Water is one of our most important resources for life. It is also the central medium through which we recognize climate change. What's more, over 90 percent of catastrophic events worldwide are linked to water. The overuse of water resources, unequal distribution, loss of ecosystem services and the associated health risks can increasingly lead to […]
Symposium and Book Launch on the Book "Insurgent Cultures. World Literatures and Violence from the Global South" by Pavan Kumar Malreddy.
Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Iyabo Kwayana (New Hampshire) Lecture: Terror and the Time: A Reflection on Poetic Resistance This talk will explore the poetry of Martin Carter as a powerful source of anti-colonial resistance, particularly within the context of Guyanese social and cultural movements. As the child of Eusi Kwayana, one of […]
56th Römerberg Talks Immigration currently seems to be Germany's most important problem. Elections are won or lost on this issue. The fear of growing crime, terrorist attacks by foreign perpetrators and the alarm cries of overburdened municipalities form a nightmare scenario with which populist parties are driving the political establishment before them. Anyone who […]
Workshop Program: 10:15 am Beginning of the Workshop; Welcome 10:30-11:30 a.m. Anacrusis 1. talking about peace in war/Speaking peace in war - what for? (input Lothar Brock/ Hendrik Simon) Discussion in the Forum 11:30-11:45 a.m. Coffee Break 11:45-13:15 Panel 1: German peace theory/Theorizing peace in Germany 2. view from the outside/Looking from the outside in […]
Frankfurt-Harvard Conference on surveillance and digital intermediaries. With two keynotes by Nicole Starosielski, UC Berkeley and Nick Couldry, LSE.
Lecture as part of the event series "Climate in court/Climate Contested" with Prof. Dr. Dr. Maximilian Pichl (RheinMain University of Applied Sciences) The event series "Klima vor Gericht/Climate Contested. Interdisciplinary perspectives on law(s) in the ecological crisis" addresses the complex interplay between climate change and law. Lectures, panel discussions and debates will discuss from an […]
Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Daniel Fairfax (Frankfurt) Lecture: Symbolic Capital: Mandabi (1968) by Ousmane Sembene An adaptation of his own novella Le Mandat, Ousmane Sembene's Mandabi (1968) was the first feature-length film made in the Wolof language, following Senegalese independence in 1960. The protagonist Ibrahima (Makhouredia Gueye), an endearingly feckless unemployed man […]
Keynote and symposium Please register at frickel@em.uni-frankfurt.de. Program (pdf): Here... Program January 16, 2025, 6 p.m. Keynote Vanessa E. Thompson (Queen's University Canada | International Independent Commission to Investigate the Death of Oury Jalloh) Symposium January 17, 2025 10.00-11:30 Panel 1 20 years of struggle for clarification: the Oury Jalloh case Initiative in […]