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Our PHD candidate Annette Becker completed an internship at the Musée de la Photo in Antananarivo, Madagascar, from October to December 2024. The museum sees itself as an institution which, through archiving and digitizing historical photographs which were taken in Madagaskar between 1860 and 196...

Dr. Andrew Gorin (University of Haifa) will be our guest in the next RKF, 4th February 2025, 2:00-4:00 p.m. (00.5 PSG III, Kochstr. 6a).  His lecture is called »Containing Multitudes: The Social Logic of Lyric in the Mass Public Sphere«.

Prof. Dr. Moritz Baßler (Münster) will give a guest lecture called “Zum International Style des Populären Realismus” (in German language). When: 12.12.24, 10:15 a.m. (Seminar “Was ist Weltliteratur?” Prof. Dr. Franziska Bergmann) Where: Room B 302 Interested parties are warmly invited! ...

From July to September 2024, our fellow Noran Omran completed an internship with Dr. Susana Brogi (head of the Art Archive and cooperation partner of the RTG "Literature and the Public Sphere") at the German Art Archive of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. The German Art A...

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schmidt (LMU München) will be our guest in the next RKF, 10th December 2024, 2:00-4:00 p.m. (00.5 PSG III, Kochstr. 6a).  Her lecture is called »Opaque Practices and Literary Publics – New Writings from the Black Diaspora«.

Prof. Barry Murnane (Oxford University) will be our guest in the next RKF, 12th November 2024, 2:00-3:30 p.m. (00.5 PSG III, Kochstr. 6a).  His lecture is called: »Ausstellung von Literatur anlässlich der Kafka-Ausstellung an der Bodleian Library, Oxford University«.

The GRK has two new coordinators: Ulrike Dencovski (50%) and Dr. Birgit Umbreit (50%) joined 2024, October 15th. They provide organizational and coordinating support to all members of the GRK. Ulrike Dencovski studied English literary and cultural studies, German linguistics and Ethics of Textual Cu...