Conferences supported by the Center for Intercultural Studies from 2020 until now (older one).
Due to the amount of ZIS activities, they are not all available in English. We hope this is not a great inconvenience. Please consult the German version of our website to get a fuller sense of ZIS Activities.
| Applicants/Organizers | Topic | Literature |
| Dr. Tomasz Rozmysłowicz (German Studies) |
Lecture series "Politiken der Translation: Interdisziplinäre und Internationale Perspektiven" Beginning of the winter semester 2023 |
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| Jun.-Prof. Franziska Fay (Ethnology), Jun.-Prof. Nico Nassenstein (African Studies) |
International Workshop „Reconfiguring Language Preservation and Protecting Language-Related Social Practices and Spaces" December 1, 2023 |
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| Prof. Dr. Alexandra Schneider (Film Studies) |
Lecture series on the history and present of the small television game October 2023 - February 2024 |
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| Dr. Ute Röschenthaler (Ethnology) |
Conference "Afrobeats: Digital Encounters and the Global Mainstreaming of African Popular Music" September 12-14, 2023 |
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| Prof. Dr. Cornelia Sieber (Spanische und Portugiesische Kulturwissenschaft) |
Workshop "Die mexikanische 'Nordgrenze' als Metapher und Konzept" July 19, 2023 |
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| Prof. Dr. Thomas G.M. Blank (Kulturgeschichte der Antike) |
Workshop "The Place of Culture in Graeco-Roman Rhetorical Topoi" June 15-16, 2023 Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Michele Kennerly: "Living Well in a Cybercultural Eutopia" June 14, 2023 |
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Prof. Dr. Nina Gallion (Historical Seminary) Florian Kehm M. A. (Historical Seminary) Dr. Christian Hoffarth (CAU Kiel) |
March 30 - April 1, 2023 |
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| Dr. Maja Figge (Film Studies) |
Film screening Peepal Tree (2021) by the Indian director Kranti Kanadé with an introduction by Maja Figge and subsequent discussion December 7, 2022 Conversation with director Kranti Kanadé about his film December 8, 2022 |
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| Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings (Ethnology) |
Series of film screenings: "Ethnofiction. Das Kino von Jean Rouch" November 3, 2022 - February 9, 2023 |
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| Prof. Dr. Veronika Cummings, Dr. Elisabeth Sommerlad & Dr. Marie Karner (Geographisches Institut) |
Workshop as part of an international scientific cooperation with the University of Mauritius November 17, 2022 |
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| Dr. Franziska Jekel-Twittmann (German Institute) |
Conference: "Instabile Translationen. Verunsicherung als poetisches Prinzip der Übersetzung" November 3-4, 2022 |
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| Jun.-Prof. Dr. Angela Kölling (Anglophone Studies, FTSK Germersheim) |
September 22-23, 2022 |
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| Prof. Dr. Ute Röschenthaler, Dr. Hauke Dorsch (Ethnology) University Library Mainz, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, CEDITRAA |
Workshop: "Copyright, Care and African Music Archives" September 21-23, 2022 |
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| Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings (Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien) |
International Workshop: "Orality and Cinema in Kenya" September 5-7, 2022 |
Report Orality and cinema in Kenya |
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Dr. des. Rebecca Boguska, Fabian Kling M.A. (Film Studies)
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Talk with the Ukrainian film collective Babylon’13: „Kino und Krieg: Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine“ July 15, 2022 |
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| Dr. des. Rebecca Boguska (Film Studies) |
International Workshop: "20 Jahre Guantánamo: Zeitlichkeit der Zeugenschaft" December 2-3, 2021 |
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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay (Ethnology) Dr. Irene Brunotti (African Studies, University Leipzig) Dr. Nathalie Arnold Koenings (African Studies, Hampshire College/USA) |
International Workshop: "Tafsiri: Politics of Translation and Decolonisation in Swahili Studies" November 19-20, 2021 |
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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nico Nassenstein (Ethnology) Dr. Svenja Völkel (Linguistics) |
International Workshop: "Diversity in Language and Culture: Kinship" October 7-9, 2021 |
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| Dr. Christoph Günther (Ethnology/ Junior Research Group Jihadism online) |
International Conference: "Notions of Jihad Reconsidered: Perspectives on Media, Materiality, and Political Violence.” in cooperation with the exhibition MINDBOMBS at Kunsthalle Mannheim. October 6-8, 2021 |
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| Prof. Dr. Alison E. Martin (British Studies, FTSK Germersheim) |
Conference "Translating 18th- and 19th-century Science: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” September 23-25, 2021 |
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| Zentrum für Frankreich- und Frankophoniestudien (ZFF) / Prof. Dr. Gregor Wedekind (Arts) |
June 17-18, 2021 |
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| Dr. Spencer Hawkins / Prof. Dr. Lavinia Heller (German Studies, FTSK Germersheim) |
April 10, 2021 |
Workshop report H-Soz-Kult, 19.05.2021 |
| AG Inkommensurabilität / Prof. Dr. Annika Schlitte (Cultural Philosophy) |
Workshop "Ohne gemeinsames Maß? Inkommensurabilität in Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften Teil II" SoSe 2021 |
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| UeLEX / Dr. Aleksey Tashinskiy, Dr. Julija Boguna, Prof. Dr. dr. h.c. mult. Andreas F. Kelletat (German Studies, FTSK Germersheim) |
UeLIT VII "Exil und Verfolgung 1933–1945: Namen und Orte. Von der Prosopographie zur Geographie" November 13-15, 2020 |
ALEKSEY TASHINSKIY, JULIJA BOGUNA and TOMASZ ROZMYSLOWICZ (Eds.) (2022): Translation und Exil (1933–1945) I Namen und Orte. Recherchen zur Geschichte des Übersetzens Transkulturalität – Translation – Transfer, Volume 53 |
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GNK-Graduate School „Zeugenschaft“ Prof. Dr. Alexandra Schneider (Film Studies) |
TAGUNG GNK 26.10.2020 in cooperation with Kunsthalle Mainz October 26, 2020 |
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| Dr. Imme Klages, Dr. Cecilia Valenti (Film Studies) |
Workshop: "Migration der Medien/Medien der Migration" / Screening May 2020 |
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| Prof. Dr. Andreas Gipper, Prof. Dr. Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Prof. Dr. Alison Martin, Dr. Simon Varga (FTSK Germersheim) |
Workshop: "Spezifische Probleme bei der Maschinellen Übersetzung der wissenschaftlichen Tagebücher von Alexander von Humboldt" March 2020 |
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| Forschungsgruppe Transnational Periodical Cultures (TPC) / Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst (American Studies, FTSK Germersheim) |
Conference: "Transnational Periodical Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" January 29-31, 2020 |
JUTTA ERNST and BRIGITTE JOHANNA GLASER (Eds.) (2020): Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim (Anglistische Forschungen 461). Universitätsverlag Winter, 280 pages. |
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Dr. Sandra Vlasta/ Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Fellow (Comparative Literature) |
Conference: "European travel writing in context: strategies of negotiating identity in travel writing – a comparative approach" / Lecture Jochen Schmidt January 23-24, 2020 |
