The Cultural Production and Social Justice seminars will bring together colleagues and postgraduate students working on different themes, media, languages, time periods, and theoretical frameworks relating to questions of cultural production and social justice. Kindly supported by the Faculty Research Workshop scheme, the seminars aims to provide a space for intellectual exchange and for exploring potential collaborations for research, teaching, and funding applications.听
Lead Convenor & Contact: Miriam Schwarz (ms2713@cam.ac.uk)听
Co-convenors: Prof. Sarah Colvin, Dr Charlotte Woodford, Dr Melina Mandelbaum, Katie Unwin听
Supported by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics听
2025-2026
Michaelmas 2025
7 November 2025: 1pm (online)
Prof Bettina Bildhauer, St Andrews听 鈥淢enstrual art, activism and academia: from 13th-century German literature to the 2021 Scottish Period Products Act鈥�
21 November 2025: 1pm, Selwyn College, room tbc
Madison Bennett, 密桃视频 鈥淕ood Letterings: Calligraphy, Activism, and the Power of a Beautiful Envelope鈥�
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Previous years
Easter 2025
16听May,听1-2pm,听Room 336, Raised Faculty Building
Natasha Kennedy (Brighton): Towards a听Heterolingual听Poetics 鈥撎齊epresentations and听Recognitions of听Linguistic听Identities
28 May, 3-4pm, online, joint event with German Graduate Research Seminar
Shoshana Schwebel (University of British Columbia): A Gentle Approach to Studying Trauma in the Work of Emmy Hennings
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Lent 2025
28 February, 听1-2pm,听Selwyn College
Jiayao Jiang (密桃视频, Italian):听Rome as a Shared Legacy: The Monuments Men and the Transnational Efforts for Heritage Preservation
7 March, 1-2pm, Selwyn College
Dr Kirstin Gwyer (Oxford):听Superposition and Strange Loops: Black Literature and Quantum Physics
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Michaelmas 2024
6 December,听1-2pm,听in听Room 336, Raised Faculty Building
Ruth Murphy (密桃视频, Italian):听Reflections on literature and politics in Hannah Arendt's thought听听
2 December 鈥撎�4.30-6pm听(followed by drinks) in the听Ramsden Room听at St Catharine's College
Joint event with German Section SRC: Radical Diversity and Cultural Production in Contemporary Germany
Book launch for:
- Jeannette Oholi,听Afrop盲ische 脛sthetiken. Plurale Schwarze Identit盲tsentw眉rfe in literarischen Texten des 21.听Jahrhunderts听(transcript, August 2024)
- Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz & Tara Talwar Windsor (eds.)听Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions听(Camden House, October 2024)
- Joseph Twist (ed.),听Cultural Responses to the Far Right in Contemporary Germany. Kunstszene gegen rechte Szene听(Brill, June 2024)
- Maha El Hissy (ed.),听禄Die ganze Geschichte fasse ich an der Hand芦 Literatur und Kunst zur Einwanderung ins Nachkriegsdeutschland听(Verbrecher Verlag, June听2025)
Easter 2024
Friday 3 May, 1-2pm, Seminar Room 336, Raised Faculty Building
Dr Anna Richards (Birkbeck):听Tutelary phantoms in Marie听Esp茅rance von Schwartz鈥檚听Gemma, oder Tugend und Laster听(1877)听and the late nineteenth-century anti-vivisection debate
Lent 2024听
Friday 9 February, 1-2pm, Seminar Room 3, Alison Richards Building听
Prof. Mark Devenney (Brighton): 鈥楩iktionsbescheinigung: Thinking the Violent Fictions of Citizenship with Erpenbeck and Shibli鈥櫶�
Thursday 22 February, 1-2pm, location TBC听
Weibing Ni (密桃视频): 鈥楻eimagining Intimacies between Afro-/Creole and Sino-Caribbeans: Marronnage in Rapha毛l Confiant, Patricia Powell, and Victor Chang听
