Guest lectures and seminars - Page 2

Lecturer Dr. Barbara Siller, University College Cork, will give a talk on “Kafka Tales of the Twenty-First Century – Doors, Walls, and Fences in The Gurugu Pledge (2017) by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel and Lights in the Distance. Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (2018) by Daniel Trilling”.

EU-tilpasning eller autokrati og etno-nasjonalistisk samfunnsmodell?

Talk by Barbara Siller, lecturer in the Department of German and the Programme Director of the MA Applied Linguistics within the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University College Cork. 

The Emergence of the Modern United States, 1896-1929

A guest lecture by Juan Cruz Forgnone (University of Buenos Aires)

The political dynamics of fragmentation and polarization after the covid crisis and Russia's war in Ukraine.

Six members of the group teamed up with fellow semanticists from UiO, UiT and NTNU for a Semantics in Norway (SiN) workshop at Helgaker Gård, Hadeland.

REPRESENTING 21ST-CENTURY MIGRATION IN EUROPE

Lecture by Tommaso Milani, professor of multilingualism at the University of Gothenburg 

On June 17, 2019, the ILLREP research group will be hosting a one-day interdisciplinary seminar featuring multiple speakers from the University of Oslo and beyond. The keynote lecture will be delivered by Susan Schweik, Professor of English at UC Berkeley and author of works including The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (2009). 

We are very pleased to announce a guest lecture by Tamar Herzig, Associate Professor of Early Moderne European History at Tel Aviv University. The lecture is open for everyone

In my talk, I will reflect the perspective and results of the research project and network 'kakanien revisited' as a contribution of an exemplary field of area studies in cultural research. 

In a first step, I will describe all the tools the group has adapted from postcolonial studies: the subversion of the relation between centre and periphery, heterogeneity and identity, the relation between culture and power, the narrative of culture and civilisation, gender aspects, the construction of the 'own' other. In a second part, I will discuss the differences between post-colonialism and post-imperialism, also with regard to the process of nation building. Finally, I will refer to the imperial traces in Austrian literature of the 20th century, e.g. in Roth, Canetti, Musil, Broch, Zweig and others.  

Reference: Wolfgang Müller-Funk: The Architecture of Modern Culture. Towards a narrative theory of culture. Boston-Berlin 2012.

Lecture by Till Dembeck, University of Luxembourg

Lecture by Erika Mihálycsa (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj)

Lecture by Gabriele Iannàccaro, University of Milano-Bicocca