Announcements
Announcements
NELK
Mai
28
2026
16:00
Paul Leworthy (Newcastle University): Public Memory in Postmigrant Germany: Remembering Hanau in “Das deutsche Volk”
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
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.
NELK
Feb
5
2026
16:00
HZ 15
Encarnación Gutierrez Rodriguez (Frankfurt): “Decolonial Mourning and Political Memory Work – Thinking through (Dis)compassion and towards a Caring Commons” | New Frontiers in Memory Studies Lecture Series (FMSP)
NELK
Jan
22
2026
16:00
NG 731
Jan Alber (Gießen): “The Ethical Ramifications of Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital” | New Frontiers in Memory Studies Lecture Series (FMSP)
NELK
Dez
4
2025
18:00
- 20:00
Room: Cas 1.812
Dr. Jernej Habjan (ZRC SAZU): The Global More-than-Novel: The Global Novel as Form and Object | Forum of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
NELK
Nov
20
2025
18:00
Room: Cas 1.812
Prof. Dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker (VUB): Art and the‘Rise of the Meritocracy’ in the Twilight of Empire: Fragile Networks across the Anglophone Black Atlantic World | Forum of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
NELK
Mai
28
2026
16:00
Paul Leworthy (Newcastle University): Public Memory in Postmigrant Germany: Remembering Hanau in “Das deutsche Volk”
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
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.
NELK
Feb
5
2026
16:00
HZ 15
Encarnación Gutierrez Rodriguez (Frankfurt): “Decolonial Mourning and Political Memory Work – Thinking through (Dis)compassion and towards a Caring Commons” | New Frontiers in Memory Studies Lecture Series (FMSP)
NELK
Jan
22
2026
16:00
NG 731
Jan Alber (Gießen): “The Ethical Ramifications of Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital” | New Frontiers in Memory Studies Lecture Series (FMSP)
NELK
Dez
4
2025
18:00
- 20:00
Room: Cas 1.812
Dr. Jernej Habjan (ZRC SAZU): The Global More-than-Novel: The Global Novel as Form and Object | Forum of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
NELK
Nov
20
2025
18:00
Room: Cas 1.812
Prof. Dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker (VUB): Art and the‘Rise of the Meritocracy’ in the Twilight of Empire: Fragile Networks across the Anglophone Black Atlantic World | Forum of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
