Academic Events
Upcoming Events
International Forum 2020:
“Wellbeing and Subjectivity across the Global South” / Futures under Construction
Conference will be held virtually.
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International Conference:
Subjectivities of Migration: Poetics and Genre in the Literary Imagination
of Migrant Experience since 1989
Tübingen. 30 September - 2 October 2020
Call for Papers (Deadline on 01 February 2020)
Congreso internacional / International Congress
Ciudades del Sur Global. Políticas, imaginarios y prácticas culturales / Cities of the Global South. Politics, Imaginaries and Cultural Practices
Postponed to 2021 / Aplazado a 2021
Convocatoria / Call for Papers
Past Events
2020
Workshop
Per Se - Work in Progress
John Kinsella (Curtin University) and Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen)
Monday, 13 January 2020, Flyer
2019
International Workshop:
Literatures and Cultures of Homes in the Making
12 - 14 December, University of Tübingen
Organized by The Center for Gender and Diversity Research (ZGD) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies (ICGSS) at the University of Tübingen and the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University. programme
The Edge of Democracy (Petra Costa, Brazil, 2019)
Debate with Dr. Roberto Robalinho (Universidade Federal Fluminense & Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
December, 11th, 2019, Brasilien-Zentrum, Flyer
Gastvortrag
Prof. Dr. Jessé de Souza: Wissenschaft als verdeckter Rassismus
Montag, 11.11.19, 18 Uhr c.t., Brechtbau Raum 215 / Flyer
« Subjectivités urbaines en Afrique subsaharienne »
06-08 November 2019: Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal.
Co-organised by the University of Tübingen and Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar.
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers (french) / Programme
International Conference
"Cinemas of the Global South: towards a southern aesthetics"
05-06 November 2019: Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg.
Funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
Conference coordination by Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Amir Taha.
Autumn School
“Trauma, Conflito e Memória na Literatura e Cultura Brasileira e Hispano-americana”
14-16 October 2019: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Cleusa Rios Pinheiro Passos (USP, Catedrática JGR), Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thies, Dr. Nadja Lobensteiner (UT)
In cooperation with project DAAD / CAPES Probral “Disconforting Territories: images, narratives, and objects of the Global South“ (Dir.: Fernando Resende UFF)
PROBRAL Conference: “Discomforting Territories: images, narratives and objects of the Global South”
02 - 03 October 2019: Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) Niterói - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Organized by project DAAD / CAPES Probral “Discomforting Territories: images, narratives, and objects of the Global South“ (Dir.: Fernando Resende UFF)
Panel: "Homophobia in the Global South"
Jean Wyllys, Agustina Comedi, Danai Mupotsa, R. Raj Rao
Moderation: Ingrid Hotz-Davies
18.07.2019 / Brechbau 027 Tübingen
Autorentreffen: Véronique Tadjo
16 Juli 2019
Institut Culturel Franco-Allemand, Doblerstraße 25, 72074 Tübingen
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Susanne Goumegou
Summer School Tübingen
15-19 July 2019
"Futures under Construction: Contested Subjectivities in the Global South"
International Workshop
"Decolonizing Academia? Opportunities, Perspectives and Academic Responsibility"
13 July 2019
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Coloquio Internacional
"Cine urbano: Estrategias para comprender la megaurbe"
11 y 12 de julio, 2019
International Workshop
"Mediascapes of Ruined Geographies in the Global South"
21-22 February 2019
Organizers: Diego Amaral, Anthony Obute, Andrée Gerland (EKUT)
2018
Guest Lecture
«Mémoire, tradition, archive, héritage, patri/matrimoine»
with Éric Méchoulan (Université de Montreal)
Organizers: Louis Nana and Carina Stickel
Monday, 17 December 2018, 10:30-12 pm, Neuphilologicum, room 215
Interactive Workshop
Nature, Activism, and the Academy
with Markus Mauthe (Greenpeace photographer) and John Kinsella (poet activist)
Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 12-4 pm, Neue Aula, room 225
Theatrical Performance
Mike van Graan - Theatre for Peacebuilding
"When Swallows Cry"
12 November 2018, 8 p.m., Brechtbau Theatre
Workshop
"After the posts, before the cataclysm: Global South literary humanities in an era of
global multi-crises"
30-31 October 2018, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (CFP)
One-day Symposium: "tɛmp(ə)rərɪnəs"
9 March 2018, 10-16, room 215
Convened by John Kinsella (Churchill College Cambridge/Curtin University) and Russ West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen)
Keynote speakers: Stephen Muecke (University of Adelaide, Australia), Nicholas Birns (New York University, USA)
Conference
"Planetary Futures and the Global South"
16-18 January 2018, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India (Brochure)
Guest Lecture
Catherine Mazauric: "Identités liminales et identités processives en migration"
10 January 2018, room 010 Neuphilologicum
2017
Film / Diskussion
"Schreiben und Leben zwischen Frankreich und Afrika"
5 December 2017, Institut Français
Lecture
Robert Muponde: Shifting the 'We' in African Children's Literature
17 November 2017, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Stuttgart, WeltRaum (Flyer)
Workshop
"Les Picaros d'Afrique francophone"
Prof. Dr. Susanne Goumegou (Universität Tübingen) and Carina Stickel (Universität Tübingen)
6 October 2017, Tübingen (poster)
Conference
"Modes of Being South: Territorialities, Affects, Powers"
3-5 October 2017, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, Rio de Janiero, Brazil (CFP)
Inaugural conference / congreso inaugural
"Explorando os entremeios: cultura e comunicação na literatura de João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967)"
6-7 July 2017 (flyer)
Summer school / escola de verão
"Estudos culturais e comunição: filme e música no Brazil contemporáneo"
3-5 July 2017 (flyer)
Panel Discussion
"What Do Human Rights Do?"
14 June 2017, d.a.i. (Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut), Tübingen (flyer)
Spring School
"Participatory Cultures and New Ethical Paradigms in the Global South"
5-8 April 2017, Tübingen (Program)
Conference
"Diálogos sobre la megaurbe: Cultura, comunicación y participación ciudadana en la ciudad de México"
12-13 January 2017 (Program) / (Conference Videos)
2016
Workshop: "Doing Literary Studies in a Time of Crisis"
with Simon During (University of Queensland)
30 November 2016
International Conference
“Rethinking Gender from the Global South(s)”
26-29 September 2016, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico-City
Summer School 2016
"Truth Commissions and the Culture of Dissenting Memory in the Global South"
25-29 July 2016 (programme)
Mini-Symposium
"Literary Humanities in the Global South: The Question of University Pedagogies"
27-28 June 2016
PhD Students’ Workshop
"Fights and Flights: Repression, Resistance and Human Displacement in the Global South"
4-6 April 2016
2015
Workshop
“Interpacifics and Indian Oceans: Comparative Global South Literary Worlds“
20 July 2015
Summer School 2015:
“What is the Global South?”
29 June 2015
Literary Cultures of the Global South / Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair of Global Literary Studies Conference:
“Heading South? Routes beyond the Impasse of Postcolonial Studies”
26 June 2015