Past Events

English Literatures and Cultures

An overview of our extracurricular events, from conferences over information events to pub quiz evenings.

May 2026 | Microfiction Contest Award Ceremony 

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May 2026 | Guest Lecture "I was the person who wasn’t there" by Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin

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May 2026 | Born Digital Workshop: “Imaginaries of the Future”

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May 2026 | Guest Lecture by Sign Language Linguist Dr. Fabian Bross

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May 2026 | Guest Lecture by Dr. Hannah Ackermans (Bergen)

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May 2026 | Workshop with UK Poet Lisa Kelly on "D/deaf Gain"

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April 2026 | Guest Lecture from BSL Interpreter Bengi-Sue Şirin

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April 2026 | Guest lecture "Navigating two Bermuda Triangles" by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ansgar Nünning

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March 2026 | Einführung Spezial zu Hamlet im Schauspielhaus Stuttgart mit Prof. Sibylle Baumbach

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March 2026 | “Bite-Sized Stories with Big Impact” Born Digital Microfiction Contest

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March 2026 | Uni Trifft Theater: Junge Stimmen zu Hamlet

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Februar 2025 | Talk: Dr. Martin Windisch - "Mord auf der Burg: Zu Heiner Müllers Macbeth nach Shakespeare
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Januar 2026 |  Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Alice Bennett (University of Bergen): “Watching the Watchmen: On Literary Vigilance”
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Dezember 2025 | Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford): “Spaces of Immersion: Franz Kafka‘s Poetics of Attention”
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Dezember 2025 | Talk: Dr. Martin Windisch - "Mord auf der Burg: Zu Heiner Müllers Macbeth nach Shakespeare
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Dezember 2025 | Collaborative Pubquiz
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November 2025 | Talk with Prof. Dr. Sibylle Baumbach: 'Speak of me as I am': Shakespeare in Zeiten der Spaltung
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November 2025 | Guest Lecture by Dr. Catherine Emott: “Attention Control in Detective Fiction
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November 2025 | Workshop: How to Write a Bad-Ass Glossary Entry
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November 2025 | „The Game of the Novel: Literature, Creativity and Play“ by Prof. Dr. Karin Kukkonen
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June 2025 | Junge Stimmen zum alten Lear, Schauspiel Stuttgart
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June 2025 | Creative Writing Workshop "The Mediated Self" w/ Molly Twomey & Christodoulos Makris

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June 2025 | Workshop: Peer-Review on entries to The Living Glossary of Digital Narrative

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June 2025 | Einführung Spezial zu Lear Schauspiel Stuttgart von Martin Windisch

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May 2025 | Lesung, Gespräch, Buchvorstellung: "At last on German soil"
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May 2025 | Book Presentation: Dr. Geoff Rodoreda - George Orwells Beobachtungen als Kriegsberichterstatter in Deutschland
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May 2025 | Guest Lecture: Dr. Rina Kim - “Gestalt and Ambiguity as an Aesthetic Mode in Beckett’s Work” 
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May 2025 | Guest lecture: Dr. Rina Kim - “Theatre of the Absurd: Samuel Beckett”
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March 2025 | Call for Presentations -  Weird Stories & Wicked Communities
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November 2025 | Guest Lecture by Dr. Catherine Emott: “Attention Control in Detective Fiction
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November 2025 | Workshop: How to Write a Bad-Ass Glossary Entry
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November 2025 | „The Game of the Novel: Literature, Creativity and Play“ by Prof. Dr. Karin Kukkonen
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Juni 2025 | Creative Writing Workshop "The Mediated Self" w/ Molly Twomey & Christodoulos Makris

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Mai 2025 | Lesung, Gespräch, Buchvorstellung: "At last on German soil"
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März 2025 | Call for Presentations -  Weird Stories & Wicked Communities
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Februar 2025 | Guest lecture Éamonn Ó Ciardha 
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Januar 2025 | Creative Writing Workshop with Belfast poets Bebe Ashley & Stephen de Búrca 
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Januar 2025 | Public guest lecture from fiction writer Jan Carson
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November 2024 | Trip to the conference on Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida in Weimar
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 November 2024 | Reading and Talk "Parade" by Rachel Cusk at the Literaturhaus Stuttgart
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Ongoing | Sensing Literature-Talents

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September 2025| Digital Futures of Literature

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May 2024 | Poetry Jukebox: Public Creative Writing Workshop with Susannah Dickey & Sacha White 
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May 2024 | Guest Lecture: Susannah Dickey - " The Poetry of Dialogue: Character, Conflict & Closeness"
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May 2024 | Guest Lecture: Sacha White - " W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” & Writing Ballads"
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May 2024 | Guest Workshop: Charles Lang - "Poetry Beyond the Stage"
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April 2024 | Poetry Jukebox: Public Creative Writing Workshop with Linda McKenna, Paul Maddern & Scott McKendry 
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April 2024 | Guest Lecture: Scott McKendry - " Eejit Grammatology"
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April 2024 | Guest Lecture: Paul Maddern - " Poetry: the Valleys of its Making"
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April 2024 | Guest Lecture: Linda McKenna - "Making Maps for Where the Lost Might Be"
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December 2023| Writing Workshop with Irish Novelist Helen Cullen
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 November 2023| Shakespeare-Studientag Twelfth Night
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July 2023 | Guest Lecture: Irish Novelist, Michael Magee
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June 2023 | Guest Lecture: Irish Poet, James Conor Patterson
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June 2023 | New Work in Nineteenth-Century Studies: Project Discussions
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January 2023 | Guest lecture "This all happened" - Dr. Leeanne Quinn
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November 2022 | Conference "Victorian Antipathies“ 
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October 2022 | Welcome Event and Introduction for New Students
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June 2022 | Literary Symposium: A divided Kingdom?
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June 2022 | Poetry meets Science
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May 2022 | Call for Papers: Victorian Antipathies
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May 2022 | MA & BA Anglistik Mentoring Program
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April 2022 | Café for Future Teachers
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December 2021 | "Literature & Culture and/as Intelligent Systems"

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November 2021 | "An Australian Studies symposium: '(Un)belonging: In Search of New Representations, Negotiations, Entanglements.'"

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November 2021 | "Telling Stories in Science Communication"

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October 2021 | “Halloween Theatre Workshop”

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October 2021 | Introductory event for English studies

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November 2019 | “Pub Quiz”

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Juli 2019 | “Island Mentalities: from Crusoe to Brexlit”

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