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Project transSCAPE launched

04.03.2024 -

With transSCAPE - Cultural Spaces of Knowledge - a research project led by the OVGU's Anglophone Studies division has been approved by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for the Port of Science Magdeburg, which promotes the development of the Port of Science into an open and diverse place of knowledge through culturally supported transfer formats. transSCAPE is part of the transPORT research initiative, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the programme line T!Raum - Transfer Spaces for the Future of Regions.

With respect to the development of the Port of Science into a modern urban quarter and ecosystem, transSCAPE is playing a key role in developing the neighbourhood into an attractive urban space, cultural hotspot and an interesting and sustainable residential landscape. The scientific approaches anchored in transSCAPE from spatial, culture-led transformation for the spatial, social and ideational structural change to the new high-tech ecosystem in the Port of Science also provide suitable innovative transfer formats. Tailored spatial design and urban curatorial elements are intended to bring urban culture and knowledge culture together physically and materially in the overall transPORT initiative and allow them to grow together innovatively. An annual cultural programme specially designed for the Port of Science with its various social transfer formats always serves the exchange and development of knowledge. The focus here is on the identity-creating potential generated by the participation of all transPORT contributors from science, society and business in the planned events.

In line with the project's focus on urban transformation and regeneration, the Department of Anglophone Studies is offering the interdisciplinary lecture series of the Faculty of Human Sciences in the summer semester 2024 on the topic of "City. Culture-driven Regeneration: Space - Knowledge - Participation". The aim is to ensure that research and teaching are interlinked and that OVGU students are actively involved in Magdeburg's urban transformation processes. As in every semester, the in:takt initiative, which is based on the interim use of urban spaces, is also included in the division's teaching programme with a seminar offered by Hendrik Weiner. This summer, the focus is on urban co-creation.

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Staff Changes

01.02.2024 -

The Chair of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies is delighted to welcome Katja Lenßen as its new secretary from 1 February 2024. She will take over the secretariat from Susan Patzer. We wish Ms Lenßen a great start in her new role and Ms Patzer all the best for her professional future and thank her for her work at the chair.

At the same time, we are saying goodbye to PD Dr Simone Broders on 29 February 2024. We would like to thank Ms Broders very much for standing in for Prof Dr Nora Pleßke, who will return to OVGU on 1 March, and wish her all the best for her professional future.

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PD Dr. Simone Broders steps in for PD Dr. Nora Pleßke

29.03.2023 -

The department of Anglophone Studies is pleased to welcome a new member to the team as of 17 April 2023. PD Dr. Simone Broders (formerly Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) will step in for PD Dr. Nora Pleßke as a lecturer at the department in the summer and winter semesters of 2022/23, as Nora Pleßke will take over a stand-in professorship. Simone Broders offers exciting seminar topics and looks forward to many students in her courses. Her areas of expertise are diverse and highly interesting for our Cultural Engineering degree programme. She works, for example, on the topic Limits of Knowledge - Knowledge of Limits and on the history of ideas of curiosity. In doing so, she repeatedly builds bridges between cultural studies approaches and brain research, computer science, medicine and information science.

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Reviewers Interested in the Fantastic Wanted for the Inklings Newsletter

03.12.2021 -

Since 2017, the Inklings-Gesellschaft für Literatur und Ästhetik e.V. (Inklings Society for Literature and Aesthetics) has been publishing a newsletter in irregular cycles, which is dedicated to the review of fantastic primary texts. The Inklings Society was founded in 1983 and is primarily dedicated to the study and dissemination of the works of the Inklings, a group of authors around J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Dorothy Sayers, George MacDonald and G.K. Chesterton, but also to the analysis of the fantastic in literature, film and art in general.

From 2022 onwrds, the newsletter will be edited by Marthe-Siobhán Hecke, M.A., M.Ed. (University of Bonn), and Carsten Kullmann, M.A. (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg), offerering a platform for the review of newly published primary texts (e.g. literature, film, series, etc.) that belong to a genre of the fantastic (e.g. fantasy, science fiction, horror, Gothic, dystopia). The editors are currently looking for student reviewers who would like to become part of the editorial team and contribute (academic) reviews of such primary texts for the newsletter. The reviews can be written in German or English. Review copies of literary works will be provided if possible. If you are interested, please contact Carsten Kullmann (). An overview of past newsletter issues can be found here.

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