Cordial invitation to the lectures and trial courses

16.12.2019 09:00 - 17.12.2019 11:30

for the tenure track professorship for Comparative Literature with a focus on African Literature.

 

Programme:

Monday, December 16th, 2019

 

 

Shola ADENEKAN

9:00-9:30 Lecture: "Africa and Literary Networks in the Digital Age"
9:30-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:30 Teaching sample ("Writers, Literature and the Society: Nigerian Poetry as a Case Study")

Dr. Michaela HULSTYN

12:30-13:00 Lecture: "Thinking with Djibril Diop Mambety: Cognitive Flexibility, Double Consciousness, and the Negotiation of Modernity"
13:00-13:30 Discussion
13:30-14:00 Teaching sample ("Warning! Introduction to Sony Labou Tansi's La vie et demie")

Gilbert SHANG NDI

15:30-16:00 Lecture: "On Text and Territory in the Postcolony: Writing the Congo in the Novels of Sony Labou Tansi and In Koli Jean Bofane"
16:00-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Teaching sample ("Understanding the Hybrid Sources of African Poetry: A Reading of Koffi Awoonor.")

 

 

Tuesday, December 17th, 2019

Rémi-Armand TCHOKOTHE

10:00-10:30 Lecture: "Entré en tant que cousin, sorti en tant que gendarme": On the Relational Sociopoetics of "Migration" to Europe via Mayotte
10:30-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:30 Teaching sample

Location:
Aula am Campus der Universität Wien (1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 1.11)
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