Visiting Fellows / Invited Lectures

2016-2017

Inmaculada Santos (University of Malaga Spain) - Conference on Methods of Foreign Language Teaching on 12th August 2016.

2015-2016

Prof. Claude Chastagner (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier)- talk in French on "May 68 and its impact on Contemporary France" on 23rd February 2016 and "Blues and its impact on Western Music" in English.

Prof. Enrico Mario Santi (University of Kentucky)- talk on "Octavio Paz and India" on 22nd March 2016 at 11:00 a.m.

Dr. Esterino Adami (University of Turin)- talk on "The Reinvention of Italian cuisine in Anglo Saxon Imagination" on 8th February 2016 at 2:30 p.m.

Valeria Manca (Colegio Russell, Rome)- lecture on "El erotismo en la literatura cubana" on Tuesday 22nd December 2015 at 12.30 pm.

Giovanna Minardi (University of Palermo)- talk on "Nellie Campobello Y La Revolucion Mexicana" on Tuesday 15th December 2015.

2014-2015

Debra Ann Castillo, Professor (Cornell University)-lecture on "Massive Open Online Courses".
Peter Schulman, Professor of French and International Studies (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Old Dominion University)-lecture on Habits of Fear: Yeats, Irish Nationalism and Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s The Habit of Fear.
Mathilde Arrive (University of Paul Valery Montpellier-III)-lecture on "French language teaching".
Dr. Claudia Wenner (University of Frankfurt, Germany)-Workshop on Franzkafka's translation from German to English.
Raul Agustin Villalpando (Embassy of Argentina)-lecture on "The dictatorship of Galtieri in Argentina".

2013-2014

Judith Misrahi Barak, Professor (University of Montpellier-III)
Paul Aron, Professor (University Libre de Bruxelles)
Dr. Carola Hilmes (Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Patricia Angelini (Embassy of Argentina)-lecture on "Latin American Military Dictatorships"

Soraya Franco (Embassy of the Dominican Republic)-lecture on "Merengue: National Dance and Identity"

Cecilia Lopez Badano, Professor (University of Queretaro, Mexico)-lecture on "Tango in Argentina" and "Eva Peron"

2012-2013

Prof. Wolfgang Braungart

2011-2012

Prof. Jose F. Duardo Reis
Prof. Judith Misrahi Barak
Dr. (Ms.) Radegundis Stolze
Dr. Angel Delgado Gomez
Dr. Alexandra Ortiz
Prof. Ursula Kocher

Prof. Dirk Wiemann
Prof. Heinrich Kelz

Dr. Lynn Hetherington-Blin

Prof. Carola Hilmes

2010-2011

Dr. Helga Esselborn
Prof. Wolfgang Braungart
Dr. David Lavanant
Dr. Mirko Tavosani

Clemens Ruthner
Peter Arnds

2009-2010

Ursula Kocher
Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Jürgen Link
Sanjeev Kumar / Ravi Kant
Helga Esselborn
Hans Esselborn

2008-2009

Everton V. Machado
Marie-Christine Rochmann

Chitra Harshvardhan
Miguel Angel Ramírez Ramos
Paolo Minuto and Agostino Ferrente
Wynfrid Kriegleder
Alexander Honold and Martin Dean
Flamina Nicora
Wolfgang Braungart

Cecilia Andorno
Edith Aurrecoechea

2007-2008

Jean-François Durand
Hanna Papanek
Sheila Estaire
Timothy Walker
Nicola Frith
Writers Panel Discussion
Fabienne Bradu
Dirk Wiemann
Tania Mayer


Clemens Ruthner

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin

Lecture

05.01.2011

Postkoloniale Zugänge zur späten Habsburger Monarchie


Peter Arnds

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin

Lecture

07.-01.2011

Mythical Images in the Post-Fascist, Post-Colonial Novel: Grass, Tournier and Rushdie


Ursula Kocher

Freie Universität Berlin
01.10.2009-19.10.2009

Workshops / Discussions

05.-06.2009

Workshop zur Narratologie

08.10.2009

Workshop (mit dem Centre of German Studies, JNU) zum Übersetzungsprojekt Aadha Gaon (von Rahi Masoom Raza)

17.10.2009

Discussions with M.Phil/PhD students on research work and research plans


Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig
7.10.2009

Lecture

07.10.2009

Themes and Trends in Contemporary German Literature


Jürgen Link
Editor, kultuRRevolution

22.10.2009

Lecture

22.10.2009

Normality and Crisis. Denormalisation and renormalisation in the media and popular culture


Sanjeev Kumar

Dept of Hindi, Deshbandhu College
University of Delhi
and
Ravi Kant
Sarai programme
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Delhi

Workshop

25.11.2009

Workshop on the Translation Project Aadha Gaon (by Rahi Masoom Raza)


Helga Esselborn

Universität Köln
20.01.2009-13.02.2009

Workshop

23.01.2010

Intensivseminar zum wissenschaftlichen Schreiben 1

25.01.2010

Intensivseminar zum wissenschaftlichen Schreiben 2

27.01.2010

Intensivseminar zum wissenschaftlichen Schreiben 3

30.01.2010

Intensivseminar zum wissenschaftlichen Schreiben 4


Hans Esselborn
Universität Köln
12.02.2010

Lecture

12.02.2010

"Der Film macht dem Drama das Bett". Die Ursprünge von Brechts epischem Theater in Piscators Theaterexperimenten


Everton V. Machado

Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne
23.10.2008 – 03.11.2008

Lecture

29.10.2008

A singular vision of the rebellion of the Sepoys and the colonial problem in India as portrayed by a 19th century Indo-Portuguese novel


Marie-Christine Rochmann

Université Paul Valéry, France
04.11.2008. – 18.11.2008

Lectures

06.11.2008

L’esclave fugitif dans la littérature antillaise: un personnage majoritairement masculin

07.11.2008

Le traitement de la femme dans le roman marron antillais avant La Mulâtresse Solitude d’André Schwarz-Bart

10.11.2008

Analyse d’un extrait de texte (La Mulâtresse Solitude, p.115-117 "Un jour qu'elle flottait ainsi " à "elle lui plantait tout uniment son sabre dans le ventre"

10.11.2008

Approche à un texte littéraire (La Mulâtresse Solitude d’André Schwarz-Bart et Quatrième siècle d'Edouard Glissant)

11.11.2008

Solitude (La Mulâtresse Solitude d’André Schwarz-Bart) et Flore Gaillard (Ormerod d'Edouard Glissant)

12.11.2008

Littérature féminine en France

14.11.2008

Research Methodology


Chitra Harshvardhan
Centre of German Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi

Lecture

28.11.2008

The European Union


Miguel Angel Ramírez Ramos

Ambassador of Cuba

Lecture

06.11.2008

Cuba-US Relations


Paulo Minuto
and
Agostino Ferrente
Italian film director

Lecture

29.01.2009

Contemporary Italian Cinema


Wynfrid Kriegleder
Institut für Germanistik
University of Vienna
Austria

Lecture

16.02.2009

Charles Sealsfield – A novelist between Europe and America


Alexander Honold
Professor of German Literature
University of Basel
Switzerland

Lecture

02.03.2009

Colonial culture and colonial impact on culture in Germany

Martin Dean
Swiss writer

Reading and Discussion

02.03.2009

Reading from the novel Meine Väter


Flamina Nicora

Università degli studi di Bergamo, Italy
21.02.2009 – 08.03.2009


Wolfgang Braungart

Universität Bielefeld, Germany
March 2009


Cecilia Andorno

Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
April 2009


Edith Aurrecoechea
International House Barcelona, Spain
April 2009


Jean-François Durand
Université Paul-Valéry
Montpellier 3, France
Président, Société internationale pour l’étude des littératures de l’ère coloniale

Lectures

16.11.2007

Literatures of the Colonial Era: Pierre Loti, André Chevrillon, Robert Delavignette

19.11.2007

Francophone writing in Morocco: Driss Chraïbi’s Le Passé simple

21.11.2007

Round Table on Postcolonialism and Postcolonial Literature

22.11.2007

Jean Giono: The writer and his works

23.11.2007

Contemporary French Writing: Michel Houellebecq, Pierre Michon and Gérard Millet

26.11.2007

Informal consultations/discussions with M.Phil/M.A. students on future research plans


Hanna Papanek

Reading and discussion

05.12.2007

Elly und Alexander. Revolution, Rotes Berlin, Flucht, Exil. Eine sozialdemokratische Familiengeschichte


Sheila Estaire
Universidad Nebrija
Madrid, Spain


Workshop

19.– 20.11.2007

For teachers of Spanish: Learning programme

21.– 22. 11.2007

For teachers of various foreign languages: The communicative approach and task based learning

  1. Cognitive theories of learning
  2. Factors that determine task difficulty
  3. Principles of communicative methodology and their implementation in the classroom
  4. Action Plan


Timothy Walker
Department of Portuguese
University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth, USA


Lecture

21.01.2008

Slaves or Soldiers? Portuguese Use of Conscripted African Troops as a Countervailing Force in Colonial Goa during the Crisis in British-Occupied India, 1857-1860


Nicola Frith
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
University of Liverpool, UK


Lecture

28.01.2008

‘That Sweet Enemy’: Counter-Narrating the Indian Uprisings in French-Language Texts and Images


Writers Panel Discussion

Luigi Amara
National Poetry Award Winner 1998 for the collection "El cazador de grietas) Mexico City

Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Writer of Detective Fiction, biographer of Pancho Villa and Che Guevara
Mexico City

Miguel de Mena
Editor of Cielonaranja and
Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of the Dominican Republic, Berlin, Germany


Fabienne Bradu
Instituto de Investigaciones Filologicas,
UNAM,
Mexico D.F.


Lectures

21.02.– 06.03.2008

Lectures on Juan Rulfo


Dirk Wiemann
English Department
University of Tübingen
Germany


Lectures

03.03.2008

Free-Born Englishmen, Cavaliers and Slaves: Liberty and Colonialism in 17th Century England

04.03.2008

Pterodactyls and Missing Links: Empire and the Politics of Time in Conan Doyle and Mahasweta Devi

05.03.2008

The Commission Revisited: Mudrooroo's Rewriting of Heiner Müller's Der Auftrag


Tania Mayer
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut: Kunst-Textil-Medien
University of Oldenburg
Germany

Workshop

10.03.2008

Drama – Postdramatisches Theater