Contemporary German literature and theatre: Between cultural production and political interventions (online event)

Location
Zoom
Dates
Thursday 3 November 2022 (10:00-11:00)
Contact

Maren Rohe m.rohe@bham.ac.uk

The Institute for German and European Studies (IGES) invites you to join us for an online seminar with guest speakers Ulrike Garde, Associate Professor in German Studies at Macquarie University (Sydney), and Tara Windsor, Schröder Research Associate (Equality and Diversity in German Studies) at University of Cambridge, and Associate Fellow at the IGES.

  • Ulrike Garde, Macquarie University: “Alles klar?” Exploring the literary strategies and socio-political context of multilingual productions at the Maxim Gorki Theatre (Berlin) 
  • Tara Windsor, University of Cambridge: Identity, Diversity, Authority: Creative Writers as Public Intellectuals in Contemporary Postmigrant Germany  

The seminar is part of the IGES's research strand 'Relationality, Identity and Migration'. It consists of short presentations by the two speakers followed by a Q&A and discussion. It will be chaired by Maren Rohe, Research Fellow at University of Birmingham.

The event is held on zoom. Please register online