New Frontiers in Memory Studies
Lecture Series
Current Events for
Archived Events
Telling Again, Anew, Against: Repetition and Literary History
Eva von Contzen
23/06/2026 6:00pm, IG 1.314
Public Memory in Postmigrant Germany: Remembering Hanau in Das deutsche Volk
Paul Leworthy
28/05/2026 4:00pm, Cas 1.812
Working with ‘pit talk’, the language of coal miners in the East Midlands
Natalie Braber
07/05/2026 4:00pm, Cas 1.812
New Frontiers in Memory Studies
Encarnación Gutierrez Rodriguez
05/02/2026 2:00pm, Campus Westend, HZ 15
The Ethical Ramifications of Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital
Jan Alber
22/01/2026 4:00am, Campus Westend, NG 731
Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age
Jie-Hyun Lim
New Frontiers in Memory Studies
24/06/2025 2:00pm, Campus Westend, Casino 1.812
The Struggle Continues. Transgenerational Memory of the Ovaherero People's Genocide
Jephta U. Nguherimo (TraCe)
17/06/2025 6:00pm, Casino 1.811
Restitution, Repair, and Implication: Afterlives of Colonialism and the Holocaust in the Humboldt Forum
Michael Rothberg
New Frontiers in Memory Studies
07/05/2025 6:00pm, Campus Westend, IG 311
Memorializing border deaths in Europe
Karina Horsti
21/01/2025 4:00pm, Casino 1.812
The Deep Present: Sovereignty, Language, and Place in Tara Jane Winch's The Yield
Rosanne Kennedy
04/06/2024 4:00pm, IG 1.414
What Readers Remember
Lovro Škopljanac
14/05/2024 4:00pm, IG 1.414 Campus Westend
Transgenerational Trauma: The Entanglement of Family Memories in 21st - Century Diasporic Women’s Literatures from the Global South
Nadia Butt
07/05/2024 4:00pm, IG 1.414 Campus Westend
Remembering Extinction: Slow and Fast Memories of Biodiversity Loss
Jenny Wüstenberg
New Frontiers in Memory Studies
23/01/2024 4:15pm, Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, IG Farben Building, Room 411
The digital/affective ecology in contemporary conditions of memory: A Case Study of the AR/VR app MovingMemory
Avishek Parui
18/01/2024 4:00pm, Goethe University, Cas 1.812
Summer Semester 2018:
Christina Morina (University of Amsterdam)
Die Erfindung des Marxismus: Erfahrung, Idee und Engagement im Zeitalter der Ideologien
09 May 2018 (IG 411, 6-8 pm)
Flyer (PDF)
Julia Creet (York University, Canada)
The Journey: H.G. Adler as Modernist Historiographer
15 May 2018 (IG 1.414, 12-2 pm)
Poster (PDF)
Summer Semester 2017:
Emilie Pine (University College Dublin)
The Witness and the Archive: Digitising Memories of Childhood Abuse in Ireland
27 June 2017
Poster (PDF)
Shihan de Silva (University of London)
Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants
Film Screening & Lecture
13 June 2017
Poster (PDF)
Summer Semester 2016:
William J. Buxton (Concordia University in Montreal)
30 June 2016
Verena Boos (Autorin des Romans Blutorangen) und Natan Sznaider (Professor für Soziologie, Tel-Aviv-Yaffo)
22. Juni 2016
Winter Semester 2015/16:
Wulf Kansteiner (Aarhus University)
Fears, Lies, and Television: The Politics of Migration Memory in Prime Time Crime
Frankfurt, 28 January 2016
Liedeke Plate (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Transcultural Rewriting as Memory Practice
12 January 2016
Poster (PDF)
Summer Semester 2015:
Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz)Winter Semester 2014/15:
Nadia Butt (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
Metaphors of Memory and Modernity in South Asian Anglophone Novels and Films
03 February 2015
Poster (PDF)
Michael C. Frank (University of Konstanz)
The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism: From the “Dynamite War” to 9/11
20 January 2015
Poster (PDF)
Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow)
Digital Memory Studies: The Right to be Forgotten in Post-Scarcity Culture
04 November 2014
Poster (PDF)
Summer Semester 2014:
Fan Jieping (International Relations, Zhejiang University)
Das kulturelle Gedächtnis chinesischer Migranten in Europa: Briefe von Turin nach Wenzhou (1957-85)
10 July 2014
Poster (PDF)
Sébastien Fevry (Film Studies, Louvain la Neuve)
Sepia cinema under Nicolas Sarkozy’s France. Nostalgia and National Identity
04 June 2014
Poster (PDF)
Chiara de Cesari (University of Amsterdam)
European Memory: Tangles of Memory, Borders, and Race
03 June 2014
Poster (PDF)
Sébastien Fevry (Film Studies, Louvain la Neuve)
Illegal Migrants and National Memory in Contemporary French Cinema
27 April 2014
Poster (PDF)
Summer Semester 2012:
Michael Rothberg and Yasemin Yildiz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Mittwochskonferenz, FZHG
13 June 2012
Poster (PDF)
Jay Winter (Yale University)
Faces, Voices and the Shadow of War
Mittwochskonferenz, FZHG
30 May 2012
Poster (PDF)