The Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies organizes its Colloquium 2021 (summer
 term) and invites interested persons to participate online on Mondays between 09:30 and 11:30 a.m.


Programme

April 12, Key researcher series: Bridging African Studies and Mobility Studies - Attempts from HipHop to Travel Writing by Birgit Englert, Professor of African Studies; Reading: forthcoming

April 19, Associated member presentations: 
Books on the Move. Collecting, Documenting and Writing Displacement and Persecution after the Shoah by 
Marianne Windsperger, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (09:30 a.m.), and Galicia as an Archive. Travels to Post-Galicia in Contemporary Literature by Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, Research Center for the History of Transformations (10:30 a.m.)

April 26, Key researcher series: Positionality and Reflectivity in a North-South Project by Petra Dannecker, Professor of Development Studies; Reading: forthcoming

May 10, Key researcher series: Translocal Resilience by Patrick Sakdapolrak, Professor of Geography & Regional Research
; Readings:
 see programme overview

May 31, Doctoral project presentation: African Routes and Regimes of Im/Mobility to and from Trade Union Colleges in East, West, and South
 by Immanuel Harisch, doctoral student in African Studies

June 7, Key researcher series: Outer Space (Im)mobilities by Alexandra Ganser, Professor of English & American Studies
; Reading: see programme overview

June 21, Doctoral project presentation: 'They Were Home. They Were Far From Home': Imaginative Mobilities in Caribbean Diaspora Literature
 by Sigrid Thomsen, doctoral student in Comparative Literature

further information as well as readings can be found in the programme overview