Litcult colloquium summer term 2025
This colloquium provides a venue for current research projects in literary studies and cultural studies (including: media studies, American studies, Anglophone studies, medieval and early modern studies) at the English Department. In addition, we also feature a number of guest speakers from other departments of the University of Freiburg as well as external guests from other universities both national and international. The colloquium takes place on Tuesday 4:15 – 5.45 pm, HS 1018!
29.04. | 1 | Prof. Dr. Astrid Erll (Frankfurt) Travels in time: How to do Memory Studies as a Literary Historian |
06.05. | 2 | Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen (Freiburg) – 18:30 KG I, HS 1010 Welt(en) erzählen – Eine Einführung |
| 13.05. | 3 | Prof. Dr. Diane Negra (Dublin) ‘I’m Sorry You Feel That Way:’ Affect, Authority and Antagonism in the Cultures of Customer Service |
| 20.05. | 4 | Katerina Steffan (Hannover)
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20.05. | 5 | Prof. Dr. Juliane Blank (Freiburg) Working Spells. Witchcraft and Magical Practice in Contemporary Literature and Media |
27.05. | 6 | Kristina Seefeldt, M.A. (Freiburg) ‘He was there to save lives:’ The Glorification of Rescue Heroes in Contemporary War Movies |
03.06. | 7 | Prof. Dr. Regina Schober (Düsseldorf) Auto-Complete? Contemporary Female Autofiction and Algorithmic Selfhood |
17.06. | 8 | Dr. Anna-Lena Oldehus (Freiburg) Floating, Drifting, Enduring – Writing with the Great Lakes in the Long 19th Century |
24.06. | 9 | Gulsin Ciftci, M.A. (Münster) Reading Disjunctures, Reading Affects, Reading ‘Reading’? |
01.07. | 10 | Prof. Dr. Katherine Little (Colorado Boulder) Inventing Emotion in ‘Renaissance’ Drama |
08.07. | 11 | JProf. Dr. Jessica Imbach (Freiburg) The Politics of Genre Fiction in China |
15.07. | 12 | Mareike Huber, M.A. (Freiburg) Lámatyávë or Holmey Wejwa’ – Evaluating Invented Languages by their Sound |
| 22.07. | 13 | Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte (Freiburg) Journalism in 21st-Century British Fiction – An Approach and Two Films (Lee, 2023 and Scoop, 2024) |