Litcult colloquium winter term 2024/2025
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!
29.10. | 1 | Prof. Dr. Sibylle Baumbach (Stuttgart) “What We Can Learn About Attention (and Distraction) from 19th-Century Short Fiction” |
05.11. | 2 | Prof. Dr. Joachim Grage (Freiburg) “Ästhetik des Protestantismus in Skandinavien” |
| 12.11. | 3 | Philomena Wolf, M. A. (Freiburg) “A Literary Excavation: Retelling Premodern Literature in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction” |
| 19.11. | 4 | Klara Machata, St.-Ex. (Freiburg) “Spatial Inequalities and Planetary Relations in Contemporary Anglophone Literature” |
26.11. | 5 | Dr. Robert Spindler (Innsbruck/FRIAS) “Robin Hood, Broadside Ballad Categories and Diachronic Narratology” |
03.12. | 6 | Lea Espinoza Garrido, M. A. (Wuppertal) “Paradigms of (Dis)Trust in American Literature and Culture” |
10.12. | 7 | Prof. Dr. Divya Dwivedi (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) “Narratives, Narratology, and the Addressee Function: The Politics of ‘Reading’” |
11.12. | 8 | Prof. Dr. Ursula Heise (UCLA / Rachel Carson Center LMU) ! Wednesday, Max-Kade-Auditorium 2 “Multispecies Justice and Narrative” |
17.12. | 9 | Phd Writing Session |
14.01. | 10 | Dr. Maxi Albrecht (Siegen) “‘… coarse cartoon sketches, quickly drawn with charcoal as a serial for the ravenous German-American daily press’: German-American City Mysteries and Serial Circulation in Antebellum America” |
21.01. | 11 | TT-Prof. Dr. Ivana Puljiz (Freiburg) “Urbanismus, Erdbeben und der Beginn imperialer Herrschaft. Die archäologische Erforschung einer spätbronzezeitlichen Stadt im Nordirak” |
28.01. | 12 | Prof. Dr. Michael Butter (Tübingen) “Portraits of the Artist as a Professional Athlete: David Foster Wallace’s Essays on Tennis” |