Guest Lec­tur­ers & Fel­lows

Am 03. Juni 2011 stellt der aus­tralis­che Ze­ich­ner und Kinder­buchau­tor Shaun Tan an der HBKsaar seine Ar­beiten vor. Im An­schluss bi­etet eine Ze­ichen­werk­statt Nach­wuch­sze­ich­ner/innen Gele­gen­heit, mit Tan zu ar­beiten. Bitte beachten Sie: Die Ze­ichen­werk­statt richtet sich nicht an Kinder, son­dern an Nach­wuch­sze­ich­ner/innen, die bere­its ze­ich­ner­isch/il­lus­tra­tiv ar­beiten. Bitte Beispiele eigener Ar­beiten mit­brin­gen (ggf auf Rech­ner) sowie ak­tuelle Pro­jekte inkl. der dabei ver­wen­de­ten Ma­te­ri­alien. Der Work­shop selbst stellt keine Ma­te­ri­alien zur Verfügung und ver­mit­telt auch keine ze­ich­ner­ischen Grund­la­gen. Als "Mas­ter­class" bi­etet er eine Gele­gen­heit, zusam­men mit einem pro­fes­sionellen Ze­ich­ner eigene Ideen (weiter) zu en­twick­eln. Shaun Tan wurde 1974 ge­boren und wuchs in den nördlichen Vororten von Perth, Aus­tralien auf. Ab­schluss in Bilden­der Kunst und Lit­er­atur 1995 (Uni­ver­sity of West­ern Aus­tralia), ar­beitet derzeit als freis­chaf­fender Künstler und Autor in Mel­bourne. Tan be­gann als Teenager, Sci­ence Fic­tion und Hor­ror-Geschichten in kleinen Mag­a­zi­nen zu il­lus­tri­eren, und ist seit­dem vor allem für seine Bilderbücher bekannt, die sich in sur­realen, traumhaften Bildern mit sozialen, poli­tis­chen und his­torischen The­men au­seinan­der­set­zen. Bücher wie The Rab­bits, The Red Tree, The Lost Thing (Die Fund­sache) und der preis­gekrönte wort­lose Roman The Ar­rival (Ein neues Land) - an dem Tan vier Jahre ar­beit­ete - sind vielfach übersetzt wor­den und haben in Asien, Eu­ropa und Südamerika Leser aller Al­ters­grup­pen ge­fun­den. Tan war bere­its als The­a­ter­de­signer tätig, an den Fil­men Hor­ton Hears a Who und Pixars WALL-E hat er als Con­cept Artist mit­gear­beitet. Zusam­men mit An­drew Ruh­mann hat er sein Buch The Lost Thing (Die Fund­sache) als an­i­mierten Kurz­film umge­setzt. Tales from Outer Sub­ur­bia (Geschichten aus der Vorstadt des Uni­ver­sums) ist sein neuestes Buch. Sein Kurz­film The Lost Thing wurde 2011 mit dem Oscar (Bester an­i­mierter Kurz­film) aus­geze­ich­net. Tan ist Preisträger des Astrid Lind­gren Memo­r­ial Award 2011. In Ko­op­er­a­tion mit der Europäis­chen Kinder- und Ju­gend­buchmesse, den Tran­skul­turellen An­glo­pho­nen Stu­dien(TAS) der Uni­ver­sität des Saar­lan­des, dem Astrid Lind­gren Memo­r­ial Award und dem Carlsen Ver­lag. Siehe auch: In­ter­view Shaun Tan (Saarbrücker Zeitung) In­ter­view Shaun Tan (Kul­tur­Spiegel) Home­page Shaun Tan Astrid Lind­gren Memo­r­ial Award Oscar Bester An­i­mierter Kurz­film Vor­trag / Vorführung The Lost Thing > 03. Juni 2011, 10-11 Uhr Aula der HBKsaar Ze­ichen­werk­statt > 03. Juni, 11-16 Uhr Dachate­lier der HBKsaar An­mel­dung: Soenke Zehle Bitte beachten Sie: Die Ze­ichen­werk­statt richtet sich nicht an Kinder, son­dern an Nach­wuch­sze­ich­ner/innen, die bere­its ze­ich­ner­isch/il­lus­tra­tiv ar­beiten. Bitte Beispiele eigener Ar­beiten mit­brin­gen (ggf auf Rech­ner) sowie ak­tuelle Pro­jekte inkl. der dabei ver­wen­de­ten Ma­te­ri­alien. Der Work­shop selbst stellt keine Ma­te­ri­alien zur Verfügung und ver­mit­telt auch keine ze­ich­ner­ischen Grund­la­gen. Als "Mas­ter­class" bi­etet er eine Gele­gen­heit, zusam­men mit einem pro­fes­sionellen Ze­ich­ner eigene Ideen (weiter) zu en­twick­eln. Video-In­stal­la­tion > Video-In­stal­la­tion auf Grund­lage von Tans Buch The Ar­rival im Rah­men der Sphäre­nAusstel­lung/Konz­ert/Per­for­mance im KuBa-Kul­turzen­trum am Eu­roBahn­hof 10. Juni – 10. Juli 2011. Vor­premiere am 02. Juni 2011, 22 Uhr, zusam­men mit Shaun Tan Redak­tion & An­i­ma­tion: Colin Kae­sekamp, Janosch Obe­nauer, Flo­rian Pen­ner, Ralph Schnei­der, Soenke Zehle sowie Studierende des HBK-Sem­i­nars "Vom Comic zum Film. You can watch some in­ter­views and videos with Shaun Tan on the ex­per­i­men­tal TAS chan­nel on Vimeo.

Camp­bell Jef­ferys is an award win­ning Aus­tralian au­thor and jour­nal­ist cur­rently based in Ham­burg where he lec­tures at the uni­ver­sity. His nov­els in­clude 'The Bi­cy­cle Teacher' (2006), 'Hunter' (2008) and the forth­com­ing 'True Blue Tucker'. His writ­ing has ap­peared in lead­ing mag­a­zines and news­pa­pers such as De­canter, the Sun­day Tele­graph, Spot­light, Ad­ven­ture, Eu­ro­pean Jour­nal, Liv­ing Now and the Globe and Mail. Most re­cently, 'Hunter' won the gen­eral fic­tion award of the 2009 Indie Book Awards.

Prof. Ra­jen­dra Singh 'Cen­ter and Pe­riph­ery in the Study of Lan­guage - Some Re­flec­tions on Lan­guage Con­tact, So­cio-Cul­tural Lin­guis­tics and Lin­guis­tic The­ory' 21. Mai 2008, 14 Uhr, Geb. B 3.2, HS 003 In this talk, I shall at­tempt to make the case that those of us who take mul­ti­lin­gual­ism to be the un­marked case must work to­wards an al­ter­na­tive the­ory of lin­guis­tic form - a the­ory of pat­terns on the wings of but­ter­flies, as Koster puts it. The only op­tion left seems to be to work to­wards a new the­ory of lin­guis­tic form, build­ing on the in­sights of lin­guists who have al­ways re­fused to abridge the lin­guis­tic com­pe­tence of the mono­lin­gual in order to ac­com­mo­date her in­evitably lim­ited and skewed ex­pe­ri­ence or to seek refuge in sta­tis­ti­cal mea­sures. Born and ed­u­cated in India and trained in the U.S., Ra­jen­dra Singh is Pro­fes­sor of Lin­guis­tics at the Uni­ver­sity of Mon­treal. A the­o­ret­i­cal lin­guist, he is par­tic­u­larly in­ter­ested in phonol­ogy, mor­phol­ogy, lan­guage con­tact, and so­ci­olin­guis­tics. The au­thor of sev­eral books, he is also the ed­i­tor-in-chief of The An­nual Re­view of South Asian Lan­guages and Lin­guis­tics (Mou­ton de Gruyter).

An aca­d­e­mic at the Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy Syd­ney and the Di­rec­tor of its In­dian Ocean and South Asia Re­search Net­work (IOSARN), De­vleena Ghosh is the au­thor of Colo­nial­ism and Moder­nity (2007, UNSW Press, with Paul Gillen), ed­i­tor of The Cul­tures of Trade: In­dian Ocean Ex­changes (2007, Cam­bridge Schol­ars Pub­lish­ing, with Stephen Muecke); Water, Sov­er­eignty and Bor­der in Asia and Ocea­nia (2008, Rout­ledge, with Goodall & Don­ald), and Women in Asia: Shad­ow­lines (2010, Cam­bridge Schol­ars). She is cur­rently work­ing on a man­u­script on in­for­mal travel be­tween the British colonies of India and Aus­tralia in the 19th and early 20th cen­tury. "My Name is Michelle, How May I Help You" Call Cen­tres and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Gen­der and Work Re­la­tion­ships in India Fri­day, 21 May 2010 I ex­am­ine the phe­nom­e­non of call cen­tres in India to ex­plore the ways in which trade and cul­ture in­volve trans­la­tion and ne­go­ti­a­tion of mean­ings, and the forg­ing of new modes of liv­ing and being across in-be­tween spaces. I ask, is this new work cul­tur­ally em­pow­er­ing or ex­ploita­tive? Is this an ex­am­ple of the ‘Em­pire fight­ing back’ that is a pos­i­tive side of glob­al­iza­tion? Or are the work­ers ‘cy­ber-coolies’, vic­tims of cor­po­rate colo­nial­ism and ho­mogeni­sa­tion of iden­tity; both con­nected and dis­con­nected from the local and the global by the fi­bre-op­tic ca­bles that tra­verse the sea? Jump­ing Ship – Skirt­ing Em­pire: In­di­ans, Abo­rig­ines and Aus­tralians across the In­dian Ocean Nov 15, 2007 Using a case study of move­ment from South Asia to Aus­tralia, I argue that 19th and 20th C di­as­poric move­ment can be re­con­sid­ered by chang­ing our focus from land-based analy­sis to oceanic pres­ences, that is, to rec­og­nize the sea as being an in­te­gral and, in fact, de-sta­b­lis­ing el­e­ment of ‘land­scapes of mean­ing’. In the In­dian Ocean as well as in much of the At­lantic trade, South Asians sup­plied a sig­nif­i­cant pro­por­tion of the labour force for ship­ping crews. I will be out­lin­ing the early find­ings of a new strat­egy to re­search the his­to­ries of un­con­trolled move­ments of peo­ple, in this case In­di­ans into Aus­tralia, which are by de­f­i­n­i­tion un­doc­u­mented. The ex­panded im­pe­r­ial net­works in fact opened up very new ways for peo­ple, ideas and tech­nolo­gies to cir­cu­late, in ef­fect, be­hind Em­pire’s back.

Prof. Dr. Er­hard Reck­witz Uni­ver­sität Duis­burg-Es­sen Er­hard Reck­witz, one of the co­or­di­na­tors of the Cen­tre for South­ern African Stud­ies at Duis­burg-Es­sen Uni­ver­sity, has held sev­eral Vis­it­ing Pro­fes­sor­ships in South Africa and is a re­puted ex­pert on this lit­er­ary area. June 14th, 2006: Be­tween Satire and Su­ture: As­pects of White Writ­ing in Post-Apartheid South Africa Cur­rent writ­ing by white South Africans shows signs of a deepseated un­cer­tainty as to the writer's po­si­tion in a rapidly chang­ing so­ci­ety. Re­ac­tion to the cur­rent po­lit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion takes two forms that are di­a­met­ri­cally op­posed: writ­ers can be seen to adopt ei­ther a satir­i­cal stance that is crit­i­cal of the ‘New South Africa’, or to take on a more hum­ble at­ti­tude that is in­tent on so­cial in­te­gra­tion. The focus of this talk will be on some of the prob­lems aris­ing from this di­chotomy.

Prof. Mohan Ra­manan Hy­der­abad Uni­ver­sity Mohan Ra­manan, a Pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish at Hy­der­abad Uni­ver­sity, has been a British Coun­cil Scholar at Ox­ford and a Ful­bright Scholar at Amherst MA. His pub­li­ca­tions in­clude The Move­ment: A Study of Con­tem­po­rary Po­etic Tra­di­tion (1989), Nine­teenth Cen­tury In­dian Eng­lish Prose (forth­com­ing), and he has edited Ah! Colum­bus: The In­dian Dis­cov­ery of Amer­ica (1993), and Eng­lish and the In­dian Short Story. May 28th, 2003: Gandhi and the Mak­ing of a Tra­di­tion The lec­ture will ex­plore key con­cepts in Ma­hatma Gandhi's work: Brah­macharya (celibacy), Ahimsa (non-vi­o­lence), and Satya (truth), in the con­text of In­dian na­tion­al­ist dis­course, fo­cussing on Gandhi's au­to­bi­og­ra­phy as a key text in which the in­ter­re­la­tion of celibacy with non-vi­o­lence and of these two with Gandhi's quest for Truth are drama­tised. This is symp­to­matic of a dom­i­nant strain in In­dian na­tion­al­ist thought where a fu­sion takes place of the inner and the outer, the per­sonal and the po­lit­i­cal, the sub­jec­tive quest for Truth and Self and the ob­jec­tive con­cern with free­dom. Gandhi's views on these is­sues will in con­clu­sion be con­trasted with the Nobel Prize win­ner Ra­bindranath Tagore, whose de­vo­tion to Beauty con­sti­tutes an im­por­tant chap­ter in na­tion­al­ist dis­course.

Prof. Sud­hir Kakar Cen­ter for the Study of World Re­li­gions, Har­vard Uni­ver­sity July 4th, 2002: Psy­cho­analy­sis and East­ern Spir­i­tual Heal­ing Tra­di­tions This lec­ture ex­am­ines the prac­tice of heal­ing in the East­ern spir­i­tual tra­di­tions through an ex­plo­ration of the im­por­tant role em­pa­thy can play in psy­cho­an­a­lytic dis­course and meth­ods. Em­pha­siz­ing the spir­i­tual teacher or guru's em­pa­thy, Sud­hir Kakar, while com­ing close to Heinz Kohut's ideas, claims that med­i­ta­tive prac­tices ac­ti­vate a dor­mant un­con­scious fac­ulty – ten­ta­tively iden­ti­fied by re­cent 'neu­rothe­o­log­i­cal' re­search through its traces in the brain – ca­pa­ble of en­hanc­ing the teacher-healer's em­pathic ca­pac­ity. This, Kakar ar­gues, al­lows for com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the pa­tient/seeker on more lev­els than the merely ver­bal and de­notes a major con­tri­bu­tion to psy­cho­an­a­lytic prac­tice.