Guest Lectures
Guest Lectures
- Keir Waddington (Cardiff U): "How to Feel and Behave During a Drought: Historical Droughts and Everyday Experience," lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media”, Universität Bremen (hybrid), 24 January 2024
- Andreas Gutmann (U Kassel): "Rivers in the Courtroom," lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media”, Universität Bremen (hybrid), 17 January 2024
- Andrea Muehlebach (U of Bremen): "Do Waves Have Rights?," lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media”, Universität Bremen, 10 January 2024
- Sukla Chatterjee (U of Aberdeen): "The Timeless and the Dispensable: Looking at the Mediterranean and the Refugee through The Optician of Lampedusa," lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media”, Universität Bremen (hybrid), 13 December 2023
- Oluseun A. Tanimomo, independent scholar: "When to Tell a Single Story: On Helon Habila’s Shimmery Brackish Waters, Environmental Justice, and the Blue Humanities," lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media”, Universität Bremen, 6 December 2023
- Lavery, Charne (U of Pretoria): "Vertical Indian Ocean: Submersion in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's Dragon Fly Sea," lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media”, Universität Bremen (hybrid), 22 November 2023
- Armstrong, Jeannette (U of British Columbia Okanagan): “BC Rivers, Salmon and Syilx Restoration Campaigns”, lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media”, Universität Bremen (hybrid), 8 November 2023
- Steve Mentz(St. John’s University, New York): "Introducing the Blue Humanities: Opportunities and Controversies," lecture series “Blue Humanities: Histories, Cultures, Literatures, and Media”, Universität Bremen (hybrid), 25 October 2023
- Steve Mentz(St. John’s University, New York): “Possible Futures for the Blue Humanities,” “Key Topics in Literature