Student & Graduate Conference

On April 17 and 18, there will be a Student & Graduate Conference with Participants from Media Studies, American Studies, Film Studies, English Studies and Journalism from Universities around the world. Participation is free and snacks and drinks will also be provided!

There will also be a workshop with the title "Transcultural Remediation" lead by Prof. Dr. Astrid Erll. If you're interested in participating in the workshop, please register via mail.

For more information please visit our Facebook page or contact us via mail at studentconferencefrankfurt@yahoo.com 

Upcoming Conferences in the Break!

Two interesting conferences are coming up in the semester break, one on Everyday Heroism in the U.S., Germany and Britain and one Military Heroism in the U.S., organized by Dr. Simon Wendt. These conferences can be used for your Academic Training module! The first one will be held on March 6-7 2015 and here is the program

The second conference is on Marxch 20-21 2015 and here is the program.

You can attend single lectures or the entire conference for credit points or just out of interest :) This might also help decide on a BA or MA thesis topic, so be inspired!

Upcoming conference in Frankfurt still looking for participants

Are you a BA student in the final stages of your degree or an MA student in one of the programs at Frankfurt? Do you have an interesting idea for your thesis and would like some peer review and feedback? Do you want to gather some conference experience but don't know where or how? 

Come join us for our first Student and Graduate Conference here in Frankfurt! See Call for Papers below for more details or contact us at studentconferencefrankfurt@yahoo.com 

P.s.: you can also find us on facebook at Student and Graduate Conference: Transcultural Media Relations

Two guest lecture announcements for this week

If you're interested in memory studies, come and listen to Andrew Hoskins giving a talk on tuesday, November 4th at noon in room IG 1.414 as part of the Memory Studies Lecture Series



and if you're interested in the African-Asian context, go check out the AFRASO page and listen to the guest lecture on Thursday, 6 p.m. at room PEG, 1.G 192


AFRASO website with infos and details about current and future guest lectures

Lecture Series "Das europäische Judentum und der Erste Weltkrieg"

I stumbled over an announcement poster for a lecture series today and thought I'd share it with you. Apparently, not all lectures are in English. If some of you are interested in WW I, there will be a couple of lectures to honor the centennial this year. This series is one of many.

All lectures will be held at Hörsaalzentrum HZ 8 and start at 6 p.m. Check the posters or the website for details! Lectures start this week. Here's the program for you.

23. April: Prof. Dr. David Rechter (University of Oxford)
Trauma on the Eastern Front: European Jews and the Great War (Auftakt des Internationalen Workshops)

24. April, 9 bis 14 Uhr, Campus Westend, Casino, 1.801: Internationaler Workshop „European Jewry and the Great War: Comparative Perspectives“

Prof. Dr. Pierre Birnbaum (Université de Paris): Between Nationalism and Patriotism: French Jews and the First World War

Dr. Semion Goldin (Hebrew University Jerusalem): The Great War, Russian Jewish Elite and Russian State – The Problem and the Challenge of Loyalty

Dr. Tim Grady (University of Chester): German Jews, the Great War and the Necessity of Commemoration

Prof. Dr. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton): Remembering (and Forgetting) the Jews of Britain in the „Great War“

Sarah Panter (Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz): „We must maintain absolute neutrality“ – The Dilemma of American Jews at the Outbreak of the First World War

30. April: Prof. Dr. Shulamit Volkov (Tel Aviv University): Walther Rathenau im Krieg: Hellsichtigkeit und Verwirrung

7. Mai: Prof. Dr. Derek Penslar (University of Toronto/University of Oxford): Every War A Civil War?Jewish Soldiers and Veterans in Europe, 1914-1939

14. Mai: Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Martin Buber, der Prager Kreis und die Folgen des Ersten Weltkriegs

21. Mai: Prof. Dr. Michael Löwy (Centre national de la recherche scientifique Paris): Walter Benjamins verspätete Überlegungen zum Ersten Weltkrieg

28. Mai: Prof. Dr. Glenda Abramson (University of Oxford): Life and Writing in Palestine During the First World War

4. Juni: Prof. Dr. Barbara Hahn (Vanderbilt University): „Die Schuld unseres unpolitischen Lebens“. Margarete Susmans Antwort auf die Zäsur des Ersten Weltkriegs

11. Juni: Dr. Ilse Lazaroms (Hebrew University Jerusalem): Between Lamentation and Loyalty: The Hungarian Jewish Predicament in the Wake of the Great War

18. Juni: Prof. Dr. Micha Brumlik (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Franz Rosenzweig, Mitteleuropa und der Erste Weltkrieg

25. Juni: Prof. Dr. Dan Laor (Tel Aviv University): The Twice Told Tale: S. Y. Agnon and the Great War

2. Juli: Prof. Dr. Vivian Liska (Universiteit Antwerpen): „Ein Reigen des Volkes.“ Ein Motiv in Kafkas Kurzprosa 1914-1918

9. Juli: Prof. Dr. Steven Aschheim (Hebrew University Jerusalem): The Great War and the Radical Weimar Jewish Revival

16. Juli: Prof. Dr. Shlomo Avineri (Hebrew University Jerusalem): European Jewry and the Great War