In the Borderlands - Thinking about popular media transculturally
DIMAS lecture series in Winter Semester 2025/26
Wednesdays, 2:00–4:00 p.m. in lecture hall H14
Followed by exercise (4:00–5:00 p.m., with Barbara Wimmer-Bulin) in lecture hall H14
This time, the DIMAS lecture series is dedicated to borders as an important topic in Area Studies. It addresses the complex border discourses of popular culture in post-migrant and transmedia societies, in which popular culture plays an important role in shaping identity.
During the lecture series, scholars from the humanities and social sciences will examine different regions of the world, cultural areas, and media cultures. Popular media such as film, radio plays, comics, music recordings, music videos, and social media platforms will be examined. It will include transmedia fiction from various regions of the world (including Europe, the Americas, and Africa) and from diaspora contexts (including Jewish and Haitian culture).
The lecture will also include a practical workshop (limited places) with Honduran graphic artist Germán Andino, whose graphic and multimodal journalism impressively addresses topics such as gang violence, the climate crisis, and displacement. The lecture series will be accompanied by a small sci com format, which will be hosted on the DIMAS Instagram channel (external link, opens in a new window).
Supported by the Universit?tsstiftung Hans Vielberth (external link, opens in a new window) and by the Universit?tsstiftung Pro Arte (external link, opens in a new window) and in cooperation with the Chair of Media Studies (external link, opens in a new window) and the Chair of Comparative European Ethnology (external link, opens in a new window), the DIMAS 2025 lecture series is organized by Anne Brüske and Laura Niebling. We invite interested colleagues to join us for sessions they are interested in. If you have a seminar taking place at the same time and would like to attend one of the lecture series session together with your students, you are welcome to! Please just send us a short email (dimas.office@ur.de) in advance to coordinate.
Program:
15.10.2025 | H14
Medien & Popul?rkultur im Kontext von Grenzdiskursen (Media & Popular Culture in the Context of Border Discourses)
22.10.2025 | H14
Christoph Vatter (Jena): Transnationale Popul?rkultur und postkoloniale Verflechtungen im Europa der langen 1960er Jahre (Transnational popular culture and postcolonial interconnections in Europe during the long 1960s)
05.11.2025 | H14
Miriam Oesterreich (Berlin): Mode, Textilien, Design an der US-mexikanischen Grenze (Fashion, Textiles, Design on the US-Mexican border)
19.11. 2025 | H 14
Germán Andino: The Comic Borderland (Vorlesung)
20.11. 2025 | Haus der Begegnung, Seminarraum
Germán Andino: Praxis-Workshop: Doing Graphic Journalism
26.11.2025 | H14
Gudrun Rath (Linz): Zombies- Grenzg?nge der Untoten (Zombies—Border Crossings of the Undead)
03.12.2025 | H14
Daniela Kuschel (Düsseldorf): Playful Memories? Der Spanische Bürgerkrieg in (inter-)nationalen Spielen (Playful Memories? The Spanish Civil War in (inter)national games)
10.12.2025 | H14
Ina Schenker (Halle): Transkulturelle Theorien und die Grenzen des H?rbaren in ?Vivra Verra“ (DR Kongo) (Transcultural theories and the limits of the audible in “Vivra Verra” (DR Congo))
07.01.2026 | H14
Elena Pilipets (Siegen): Deep TikTok: vernetzte Subkulturen, verrauschte Klanglandschaften (Deep TikTok: interconnected subcultures, noisy soundscapes)
14.01.2026 | H14
Beatrice Schuchardt (Regensburg): Transkulturalit?t im frankophonen Hip-Hop (Transculturality in Francophone Hip-Hop)
21.01.2026 | H14
Ranjodh Dhaliwal (Basel): The State of Cringe: On Aesthetic Theory and Digitality
28.01.2026 | H14
Véronique Sina (Frankfurt/Main): Jewish Visual Culture. Bilder ‘des Jüdischen’ in der (post-)migrantischen Gesellschaft (Jewish Visual Culture. Images of ‘Jewishness’ in (post-)migrant society)
04.02.2026 | H14
Abschlusssitzung (Closing Session)
Thinking intersectionality from the Americas
DIMAS organizes and hosts lecture series at the UR. Here you can find information on current and past DIMAS lecture series.
Intersectionality from the Americas: Theories, Processes, Approaches, Practices
DIMAS Speaker Series Winter Semester 2024/25 | Thursdays, 4pm in H25
Intersectionality is a key perspective for understanding contemporary cultural and social analysis/studies. However, since the first elaborations on intersectional discrimination by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1991), the term has generated a wide range of exceptions and approaches depending on local and disciplinary perspectives. Intersectionality does not necessarily mean the same thing in Kiev as it does in Caracas, nor does it encompass the same categories.
Drawing on a broad spectrum of literary studies, social sciences, and gender studies, among others, the lecture series offers a comprehensive understanding of different perspectives on intersectionality. By emphasizing the importance of different loci of enunciation, it seeks to foster a nuanced dialogue that respects and acknowledges different points of view.
Throughout a variety of presentations, the series aims to delve into different visions of intersectionality by embracing intercultural dialogue and shedding light on inequalities, forms of discrimination, and challenges facing the region today. The lecture series invites participants to engage in conversations, discussions, and explorations of intersectionality through the lens of Area Studies, with a focus on Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, particularly Latin America.
Overall, the lecture series aims to raise awareness among students, scholars, and the public in order to develop a critical understanding of identity constructions and historical inequalities. Committed to the critical analysis of intersectionality and Area Studies, the initiative continues to provide an open space for transcultural dialogue.
Supported by the ScienceCampus, the series organized by Anne Brüske with Minerva Peinador, Barbara Aranda and Joanna Moszczyńska of DIMAS. It will feature talks, a workshop and an artistic performance.
Program:
05.12.2024 - Room H25
Kaimé Guerrero (Universit?t Duisburg-Essen)
Embodied intersectionality and the politics of listening: Indigenous trans* and queer* interventions
16.01.2025 - online only!
Claudia Zapata (Universidad de Chile, Santiago)
Estética y continuidad colonial: representaciones contemporáneas del sujeto indígena**
23 .01. 2025 - Room H25
Fernando Nina (Universit?t Heidelberg)
Imagin?res jenseits des Randes: Das Konzept der ?Escrevivência“ von Concei??o Evaristo als dekoloniale und interdisziplin?re Perspektive von Konvivialit?t
30.01. 2025 - Room H25
Susanne Schultz (Universit?t Frankfurt)
Ein reisendes intersektionales Konzept: Feministische Zug?nge zu reproduktiver Gerechtigkeit in Brasilien
06.02.2025 - Room H25
Carolina Meloni (Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid)
Feminismos ectópicos: insubordinaciones epistémicas desde las rajaduras del mundo**
13.02.2025, 6pm, Hinter der Grieb 8
Colectivo Ayllu (Madrid / Barcelona)
Performance: Where are the secret messages from our ancestors?**
14. 02. 2025, 10am, Hinter der Grieb 8
Colectivo Ayllu (Madrid / Barcelona)
Artist Talk: Los vientos y las aguas nos ense?an. Una conversación con Colectivo Ayllu**
** for talks in Spanish, there will be supplementary materials in Englishn.
A flyer for the lecture series can be found here, as well as further details on the series under this link (external link, opens in a new window).
Colonialsm: Different Approaches and Different Areas
Colonialsm: Different Approaches and Different Areas
DIMAS Lecture Series Summer Semester 2024 | Wednesdays, 2pm in H22
Lectures are held in English and German.
Rike Kr?mer-Hoppe, Professor of Public Law and Transregional Norm Development at DIMAS and the UR Faculty of Law, is organizing a lecture series this summer semester. “Colonialism: Different Approaches and Different Areas” will take place on Wednesdays at 2pm in lecture hall H22.
The event is open to the public and open to all interested colleagues and students. Students who wish to receive credits should register for the course via SPUR.
Each week, different researchers, including a number of guest speakers, will give a lecture exploring colonialism from different disciplinary and regional perspectives. These include experts from the fields of law, history, literary studies and media studies with insights into India, French colonial territories and relations with indigenous populations in Canada and elsewhere.
The lecture series is sponsored by the Hans-Vielberth-Universit?tsstiftung.
The city tour on the post-colonial traces in Regensburg will take place on June 17 at 7pm. For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Kr?mer-Hoppe.
Program:
- 17.04.2024 Rike Kr?mer-Hoppe | Einführung und ?berblick
- 24.04.2024 Marcus Hahn | Literatur und Kolonialismus
- 08.05.2024 Matthias Goldmann | Die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte in Namibia und das V?lkerrecht
- 15.05.2024 Nilanjana Mukherjee Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason: Maps, Landscapes, Travelogues in Britain and India
- 22.05.2024 Astrid Ensslin | (De)koloniale Navigationsmechaniken in Videospielen
- 29.05.2024 William Nelson | The effects of Colonial history on the French Revolution
- 05.06.2024 Kwamou Eva Feukeu | The future as a public good: Decolonising the future through anticipatory participatory action research
- 12.06.2024 Dagmar Schmelzer | Diskurse zur Entkolonialisierung und Wiedergutmachung an den First Nations in Quebec
- 19.06.2024 David Schneidermann | Investment Law's Alibis – Colonialism, Imperialism, Debt and Development.
- 26.06.2024 Sabrina Moura | Travelling Back: reframing a 19th-century expedition from Munich to Brazil
- 03.07.2024 Christina Binder | Die Rechte der Indigenen und (De)kolonialismus
- 10.07.2024 No session / Entf?llt
- 17.07.2024 Klausur / Exam
Additionally on 17.06.2024: the city tours to the post-colonial traces in Regensburg at 7pm.