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NELK

Mai 28 2026
16:00

Paul Leworthy (Newcastle University): Public Memory in Postmigrant Germany: Remembering Hanau in “Das deutsche Volk”

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May 28, 4pm
Campus Westend, Cas 1.812

Directed by Marcin Wierzchowski, Das deutsche Volk (2025) is a black-and-white feature-length documentary about the events and the aftermath of the shootings in Hanau, Germany, in 2020, in which a far-right extremist killed nine people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Rather than simply recounting what happened on the night of the attacks, the film follows the victims' families over four years, focussing on their suffering and their struggles for justice, accountability, and commemoration. In this lecture, I will discuss how Das Deutsche Volk both documents and performs memory work, while also thinking about how the film entangles public memory with questions about belonging. 

Paul Leworthy is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh. His first monograph, The Shape of Memory, will appear with Peter Lang later this year. He is founding co-Editor-in-Chief of Memory Studies Review and host of the Connecting Memories Podcast. 

NELK

Mai 7 2026
16:00

Natalie Braber (Nottingham Trent): Working with ‘pit talk’, the language of coal miners in the East Midlands

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May 7, 4 pm
Campust Westend, Cas 1.812

This talk explores the unique words and phrases used by coal miners in the East Midlands, revealing how language shaped their working lives and communities. Through oral history interviews, miners shared stories about the terms they used underground and how these changed when people moved in from other regions, like the North-East and Scotland. These conversations show that mining language was more than technical – it was part of local identity and culture. Many miners did not realise how important their words were, but they form a vital part of this heritage. Preserving this language helps keep the history and voices of mining alive.
Natalie Braber is Professor of Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University. Her research focuses on the accents and dialects of the East Midlands, including pit talk. Her publications include East Midlands English (2018), Lexical Variation of an East Midlands Coal Mining Community (2022) and Sociolinguistic Approaches to Lexical Variation in English (2025). She works on language as heritage, accent discrimination and language and memory. Her projects include collaboration with those in the fields of creative writing, poetry, photography, art and theatre in order to co-create with local communities.

TEFL

Mai 6 2026
16:00 - 18:00

Informationsveranstaltung: Student Teachers of English School Placement Abroad!

IEAS DID Plakat Auslands-Praxissemester

American Studies

Apr 24 2026
- 25.04.2026

Democratic Vistas Annual Workshop in cooperation with GRK 3113 »Aesthetics of Democracy«

Apr 24
19:00 Uhr

Keynote Lecture: Eva Illouz (Jerusalem/Paris) "Is Guilt Good for Democracy?" |

From 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m
Venue: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Registration before April 21: anmeldung@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de 
You will receive a registration confirmation.

Eva Illouz is a professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She has published numerous books on the sociology of emotions, consumer capitalism, and modern culture. For her work, she was awarded the Frank Schirrmacher Prize 2024, the Aby Warburg Prize 2024, and the EMET Prize for Social Sciences, among others. Latest book publications: The Emotional Life of Populism. How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy (Polity Press, 2023), Der 8. Oktober. Über die Ursprünge des neuen Antisemitismus (in German, Suhrkamp, 2025), and Explosive Emotions. How Modern Society Shapes What We Feel (Princeton University Press, 2026).

Apr 25
09:00 Uhr

Workshop with Eva Illouz

From 9.30 a.m. to 4.15 p.m
Venue: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Registration: Ma.Renz@em.uni-frankfurt.de

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Events

Apr 7 2026
12:00 - 14:00

Room: NG 701

IEAS First-Year Orientation Summer Semester 2026

Orientation for American Studies and English Studies for the Summer Semester 2026

First-year students can find out everything about studying at the Institue of English and American Studies (IEAS) at the orientation just before the semester starts. Orientation provides an overview of the study programme and the most important study affairs.