‘Encounters with Literature’ – lecture by Prof. Friederike Eigler on 12 November

Friederike Eigler is a professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC. She will give a lecture at the Collegium Maius on 12 November 2024 at 2 p.m. entitled ‘’Permanent exhibition in Berlin: A successful transition from competing to multidirectional discourses of memory’.

The lecture will be an event in the ‘Encounters with Literature’ series, which in turn is part of the XXII Opole Science Festival. It will be organised by the Institute of Literary Studies. The lecture will be delivered in English.

Friederike Eigler is Professor of German Literature at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She served two terms as director of the Institute of German Studies. She has also twice served as Chair of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown.

Professor Eigler is the author of numerous publications on 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Her research interests focus on issues of memory, space and place, gender, and the relationship between the arts.

She was the editor of the 2020 anthology ‘Contemporary Literature: A German Studies Yearbook’ and the journal ‘The German Quarterly’. She has published the following monographs: ‘Narratives of Place, Space, and Belonging: Toward a Transnational Approach to Flight and Expulsion’ (Camden House, 2014) and ‘Gedächtnis und Geschichte in Generationenromane seit der Wende’ (Schmidt, 2005).

Her other major publications include the volume ‘Heimat: At the Intersection of Space and Memory/Zwischen Raum und Gedächtnis’ (de Gruyter, 2012) and the special issue of ‘Colloquia Germanica’ on Europe and contemporary German literature, co-edited with Anke Biendarra (51. 3-4, 2020).

Her current research projects explore the relationship between literature and the visual arts and analyse literary testimonies of refugee presence in Europe. Her lecture at Collegium Maius will focus on competing notions of European cultural memory.