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- Dr Chris Campbell - Research - English - University of Exeter
By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India. The book looks at how cinema presents liminal and counter-modern identities emerging within repeated modern attempts to re-enact traumatic national events so as to redeem the past and restore a normative structure to happenings. Establishing structure and event as paradigmatic poles of a historical and anthropological spectrum for the individual in society, the book goes on to discuss cinematic portrayals of violence, gender embodiment, religion, economic transformations and new globalised Indianness as events and sites of liminality disrupting structural aspirations.
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In Siegfried Huigen was elected an ordinary member of the Academia Europaea. She specializes in postcolonial studies and comparative literature. Translator and translation editor of postcolonial theory. She obtained her Ph. She received numerous scholarships and research grants to conduct research in Latin America Argentina, Uruguay. Numerous publications on post modernism, post colonialism, American literature, popular fiction, and world literature.
He received his doctorate from the University of Augsburg in and completed his Habilitation at the University of Freiburg in His research focuses on long-distance migration, the religious and social history of early America, religious minorities and merchant communities in the early modern period.
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The career of Johann Matthias Kramer, which this paper examines, oscillated between two apparently rather different professions. While he worked as a language teacher in various cities, he was also active as an emigration agent who recruited German settlers for the infant English colony in Georgia in the s and published a promotional tract on the colony in I argue that language teachers and emigration agents shared several structural similarities.
Both were highly mobile persons who lacked formal training and often had to adjust to new environments. Language instructors as well as emigration agents faced stiff competition, and while both served certain needs in an increasingly mobile society, they had rather dubious reputations. More than , people from German-speaking lands crossed the Atlantic between and , most of them entering the colonies through the port of Philadelphia.
A number of enterprising individuals — German merchants in American port cities, businessmen travelling back and forth between Europe and the colonies, and emigration agents operating between Switzerland, the Rhineland and Rotterdam, the major port of emigration — sought to profit from this flow of migrants.
Her research concentrates on Dutch literature of the 17th to the 19th century. She has published books and articles about the relations between literature and history, space in literature and the representation of national as well as religious and gender identities in literature. Nationale und konfessionelle Mythologie im Werk J. Alberdingk Thijms und seiner Zeitgenossen. Her current research focuses upon the works of the seventeenth-century naturalist G. Rumphius in the context of early modern knowledge production and circulation between Asia and Europe.
In , she edited the volume Die sichtbare Welt. The book contains descriptions of soft and hard shellfish, minerals and stones around and on Ambon and its surroundings and was written by Georg Everhard Rumphius, a civil servant of the Dutch East India Company VOC. The book witnesses his contact and cooperation with secretaries and draughtsmen provided by the VOC, local informants, as well as naturalists and collectors of rarities in Asia and Europe.
In our research project, we analyze it as medium of the circulation of knowledge between Asia and Europe. In my lecture, I want to address the question whether the colonial settings in which the research for the book was carried out, it was written and published, left traces in the book. By a few exemplary cases, mainly from the third book of the Curiosity Cabinet on minerals and stones, I want to show how the poetics of knowledge, i. For this purpose, I work with the keywords wonder, trade, power, and incorporation.
Wonder, the first reaction to the encounter with the unknown and strange, is quickly followed by an appropriation of the admired objects, a taxation of their value as commodities. The hierarchy of power between the VOC and their officials on the one hand and the local population on the other hand is present in the descriptions of the objects, as they are sometimes made available making use of colonial power. The new knowledge acquired by investigating nature and questioning local informants is incorporated into the European body of knowledge about natural history.
The author of eight scholarly books, over articles and two postcolonial novels, Tlostanova focuses on non-Western gender theory, contemporary art, alter-globalism, decolonial and postcolonial theory, and postsocialist studies.
She has just finished a book Postcolonialism and postsocialism in fiction and arts: resistance and re-existence under the contract with Palgrave Macmillan. After the defeat of the Socialist modernity the postsocialist space and its people have found themselves in the void. Many elements of the former Second world experience, echo the postcolonial situations and sensibilities, including subalternization, epistemic racism, mimicry, unhomedness and transit, the revival of ethnic nationalisms and neo-imperial narratives, neo-Orientalist and mutant Eurocentric tendencies, indirect forms of resistance and life-asserting modes of re-existence.
Yet there are also untranslatable differences between the postcolonial and the postsocialist human conditions. I will address how these intersections and opacities are reflected in contemporary art, fiction, theater and cinema of the postsocialist spaces from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. Uffelmann Uni-Passau. He obtained his PhD from the University of Konstanz in and defended his second thesis Habilitation at the University of Bremen in before teaching as Lecturer in Russian at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Central Asian literatures, philosophy, religion, migration, masculinity and Internet studies.
I contend that their correct interpretation of the anti-colonial nature of the concept of CE and the agonal dynamics at the roundtables seduced them into apologies for imperialism which will be scrutinized in more detail in other contributions to this thematic cluster. The existence of a single, unique, and recognizable Central European literature was not. Weber europa-uni. Research interests: Labour regimes and welfare regimes; trade and migration in the Atlantic world.
Jahrhundert ed. The major cordilleras of Central Europe are all stretching along an east-western axis: Alps, Erzgebirge, Carpathians.
Stages of Colonialism in Africa: From Occupation of Land to Occupation of Being
All rain falling north of this watershed is feeding mostly navigable rivers, all flowing north: Rhine, Weser, Elbe, Oder, Vistula, Memel, linking Central European hinterlands with to the coasts. Moderate, but dependable rain not only fed the rivers, but also allowed for a sustainable use of vast forests solid fuel for metallurgy and glassworks, timber for shipbuilding, etc. Reliable precipitation further secured provision with hydraulic energy. Mountainous landscape made sure that downward slopes provided a sufficient drive for watermills, which in turn were driving headgears and pumps of mines, bellows and hammers of steel mills, sawmills, and other early modern machinery.
These features of Central European hydro-geography remained crucially important until steam engines replaced water mills, and until railways complemented or even substituted waterways. Yet, geography, or space, has not been a relevant category in German historical research after Their importance for understanding economy has been underrated since. Looking at maps became a weird thing to do. Scholars of the following generation turned to social history, some of the investigating proto-industries H.
Schlumbohm, M. Cerman etc. They focused their internal structures, and hardly looked at the distant export markets on which these industries were built.
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Their competitiveness was an effect of the Price Revolution, which needs to be understood as a phenomenon in space. This paper shall combine the above described physical geography with this geography of commerce and trade. Comparative Studies in Governance series Brill. Twisted ways of commodities in the early modern era and the positioning of Poland on the map of colonialism. Yet on the other hand Poland has benefited from its geographical placement within Europe. At the same time, the writings by Henryk Sienkiewicz were full of Orientalist and racial prejudices paired with the praise for the British colonial enterprise.
This somewhat schizophrenic attitude towards the place of Poland on the global map is neatly visible if one compares the writings of two Polish twentieth-century intellectuals whose impact reached far beyond their native country: Oskar Halecki and Ignacy Sachs. The above two contrasting views are still present in the Polish collective mind, they also touch a hypothetical question whether the Poles should feel responsible and guilty for the present unequal global wealth distribution and for the racial prejudices still influential in the northern hemisphere, or rather they should themselves expect apologies from their Western European neighbors for centuries of economic exploitation.
Unfortunately, it often turns into a caricature when we see Polish politicians who boast of their cultural superiority over the non-European world, at the same time expecting apologies from the West.
Dr Chris Campbell - Research - English - University of Exeter
Only when studied together, they reveal the complex character of the relations between Central-Eastern Europe and its western and south-eastern neighbors, reaching as far as the New World and the Middle East. E: Rumphius and his Texts, circa — led by Prof. Locals, Knowledge and Force. First soldier, then merchant, later natural scholar in the service of the Dutch East India Company Vereenigde Ostindische Companie, VOC , he had married a local woman and chose not to return to Europe. Highly influential in contemporary European conchology and botany, both his books also belong to the European literary canon of the Dutch East Indies and are thus connected to colonial contact zones in different times and spaces.
The first case study Arens focuses on slave work as a foundation of knowledge production in colonial territories, connecting the human body and scientific objects. It analyses how Rumphius referred to slaves, and how they contributed to his research.
It examines how Rumphius gathered information from the local people, and how these exchanges were portrayed in his texts. Her published works focus mainly on the processes of identity construction embedded in postcolonial and postcommunist literatures, and on the relationships between history, memory and fiction in contemporary literature and visual arts. He is currently writing a PhD thesis at the University of Strasbourg, exploring the history of German timber trade and forest exploitation in partitioned Poland between and His research interests include environmental history of Poland and Central Europe as well as German colonial history.
Based on the analysis of articles from magazines and daily newspapers, as well as scientific and travel literature, the paper investigates the Polish perception of German colonial politics in Africa until WWI. Finkelstein Uni-Passau. She has published articles on translingual Russian-American and Russian-German literature and their postcolonial narratives, on Russian-Jewish literature and on contemporary Russian poetry and prose.