Teach@Tübingen - Guests at the Faculty
Winter 2022/23
Dr. Eleonor Bedin
Invited by Prof. Dr. Richard Posamentir
Institute of Classical Archaeology
Course
History and Archeology of the Hellenistic Near East
Research
Micro- and Macro-Identities in the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean
Dr. Yimon Lo
Invited by Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinfandt
Institute of English Languages and Literatures
Course
Nineteenth-Century British Poetry and Poetics
Research
Romantic Silence: Feminist, Political, and Medical Voices in British Poetry, 1750-1850
Dr. Frederick Crofts
Invited by Prof. Dr. Renate Dürr
Institute of Modern History
Course
European Visual Culture c. 1450-1620
Dr. Syed Hasan Sardar
Invited by Prof. Dr. Regula Forster
Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies
Courses
- Introduction to Urdu Language
- Languages and Politics in South Asia
Research
Non-secular approaches to non-violence and interfaith harmony as
seen in Maulana Waheeduddin Khan’s thought
Winter 2020/21
Dr. Sophie Franklin
Invited by Prof. Dr. Angela Zirker
English Literatures and Cultures
Courses
- The Brontës – Authorship and Afterlives (Pre- & Post-1900)
- Representing Violence (Pre- & Post-1900
Research
Violence and Contamination in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Dr. Henrik Rydéhn
Invited by Prof. Dr. Thomas Sattig
Theoretical Philosophy
Courses
- Determination and Dependence in Contemporary Metaphysics
- Causal and Non-Causal Explanation
Dr. Enrico Spadaro
Invited by Prof. Dr. Dorothee Kimmich
Neuphilologie. Deutsches Seminar
Courses
- Tolkien: the writer and the illustrator
- Tolkien and the classics
Research
J. R. R. Tolkien
Dr. Arya Aryan
Invited by Professor Dr. Christoph Reinfandt
English literature
Courses
- The English Novel
- Postmodernist Fiction and Theory
Research
Contemporary Fiction in English Across the Globe
Dr. Sarbani Sharma
Invited by Prof. Dr. Karin Polit
Department of Anthropology, Asia Orient Institute
Courses
- Politics of Time: Multiplicities & Inequalities
- Rethinking Gender & Violence: Reflections from South Asia
Research
Itineraries and Biographies of Azadi (freedom): Understanding politics of life in Kashmir
Dr. Beatrice Zani
Institute of Political Studies of Lyon (Sciences Po Lyon)
Invited by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yu-chin Tseng
Department of Chinese Studies - European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT)
Courses
- Chinese and European Sociologies: Crossed Perspectives
- Cities, Globalization and Urbanization in East-Asia: crossed perspectives on China, Taiwan and Korea
- Economy and Society in Contemporary China
- Migratory and Mobility Process in East Asia
Research
Chinese Migrants’ Mobilities, Digital Markets and Emotions from Stuttgart, Milano and Taipei
Teach@Tübingen Alumni
Dr. Sky Michael Johnston
University of California, San Diego
Invited by Prof. Dr. Renate Dürr
Modern History
Courses
- A Global History of the Little Ice Age, 1550-1700
- A Global History of Astrology: Ancient Mesopotamia to the Present
Research
Weathering Early Modern Germany: Vernacular Meteorology, Pastoral Theology, and Communal Life in the Long Sixteenth Century
Dr. Sarbani Sharma
Invited by Prof. Dr. Karin Polit
Department of Anthropology, Asia Orient Institute
Courses
- Politics of Time: Multiplicities & Inequalities
- Rethinking Gender & Violence: Reflections from South Asia
Research
Itineraries and Biographies of Azadi (freedom): Understanding politics of life in Kashmir
Dr. Shao Chengyuan
Invited by Prof. Dr. Guido Zurstiege
Institute of Media Studies
Courses
Regulating Global Digital Media Platforms
Research
Intersections of surveillance technology and information privacy, with a special focus on theories of freedom of expression and privacy
Dr. Fu Ma
Invited by Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Vogel
Department of Chinese Studies
Courses
- Current Discourses in Contemporary China: Chinese History and Culture
- States, Religions and Everyday Life along the Silk Road, as Seen from Unearthed Manuscripts in Chinese, Old Turkic and Other Languages
- Introduction to Cultural Communication throughout Eurasia down to the Mongol Period
Research
History of the Silk Road in eastern Central Asia between the 9th and 12th centuries
Summer 2019
| Guest | Home University | Inviting Chair | Courses |
Dr. Curtis Runstedler | Durham University | Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer, English Language and Literature | Alchemical Imagery in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature The Classical and the Medieval in the Moral Universe of John Gower |
| Dr. Josiah Nyanda | University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa | Prof. Dr. Russel West-Pavlov, English Language and Literature | Narrating the self, narrating the other Mapping the terrain: City versus Country |
Daria Khlevnyuk | Prof. Dr. Klaus Gestwa, Institute for Eastern European History and Area Studies | Memory Museums in Global Perspective: Russian Case |
Winter 2018/19
| Guest | Home University | Inviting Chair | Courses |
| Elisa Tamburo | SOAS, University of London | Prof. Dr. Karin Polit, Anthropology | Urban anthropology in a global context Anthropology of Infrastructure |
| Dr. Alexander Wilson | Durham University | Prof. Dr. Stefanie Gropper, Skandinavistik | Alternative Communities in Old Norse Literature and Mythology Outlaw Traditions in the Medieval North |
Jamie Page | Durham University | Prof. Dr. Ellen Widder, Medieval History | Masculinity in the Middle Ages |
Dr. Anna Kouremenos
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| Prof. Dr. Richard Posamentir, Classical Archeology | Migration and mobility from the Roman to the early medieval period: the archaeological evidence Themes in contemporary archaeology: globalization theory |
Caroline Belanger
| Prof. Mischa Meier, Ancient History | Satire and parody in the Roman empire |
Summer 2018
Guest | Home University | Inviting Chair | Courses |
Jamie Page
| Durham University | Prof. Dr. Ellen Widder, Medieval History | Masculinity in the Middle Ages |
Caroline Belanger
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| Prof. Dr. Mischa Meier, Ancient History | Satire and parody in the Roman empire |
Dr. Roberto Robalinho Lima | Universidade Federal Flumiense (UFF)
| Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thies, Romance Language and Literatures | |
| Luke Davies |
| Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, English Literature and Gender Studies
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| Gwangsoon Lim |
| Prof. Dr. You Yae Lee, Korean Studies |
Winter 2017/18
Guest | Home University | Inviting Chair |
Georgina Cebey | Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thies, Romance Language and Literatures | |
Adolpho Polo y la Borda Ramos | Prof. Dr. Renate Dürr, Modern History | |
Rebecca Merkelbach | Prof. Dr. Stefanie Gropper, Scandinavian Studies | |
Adriano Orsingher | Prehistory and Medieval Archaeology | |
Dr. Harry Todd Craver | Prof. Dr. Ewald Frie , Modern History |