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Last night at #GAPS #PostColonialStudies #conference Ugandan-British author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi read us excerpts of several stories of Ugandans in Britain - and made everyone very curious to read more of her unique, funny narrative voice!
Today starts the 36th #GAPS #conference for #PostcolonialStudies - title: "Postcolonial Transfers - Translation, Transition, Transformation" in Osnabrück. Organisers Lucy Gasser & Laura Zander & Institute Director Peter Schneck & GAPS President Timo Müller welcome us at the halls of Osnabrück Castle
This Sunday is #MothersDay in the US & Germany. Here's a 🧵 on books celebrating #womanhood across all ages - beyond #motherhood
- starting w #Girlhood by Melissa Febos - a collection of texts at the intersection of #essay & #memoir about growing up as a girl under patriarchy
Today in #newbooks in our #library - 2 new #biofiction novels on #AgathaChristie 👑
The Queen of Crime disappeared for 11 days in 1926. These 2 novels by Marie Benedict & Nina de Gramont fictionalise this real #mystery in different ways
Irish Studies & Cultural Theory Summer School
for whom: students of all levels (BA, MA, PhD)
theme: "Resistance and Adaptation"
where: Uni Flensburg
when: 19-25 July, 2026
incl. intro class to Irish language
ECTS-accredited!
more info: https://www.uni-flensburg.de/?id=55878
The 1st #GAPS keynote, by Leila Neti, was a lively & fascinating insight into attempts at aestheticisation and/or critique of war & colonial violence in traditions traced back to 19th c #EnglishLiterature - from Trump's "banger memes" to recent #IndianFilm #RRR