Gastvortr?ge

Lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures” Summer Term 2024

organized by Caroline Rosenthal and Kerstin Knopf

with contributions by Jessa Calderon, Caroline Rosenthal, Keyvan Allahyari, Carolin Grzenia, Florian Wagner, Andrin Albrecht, Kylie Crane, Steve Mentz, Amanda Halter, Alexandra Ganser, Mita Bannerjee, Ruth Gehrmann, and Hanna Masslich.

• Hanna Masslich (University of Jena). “Water(y) Matter(s): Water’s Materiality in Contemporary Theory and Fiction,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 3 July 2024.
• Mita Bannerjee and Ruth Gehrmann (University of Mainz). “‘Waves of Knowing’: Gender and Oceanic Landscapes in US American Literature,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 26 June 2024.
• Alexandra Ganser (University of Wien). “Maritime Flight in Contemporary Refugee Novels from the US and Canada,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 19 June 2024.
• Amanda Halter (University of Jena). “Drawing #WaterBack in Indigenous Picturebooks,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 12 June 2024.
• Steve Mentz (St. John’s University, New York). “Paradigms of the Blue Humanities: Submersion, Buoyancy, Form,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 5 June 2024.
• Kylie Crane (University of Rostock). “Wetland Murders and other Troubles in Selected Crime Novels by Attica Locke,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 29 May 2024.
• Andrin Albrecht (University of Jena). “White Whales, White Pools: An Aquatic Crossmapping of Emma Cline’s The Guest (2023) and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851),” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 22 May 2024.
• Florian Wagner (University of Würzburg). “Oceanic Routes and Roots: Tidalectics, Archipelagic Thinking and the Materiality of Water in the Poetry of Kaie Kellough and Junie Désil,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 15 May 2024.
• Carolin Grzenia (University of Jena). “Grieving Glaciers: Ice, Loss, and Literature,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 8 May 2024.
• Keyvan Allahyari (University of Oslo). “Water and the Survivalist Imagination,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 17 April 2024.
• Caroline Rosenthal (University of Jena). “Rivers and Rivering in North American Literature,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 10 April 2024.
• Jessa Calderon (artist of the Chumash and Tongva Nations, Southern CA). “The Spirit of Water,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 3 April 2024.

“Summer School: Blue Humanities,” Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 3-7 June 2024

organized by Norbert Schaffeld, Keir Waddington, and Martin Willis

with contributions by Martin Willis, Keir Waddington, Steve Mentz, Owain Lawson, Stewart Mottram, and Jennifer Henke.

• Jennifer Henke (University of Bremen). “Workshop: Academic Careers,” Blue Humanities Summer School, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 5 June 2024.

• Martin Willis and Keir Waddington (Cardiff University). “Getting Published,” Blue Humanities Summer School, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 5 June 2024.

• Owain Lawson (Cardiff University). “Rivers in the Web of Life, Blue Humanities at the Land-Water Nexus,” Blue Humanities Summer School, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 4 June 2024.

• Stewart Mottram (University of Hull). “Estuary and Coast: Adventures in the Green-Blue Humanities,” Blue Humanities Summer School, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 4 June 2024.

• Martin Willis and Keird Waddington (Cardiff University). “How to be Interdisciplinary,” Blue Humanities Summer School, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 3 June 2024.
• Steve Mentz (St. John’s University, New York). “Kinds of Blue: Watery Forms in the Blue Humanities,” Blue Humanities Summer School, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 3 June 2024.

Lecture series “Blue Humanities - Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” Winter Term 2023/24

organized by Kerstin Knopf and Paula von Gleich

with contributions by Steve Mentz, Jeannette Armstrong, Charne Lavery, Oluseun A. Tanimomo, Sukla Chatterjee, Andrea Muehlebach, Andreas Gutmann, and Keir Waddington.

• Keir Waddington (Cardiff University). “How to Feel and Behave During a Drought:
  Historical Droughts and Everyday Experience,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen (online), 24 January 2024.

• Andreas Gutmann (University of Kassel). “Rivers in the Courtroom,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen (online), 17 January 2024.

• Andrea Muehlebach (University of Bremen). “Do Waves Have Rights?,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen, 10 January 2024.

• Corina Wieser-Cox (University of Bremen). “Mermaids, Oceans, and Queer Speculative
  Futures in The Deep,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen, 20 December 2023.

• Sukla Chatterjee (University of Aberdeen). “The Timeless and the Dispensable:
  Looking at the Mediterranean and the Refugee through The Optician of
  Lampedusa,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen (online), 13 December 2023.

• Oluseun A. Tanimomo (independent scholar). “When to Tell a Single Story: On
  Helon Habila’s Shimmery Brackish Waters, Environmental Justice, and the
  Blue Humanities,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen (online), 6 December 2023.

• Charne Lavery (University of Pretoria). “Vertical Indian Ocean: Submersion in Yvonne
  Adhiambo Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen (online), 22 November 2023.

• Jeannette Armstrong (University of British Columbia Okanagan). “BC Rivers, Salmon and Syilx Restoration Campaigns,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen (online), 8 November 2023.

• Steve Mentz (St. John’s University, New York). “Introducing the Blue Humanities: Opportunities and Controversies,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen (online), 25 October 2023.

Guest Lecture by Steve Mentz (St. John’s University, New York): “Possible Futures for the Blue Humanities”

in the seminar “Key Topics in Literature: Narratives of Ocean Cultures,” organized by Mohammed Muharram and Norbert Schaffeld, 13 December 2022.

Annual conference of GAPS and IACPL: “Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water"

University of Bremen, 30 May-2 June 2019, organized by Kerstin Knopf, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Michi Knecht, Thomas Stolz, Ingo Warnke

with keynote lectures by Bill Ashcroft, Nicholas Faraclas, Anne Storch, Robbie Shilliam, Karin Amimoto Ingersoll, and Anne Collett.

• Bill Ashcroft (University of New South Wales). “Oceans: The Space of Future Thinking,” “Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water,” annual conference of GAPS and IACPL, University of Bremen, 30 May 2019. [video lecture]
• Nicholas Faraclas (University of Puerto Rico). “Subaltern Currents and Transgressive Waves: Trans-Oceanic Agents and ‘Creole’ Languages,” “Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water,” annual conference of GAPS and IACPL, University of Bremen, 30 May 2019. [video lecture]
• Anne Storch (University of Cologne). “Terrible Magical Ways of Healing - Sea, Spa and Skin,” “Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water,” annual conference of GAPS and IACPL, University of Bremen, 31 May 2019. [video lecture]
• Robbie Shilliam (Johns Hopkins University) “Africa in Oceania: Blackness Connecting Islands,” “Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water,” annual conference of GAPS and IACPL, University of Bremen, 31 May 2019. [video lecture]
• Karin Amimoto Ingersoll (University of Hawai’i). “Seascape Epistemology: An Embodied Knowledge of and Movement through the Sea,” “Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water,” annual conference of GAPS and IACPL, University of Bremen, 1 June 2019. [video lecture]
• Anne Collett (University of Wollongong). “Building on the Strata of the Dead: A (Very) Brief History of Coral Reef Ecologies,” “Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water,” annual conference of GAPS and IACPL, University of Bremen, 2 June 2019. [video lecture]