Writer/Artist-in-Residence Program

In the summer semester of 2024, NZ/Samoan historian Anthony Brunt will be a guest at the University of Bremen for two months as an INPUTS writer-in-residence (13 May – 7 July 2024). Tony Brunt is a historian and photo historian specialising in colonial era photography from the South Pacific, especially from the former German colony of Samoa. For many years he has researched and archived images from private collections and moved them into public access and visibility. Tony Brunt has been a consultant and volunteer photo archivist to the Museum of Samoa since 2012 and created the museum’s long-running online photo exhibition on the German colonial period “To Walk Under Palm Trees”, which ran from 2013 - 2019 and featured over 400 images from private collections. He has spearheaded the museum’s public outreach through social media in relation to historical photography. He has written two illustrated books on early Samoa, including a 2020 study of the recently discovered Karl Hanssen Album of historical photography.

During his stay Anthony Brunt will engage in the following activities:

co-teach the course “German Colonialism in the Pacific” (with Kerstin Knopf, Wednesdays, 16-18 hours);
give the lecture “The Legacy of Scientist Otto Tetens: German Samoa’s most important documentarian photographer” within the framework of the exhibition and lecture series “Points of View” (Wednesday 15 May, 18-20 hours, Hafenmuseum, Am Speicher XI 1, Bremen);
engage in cooperative research at the Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, incl. Panel Discussion “Traces of Samoan Colonial Past in the Collections of the German Maritime Museum”, Monday 3 June, 16-18 hours, Research Depository, with online access;
give INPUTS Bremer Denkanstösse lecture (with Dr. Nicole Perry, U Auckland) “Samoa – Jewel of Germany’s Pacific?” (Thursday 27 June, 12-14 hours, MZH 1460).

Organisation: Kerstin Knopf

Everybody is welcome to single classes, lectures and panel discussion (please send inquiries to kknopfuni-bremen.de).

Autrice en résidence/ Writer in residence

en coopération avec l‘IBEC/ in cooperation with BIKQS

Au semestre d'été 2023, l'écrivaine haïtiano- canadienne Marie-Célie Agnant sera l'invitée de l'université de Brême pendant deux mois en tant qu’autrice en résidence de l'INPUTS. Auteure et conteuse dans la tradition des littératures orales haïtiennes, elle fait connaître dans le monde entier des formes transfrontalières et intermédiales de traditions narratives.
Marie-Célie Agnant dirigera un cours d'écriture créative avec des étudiant.e.s de l'université de Brême, dont les résultats seront présentés lors d’un événement public.
Si vous êtes interessé.e.s, veuillez contacter Karen Struve: struve@uni-bremen.de

In the summer semester of 2023, Haitian-Canadian writer Marie-Célie Agnant will be a guest at the
University of Bremen for two months as an INPUTS writer-in-residence. As a writer and storyteller in the tradition of Haitian oral culture and literature, she brings cross-border and intermediary forms of storytelling traditions to the world.
Marie-Célie Agnant will lead a creative writing course with students from the University of Bremen, the results of which will be presented at a public event.
If you are interested, please contact Karen Struve: struve@uni-bremen.de

Boturu kommt im Sommersemester 2023 endlich nach Bremen !!!

Das INPUTS Bremen hatte geplant von Mai bis Juni 2020 den Lyriker, Theaterautor und Schauspieler Recaredo Silebo Boturu aus Malabo, Äquatorialguinea, einzuladen. Aufgrund der Coronapandemie musste der Aufenthalt für das Sommersemester 2020 leider abgesagt und verschoben werden. Im Sommersemester 2023 können wir den Aufenthalt endlich nachholen und Boturu wird im April und Mail 2023 für zwei Monate an der Universität Bremen sein. Boturu hat u. a. vier Anthologien mit Gedichten, Kurzgeschichten und Theaterstücken veröffentlicht (Luz en la noche, Verbum 2010. Crónicas de lágrimas anuladas, Verbum 2014. Poemas y relatos desde mi retiro, Habitación 323 2018. Desde el fondo del Mediterráneo, En Auge 2019.) und leitet seit vielen Jahren die Theatergruppe Bocamandja in Malabo. Im Rahmen seines Aufenthalts in Bremen wird er einen Theaterworkshop (mehr Info bald im Veranstaltungsverzeichnis und bei StudIP unter der Veranstaltungsnr. 10-78-6-C3-4) anbieten, in dem Studierende der Universität Bremen die Gelegenheit haben, eine Theaterperformance von der Entstehung bis zur Aufführung zu begleiten und aktiv daran mitzuwirken. Boturu wird den Kurs auf Spanisch leiten, Spanischkenntnisse sind aber keine Teilnahmevoraussetzung. Die Performance wird am Mittwoch den 24. Mai 2023 im Theater der Uni aufgeführt. Voraussichtlich wird eine studentische Hilfskraft zum Übersetzen dabei sein und die Studierenden können sich gegenseitig bei Sprachproblemen helfen. Für Fragen melden Sie sich bitte bei Dr. Julia Borst (borstprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de).

Beitrag zu Boturus Aufenthalt im up2date (Das Online-Magazin der Universität Bremen).

The Equatorial Guinean poet, playwright, and actor Recaredo Silebo Boturu was invited to be the Artist-in Residence at the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS) University of Bremen, for eight weeks in May and June 2020. Unfortunately, due to the current corona virus pandemic, we had to cancel his residency for the summer term 2020. His residency and the proposed theatre workshop for students of the University of Bremen is now postponed until the summer term of 2021. For more information please contact Dr. Julia Borst (FB 10): borstprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

INPUTS Bremen hosted the award-winning Indigenous writer Ellen van Neerven as its Writer-in-Residence for the summer semester of 2019. Ellen has written a multi-award winning fiction collection titled Heat and Light (UQP, 2014) and a poetry collection, Comfort Food (UQP, 2016).

During their residency, Ellen taught a creative writing class at the University of Bremen’s department of English-Speaking Cultures over May and June, teaching the participants the art of reading and writing contemporary poetry and look at the past and future to influence and sharpen their own creative practice. Ellen was also one of the authors taking part in the multidisciplinary annual conference jointly organized by GAPS and IACPL titled “Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water”, at the University of Bremen from 30 May- 2 June, 2019, where the participants had the opportunity to listen to some of her creative pieces.

From April through May 2017 INPUTS Bremen hosts the artist, filmmaker, and journalist Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard as “Artist-in-Residence”. Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard will produce art in the wonderful ambience of the Teerhof Island in the Weser River and teach a 5-week creative art course that is open to all students and faculty of the University of Bremen: "Bremen Dekolonisieren. (Wie) Geht das?: Recherche – Kreation – Dokumentation / Decolonize Bremen. (How) Does it work?: Research – Creation – Documentation". This bilingual course is embedded in the thematic semester of FB 9 "Dekolonisierung der Stadt – Dekolonisierung des Wissens", which is organized in cooperation between FB 9, FB 10 and INPUTS (www.kultur.uni-bremen.de.). In the course, Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard and students will engage in research about Bremen's city history, document their results, and express them creatively in texts, short and documentary films, which will be presented in a public event.

INPUTS Bremen hosts its first “Writer-in-Residence” from March through May 2016, the Nigerian Canadian Author and poet Dr. Amatoritsero Ede. Amatoritsero Ede was strongly influenced by Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate for Literature. Ede’s A Writer’s Pains & Caribbean Blues won the 1998 All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Literature while Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children was nominated for the 2013 Nigerian Literature Prize. He appears in 11 poetry anthologies, was placed second in the first May Ayim Literary Award in 2004 and in the 1993 Association of Nigerian Authors’ poetry prize.

During his stay at Bremen University, he will collaborate with his host, Professor Dr. Kerstin Knopf, and deliver a paper at the Conference on Language and Literature, do a reading at said conference, produce new poetry in the wonderful ambience of the Teerhof Island in the Weser River, teach a 5-week creative writing course, deliver a lecture and perform alongside student-writers at Faculty 10’s Guest Lecture Series. He publishes the Maple Tree Literary Supplement at www.mtls.ca.

The Foundation of the University of Bremen has supported the Dr. Ede’s stay and we thank the Foundation very much for this financial support.

You can see the energetic performance of Ama Ede’s poem „Teardrops in the Weser" as well as of the poems and short stories written by students in his “Creative Writing” class here (coming soon).

http://www.mtls.ca/issue21/literary-images/

Mobile Lecture: Key Developments in Literary Histor(ies) and Literary Criticism in English