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Prof. Graham Loud: guest lectures
On April 23 and 24, Prof. Graham Loud (University of Leeds, UK) will be at Bamberg to give two guest lectures.
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Daytrip to the Gurdwara Sagar Gobing (Würzburg)
On January 13, participants of the seminar "Writing India and the Indian Diaspora" visited the Gurdwara Sagar Gobing, the Sikh community centre in Würzburg, to take part in the Sunday ceremony.
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Dark Romanticism Trip
On January 19, we made a day trip to Frankfurt am Main to see the Dark Romanticism exhibition at the Städel Museum.
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Seminar and Creative Writing Workshop with Julia Pascal
From Jan 10 to 12, 2013 the British playwright, theatre director and university docent, Dr. Julia Pascal taught a seminar and creative writing workshop on the topic “Writing War”.
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Weekend Seminar at Burg Feuerstein
On 24th and 25th November, a group of 22 MA students spent a weekend at Burg Feuerstein in order to find out more about Shakespeare’s Richard II, Macbeth and the plays’ recent film adaptations.
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Daytrip to Weimar: A Celebration of the Absurd
On 7th May a group of students from the Virginia Woolf and the Banned Books seminars went on a daytrip to Weimar to participate in the Dada-Decade.
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"Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality"
From 24 to 25 May 2012, the department hosted an international conference on new dimensions of the European in literature.
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Study Trip to Edinburgh
From February 29 to March 5, 2012 a group of 30 students and professors flew to Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland for a study visit.
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Einsichtnahme in Hausarbeiten und Klausure; DVD-Ausleihe
Hiwi-Sprechstunde für Studierende, die Einsicht in ihre korrigierten Hausarbeiten oder Klausuren nehmen oder DVDs ausleihen wollen.
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Fifth anniversary of the cooperation agreement with Xi’an Jiaotong University
This year marks the 5th anniversary of the cooperation between the University of Bamberg and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
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International Conference "Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality"
From May 24 to 25, the Department of English Literature hosted the international conference "Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality: New Dimensions of the European in Literature."
Speakers from China, the United States and Europe discussed issues of cosmopolitanism and identity in a wide range of national and trans-national European literatures.
For two days, the conference, organised by Christoph Houswitschka and Federico Fabris, offered the unprecedented opportunity of a comparative analysis of "conviviality" in European literature(s).
Partly having made a very long journey to Bamberg, conference participants entered into a lively discussion on the concept of "conviviality" itself, as well as its various literary representations - particularly of cosmopolitan environs.
As part of the conference, the two internationally-renowned authors Bernardine Evaristo and Gino Carmine Chiellino gave readings; in their respective works of fiction and poetry, both explore issues of intercultural communication, translation and representation across the whole of Europe.
The conference topic was a distinctively interdisciplinary one inviting speakers from English, German, Italian Literary and Postcolonial Studies. Concepts such as “multiculturalism”, “globalisation”, “migration”, “Black literature” and “cosmopolitanism” have contributed to raise questions about the future of Postcolonial Studies – opening up to issues of “canon expansion” and “rerouting”, among others. From a somewhat counter-perspective, attempts at turning Europe itself into a highly problematic region of postcolonial analysis have also been made.
The conference set out to blur borders between distinct national discourses on so-called minority literatures in Europe. In fact, while a considerable number of studies has been published over the last fifteen years which testify to a renewed historical interest in Europe’s shameful colonial past, wider literary approaches to the same subject matter are still a rare sight.
Opening up to contributions from the fields of Literary, Cultural, Artand Media studies, conference participants 1) had a stimulating dialogue across distinct colonial and migration histories in Europe, as well as 2) charted new routes out of the impasse which has been holding sway over postcolonial studies since the emergence of notions of “multiculturalism” and "globalisation".
Click here for the conference programme.The Conference in Pictures
- Conference organisers Christoph Houswitschka and Federico Fabris welcome speakers and guests to Bamberg.
- Diego De Brasi (University of Marburg) gives a talk on "Conviviality, dialogue and cultural exchange in antiquity"; panel members sitting from left to right: Sabrina Brancato (Goethe University Frankfurt), Sissy Helff (Goethe University Frankfurt) and William Franke (Vanderbilt University, USA).
- MA students attending the conference: Jason Cooke, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, Liu Chang
- Susan Brähler introduces the participants of the panel on "Convivial Spaces": Kristian Van Hasendonck (University of Lisbon), Mark Berninger (University of Bamberg), Elizabeth Ho (Ursinus College, USA)
- Capturing the intercultural outlook of the conference: Du Lixia (Xi'an Jiatong University, China), Sissy Heff (Goethe University, Frankfurt), Henghameh Saroukhani (University of Leeds), Marta Sofia López Rodríguez (University of León, Spain), Christoph Houswitschka (University of Bamberg).
- The guided tour of the Bamberg old town leads participants from the conference venue in the Markusstraße to the Schlenkerla.
- Du Lixia and Kristian Van Hasendonck learning about a specifically Bamberg version of conviviality.
- Christoph Houswitschka welcomes the British writer Bernardine Evaristo to the conference.
- Born in London to a British mother and a Nigerian father, Bernardine Evaristo has emerged as one of Britain's most talented, innovative and successful contemporary writers. On the first evening of the conference, she reads from her novels "Soul Tourists" and "The Emperor's Babe".
- In the subsequent Q&A, students ask Bernardine questions about her expierence as a Black British writer.
- On the second day of the conference, the Italian Gino Chiellino gives a talk on writing in a foreign language before reading some of his poems in German. Listening: Iris Hermann (University of Bamberg), Christoph Houswitschka, Michael Hofmann (University of Paderborn) and Mark Berninger (from left).
- Federico Fabris introduces Silke Stroh (University of Münster), who gives a keynote lecture that covers the topic of the conference "from antiquity's empires to convivial futures".
- Annalisa Oboe (University of Padua) giving a talk on the film "Terraferma" as part of the panel "European passages"; from left: Sabrina Brancato (Goethe University of Frankfurt), Natasia Kovacevic (Eastern Michigan University), Gerd Bayer (Universiy of Erlangen)
- Professional and discreet: student helpers Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, Lisa Kalkowski and Ricarda Edelthalhammer
