Archive 2013

 

 

In December of 2013, Prof. Dr. Eckart Conze from the Philipps University of Marburg was in Trier to talk about: "Dynamiken der Sicherheit: Das Konzept der Versicherheitlichung in Zeithistorischer Perspektive" (10/Dec/2013, 6 pm, room P 3).

 

 

At the beginning of the German winter term 2013/14, the IRTG Diversity was featured on the U of Trier University Magazine's cover page. See here http://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/organisation/Presse/Unijournal/Ab_2010/Unijournal_3_2013.pdf, pps. 34ff., for the magazine's article introducing our research group to the public.

 

 

 

On invitation of the IRTG Diversity, Prof. Graeme Wynn (University of British Columbia) gave a lecture on the topic of "Understanding Canada as Transnational Space" on July 5, 2013. The talk took place at the Palais Walderdorff in the city centre of Trier and was open to both the university and the general public.

 

As part of Trier University's Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies conference on Critical Whiteness Studies, the IRTG Diversity hosted Kristyn Harman (University of Tasmania), who presented a talk on "Disciplining Aboriginal Populations through Transportation within the British Empire"

 

 

 

As part of the IRTG Diversity's and the Trier Center for Canadian Studies' Canada Day, the IRTG's visiting professor Paul Morris gave a lecture on "Canadian Paradigms for Mediating Difference: An Historical Overview"

 

 

The IRTG Diversity's PhD programme includes workshops on various scholarly practices and research methods. In June of 2013, our doctoral candidates took part in a workshop on good scholarly practice.