sschmid_cv071z6i 2nd RMU Docs and Post-Docs meeting at Goethe University Frankfurt
Friday, 17 February 2017 | 10 am to 5:30 pm | Campus Westend | IG Farben building | room 254
Are you a PhD student or Post-Doc at one of the three RMU universities and is your research related to the African continent? Do you have an idea for a research project, a workshop or a conference and look for others to team up and develop your idea? Is there this one (academic) problem you’ve always wanted to talk about with peers? Have you read this one seminal book and you’ve always thought it would be fun to discuss at length in a larger group? Are you wondering how on earth you can find the right research method to approach your PhD project and you feel like other ask themselves the same question? Come and connect with other Docs and Post-Docs engaged in research in and about Africa, share issues with which we are usually wrestling on our own, and develop future projects in a pleasant atmosphere among peers.
Please register for the meeting by emailing to spaeth@em.uni-frankfurt.de not later than 27 January 2017. In case you would like to propose a workshop, please specify and name a working title for your workshop.
See program here.
The collaborative research project „Africa’s Asian Options“ (AFRASO) cordially invites you to attend the Keynote Lecture by Prof. Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard University) that will open the AFRASO Conference „Afrasian Transformations: Beyond Grand Narratives?“ to be held at Goethe University from September 28-30.
Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and the Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. He is one of the most influential theorists worldwide in literary and cultural studies and a major proponent of contemporary Postcolonial Studies. His writings on concepts such as hybridity, liminality or the Third Space have been widely acknowledged in the humanities and beyond. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards and prizes and was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize in 2016.
Homi Bhabha’s Keynote Lecture on “Intimations of the Afterlife: On Migration, Memory and the Dialectics of Translation“ will focus on key issues of transregional research in the humanities today. The Keynote Lecture will be delivered in the “Festsaal” (CAS 823) in the Casino Building on the Goethe University Westend Campus on Wednesday, 28 September, at 9.30 a.m. The lecture is open to the university public. In order not to disturb the official opening of the AFRASO Conference, all guests are advised to be in Room CAS 823 at 9.00 a.m. at the latest.
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