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Lecture Series

WAYS OF WATER: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures

Lecture Series Summer Term 2024

organized by Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf (Bremen) and Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal (Jena)

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Charne Lavery, U of Pretoria: Vertical Indian Ocean: Submersion in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s 'The Dragonfly Sea' 22/11/2023
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Oluseun A. Tanimomo, independent scholar: When to Tell a Single Story: On Helon Habila’s Shimmery Brackish Waters, Environmental Justice, and the Blue Humanities 06/12/2023
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Sukla Chatterjee, U of Aberdeen: The Timeless and the Dispensable: Looking at the Mediterranean and the Refugee through 'The Optician of Lampedusa ' 13/12/2023
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Andreas Gutmann, U Kassel: Rivers in the Courtroom 17/01/2024
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Corina Wieser-Cox, U of Bremen: Mermaids, Oceans, and Queer Speculative Futures in 'The Deep' 20/12/2023
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Keir Waddington, Cardiff U: How to Feel and Behave During a Drought: Historical Droughts and Everyday Experience 24/01/2024
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Mohammed Muharram, U of Bremen: Introducing Arabic Blue Humanities: The Case Study of Yemen 31/01/2024

Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, Media

Lecture Series 2023/2024

The lecture series, organized by Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf and Dr. Paula von Gleich, tied together ideas and knowledges in the new burgeoning field of Blue Humanities, now also established at FB 10, U Bremen. This new research field studies oceans, rivers, and coastal areas in terms of (colonial) histories and modernities, migration and travel, sustainability and ecological issues, circulation of people and ideas, marine and Indigenous knowledges, literature and cultures, new geographies, extractivism, energy and economic issues, among others. For this lecture series we invited experts and emerging scholars in this field who gave talks on postcolonial sea fiction, Arab Blue Humanities, refugee literature, environmental destruction, lack of water, the Black Atlantic, legal status of rivers, marine anthropology and more. A selection of the lectures can be watched here.

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