Recent

Performance/Play:
The English Drama Group (EDG) presents: "Habeas Corpus" by Alan Bennett
Performed by the EDG
Flyer
January 11, 12 & 19, 2019 | 8 pm | Studiobühne Münster, Domplatz 23

Guest lecture:
The acquisition of English in the multilingual classroom. Insights from Germany and Norway
Lecturer: Eliane Lorenz (Trondheim, Norway)
Poster
December 16, 2019 | 10 am - 12 pm | ES 2, English Department

Performance/Play:
The English Drama Group (EDG) presents: "Habeas Corpus" by Alan Bennett
Performed by the EDG
Flyer
December 13 & 15, 2019 | 8 pm | Studiobühne Münster, Domplatz 23

Guest lecture:
How to study sound learning during conversation: The ventriloquist paradigm
Lecturer: Mirjam Broersma (Radbound University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Poster
December 2, 2019 | 10 am 12 pm | ES 2, English Department

Guest lecture:
The longitudinal development of clausal and noun-phrasal complexity in written intermediate learner English
Lecturer: Steffen Schaub
Poster
November 18, 2019 | 10 am - 12 pm | ES 2, English Department

Guest lecture:
Brexit: What Does it Mean for Britain, Germany and Europe
Lecturer: Sir Peter Tony
Website
October 24, 2019 | 10 am | Auditorium S10, Schlossplatz 2

Guest lecture:
West African publishing, diasporic connections: A publisher’s perspective
Lecturer: Akoss Ofori-Mensah (Accra, Ghana)
October 15, 2019 | 12 pm | JO1, Johannisstr. 4

Information events for 1st-semester students:
Information event organised by departmental staff (student advisory service)
Organised by Amrei Sander (Tue) and Dr. Silke Stroh (Fri)
October 1, 2019 | 1 - 3 pm | Audimax (English Department)
October 4, 2019 | 10 am - 12 noon) | Audimax (English Department)
Information & meet-and-greet events organised by the department's student representatives
Organised by Fachschaft Anglistik
Detailed descriptions & schedule on the Fachschaft's Website

International Conference:
Intellectuals Across Borders: Writers, Artists, Activists
September 5-6, 2019 | English Department
Website

Reading group:
Native American and First Nations Literatures: Indigenous Women Writers
July 9 & July 16, 2019 | 4 - 6 pm | ES 129

Guest lecture:
A.S. Byatt's Possession and the Commodification of Neo-Victorian Fiction
Lecturer: Dr. Marlena Tronicke
July 2, 2019 | 10:15 | AE 11, Aegidiistr. 5

Guest lecture:
A World of Translation
Guest lecturer: Prof. Theo D'haen (KU Leuven)
June 6, 2019 | 6 pm | Festsaal, Schlossplatz 5
Further details

Discussion:
Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 shortlist discussion
June 5, 2019 | 2 pm | Book Studies Library

Discussion:
Republican vs. Democrat Discussion
Guest speakers: Ralph C. Freund & Matt LeMieux
June 4, 2019 | 6 pm | JO 1, Johannisstr. 4

General meeting:
Student Journal SATURA
May 28, 2019 | 4-6 pm | Die Brücke, Room 106
Further details

Guest lecture:
The Modern Dystopia – a Response to Post-Factualism and other 21st Century Challenges?
Guest lecturer: Karmen Heup
May 23, 2019 | 8 pm | ES 131
Further details

Guest lecture:
About the INTER and the INTRA in L2 development: Investigating the age factor from two different perspectives
Guest lecturer: Prof. Dr. Simone Pfenninger, University of Salzburg
May 21, 2019 | 2 - 4 pm | F5 Fürstenberghaus
Poster

Guest lecture:
/S/-Retraction in American English. The analysis of social factors in a change in apparent time
Guest lecturer: Wiebke Ahlers, University of Osnabrück
May 21, 2019 | 10 - 12 am | ES 202
Poster

Guest lecture:
English in Bangladesh: From colonization to globalization
Guest lecturer: Dr. Laura García Castro, University of Vigo
May 15, 2019 | 2-4 pm | JO 1, Johannisstr. 4
Poster

Information Event:
Master of Arts: National & Transnational Studies (MA NTS)
April 17, 2019 | 6 pm | ES 226
MA NTS Website

Guest lecture:
Thru' Words that Still, Frames that Freeze: A Backward Glance at the Cracked Earth and its Fragmented Worlds
Guest lecturer: Prof. Sridhar Rajeswaran
April 09, 2019 | 12:15| JO 1, Johannisstr. 4
Further details

Guest lecture:
The Idea of South Asia and the Construct of South Asian Diasporic Literatures
Guest lecturer: Prof. Nilufer E. Bharucha
April 02, 2019 | 12:15| JO 1, Johannisstr. 4
Further details

Guest lecture:
German Influences on the Palaces of London
Guest lecturer: Prof. John R. Davis
March 21, 2019 | 8 pm | ES 131
Further details

Conference:
7th TEFL Day
February 12, 2019 | English Department
Website

International conference:
Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality - Models, Varieties, Approaches
February 8-10, 2019 | English Department
Conference Website

Guest lecture:
Brexit - The Role and Responsibility of Civil Society & What is the scope for Brexit to shape and (re)define the next-generation of British-German relations?
Guest lecturer: Amanda Jane Diel
February 6, 2019 | 8 pm | ES 131
Further details

Lecture series:
Hotspots in Literary/Cultural Studies, Book Studies, Linguistics, & TEFL
Guest lecturer: Various
Further details

Guest lecture:
Windrush: The second generation
Guest lecturer: Bénédicte Ledent
January 14, 2019| 12:15 | JO 1, Johannisstr.

Guest lecture:
The English Book on the Continent
Lecturer: Dr. Marie-Luise Spieckermann
January 7, 2019 | 2 pm | ES 131

Guest lecture:
English in multilingual Singapore: properties and use of an emerging L1 variety
Guest lecturer: Dr. Sarah Buschfeld, University of Regensburg
December 13, 2018 | 08:45-09:45 am | ES 226
Poster

Book discussion:
Costa Book Awards Shortlist Discussion
December 11, 2018 | 4 pm | AE 11, Aegidiistr. 5

Theatre performance:
Sketch Show “A dirty f**k on the table”
performed by the English Drama Group (EDG)
December, 1,6,7,8, 2018 | 08 pm | Studiobühne, Domplatz 23
Website of the EDG

Guest lecture:
Orthographic effects in L2 sound production - The case of Polish L2 German learners
Guest lecturer: Dr. Katharina Nimz, University of Osnabrück
November 20, 2018 | 10pm | ES 3
Poster

Guest talk:
BREXIT - 'An Epic Act of Self-Harm' or an Act of National Salvation?
Guest speaker: Andrew Hitchen (LLM, Cert. TESOL, PGCE)
October 30, 2018 | 06 pm | Audimax
Poster

Film feature:
Book Studies Film Night: The Great Book Robbery
October 25, 2018 | 04 pm | AE 11, Aegidiistr. 5

Conference:
EuroSLA 28
September 05-08, 2018
Website

Study India Day:
Silk Roads and Sea Routes: Great Indian Diasporic Journeys
Guest lecturers: Various including Prof. Nilufer E. Bharucha and Prof. Sridhar Rajeswaran
July 25, 2018 | 02 - 05 pm | Festsaal im Schloss, Schlossplatz 5
Further details

Film feature:
Book Studies Film Night - Two Types: The faces of Britain
July 17, 2018 | 04 pm | AE 11, Aegidiistr. 5

Guest lecture:
From sandcastles to smartphones: How the modern electronic world was built from sand
Guest lecturer: Donna Carroll
July 11, 2018 | 07 pm | ES 131
Further details

Conference, workshop and alumni meeting:
10 YEARS ON: National & Transnational Studies in Münster and Beyond
Guest lecturer: Johny Pitts
July 07, 2018 | 10 am - 7:30 pm | JO 1 & JO 101, Johannisstr. 4
Further details

Conference:
Research Day of the faculty of philology (09)
June 28, 2018 | 09 am - 05:30 pm | Hofgebäude RS 2, Rosenstraße 9
Further details (German)

Guest lecture and reading:
Reyna Grande
Guest lecturer: Reyna Grande
June, 26 2018 | 06 pm | ES 131
Further details

Lecture performance:
The Americans
Band: The Americans
June 21, 2018 | 07 pm | LWL Museum, Domplatz 10
Further details

Conference:
Anniversary conference: Graduate School Practices of Literature
June 19, 2018 | 10 am - 08 pm | Aula, Vom-Stein-Haus, Schlossplatz 34
Further details

Guest lecture:
Emotion Metaphors and New Englishes: Insights from a Corpus-Based Study of ANGER, FEAR and HAPPINESS
Guest lecturer: Barbara Ann Güldenring, Phllipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
June, 19 2018 | 10:15 am | ES 333

Past

Reading and discussion:
A defiant mind: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s life-writing
Guest: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
June 14, 2018 | 06 pm | Freiherr-von-Vincke-Haus, Domplatz 23
Further details

Guest lecture:
The Palace of Westminster: A History of British Parliament
Guest lecturer: John Batty (Lt Col)
June, 6 2018 | 08 pm | ES 131
Further details
Programme of the DBG 2018

Film feature:
Book Studies Film Night - Illuminations: Treasures of the Middle Ages
June, 5 2018 | 04 pm | AE 11, Aegidiistr. 5
Further details

Public lecture:
Caribbean queen? Rihanna's and Nicki Minaj's multivocal pop personas
Lecturers: Dr. Michael Westphal and Lisa Jansen
May, 16 2018 | 08:30 pm | Aposto, Alter Steinweg 21
Website

Guest lecture:
The Construction of English Education in India
Guest lecturer: Prof. Dr. Sailaja Pingali, University of Hyderabad, India
May, 15 2018 | 10:15 - 11:45 am | ES 131
Further details

Guest lecture:
Regional Varieties of English in English Language Teaching in Germany
Guest lecturer: Lisa Scheiwe, University of Paderborn
April, 30 2018 | 04 - 06 pm | ES 202
Further details

Theatre performance:
Allistair McDowall's POMONA
performed by the English Drama Group (EDG)
April, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29, 2018 | 08-10 pm | Studiobühne, Domplatz 23
Website of the EDG

Guest lecture:
The Case of Mrs Schroder’s Luther: German Books and Crime in Regency London
Guest lecturer: Graham Jefcoate
April 18, 2018 | 08 pm | ES 131
Further details

Theatre performance:
A Little Light Entertainment
performed by the English Drama Group
Website

Conference:
6th TEFL Day - Kompetenzorientierter Fremdsprachenunterricht
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet, University of Gießen, Germany
February 15, 2018 | 02 - 06 pm | Juridicum and English Department
Website

Guest lecture:
Contradiction or asset? The Book-of-the-Month Club (BOMC) today: merging hardcover books and digital book culture
Guest lecturer: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
January 30, 2018 | 02 pm | AE 11,  Aegidiistr. 5

Guest lecture:
Poor poor art: Thinking against value
Guest lecturer: Sam Ladkin, University of Sheffield, UK
Website

Preview Film Screening:
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
January 18, 2018 | 06 pm | Cinema, Warendorfer Str. 1

Guest lecture:
Singapore English through the prism of electronic communication
Guest lecturer: Dr. Jakob Leimgruber, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
January 16, 2018 | 10 am | ES 24

Student conference:
Pop hero and action princess: Negotiating gender in popular culture
January 12 -  13, 2018 | English Department
Website

Guest lecture:
When 'simple' simply won't do: The complexity of phonological transfer into an L3
Guest lecturer: Christina Domene Moreno, University of Würzburg, Germany
December 15, 2017 | 10:15 am | ES 129

Guest lecture and reading:
Reinventing Poetic Form: A Poetry Reading and Lecture
Guest lecturer: Dana Gioia
December 13, 2017 | 06 pm | AudiMax, English Department
Website

Guest lecture:
Überlegungen zum Konzept der Welt-Literatur im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
Guest lecturer: Shaswati Mazumbar, University of Dehli, India
November 30, 2017 | 06 - 08 pm | Schlossplatz 2, Senatssaal
Further information

Guest lecture:
Priming & cross-linguistic interactions in bilingual language use
Guest lecturer: Gerrit Jan Kostra, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
November 28, 2017 | 02 - 04 pm | Audimax

Guest lecture:
The bilingual mental lexicon in L2 sentence processing
Guest lecturer: Holger Hopp, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
November 21, 2017 | 02 - 04 pm | Audimax

Conference:
Citizenship and Literature: Past Concerns, Present Issues, Future Trajectories
February 20-21, 2017

Reading:
Professor, Playwright, Poet Laureate: George Elliot Clarke Reads at the English Department
December 14, 2016
10 a.m. (c.t.) in ES 131
Poster

Talk:
Trump, Clinton, and the Crisis of Democracy in the United States
Guest Lecturer: Christian Lammert, Professor of North American Politics and Policy at the John F. Kennedy Institute (Freie Universität Berlin)
October 25, 2016 | 6:00 pm | ES 131
Everyone is welcome to attend!
Poster

Symposium on The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
From September 28-30th, the Chair of English, Postcolonial & Media Studies and Open University will be co-hosting a unique collaborative Symposium. Compiling the very first Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing, editors Professor Susheila Nasta (Open Univesity) and Professor Mark Stein (Münster) have invited their contributors to a three-day research and cooperation workspace through which the writing process shall be enhanced and productively facilitated.
The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing will be the first coherent written historical account of its kind bridging nearly 300 years of Black and Asian British literary production. Chronologically moving forward, the History’s three sections, “Early formations: 18th to early 20th century”, “Uneven histories: Changing landscapes in the twentieth century”, and “Writing contemporary Britain: Post-ethnic and transnational imaginaries” will guide contributors and readers through the different phases of these writings. Being published in 2018, the book will not only inscribe past and present Black and Asian British literatures into historiography but function as a vantage point for future scholarly endeavors.

Public event: An Evening to Celebrate Black and Asian British Writing
On September 29th, the University of Münster’s English Department  and Wasafiri, the well-known magazine of international contemporary writing, will be co-hosting a literary reading event to celebrate Black and Asian British writing. The reading will feature authors Mike Phillips, Moniza Alvi, Kerry Young and Gabriel Gbadamosi. The event is open to the public and free of charge. Visitors are warmly welcomed.
Venue: Lecture Theatre JO1, Johannisstr. 1, Münster
Thursday, 29 September 2016 from 6.45pm

Guest lecture:
Chances and Challenges of Campaign Communication in the Age of Social Media
Guest lecturer: Laura Vorberg from the University of Erlangen
May 24, 2016 |  6:00 pm (ct) | ES 131
poster
 
Guest Lecture:
First as Tragedy then as Farce: Donald Trump and the US Presidential Election
Guest lecturer: Andrew Rowcroft from Lincoln University, UK
June 14, 2016 | 6:00 pm (ct) | ES 131
poster

Film Screening and Discussion:
An American House
July 5, 2016 | 6:00 pm (ct) | ES 131
poster

Conference:
THE FANTASTIC NOW: TENDENZEN DER FANTASTIKFORSCHUNG IM 21. JAHRHUNDERT
Siebte Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung e.V.
September 22-24, 2016
Poster

Performance + Photobook Presentation:
Shock and Awe - Ethan Rafal  (Artist | San Francisco)
June 6, 2016 | 6 pm
Englisches Seminar | WWU Münster | ES 131
Further information on the webpages of the American Studies
Ethan Rafal Website
Flyer

Guest lecture:
TEACHING LANGUAGE AS CULTURE
Guest lecturer: Prof. Claire Kramsch (Berkeley, University of California, Graduate School of Education
)
3 May 2016 | 18:00 c.t.

Englisches Seminar | Audimax | Johannisstraße 12-20 | 48143 Münster
The large-scale mobility of people, goods and capital called “globalization” and the widespread use of global information technologies have given many language educators the impression that national cultures are on the wane and that in a global neoliberal economy “culture” has lost its explanatory power. In fact, quite the contrary is happening. Culture has become embedded in speakers’ and writers’ choice of words, their discourse style and their manipulation of codes, modes, stances and identities. Culture has become another word for historicity and subjectivity. This paper will trace the development, in the last 25 years, of the teaching of language across cultures and the emergence of the notion of symbolic competence to account for today’s complex relation of language and culture in foreign language education.

Literature at Lunchtime - A reading by Tendai Huchu
chaired by Deborah Nyangulu
Wednesday, 20 April | 12-2 pm (ES 131)
Tendai Huchu is a Zimbabwean author who lives in Edinburgh. His first novel, The Hairdresser of Harare, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim, and has been translated into German, French, Italian and Spanish. His short fiction in multiple genres and nonfiction have appeared in The Manchester Review, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Gutter, Interzone, AfroSF, Wasafiri, Warscapes, The Africa Report and elsewhere. In 2013, he received a Hawthornden Fellowship, a Sacatar Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Caine Prize.
Tendai Huchu will be reading from his new novel, The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician. It pictures the struggle of three main characters with thoughts of belonging, loss, identity and love, as they attempt to find a place for themselves in Britain.
The reading will be chaired by Deborah Nyangulu, who is a graduate of the MA NTS programme and a PhD student and lecturer at the Chair of English, Postcolonial, and Media Studies, WWU Münster <ptts.wwu.de>.
Englisches Seminar | Room ES 131 | Johannisstraße 12-20 | 48143 Münster

International Conference:
Challenging Reading: English-Language Education with Children and Teenagers
11 - 12 March 2016 | University of Münster, Germany
Further information

Conference:
TEFL Day 2016 - Fachdidaktiktag Englisch
TEFL Day is an annual one-day event organised by the Chair of TEFL and supported by the Zentrum für Lehrerbildung (ZfL Münster). It takes place at the English Seminar of Münster University. Each TEFL Day moves into focus a current didactic concern, thus interweaving didactic theory with reflective practice of teaching English as a foreign language.
The fourth TEFL Day will take place on Thursday, 10 March 2016.
TEFL Day flyer and  TEFL Day: Workshop Overview

Conference:
Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe
Fifth Biennial Conference 2015
The conference is organized by the Chair of English, Postcolonial and Media Studies, WWU Münster 
September 16-19, 2015
English Department, Münster

Fishbowl discussion:
African European Studies: Aims, scope, and disciplinarily
With: Natasha A. Kelly I Elisa Joy White I Matti Traußneck
September 19, 2015 |  14:00 - 15:30 | JO 1, Johannisstraße 4, 48143 Münster
Exzellenzcluster „Religion und Politik“

Roundtable discussion:
Why is my professor not black?
With: Susheila Nasta I Karim Fereidooni I Shanell Johnson I Natasha A. Kelly I Emily Ngubia Kuria I Linda Supik I Vanessa Thompson
September 17, 2015 | 16:00 - 18:00 | JO 1, Johannisstraße 4, 48143 Münster
Exzellenzcluster „Religion und Politik“

Conference:
Annual GAPS Conference (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien, formerly GNEL)  "Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts"
May 14-16, 2015 | English Department
Find detailed information on our website:
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/GAPS2015/

Lecture and talk:
The Driftless Area – Das Stille Land - with Tom Drury
April 16, 2015
LWL Museum für Kunst & Kultur Domplatz 10, 48143 Münster
Flyer and registration

Conference:
11. Arbeitstagung für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs in der Fremdsprachenforschung
February 24-25, 2015 | University of Münster
Für weitere Informationen siehe Webseite

Guest lecture:
Constructionist Approaches to Language
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann (University of Osnabrueck)
November 19, 2014 | Kavaliershäuschen WWU (Graduate Center) | Schlossplatz 6
Conference:

Guest lecture:
The Hidden Route 66
David King Dunaway (University of New Mexico)
November 11, 2014 | ES 131 | English Department
Further information

Farewell lecture:
Freedom´s Re-Naming: From American Slavery to Hessian Subjecthood
Prof. Dr. Maria Diedrich
July 3, 2013 | ES 131 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Democracy, Conscience, and the Political Theory of American Transcendentalism
Daniel S. Malachuk (Western Illinois University) -
July 1, 2014 | ES 3 | English Department
Further information

Reading:
Pictures, Words and the Gaps Between: Picture Books in Language Education
Dr. Sandie Mourao
June 18, 2014 | Audimax | English Department

Guest lecture:
Judging a book by its cover: Black British literature in the marketplace
Prof. Dr. Susanne Reichl (Universität Wien)
June 18, 2014 | JO 101 | Johannisstraße 4
Further information

Reading:
Euromaidan
Juri Andruchowytsch
17 June 2014| JO 1 | Johannisstraße 1-4
See website Europa-Kolleg for further information

Festival:
14. Afrika Festival Münster - "Business as usual? Unternehmergeist und Ideen aus Afrika"
June 17, 2014 | Stadtbücherei am Alten Steinweg 11, 48143 Münster
Further information on readings

Conference/Workshop:
Study India Day
June 3, 2014 | Festsaal, Schlossplatz 5, Münster
Flyer

Workshop:
Norms and Standards in Indian English and other South Asian Englishes
June 2, 2014 | English Department
Flyer

Workshop:
Transcultural Autobiography
The workshop is organized by the Chair of American Studies, WWU Münster
April 9, 2014, 4 p.m. | April 10, 2014 3 p.m.
For further information, please see the flyer

Conference:
TEFL Day - Fachdidaktiktag Englisch
February 19, 2014 | English Department
Download the TEFL Day flyer or visit the TEFL Homepage
Programme

Workshop:
Teachning Kurt Vonnegut - Workshop by students and professors from Ball State University (Indiana, USA)
The workshop is organized by the Chair of American Studies, WWU Münster
February 11, 2014 | 2:30 p.m.  - 5 p.m. 
Further information on the flyer

Workshop:
Arbeiten und Bewerben in englischer Sprache
Veranstaltung des Career Service
November 19, 2013 | 10:15 am – 04:45 pm 
November 20, 2013 | 10:15 am – 04:45 pm
Weitere Informationen auf der Website des Career Service

Workshop:
English in contemporary Scotland
organised by Prof. Dr. Gut
November 18-20, 2013

Conference:
Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging
September 22-24, 2013
Flyer

Summer school:
Just Politics? Postcolonial Ecocriticism between Imagination and Occupation
ASNEL/GNEL summer school hosted by the University of Potsdam
September 2-6, 2013
Flyer

Reading:
Run Biju Run - Acceleration and Deceleration in Anglophone Indian Novels
Miriam Nandi (University of Freiburg)
June 28, 2013| Room 101 | Johannisstraße 1

Reading:
Literatures and cultures of the Caribbean diaspora
Grace Nichols and John Agard
17 June 2013 | JO1| Johannisstraße 4
Flyer

Conference:
TEFL Lounge
May 15, 2013 Teaching Australia: Insights and Perspectives
June 12, 2013 Teaching Material: Diesterweg
6-8 pm |Room ES 13 | English Departmen
Flyer

Guest lecture:
Mexikanische Einwanderung und amerikanische Populärkultur
Manfred Strack (Hamburg)
December 11, 2012

Conference:
Universal or diverse paths to English phonology
organised by Prof. Dr. Gut, funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung
September 19-21, 2012

Guest lecture: 
Learning how to look with postcolonial picturebooks
PD Dr. Susanne Reichl (Wien)
July, 3 2012 | ES 131
Abstract

Guest lecture:
Novelistic narration across modes and media: The multimodal novel
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet (Gießen)
June 26, 2012 | ES 131
Abstract

Guest lecture:
The19th-century Irish English and modern Singapore English: Grammars in contact. A case study of the PRESENT PERFECT
Dr. Julia Davydova (Hamburg)
June 12, 2012 | ES 131

Guest lecture:
Transcultural encounters: Coming to terms with Aboriginal modernity in Australian literature and film
Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler (Frankfurt a. M.)
June 5, 2012 | ES 131
Abstract

Guest lecture:
What Makes me Talk that Way? Speaker Choice and the Evidence from Folk Linguistics
Prof. Dennis R. Preston
May 22, 2012 | Festsaal, Schloss
Abstract 

Guest lecture:
Reconsidering the issue of transcultural vs. ethnocentric uses of literature: The case of Arundhati Roy’s award-winning bestseller The God of Small Things
Prof. Dr. Laurenz Volkmann (Jena)
15 May 2012 | ES 131
(Abstract)

Guest lecture:
Whales, waste and wilderness: Postcolonial environmentalism
Prof. Dr. Kylie Crane (Mainz)
May 8, 2012 | ES 131
Abstract

Guest lecture:
'What, then, is the American, this new man?' (Crèvecœur): National Identity in a Country of Immigrants
Prof. em. Dr. Dr. Peter Freese (Paderborn)
April 17, 2012 | 6 - 8 pm | ES 131
Abstract

Guest lecture:
A Literary Matinée.
Professor Isidore Diala, English Department and Gregor Addison, Glasgow, Scotland
April 5, 2012 | 1 - 3 pm | Gallery of the University Library (ULB) | Krummer Timpen 3
Flyer

Conference:
TEFL Day - Fachdidaktiktag  Englisch
February 8, 2012 | English Department
Download the TEFL Day flyer or visit the TEFL Homepage

First lecture:
t/d deletion in Singapore English
Professor Dr. Ulrike Gut, English Department
November 30, 2011 | 6.15 pm | ES 131

Exhibition:
William Butler Yeats
September 16 -  October 29, 2011 | University library (ULB)
http://www.ulb.uni-muenster.de/forum/nachrichten/2011-09-16_yeats.html

Guest lecture:
Writing in English: what does the advanced learner need to know?
Professor Dr. Dirk Siepmann, Universität Osnabrück
July 7, 2011 | 2-4 pm | AudiMax

Guest lecture:
Graphic Novels im Fremdsprachenunterricht? Explorieren - Exemplifizieren - Experimentieren
Professor Dr. Daniela Elsner, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.
June 30, 2011 | 2-4 pm | AudiMax

Guest lecture:
"The Case of Coordinated Pronouns"
Professor Dr John Payne, University of Manchester
June 9, 2011 | 12 - 2 pm | SAC

Symposium:
DAAD German-Indian Symposium on Knowledge Transfer
and Cultural Exchange
May 16-17, 2011 | English Department
Download: Information and programme

Guest lecture:
Wildes Licht. Gedichte aus Aotearoa/Neuseeland
Dieter Riemenschneider
February 3, 2011 | 7.30 pm | ROSTA Buchladen, Aegidiistr. 12, Münster

Workshop:
Transcending Diaspora: Whiteness, Performativity and the Politics of the Body
Inaugural Workshop of the DFG Young Scholars Network “Black Diaspora and Germany”
December 3-4, 2010 | English Department
Download: Information and programme

Guest lecture:
Prof. Dr. John Flood
"Who would be a Poet Laureate?"
October 8, 2010 | 8 pm | H19 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Hindi cinema: Bollywood and beyond
Prof. Dr. Rachel Dwyer, SOAS, Univ. of London
July 13, 2010 | 4-6 pm | AudiMax

Guest Lecture:
Border Crossing and (Un)Critical Cosmopolitanism between the US and the Arab World
Prof. Sofian Merabet, The University of Texas at Austin
June 23, 2010 | 12-02 pm | H19
Contact: Dr. Markus Schmitz  markus.schmitz@wwu.de 

Guest lecture:
Whale Rider in the context of New Zealand cinema
Dr. Briar Wood, London Metropolitan University
June 22, 2010 | 4-6 pm | AudiMax

Guest lecture:
Migrant and diasporic cinema in Europe: The case of Postcolonial Britain
Dr. Claudia Sternberg, Univ. of Leeds
June 15, 2010 | 4-6 pm | AudiMax

Guest lecture:
Re-situating South African cinema in Africa
Dr. Dirk Naguschewski, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
June 8, 2010 | 4-6 pm | AudiMax

Guest lecture:
Indigenous film in Canada and the USA: A survey
Dr. Kerstin Knopf, Univ. of Greifswald
June 1, 2010 | 4-6 pm | AudiMax

Conference:
Anything goes? Literaturwissenschaft im 21. Jahrhundert
Erste Graduiertentagung der Graduate School "Practices of Literature"
May 21-22, 2010 | Senatssaal, Schloss der WWU Münster
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Practices-of-Literature/Veranstaltungen/Graduiertentagung.html
Contact and registration: gradpol@uni-muenster.de

Guest lecture:
Palestinian cinema: The visible and the invisible
Prof. Patrick Williams, Nottingham Trent University
May 18, 2010 | 16-18h | AudiMax | English Department

Colloquium:
Buchgeschenke und kulturelle Netzwerke vom 14. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert
February 8-10, 2010 | English Department
http://www.uni-muenster.de/SFB496/projekte/b7.html

Colloquium:
Colloque in Memoriam Paul-Gabriel Boucé 
February 4-5, 2010 | English Department
Programme
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Swift/Library/events.html

Conference:
Postcolonial Translocations
20th annual GNEL/ASNEL conference
May 21-24, 2009 | English Department
For more information click here

Guest lecture:
Black British writing for children and young adults
PD Dr. Susanne Reichl, Univ. Wien/Münster
January 28, 2009 | 16-18h | Audimax | English Department

 Guest lecture:
The British Asian Renaissance
Dr. James Procter, University of Newcastle
January 07, 2009 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Interrogating 'Black British' in the 1980s and 1990s
Dr. John McLeod, University of Leeds
December 17, 2008 | English Department

Series of events:
Alles  schwarz~weiß oder was?
readings - exhibition - theatre - films - concerts
May - October 2008
For more information click here 

Conference:
The Edward Said Symposium: Locations - Readings - Legacies
September 25-27, 2008 | Lake Griebnitzsee (Berlin)
www.edwardsaid2008.de

Guest lecture:
Globalisation, Hip Hop and Post - 9/11 Anxiety: Australia and Beyond
Dr. Lars Eckstein, University of Tübingen
17 July 2008 | English Department, WWU Münster

Conference:
On Whose Terms? Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts
March 13-14, 2008 | Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Organised by
Dr. Deirdre Osborne, (Department of Drama, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Prof. Mark Stein (Department of English Studies, University of Muenster, Germany)
Dr. Godfrey Brandt (Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck, University of London)
For more information click here

Guest lecture:
Is It True What They Say About Shakespeare
Professor Stanley Wells, CBE (The Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon)
November 30, 2007 |  English Department

Guest lecture:
Romeo and Juliet and Sex
Professor Stanley Wells, CBE (The Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon)
November 29, 2007 | English Department

Guest lecture:
'I am the rape' - Dambudzo Marechera, the Infamous Rebel and Post-Moderniser of Zimbabwean Literature
Prof. Dr. Flora Veit-Wild, HU Berlin
June 19, 2007 | English Department

Poetry performance & guest lecture / presentation:
The Rap Canterbury Tales - Hip-hop Versions of Chaucer's 14th Century Classic
Baba Brinkman (Canadian Hip Hop artist, actor, and medieval scholar)
Performance : May 21, 2007 | Lecture/ presentation: May 22, 2007 | English Department

Conference:
Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States - Insecurity and Anxiety in Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World
May 5-7, 2007 | English Department
hybrid-cultures.eu

Guest lecuture:
Crossing the Black Waters - Writers of the South Asian Diaspora: Some Snapshots from the Past
Dr. Susheila Nasta, Open University, London
January 31, 2007 | English Department

Conference:
Fundamenatlism and Literature - global/local
November 19-21, 2006
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Fundamentalism/Conferences/Literature/

Guest lecture:
The True and the Interesting in the 19th-Century Fiction
Prof. Marshall Brown, University of Washington
June 21, 2006 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Classroom Discourse Analysis - a complement to learner language analysis
Prof. Dr. Rita Kupetz, Hannover
June 14, 2006 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Der englische Landschaftsgarten des 18. Jahrhunderts und die Rolle der Literatur
Prof. em. Dr. Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock, Universität Göttingen
June 2, 2006 | English Department

Conference:
5. Münsteraner Symposium zu Jonathan Swift
May 22-24, 2006 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Books, Bonfires and Believers: Techniques of Censorship in Loallrd England
Prof. Dr. Anne Hudson, Oxford
April 19, 2006 | English Department

Conference:
Crossovers: African Americans and Germany
March 22-26, 2006 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Language policy and democracy in post-Apartheid South Africa
Prof. Dr. Rajend Mesthrie
January 26, 2006 | English Department

Guest lecture:
The problem of misunderstandings in different cultures
Prof. John Wetwood, Staffordshire University
December 6, 2005 | English Department

Colloquium:
Jonathan Swift in Europe
November 30, 2005 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Poetry and Politics: Going Beyond Niceties and the Problems of Post-Colonial Honesty
Prof. Kirpal Singh, Singapur Management University
November 16, 2005 | English Department

Guest lecture:
An Evening with Singaporean Writer Kirpal Singh
Prof. Kirpal Singh, Singapur Management University
November 15, 2005 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Memory and Identity in the Art of Marc Brandenburg
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinrichs, Seton Hall University, (USA)
July 14, 2005 | English Department

 Guest lecture:
Technology and Science in American Literatire and Culture, 1870 - 1920
Prof. Dr. Klaus Benesch, Universität Bayreuth
July 12, 2005 | English Department

Guest lecture:
From Page To Stage: Zur theaterpraktischen Umsetzung von Shakespeares Dramentexten auf der Bühne des Globe Theatre
Dr. Vanessa Schormann, Leiterin des Globe Zentrums Deutschland
June 30, 2005 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Biclausal Constructions and Emergent Grammar
Prof. Dr. Paul Hopper, Pittsburgh (USA)
May 12, 2005 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Viewpoint Analysis and the Opening of Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
Prof. Dr. Mick Short, Lancaster University (GB)
May 3, 2005 | English Department

Guest lecture:
'Rising Glory': Poetry in the Early United States of America
Dr. Markus Heide, Humboldt Universität Berlin
January 20, 2005 | English Department

Guest lecture:
The problem of misunderstandings in different cultures
Prof. John Wetwood, Staffordshire University
January 18, 2005 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Prof. Jürgen Heinrichs, Seton Hall University, New Jersey
"Aesthetics and Social History in Late Colonial Plantation Architecture and Painting of the Early Republic, 1730-1800"
9 December 2004 | English Department, WWU Münster

Guest lecture:
Brauchen wir neue Wörter? Probleme und Aufgaben der Computerlinguistik bei der Lexikonerweiterung
Dr. Lothar Lemnitzer, Tübingen
November 12, 2004 | English Department

 Guest lecture:
Reading Aldous Huxley's Short Stories: the Sound Behind the Orthograph
Prof. Jean-Loius Cupers, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Loius
November 4, 2004 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Huxley's Passacaglia: On the Margin of Aldous Huxley's Musico-Literary Venture
Prof. Jean-Loius Cupers, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Loius
November 4, 2004 | English Department

Guest lecture:
New Speech Acts for Old, or How to Make a Drama out of a Speech Act: The Speech Act of Apology in the film 'A Fish Called Wanda'
Prof. Dr. Mick Short, Lancaster University (GB)
July 15, 2004 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Broadcasting Huxley: A Case Study in Scholarly Communication
Prof. David Dunaway, University of New Mexico
October 19, 2004 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Migrant Writing
George Szirtes, Norwich School of Art and Design
July 14, 2004 | English Department

Guest lecture:
The Indian Nations Encountered by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Prof. Dr. Birgit Hans, Indian Studies Dept., University of North Dakota
May 24, 2004 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Hawthorne, Thoreau, and the Economics of Canonization
Prof. Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico
May 13, 2004 | English Department

Conference:
Literatur, Kultur, Umwelt 'Ecocriticism' - eine Standortbestimmung
March 10-12, 2004 | English Department