Lectures
Table of contents
2026
- June 30, 2026 - Dr. Torsten König: Global Romanticism? Cultural Studies Perspectives on the Painter Raden Saleh between Indonesia, Paris, and Dresden
- June 23, 2026 – Dr. Matthias Kern: Nature Worship and Dehumanization: Romantic Poetry as Biopoetics?
- June 18, 2026 – Mikhail Murashov, M.A.: Dresden in the Works of French Prisoners of War and STO Workers in Saxony, 1940–1945
- June 1, 2026 - Karina Slunkaite: Standardization, Variation, and Prestige of French (as a Foreign Language) in German Territories of the Early Modern Period: Éléazar de Mauvillon’s *Remarques sur les germanismes*
- January 26, 2026 - PD Dr. Benjamin Peter: AI and Processes of Marginalization: The Case of French in Acadia
- January 20, 2026 – Prof. Dr. Jürgen Trabant: The Universality of French
- January 13, 2026 - Prof. Dr. Uta Felten: Flâneurs/Flâneuses: Urban Protagonists and Conceptual Figures in French Cinema
2025
- December 15, 2025 – Dr. Laura Linzmeier: “Français maritime”? On the Role of Western French Sailors and Merchants in the Development of North American French
- June 24, 2025 - PD Dr. Andrea Gremels: “Dissident” Surrealism in Paris Between Languages and Cultures: On the “Un cadavre” Manifesto and Competition Among Cultural Journals
- May 20, 2025 – Dr. Ulrich Wegner: The Beginnings of Jazz in the U.S.
- January 7, 2025 - Dr. Torsten König: Transformations of a Colonial Capital: Urban Structures, Institutions, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life
2024
- December 10, 2024 – Dr. Maria Weilandt: Is It the Image Itself or Merely the Frame? Portrayals of “the Parisian Woman” in the 19th Century
- December 3, 2024 – Chris Lewis Moumbounou: Brazzaville – Contemporary Art, Culture, and Society
- November 26, 2024 – Prof. Dr. habil. Sonja Hnilica: The Haussmannization of Paris
- June 25, 2024 – Dr. habil. Béatrice Durand: German-French Reflections in Contemporary Literature
- June 18, 2024 – Nikolaus G. Schneider: “Better Never Than Late” – Tomi Ungerer in the Context of Franco-German Relations
- June 6, 2024 – Myriam Macé: Trauma in Color? Autobiographical Comics on the Attacks on Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015
- January 16, 2024 - Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker: Intertwined Feminisms around 1800 and Beyond: Revolution – Transnationality – Coloniality
- January 9, 2024 - Prof. Dr. Karen Struve & Myriam Macé: On Revolutions and Revolts: Women’s Voices in Francophone Comics
2023
- December 12, 2023 - Dr. Aline Oloff: The Language of Liberation: The Women’s Movement in Postcolonial France
- December 12, 2023: Thi Thu Thao Nguyen: Francophonie: A Portrait of Vietnam
- November 30, 2023: Sybila Guéneau: The Neo-Polar of the 1960s: When the Detective Novel Becomes Political
- June 13, 2023 – Prof. Dr. Brunhilde Wehinger: Politics and Conversation. The French Revolution in the Work of Salonnière and Writer Germaine de Staël
- June 8, 2023 – Prof. Lucie Bourassa: The Translated, the Pieced-Together Language, the Poem: On the Work of Gaston Miron
- June 7, 2023 - Prof. Lucie Bourassa: From Exile to Poetry: Names, Rhythm, and History in the Work of Joël Des Rosiers
- May 16, 2023 – Prof. Dr. Jürgen Trabant: The Revolution of Language
- May 2, 2023 – Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff: Before the Great Turning Point – Unrest and Uprisings in the Early Modern Period
2022
- June 27, 2022 – Sybila Guéneau: The Suburbs in Neo-Polar Fiction
- June 8, 2022 – Prof. Dr. Hélène Miard-Delacroix / Prof. Dr. Andreas Wirsching: From Arch-Enemies to Good Neighbors: A German-French Dialogue
2021
- June 15, 2021 – Prof. Dr. Markus Messling: Small Universality. Narrative Constructions of the World After Universalism
2020
- January 28, 2020 - Kristian Raum: Sensibility and Historiography. Lucien Febvre and the Two Marguerites
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January 8, 2020 - Dr. Annegret Richter: On the Construction of Queer Subjectivities in Franco-Maghrebi Literature
2019
- April 23 and 24, 2019 – Visiting scholar from Université Cadi Ayyad (Marrakech) at TU Dresden (Erasmus+): Prof. Dr. Hanane Essaydi:
/ Social Pressure in the Francophone Sub-Saharan African Novel - January 22, 2019 – Researcher from Université Cadi Ayyad (Marrakech) visiting TU Dresden (Erasmus+): Prof. Dr. Khadija Alaoui Yousfi: French-language Maghreb literature between history and current events
- January 17, 2019 – Prof. Dr. Margarete Zimmermann: Texts and Textiles. Sonia Delaunay and the Avant-Gardes
2018
- November/December 2018: Event series “Destruction – Coping – Overcoming.” Commemorating the end of World War I one hundred years ago
- June 18, 2018 – Dr. Diana Haußmann: Léonora Miano’s *L’intérieur de la nuit* (2005) – Africa in Crisis
- April 9–13, 2018: Researchers from Université Cadi Ayyad (Marrakech) visiting TU Dresden (Erasmus+)