“In Transit|ion – Frankfurt Lectures in Literary and Cultural Studies” is a transdisciplinary lecture series that the departments of American Studies, English Studies, and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures of the Institute of English and American Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt organize twice a semester. It functions as a forum to cultivate dialogue among the disciplines of our institute. Faculty members, graduate students, as well as Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts students of the Institute for English and American Studies are its target audience. Information for speakers |
Current Events
Winter 2019/20
Thu., 12.12.19, 18:00, IG 411 Wed., 29.01.20, 18:00, CAS 1.802 |
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Past Events
Summer 2019Ann Rigney (Utrecht University): "Memory Activism, Moving Monuments" Colin Graham (Maynooth University): "'A Real Event in Slow Motion'": (Northern) Irish Poetry after Brexit" |
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Winter 2018/19Jane Desmond (Illinois) "From Cockatiels to Choreography: Dancing Cultural Studies in a Multi-Species World" Kate Rigby (Bath) "Poets and Pollinators in the Plantationocene: Transatlantic Perspectives" |
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Summer 2018Leonard Cassuto (Fordham) The Siege of the Liberal Arts: What Is the Mission of the American Higher University? David James (Birmingham) 'Consolation's Discrepant Forms' |
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Winter 2017/2018 Ranjan Ghosh (University of North Bengal) Laura Marcus (Oxford) |
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Summer 2017 Graham Huggan (Leeds) |
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Winter 2016/2017 Esther Leslie (Birkbeck College, University of London) John McLeod (Leeds University) |
Summer 2016 Ross Posnock (Columbia University) Steven Connor (Cambridge)
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