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The Department of English Studies is pleased to welcome the renowned cultural geographer Dr. Andrew Harris from University College London for a lecture on "Reimagining Culture-led Urban Regeneration" as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series The City. Culture-led Regeneration. Space – Knowledge – Participation, which takes place weekly from 17:00 to 19:00 in Building 44, Lecture Hall 6 at the Zschokkestraße campus. Before he gives his lecture on 18 June, there will be a Walk & Talk with Andrew Harris and Zuhar Aljundi in the Port of Science from 11:00 to 13:00 on the same day. For registraton, please mail .

Andrew Harris' presentation will assess how culture-led urban regeneration has been approached, understood and implemented, and emphasise the need for greater interdisciplinary exchange and comparative learning in efforts to develop a more imaginative and progressive agenda for the role of culture in contemporary urban policy. Examples will be drawn in particular from London and the UK, which has played a crucial role in the international spread of the creative city. It will show how practices and activities associated with creativity have been incorporated into urban regeneration policy over the last three decades and highlight important limitations identified in this increasing role of culture in shaping urban change.

As part of the BMBF-funded joint project "3IOS Sleep - Pain - Stress - Cultures and Techniques of Biofeedback Systems 1960 to 1990: Material Culture Research in the Medical Technology Collection of the OVGU", the Chair of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies invites applications for a research assistant position with 100% working hours and remuneration according to TV-L 13 as of 1 July 2024. The externally funded position is jointly responsible for the establishment of research in the field of Medical Humanities at the OVGU and in the BMBF joint project. The application deadline is 7 June 2024, applications will be accepted via the online portal. Prof. Dr. Susanne Peters and PD Dr. Nora Pleßke are available to answer any questions you may have.

The position for research assistant (100% TV-L 13) includes the following areas of responsibility:

• independent research in the field of Medical Humanities with associated research and archive work
• active participation in collection-related research in 3-month object laboratories
• collaboration in project-related workshops and events, e.g. lecture series, exhibition and collection conference
• participation in national and international conferences and publication of research results
• preparation of a dissertation

Applicants should have the following profile:

• successfully completed academic university education (Diploma/M.A.) in Anglophone cultural and/or literary studies
• strong research interest in related cultural studies topics (e.g. material culture studies, medical humanities, science studies)
• very good methodological skills
• very good knowledge of German and English
• reliable, conscientious and structured work, commitment, initiative, ability to work in a team and scientific curiosity

In the summer semester 2024, PD Dr. Nora Pleßke and her team from the transSCAPE: Cultural Spaces of Knowledge project, part of the TransPORT transfer initiative for the transformation of the Port of Science, are organising the interdisciplinary lecture series at the Faculty of Humanities (Building 44, Lecture Hall 6, Zschokkestraße 32) every Tuesday from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Under the title "The City - Culture-led Regeneration: Space - Knowledge - Participation", the lecture series will feature experts from the fields of history, political and social sciences, cultural studies, literature and linguistics as well as philosophy, geography, architecture and art, who will examine and critically discuss culture-led regeneration from various disciplinary perspectives. The lecture series invites participants to discuss the challenges and potentials of culture-led regeneration in cities and to provide new impetus for participatory and future-oriented urban development. Further information on the lecture series and the transfer initiative transPORT can be found here.

Commission:

Chair: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Unger, Department III, FHW, OVGU
Supervisor: Prof.in Dr.in Susanne Peters, Department III, FHW, OVGU
Supervisor: Prof.in Dr.in Kylie Crane, University of Rostock
Member: PD Dr.in Nora Pleßke Nora Pleßke, Department III, FHW, OVGU
Member: Prof. Dr. Michael Böcher, InstitutDepartment II, FHW, OVGU

As part of the project "One University, One Book", OVGU is organising a lecture series in the summer semester 2024 entitled "The World of Things: Insights into Science, History, Theory and Practice“, which PD Dr. Nora Pleßke will open on 18 April 2024 at 6 p.m. in the Senate Hall (Building 05, Room 205) with a lecture on "'The Great Victorian Collection' and the Translocation of Colonial Objects". In her habilitation thesis, Nora Pleßke investigated the transformative influence of products from colonial territories perceived as 'foreign', the appropriation of exotic objects and the commercialisation of colonial objects, and these epistemological changes will also be the focus of the lecture. Using the example of the Great Exhibition, the concept of translocation for postcolonial studies of material culture will first be introduced in order to then trace the complex processes of appropriation of colonial objects in new (everyday) networks of meaning. Other lectures will deal with computer and video games, post-digital materiality, object biographies, provenance research on property looted by the Nazis and cyclographic narratives.

The "One University, One Book" project is a nationwide competition organised by the Stifterverband and the Klaus Tschira Foundation, in which the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg was one of nine universities to win. University staff, students and interested book lovers read the book At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson together, discuss it and exchange views on questions and challenges of the present and future in order to find new ways of thinking. The book selection was the result of a voting process; Bryson's At Home was suggested by Marlene Adam, a former member of the University Collection Project initiated by the Magdeburg Anglophone Studies Department. Nora Pleßke's lecture will also be thematically linked to the University Collection project.