Previous events

• 29 Nov. 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Texts, Forgeries, and the Legitimate Ruler in 19th century Islamic West Africa

  Talk by Associate Professor Mauro Nobili (University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign).

• 28 Nov. 2023, 10:15-12:00

  Migration & diaspora in Asia

  Talks by Kimiko Suda (TU Berlin), Jamie Coates (University of Sheffield) and Markus Bell (La Trobe University, Melbourne).

• 27 Nov. 2023, 15:30

  Hope in Feminist Memory Narratives in Post-Yugoslav Literature

  After-work lecture by Dara Sljukic, PhD Candidate from Central European University in Vienna.

• 16 Nov. 2023, 9:15-14:30

  Literature and Reconciliation in a Transoceanic Perspective

  One-day seminar. The aim of the seminar is an exchange between three projects, which deal with reconciliation between indigenous/enslaved populations and settler states/former colonial powers.

• 13 Nov. - 15 Nov. 2023

  Transmission, Translocation, and Transcreation

  Conference.

• 10 Nov. 2023, 10:30-13:30

  The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East

  This seminar looks at the longstanding and ongoing instrumentalization of cultural heritage in the politics of the Middle East.

• 9 Nov. 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Archaeology in Downtown Mexico City: The Aztec Great Temple

  Leonardo López Luján gives an honorary doctor lecture.

• 9 Nov. 2023, 13:30-16:30

  Remembering activism and the agency of the aesthetic

  Lecture by Ann Rigney (Utrecht).

• 8 Nov. 2023, 14:15-15:30

  Iconic Socioclasm: Destroying Cultural Heritage to Shatter Social Identities

  Guest lecture by Christoph Günther (University of Erfurt).

• 7 Nov. 2023, 13:30-16:30

  A Momentary Ontology of Heritage: community attachments to the past in an urban World Heritage Site in Istanbul

  Lecture by Chris Whitehead (Newcastle).