat Talatu Mohammed, University of Abuja, Nigeria: "African Women’s Writing", 01.02.-30.04.2023

Guest with lecture series 2023:

Dr. Razinat Talatu Mohammed, University of Abuja, Nigeria: "Precariousness in Zimbabwe", 15.04.2023
Dr. Razinat Talatu Mohammed, University of Abuja, Nigeria: "Women’s Writing in the Islamic World", 14.04.2023
Dr. Razinat Talatu Mohammed, University of Abuja, Nigeria: "Nigerian Women’s Writing", 13.04.2023

Guest lectures 2022:

Dr. Priyam Sinha, National University of Singapore, Singapore: "Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy: Disempowered Motherhood, Hierarchised Masculinity and Male Gaze in Postcolonial India", 24.05.2022

Guest lectures 2021:

NIcolle Lamerichs, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands: "Material Fandom: Cosplay, Affect and Sustainability", 16.07.2021
Jessica Seymour, Australia: "Adaptation, Homage, and Intervention: Why intention matters in researching retellings", 12.05.2021
Lisa King, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA: ”The Evolving Humboldt Forum – Possibilities and Challenges for Native American/Indigenous Decolonization”, 09.02.2021
Dr. Jason D. Allen, University of Leeds, UK: “Thinking with Spirits, or Dwelling and Knowing in the Work of Aimé Césaire”, 29.01.2021

NELK Teaching Workshop 2021:

Guest lectures 2020:

Dr. Deborah Nyangulu, WWU Münster: "Hashtag Movements and Decolonial Pedagogy", 07.07.2020
Veronika Keller, Munich: "Music in Television", 13.01.2020

Guest lectures 2019:

Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatca, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg: "Creolizing the Nation-State Norm: Lessons from the Caribbean", 05.11.2019
Marlena Tronicke, WWU Münster: "Neo-Victorianism and the Troubled Memory of Empire: Taboo’s Imperial Surface", 17.07.2019
Felipe Espinoza Garrido, WWU Münster: "Empire and the Neo-Victorian Arctic: Re-imagining the Franklin Expedition", 17.07.2019
Julian Wacker, WWU Münster: "Fringes of an Empire: Notes on the Black Presence in Neo-Victorian Gothic Television", 17.07.2019
Dr. Christine Vogt-William, Nürnberg: "The 'Trialectics of Space': Maternal Space and the Material Culture of 'Home'", 08.01.2019

Study Trip Flensburg:

"Rum City, Colonialism & Vrigin Island Transfer": in cooperation with Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama, geust curator of "Rum, Schweiß und Tränen – Flensburgs koloniales Erbe am Schifffahrtsmuseum Flensburg" and Dr. Diana Fox, Bridgewater State University, USA, 04.-09.03.2018

Guest lectures 2018:

Prof. Dr. Kirsten Twelbeck, Universität Regensburg: "The Legacy of Reconstruction", 11.12.2018
Prof. Dr. Julia Roth, Universität Bielefeld: "Los Belzares de Augsburg: German Investment in the Conquest and Trade in Enslaved Humans", 6.11.2018
Dr. Christine Vogt-William, Nürnberg: "Twins, Monstrous Mothers and Gothic Homes in Helen Oyeyemi’s White is For Witching and Audrey Niffeneggers’s Her Fear-ful Symmetry", 9.07.2018
Josheph D. Jordan, Vanderbilt University, USA: "Between the World and Wakanda: Intermedial Notes on Diaspora and Nation in Marvel’s Black Panther", 18.06.2018
Prof. Dr. Sarah Lawson Welsh, York, St. John University, UK: "Caribbean Cravings: Food and text in the Anglophone Caribbean", 05.02.2018

Workshop in Seminar Program "The World Needs More Canada":

Prof. Dr. Annika McPherson: "Diversity in Canadian Literature and Culture", 29.11.2017

Guest lectures 2017:

Dr. Nedine Moonsamy, University of Pretoria, South Africa: "Fish Out of Water: Women in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon", 27.11.2017
Doreen Baingana, Entebbe, Uganda: Reading and Discussion: "Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe", 26.06.2017
Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama, Schifffahrtsmuseum Flensburg/University of West Indies, Jamaica: "Rum, Sweat and Tears: Danish Colonialism and its Legacies in Flensburg, Ghana and the Virgin Islands of the United States", 09.02.2017

Exkursion Nordamerika-Studien:

Author Readings 2017:

Catherine Johnson (Gastpoetenprogramm): Reading and Creative Writing Workshop, 19.-20.07.2017
Malika Booker (Gastpoetenprogramm): Reading and Creative Writing Workshop, 18.-19.07.2017
Doreen Baingana: Lecture and Reading, June 2017

Spring Academy 2017: Critical Diversity Studies, 24.-31.05.2017

Prof. Melissa Steyn, Johannesburg: "Critical Diversity Literacy in Theory and Practice", 30.05.2027
Prof. Paula Banerjee, Calcutta: "Peace, Security and Gender", 27.05.2017
Dr. Lydia Potts, Oldenburg: "Diversity and Migration", 26.05.2017
Ajeet Pankaj, Mumbai: "Caste and Dalits in India", 26.05.2017
Dr. Olusoji Cole, Ibadan: "Performance and Cultural Memory", 24.05.2017
Modupe Laja and Mathilda Légitimus-Schleicher, Munich: "Panafrikanismus" - Round Table Critical Diversity, 23.05.2017
Karen Thorsen, James Balwin Project: "The Price of a Ticket", 23.05.2017

International guest researcher 2016:

With guest lecture and seminar 2016:

Prof. Shoba Ghosh, University of Mumbai, Indien: “Speculations on the Materiality of Gendered Spheres in Indian Cinematic Contexts”
Prof. Shoba Ghosh, University of Mumbai, Indien: B.A.-Proseminar “Engaging the Nation, Engaging the Popular,” 02.05.-10.06.2016

Guest lectures 2016:

Dr. Christine Vogt-William, HU Berlin: "Bodies and Homes: Diversity and the Postcolonial", 02.12.2016
Dr. Joseph Farquharson, Universität Bielefeld: "Performance Poetry and the Sociolinguistics of Diaspora: The Case of Jamaicans in Canada", 13.01.2016

Poetry Readings and Creative Writing Workshops 2015:

Philipp Khabo Koepsell: Lecture and Reading, December 2015
Niq Mhlongo: "'Way Back Home' and Post-Apartheid South African Literature", 27.10.2015
Dorothea Smartt: "Gaps Summer School Poetry Reading", 07.09.2015

Guest lectures 2015

Linda Hess, WWU Münster: "Queer Aging in North American Fiction", 15.12.2015
Philipp Köpsell: "Black German Identity in Arts and Culture", 08.12.2015
Joseph D. Jordan, Vanderbilt University, USA: "On Homosocial Marronage", 20.01.2015

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