Retrospect 2021

ABSTRACT In this talk, I will be discussing the nexus between postcolonial studies and memory studies. I will trace the history of memory studies in postcolonial studies as well as the history of postcoloniality in memory studies. I will highlight the ‘emerging proximity’ between the two fields and also point out some potential areas of study within the emerging field of postcolonial memory studies. ...

 

WHEN December 8, 2021 at 10 am

WHERE MS Teams https://shorturl.at/bjyFI

 

En collaboration avec des collègues de l’Université de la Sarre et de l’Université de Luxembourg, Alex Demeulenaere organise le colloque Le malaise contemporain. Société et subjectivité dans la littérature française 1990-2020. L’événement, qui aura lieu du 2 au 3 décembre 2021 à l’Institut Pierre Werner à Luxembourg, abordera la question de la perméabilité mutuelle de la société et de la subjectivité, ...

 

ABSTRACT Read in juxtaposition, these texts challenge the traditional separation between the Indian and the Atlantic Ocean as separate mnemonic spaces, or regions of memory; the former associated with the practices and legacies of indentured labor, the latter with transatlantic slave trade. The comparative framework that allows for, or more precisely calls for a juxtapositional reading of both novels, ...

 

Doctoral Researcher Isis Luxenburger received the prize “Interregionale Forschungsförderung / Soutien interregional à la recherché” of the Greater Region for her ongoing PhD project “Mediating Industrial Culture in the Borderlands of Quebec and the Greater Region: Fictional and Non-fictional Films” within the framework of the IRTG. She will conduct the follow-up dissemination project “Cinédentité,” ...

 

Birte Nienaber received her PhD in Geography from the University of Münster in 2005 and her habilitation from Saarland University in 2012. Since 2013, she has worked as an associate professor at the University of Luxembourg. As a political geographer, she specialises in migration and border studies and publishes on youth mobility and migration, integration, asylum, and border studies. She coordinates ...

 

WHEN November 24, 2021 at 10 am

WHERE MS Teams shorturl.at/bjyFI (copy and paste the shortcut into the adress bar of your browser)

 

ABSTRACT Taking as its departure point the use of photographs in a novel by Swedish author Johannes Anyuru, this lecture examines the role of border traumas and memory objects in migration literature with help of border aesthetics. We ask whether published narratives of migrant border-crossing may involve the longer, ‘despectacularizing’ temporalities of cultural memory in diasporic and multi-generational ...

 

On August 23, 2021, the IRTG Diversity's PhD researcher Marie-Eve Beaulieu defended her thesis on "Settler Shifts? A Manitoba Public School’s Changing Perspectives on an Anishinaabe Community" (Supervisors: Stefan Köngeter, St. Gallen / Till van Rahden, Montréal). The IRTG Diversity wholeheartedly congratulates Marie-Eve Beaulieu on her achievement.

 

L'IRTG Diversity est fier d'annoncer que Bertrand Lavoie, membre de la première cohorte de doctorant.e.s IRTG de 2013 à 2016, a joint la Faculté de droit de l'Université de Sherbrooke à titre de professeur adjoint. L'alumni de l'IRTG Bertrand Lavoie est détenteur d’un doctorat en droit (2017) portant sur la liberté de religion et le droit à l’égalité (cotutelle Université de Montréal-Université Paris ...

 

Un événement dans le cadre du séminaire L’Analyse interculturelle d’un film : la diversité culturelle au sein du cinéma québécois contemporain Dans le cadre du séminaire « Analyse interculturelle du film : la diversité culturelle au sein du cinéma québécois contemporain », Charlotte Kaiser et Viktoria Sophie Lühr organisent une rencontre avec Sophie Deraspe, la réalisatrice du film « Antigone » ...

 

In the context of the Online Workshop “Canada – The better North America?”, Ursula Lehmkuhl will give a lecture on the topic “Canada and the North Atlantic Triangle Reconsidered: Transnational Moments in Post World War III Canadian Foreign Relations”. For more information about the workshop, please click on the pdf file below. The entire event will take place online using the Cisco Webex Meetings video ...

 

Nachwuchsforums der Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien - Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies - Forum des Jeunes Chercheur-se-s de l'Association d'études canadiennes “Diversity is Canada’s Strength”—the title of Justin Trudeau’s address in London on 26 November 2015 —poignantly summarizes many Canadians’ self-image and how Canada presents itself to the world. In a time of ...

 

Dr. Lee Francis IV (Pueblo of Laguna) is the Head Indigenerd and CEO of Native Realities, the only Native and Indigenous pop culture company in the United States with the hope to change the perceptions of Native and Indigenous people through dynamic and imaginative pop culture representations. He has been published in multiple publications ranging from poetry to short stories. His first comic book ...

 

ABSTRACT Between 1775 until 1939 Canada and the United States set out to build an international border across Indigenous lands. Federal administrators used deprivation, starvation, and coercion to displace Indigenous communities and undermine their conceptions of territory and sovereignty. The border they created never aimed to treat people equally. Instead, Europeans, African Americans, Chinese, ...

 

On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, Laurence McFalls (Université de Montréal) and Ursula Lehmkuhl (Universität Trier) presented the International Research Training Group (IRTG) "Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces", funded by the DFG and SSHRC, at a DAAD networking event. The presentation is available on YouTube. Here you can learn ...

 

Über die Unterschiede zwischen rechter und linker Identitätspolitik, zwischen Rassismus und Rassismuskritik und der Notwendigkeit einer Politik der Anerkennung. Andrea Geier erklärt die schwierige diskursive Gemengelage um Sprechverbote, Blackfacing, Betroffenheit und geschlechtergerechte Sprache im Gespräch mit Stephanie Rohde im Deutschlandfunk (27.2.2021). Hier geht es zum Interview: https://srv.deutschlandradio.de/dlf- ...

 

2020 Doctoral Researcher Gïti Hatef-Rossa was a member of the commissioning juries of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. She was a part of the Jury for the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Competition. Recently the International Emmy Magazine 2020/2021 was ...

 

Comme dernier événement de notre Série de visioconférences transatlantiques sur les Mémoires de la Diversité – Diversité de la mémoire, le poète et sociologue Pierrot Ross-Tremblay (Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les traditions intellectuelles et l'autodétermination autochtones, Université d'Ottawa) propose une discussion autour de son livre Thou Shalt Forget: Indigenous Sovereignty, Resistance ...

 

Nachwuchsforums der Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien - Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies - Forum des Jeunes Chercheur-se-s de l'Association d'études canadiennes As a part of the virtual meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies (GKS) in February 2021, the Emerging Scholars Forum organizes a research and networking workshop for early career researchers (bachelor/master ...

 

Dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal digital: Das Literaturgespräch Englische Lieblingsromane findet aus gegebenem Anlass als Livestream statt, so dass Sie entspannt von zu Hause aus zusehen können. Wir würden uns freuen, wenn Sie dabei wären, wenn am 05.02. um 19:00h die besten englischsprachigen Romane des letzten Jahres vorgestellt werden. Auf dem digitalen Podium diskutieren Eva-Maria Windberger und Ralf ...

 

IRTG Diversity Alumna Lisa Johnson (University of Trier) will present on her current research about "Overstanding Patois: An Introduction to Jamaica's National Language" WHEN January 26, 2021 at 2 pm WHERE MS Teams RSVP: e.nossem@mx.uni-saarland.de ABSTRACT This paper is an introduction to the socio-cultural and linguistic history of Jamaican Patois, also known as Jamaican Creole. The ...

 

UPDATE For a teaser of the event, please go to: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1122487314867712 Watch the entire exhibit-tour and discussion here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1003398636852620&ref=watch_permalink The IRTG Diversity together with the Centre canadien d'études allemandes et europénnes and the German Consulate General in Montréal present, in collaboration with colleagues ...

 

Nachwuchsforums der Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien - Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies - Forum des Jeunes Chercheur-se-s de l'Association d'études canadiennes As a part of the virtual meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies (GKS) in February 2021, the Emerging Scholars Forum organizes a research and networking workshop for early career researchers - be it bachelor/master ...

 

Sarah Larsen-Vefrings Dissertation wurde kürzlich bei transcript veröffentlicht. In ihrem Buch beleuchtet Sarah Larsen-Vefring aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive in einer umfangreichen Analyse neun Theaterstücke des Quebecer Regisseurs Robert Lepage aus den Jahren 2003 bis 2013. Lepages Theater inszeniert auf besondere Weise kulturelle Vielfalt und Differenz und stellt dabei soziale Differenzierungsmuster ...

 

Wir freuen uns, dass Prof. Dr. Chad Gaffield von der Universität Ottawa und Dr. Dorothea Rüland, Generalsekretärin des DAAD, die öffentliche Ringvorlesung zum Thema "Herzkammer der Wissenschaft - Der Ort der Universität in der Gesellschaft" mit Beiträgen zum Thema "Internationale Wissenschaft im digitalen Zeitalter" bereichern werden. Prof. Dr. Chad Gaffield ist Distinguished Professor of History and ...