Teach@Tübingen - Guests at the Faculty

Winter 2022/23

Dr. Eleonor Bedin

University of Haifa

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

University of Leuven

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

University of Cambridge

Invited by Prof. Dr. Renate Dürr

Institute of Modern History

Course

European Visual Culture c. 1450-1620

Dr. Syed Hasan Sardar

Jawaharlal Nehru University

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

Durham University

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

Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

Invited by Prof. Dr. Thomas Sattig
Theoretical Philosophy

Courses

Determination and Dependence in Contemporary Metaphysics
Causal and Non-Causal Explanation

Dr. Enrico Spadaro

Université Aix-Marseille

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

Durham Univeristy

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

University of Delhi

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

Winter 2020/2021

Winter 2019/2020

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

University of Delhi

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

UNC Chapel Hill

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

Peking University

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	Stony Brook University	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	University of Oxford	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	University of St. Andrews	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	University of St. Andrews	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	University College London	Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, English Literature and Gender Studies
Gwangsoon Lim	Korea University	Prof. Dr. You Yae Lee, Korean Studies

Winter 2017/18

Guest	Home University	Inviting Chair
Georgina Cebey	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thies, Romance Language and Literatures
Adolpho Polo y la Borda Ramos	University of Maryland	Prof. Dr. Renate Dürr, Modern History
Rebecca Merkelbach	University of Cambridge	Prof. Dr. Stefanie Gropper, Scandinavian Studies
Adriano Orsingher	La Sapienza University of Rome	Prof. Dr. Martin Bartelheim, Prehistory and Medieval Archaeology
Dr. Harry Todd Craver	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Prof. Dr. Ewald Frie , Modern History