BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:www-angam-phil-fau-de//Events//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SWITCH TO ZOOM: Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt (Goethe-Universität Fran kfurt): Guest Lecture (29 January 2025) UID:0ec5-0439-cfb5-26996@www.angam.phil.fau.de DESCRIPTION:The Chair of English Cultural and Literary Studies is plea sed to announce Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main\; Chair of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures) as our se cond speaker in the lecture series Confronting Colonial Legacies: Face ts of Human Rights Violations. She is an expert in Postcolonial Studie s\, anglophone literature\, literature of mobility and migration\, dia sporic literature\, and Memory Studies. Among her most recent publicat ions are the edited collection The Anglophone Novel in the 21st Centur y: Cultural Contexts – Literary Developments (WVT\, 2023) as well as a special issue of the journal Postcolonial Interventions on the topi c “Rethinking Postcolonial Europe: Moving Identities\, Changing Subj ectivities” (2022). Nadia Butt will give a guest lecture on the topi c Partition Novel as Trauma Fiction: A Postcolonial Reading\, in which she will explore how contemporary South Asian women writers engage wi th the legacy of the human rights violations committed during the Part ition of India: “The end of the British Raj (1858-1947) on the India n subcontinent led to the partition of India in 1947 into the two sepa rate nation-states of India and Pakistan. The Great Partition\, as it is called by the historian Yasmin Khan (2007)\, caused millions of dea ths and displacement of innocent people. This apocalyptic event in Sou th Asian history has generated a great amount of literature in English \, which came to prominence with the publication of Salman Rushdie’s historical novel Midnight’s Children in 1981. Both Indian and Pakis tani writers have captured the trauma and tragedies of the partition v ictims in their novels to bring out the impact of partition on the liv es of common people. By fictionalising history\, the novelists seek to render voice to the suffering and sacrifices of different communities in India\, particularly Hindus\, Muslims\, and Sikhs\, who began to f ight against each other in the name of ethnic and religious diffe DTSTART:20250129T160000Z DTEND:20250129T180000Z LOCATION:CHANGE OF PLACE: The lecture now has to take place online via Zoom:\n\nhtt ps://fau.zoom-x.de/j/65019734401?pwd=nVjjokoaN85Oj2DWq4G8wSHscvXQ5v.1< /a>\n\nMeeting-ID: 650 1973 4401\nKenncode: 243620 DTSTAMP:20260502T184729Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR