John Berger: the poetics and politics of collaboration
international conference, June 11-13, 2025, University of Potsdam
For more information, see https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/research-unit-collaborations
minor cosmopolitan intervention
international conference, May 8-10, 2025: the last and final public event of the DFG-funded Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms held at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Savvy Contemporary, Spore Initiative, and Humboldt Universität.
For more information, see https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosmopolitanisms/projects/minor-cosmopolitan-intervention
radical urbanisms
Summer School of the RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms, University of Pretoria, 25 September - 1 October, 2023.
For more information , see: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosmopolitanisms/events
minor cosmopolitan assembly
Lecture – Debate – Film – Exhibition – Music. Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, 10-12 November 2022.
For more information, see www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosmopolitanisms/projects/minor-cosmopolitan-assembly
minor cosmopolitan weekend
Lecture – Debate – Film – Exhibition – Music. Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin, 6-8 December 2018.
For more information, see https://www.uni-potsdam.de/minorcosmopolitanweekend/
world literature: postcolonial perspectives
International conference, University of Delhi, March 15-17, 2018..
Keynote speakers: Arjun Appadurai, Emily Apter, Alexander Beecroft
For more information, conference programme, and presentation abstracts etc. see: https://conferenceworldliterature.wordpress.com
masala modernities
Four-weeks field trip from Potsdam to Delhi, February 20 to March 19, 2018.
For more information, see: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/wci/activities/archive/masala-modernities-field-trip
minor cosmopolitan justice and aesthetics
Summer School of the RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms, Maquarie University, Sydney, 12-18 February 2018.
For more information, a call for applications, flyer etc. see: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosmopolitanisms/activities/summer-school-sydney.html#c321192
doing cosmopolitanisms: dynamics of theory and practice
Winter School of the RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms, University of Delhi, 4-8 December 2017.
For more information, a call for applications, flyer etc. see: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosmopolitanisms/activities/winter-school-delhi.htm
writing the cosmopolitan imagination
Kick-off conference of the bilateral research and exchange programme, "Genre Transactions in World-Literary Space". University of Delhi, December 12-13, 2016.
For more information, see: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/wci/activities/archive/inaugural-conference-writing-the-cosmopolitan-imagination
postcolonial justice
Joint conference of ASNEL and GASt, 29 May – 1 June 2014, University of Potsdam and Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin.
For more information, see: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/poco_justice/
just politics: postcolonial ecocriticism between imagination and occupation
11th ASNEL Summer School at the University of Potsdam, 2-6 September 2013
For more information, see http://justpoliticspotsdam2013.wordpress.com
minor cosmopolitanisms
International Summer School, University of Potsdam, 9-13 July 2012.
For information, see: http://minorcosmopolitanisms.wordpress.com
English republican ideas and networks
International conference, University of Potsdam, June 30-July 2, 2011.
Keynote speakers: J.C. Davis, Blair Worden, Justin Champion
For more information, see: https://dirkwiemann.online/research/english-republican-ideas-and-networks/
