Vorträge
Knopf, Kerstin. “A Blue Humanities Approach to John Steinbeck’s The Log from the Sea of Cortez,” Blue Humanities Summer School, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 4 June 2024.
Knopf, Kerstin. “Ocean and Tides in John Steinbeck’s The Log from the Sea of Cortez,” lecture series “Ways of Water: Aquatic Poetics and Politics in North American Literatures,” University of Bremen, 24 April 2024.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Unveiling Repressed Maritime Histories through the Blue Humanities: The Whale Rider (2002),” workshop “Repressed Histories of Communication and Media Studies,” Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre (GCCEC), Australia, 20 June 2024.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Arabic Blue Humanities: The Case Study of Yemen,” Blue Humanities Summer School, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 3 June 2024.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Blue Humanities in Transit: Navigating the Mediterranean through Syrian Diaspora’s Transmedia Memory Narratives,” workshop “Writing Diaspora in the 21st century: Transmedial Passages in Postdigital Times,” Complutense University Madrid, 29 May-2 June 2024.
Muharram, Mohammed. “The Blue Humanities and Arab Women Authors: Etel Adnan,” guest talk, Vassar College, 22 April 2024.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Re-thinking with Water: The Blue Humanities and Middle East Studies,” guest talk, University of Southern California, 18 March 2024.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Re-Imagining Arab American Studies from a Blue Humanities perspectives: Yemeni Sailors as a case Study,” writing workshop “Re-Imagining Arab American Studies,” College of International Studies, University of Oklahoma, 28 February-2 March 2024.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Re-Defining Water Ways through the New Critical Approach of the Blue Humanities,” conference “Water Ways: Epistemologies and Aesthetics,” Doha Institute for Graduate Studies & Qatar Museums, 18-20 February 2024.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Introducing Arabic Blue Humanities,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen, 31 January 2024.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Scholars in Context: Mohammed Muharram,” interview with Jadaliyya, Arab Studies Institute, Washington DC, 15 January 2024.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Exploring the Role of the Blue Humanities as a Decolonial Lens in Foundational Political Concepts,” workshop “Territories, Peoples, Nations - Decolonial Approaches to Foundational Concepts in Political Theory,” Northwestern University Qatar (NUQ), Doha, 10-11 January 2024.
von Gleich, Paula. “Studying Water, History, and Culture: From the World Ocean to the Black Atlantic,” lecture series “Studying English-Speaking Cultures,” M.A. E-SC, University of Bremen, 6 Nov. 2024.
von Gleich, Paula. “Water- and Ocean-Centric Perspectives in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies,” Marine Governance Group, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), University of Oldenburg (online), 3 July 2024.
von Gleich, Paula. “Salt - Water - Slavery and the Blue Humanities,” Blue Humanities Summer School, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 6 June 2024.
von Gleich, Paula. “Die Blauen Geisteswissenschaften und Disneys Vaiana (2016),” Science Goes PUBlic, Gastfeld, Bremen, 28 March 2024.
von Gleich, Paula. “Cultural and Literary Studies of the English-Speaking World and the Blue Humanities,” ZMT Wednesday Lunch Seminar, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, University of Bremen, 17 January 2024.
von Gleich, Paula. “The Cultural Histories of the English-Speaking World and the Blue Humanities,” lecture series “Studying English-Speaking Cultures,” M.A. E-SC, University of Bremen, 10 January 2024.
Knopf, Kerstin. “Figurations of the Ocean in Canadian Literature,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen, 1 November 2023.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Expanding Horizons: Arabic Studies’ Contributions to the Blue Humanities,” workshop “Critical Reflections on the Blue Humanities,” Cardiff University, 6-10 November 2023.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Arabian Seas’ Travels and Beyond: Traversing Cities of Salt through the Currents of Blue Humanities,” conference “(Re)Imagining the Indian Ocean World: A Symposium on Literature and Culture,” Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 24-25 October 2023.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Charting New Waters and The Rising Tide: Representation of Climate Change in Egyptian Children’s Literature,” Children’s Literature Symposium, Ain Shams University, 29 September 2023.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Rethinking the Postcolonial: Blue Postcolonialism,” GAPS International Conference, University of Constance, 27-30 May 2023.
Muharram, Mohammed. “Re-thinking the Postcolonial: Blue Postcolonialism,” GAPS 23 Annual International Conference “Postcolonial Infrastructures,” University of Constance, 17-20 May 2023.
von Gleich, Paula. “Re-Imagining the Atlantic: Slavery, Migration, and the Ocean in Black American Literature and Theory,” lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media,” University of Bremen, 8 November 2023.
Knopf, Kerstin. “Oceans and Migration in Works of Dionne Brand and Lawrence Hill,” Bremen Guelph Lecture, University of Guelph, 24 October 2022.
Knopf, Kerstin. “Tia and Piujuq: Transnational Film in the Arctic, 8th International,” conference “Regards autochtonessur les Amériques / Revisioning the Americas through Indigenous Cinema / Visiones indígenas sobrelas Américas,” Kahnawake and Montreal, 15-16 August 2022.
Knopf, Kerstin. “Angry Inuk: Inuit ecologies, ethics, economies and the struggle for sovereignty,” 43. annual meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS) “Ecologies - Environments - Ethics / Ecologies - Environnements - Etihques,” Grainau(online), 17-19 February 2022.
Knopf, Kerstin. “John Franklin’s and John Rae’s Arctic Expeditions, Expedition Narratives and Canadian Historiographic Fiction,” workshop “Current Practices and Contemporary Narratives of Scientific Expeditions,” Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 17-18 February 2022.
von Gleich, Paula. “Atlantic Histories of Slavery and Migration in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016),” application hearing, University of Bremen, 7 December 2022.
Knopf, Kerstin, with Anna-Katarina Hornidge, Stefan Partelow. “Epistemic Inequalities and Marine Knowledge Systems,” conference “Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water,” University of Bremen, 30 May-2 June 2019.
Schaffeld, Norbert. “Between Witchcraft and Protoscience: A ‘Reading’ of Julie Taymor’s The Tempest as Filmic Metatext,” lecture series “Studying English-Speaking Cultures,” University of Bremen, 30 January 2019.
