Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities

Thesis Fair

Montag, 26. November 2018

10-12:00 Uhr im Senatssaal

Unter den Linden 6

Der "Thesis Fair" ist eine Möglichkeit für Studierende und Lehrende/Prüfende, sich in einem informellen Kontext zu begegnen und sich über die anstehenden Bachelorarbeiten - Themen, Standards, Formalia - auszutauschen.

Wir möchten Euch daher herzlich einladen, auch am diesjährigen "Thesis Fair" teilzunehmen.

Der "Thesis Fair" ist folgendermaßen geplant:

10:15-10:45: Begrüßung und Einführung in die Veranstaltung
Mini-Workshop mit den Studierenden zur "Roadmap" (Fragen nach zeitlichen und organisatorischen Abläufen der Bachelorarbeit)

Moderation: D. Löbbermann und C.Wilde

10:45- 11:45: "Topic Tables": Offene Gesprächsrunden: Betreuer*innen

Weiterhin wird es einen Tisch zu formal-organisatorischen Fragen (Löbbermann/Wilde) und zur Schreibpraxis (Sprachpraxis) geben.

Die Fachschaft und Eva Boesenberg unterstützen den "Thesis Fair" mit Kaffee und Keksen.

Hier das Ankündigungsplakat.

03.12.2018

Lecture Series: Aesthetic Entanglements in Transnational Literature and the Arts

10.12.2018

Lecture Series: Aesthetic Entanglements in Transnational Literature and the Arts

Talk by

Louise McNally

(Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)

Title: The challenge of understanding human language.

Monday, December 10, 2018, 18.00

Room 3059, Unter den Linden 6

All are cordially invited.

W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture

Priscilla Layne

(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

The (Im)possibility and Necessity of Hope: Afrofuturism and Diasporic Intertextuality in Olumide Popoola’s Also By Mail

Dr. Layne will present from the first chapter of her current book project on Afro-German Afrofuturism. In the talk she uses an Afrofuturist lens to interpret Olumide Popoola’s play Also by Mail (2013). Set in both Nigeria and Germany, the play centers around the Afro-German siblings Wale and Funke, who travel to Nigeria to attend the funeral of their recently deceased father. Their presence in Nigeria stirs up numerous conflicts. Having grown up in Germany with a white mother, the siblings are repeatedly othered by their Nigerian relatives. While they don’t identify with Germany as theirs due to the racial discrimination they have experienced there, they don’t quite feel at home in Nigeria either. Fantasy enters the text through Funke, whose battle with a case of Malaria brings on a fever that either facilitates a meeting or creates the fantasy of a meeting with her dead father who comes to share some wisdom with her from beyond the grave. In this talk, Layne argues that Popoola incorporates both Afrofuturist thought and Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun to argue for the necessity of hope for a better future even in the absence of teleological determination.

December 13, 2018 – Thursday – 7.00 – 8.30 P.M.

Dorotheenstr. 24 (Hegelplatz)
Room 1.501
10117 Berlin

DOWNLOAD the whole lecture program here.

07.01.2019

Lecture Series: Aesthetic Entanglements in Transnational Literature and the Arts

21.01.2019

Lecture Series: Aesthetic Entanglements in Transnational Literature and the Arts

W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture

Michele Meek

(Bridgewater State University)

Seduction or Rape? “Consent Puzzles” in American Teen Films

January 22, 2019 – Tuesday – 6.30 – 8.00 P.M.

Dorotheenstr. 24 (Hegelplatz)
Room 1.501
10117 Berlin

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04.02.2019

Lecture Series: Aesthetic Entanglements in Transnational Literature and the Arts

W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture

Denise Uyehara

(Performance Artist, Writer)

Shooting Columbus and Other Acts of Resistance

February 11, 2019 – Monday – 6.30 – 8.00 P.M.

Dorotheenstr. 24 (Hegelplatz)
Room 1.501
10117 Berlin

DOWNLOAD the whole lecture program here.