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	'''Dr. Lisa King (University of Kansas)''' <br>		'''Dr. Lisa King (University of Kansas)''' <br>
	'''"The Imagined Indian:		'''"The Imagined Indian: The Rhetoric of American Indian Representations in Euro-American Media"'''
	The Rhetoric of American Indian Representations in Euro-American Media"'''

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	'''24 June 2010:''' <br>		'''24 June 2010:''' <br>

	2:15pm (A13 0-028)<br>		2:15pm (A13 0-028)<br>

	'''Dr. Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov (Bremen/Berlin)"''' <br>		'''Dr. Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov (Bremen/Berlin)''' <br>
	'''"Early Modern Afro-European Encounters in North Central Europe"''
			'''"Early Modern Afro-European Encounters in North Central Europe"'''

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	research include ''literary'' and ''cultural studies'', ''didactics'', and ''linguistics''.		research include ''literary'' and ''cultural studies'', ''didactics'', and ''linguistics''.

	The colloquium takes place ~~during lecture periods~~ on selected ~~Wednesday nights~~		The colloquium takes place on selected days during the term. A 45-minute lecture
	~~starting at 6:15 pm in A6 2-212~~. A 45-minute lecture is usually followed by a		is usually followed by a discussion of up to 30 minutes.
	discussion of up to 30 minutes.

	All interested students and colleagues, also from other fields of study, are		All interested students and colleagues, also from other fields of study, are
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	== Schedule for the ~~winter~~ term ~~09/10~~: ==		== Schedule for the summer term 2010: ==

	'''~~20 January~~ 2010:'''<br>		'''09 June 2010:'''<br>
	'''~~Prof.~~ Dr. ~~Monika Rottweiler~~ (University of ~~Bremen~~)'''<br>		'''Dr. Beril Saydun (University of Oldenburg)'''<br>
	'''"~~Mehrsprachige Kinder und spezifische Sprachentwicklungsstörung~~"'''		'''"Construction of Nationalism and Gender in Halidé Edib’s Autobiographical Writings"'''

	<br>		<br>

	'''~~27 January~~ 2010:'''<br>		'''24 June 2010:'''<br>

	'''~~Ilka Flöck~~ (~~University of Oldenburg~~)'''<br>		'''Dr. Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov (Bremen/Berlin)'''<br>
	'''~~“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions~~ in ~~spoken English conversations~~'''		'''"Early Modern Afro-European Encounters in North Central Europe"'''

	<br>		<br>

	'''~~03 February~~ 2010:''' <br>		'''28 June 2010:''' <br>

	'''~~Christian Lassen~~ (University of ~~Oldenburg~~)''' <br>		'''Dr. Lisa King (University of Kansas)''' <br>
	'''"~~Campy Comforts~~: ~~Reparative Gay Literature~~ in ~~Times of AIDS~~"'''		'''"The Imagined Indian:
			The Rhetoric of American Indian Representations in Euro-American Media"'''

			<br>

			'''01 July 2010:''' <br>

			'''Dr. Thorsten Huth (Southern Illinois University)''' <br>
			'''"Translating Cultures: Requests in Learner Interaction"'''

			<br>

	== Forthcoming talk==		== Forthcoming talk==

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Forthcoming talk

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	== Forthcoming talk==		== Forthcoming talk==

	'''~~03 February~~ 2010:''' <br>		'''24 June 2010:''' <br>
			2:15pm (A13 0-028)<br>

	'''~~Christian Lassen~~ (~~University of Oldenburg~~)''' <br>		'''Dr. Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov (Bremen/Berlin)"''' <br>
	'''"~~Campy Comforts: Reparative Gay Literature~~ in ~~Times of AIDS~~"''		'''"Early Modern Afro-European Encounters in North Central Europe"''

	Abstract:<br>		Abstract:<br>
	~~"If this is dying, then I don't think much~~ of it.~~" Lytton Strachey~~'~~s camp irreverence towards death may attest to his genuine equanimity~~ and ~~his nonchalant detachment~~. On a ~~larger scale~~, ~~however, this statement illustrates a queer reluctance to submit~~ to the ~~ways~~ in ~~which death~~, ~~and specifically~~ the ~~death~~ of ~~the sexual dissident~~, ~~has been interpreted (~~and ~~stigmatised) in Western culture. With AIDS~~, ~~these interpretations~~ and ~~stigmatisations have reached a recent climax~~. ~~On a basic level~~, ~~therefore, this talk attempts to reveal how traditional discourses on death have shaped our perception~~ of the ~~disease~~. ~~On a deeper level~~, ~~it simultaneously strives to demonstrate how authors like Adam Mars-Jones~~, ~~Rafael Campo~~ and ~~Alan Hollinghurst have succeeded~~ in ~~playfully employing~~ the ~~gay sensibility~~, i.~~e. camp~~, ~~to question~~ and ~~subvert~~ this ~~perception~~ to the ~~extent that conventional sites~~ of ~~mourning~~, such as the ~~elegy~~, ~~have been made viable for queer readings and purposes~~.		The Early Modern European imagination of the world was spurred and challenged by the encounter with several non-European cultures. The alphabetized public was aware of the learned treatises of scholars and shared travelers' experiences through cosmographies and travel reports. Later, the rise of the encyclopedia offered a new form of alphabetically organized knowledge.
			However, encounter with other cultures was not limited to the written word and cultural contact with non-Europeans took place also in Europe itself. Unlike the first people of America 'discovered' after 1492, the notion of people of black African descent was not entirely new to Europeans. Much earlier, Greek and Roman writing, but also the Bible and later reports on the crusades to the 'Holy Land' had informed about the existence of black- or dark-skinned people on the African continent. Since the Ethiopian church was regarded as being part of the Christian church, people of African descent were seen as potential allies of the Christian armies.
			This image of Africans as part of the Christian world was visualized in religious images like 'The three Magi,' 'Bathseba,' 'The Baptism of the Eunuch' and others, and Black Africans became a sizable part of European societies in the fifteenth century, when Portuguese ships reached out to the West African coast.
			This lecture will examine the presence of people of African descent in the social networks of a North German noble house, the East-Frisian princely family of the Cirksena and will trace their paths and life-courses in this social environment, trying to assess their positions in the subtly scaled hierarchies of the courtly world. Originally coming to the German lands as slaves at an early age, they became part of the court and wider society through cultural practices such as religious conversion, which can be regarded as the ultimate prerequisite for social integration, but also as a first step towards a (limited) emancipation from lingering dependencies.

	==Archive and Planning==		==Archive and Planning==

H.limberg at 14:30, 28 January 2010

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	== Forthcoming talk==		== Forthcoming talk==

			'''03 February 2010:''' <br>

			'''Christian Lassen (University of Oldenburg)''' <br>
			'''"Campy Comforts: Reparative Gay Literature in Times of AIDS"''

			Abstract:<br>
			"If this is dying, then I don't think much of it." Lytton Strachey's camp irreverence towards death may attest to his genuine equanimity and his nonchalant detachment. On a larger scale, however, this statement illustrates a queer reluctance to submit to the ways in which death, and specifically the death of the sexual dissident, has been interpreted (and stigmatised) in Western culture. With AIDS, these interpretations and stigmatisations have reached a recent climax. On a basic level, therefore, this talk attempts to reveal how traditional discourses on death have shaped our perception of the disease. On a deeper level, it simultaneously strives to demonstrate how authors like Adam Mars-Jones, Rafael Campo and Alan Hollinghurst have succeeded in playfully employing the gay sensibility, i.e. camp, to question and subvert this perception to the extent that conventional sites of mourning, such as the elegy, have been made viable for queer readings and purposes.

H.limberg at 14:27, 28 January 2010

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	== Forthcoming talk==		== Forthcoming talk==

	~~'''Wed, January 27th: Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)'''~~
	* '''“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations'''


	~~''Abstract:''<br>~~
	In his programmatic publication How to Do Things with Words John Austin estimates that there are between 1,000 and 9,999 different speech acts. Of these illocutions, only a handful has been empirically and systematically analysed. ‘Famous’ illocutions include requests, apologies and compliment (responses). Suggestions, on the other hand, belong to the vast group of speech acts which have so far been largely neglected by researchers. They are, however, an interesting case because they not only seem to challenge Searle’s (1976) very influential classification of illocutionary types but they also share many attributes and surface realisations with other speech acts (e.g. requests and offers). This functional overlap has raised the question of how conversationalists are able to (correctly) identify the illocution, i.e. the speaker’s intention, of a speech act. The talk will give an overview of how suggestions are realised in British and American English and will provide ideas of how identification of illocutions can be studied in spoken language.

H.limberg at 17:46, 26 January 2010

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	== Forthcoming ~~lecture~~ ==		== Forthcoming talk==

	~~'''Wed, January 20th: Prof. Dr. Monika Rothweiler (University of Bremen)'''<br>~~
	* '''Mehrsprachige Kinder und spezifische Sprachentwicklungsstörung'''
	~~<br>~~
	'''Wed, January 27th: Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)'''		'''Wed, January 27th: Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)'''
	* '''“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations'''		* '''“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations'''

Holger Limberg at 16:39, 15 December 2009

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	'''20 January 2010:'''<br>		'''20 January 2010:'''<br>
			'''Prof. Dr. Monika Rottweiler (University of Bremen)'''<br>
			'''"Mehrsprachige Kinder und spezifische Sprachentwicklungsstörung"'''

			<br>

			'''27 January 2010:'''<br>

	'''Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)'''<br>		'''Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)'''<br>
	'''“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations'''		'''“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations'''

			<br>

	'''03 February 2010:''' <br>		'''03 February 2010:''' <br>
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	== Forthcoming lecture ==		== Forthcoming lecture ==

	'''Wed, January 20th: Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg'''		'''Wed, January 20th: Prof. Dr. Monika Rothweiler (University of Bremen)'''<br>
			* '''Mehrsprachige Kinder und spezifische Sprachentwicklungsstörung'''
			<br>
			'''Wed, January 27th: Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)'''
	* '''“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations'''		* '''“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations'''

Holger Limberg at 11:49, 10 December 2009

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	'''Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)'''<br>		'''Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)'''<br>
	'''“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations'''		'''“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations'''


	'''03 February 2010:''' <br>		'''03 February 2010:''' <br>

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	or Dr. des. Annika Pherson (Literary and Cultural Studies), annika.mcpherson@uni-oldenburg.de		or Dr. des. Annika Pherson (Literary and Cultural Studies), annika.mcpherson@uni-oldenburg.de

	~~The schedule for the current term will be posted soon (below)!~~
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			== Schedule for the winter term 09/10: ==

			'''20 January 2010:'''<br>

			'''Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)'''<br>
			'''“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations'''


	~~== Previous lectures ==~~		'''03 February 2010:''' <br>

	'''~~Wed, October 28th: Prof. Dr. Miriam A. Locher~~ (~~Universität Basel~~)'''		'''Christian Lassen (University of Oldenburg)''' <br>
	* '''"~~Politeness research~~: ~~past, present, future~~"'''		'''"Campy Comforts: Reparative Gay Literature in Times of AIDS"'''

	''Abstract:''
	~~Since the late 1970s Brown~~ and ~~Levinson's work on politeness~~ has been ~~a bestseller~~ and ~~to this day it is a fundamental work that still finds many followers~~. ~~However~~, ~~in the late 1990s~~ and in the ~~2000s politeness research in~~ the ~~Brown and Levinsonian tradition has been challenged and new ideas~~ have been ~~tested~~. ~~We can now look back on more than thirty years~~ of ~~active politeness research that~~ has ~~recently also started~~ to ~~widen its scope to include~~ the ~~study~~ of ~~impoliteness as well~~. ~~This~~ talk ~~aims at presenting important research trends from the past~~ and ~~present~~ and will ~~indicate some~~ of ~~the challenging issues that we are facing~~ in ~~the future~~.		== Forthcoming lecture ==

			'''Wed, January 20th: Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg'''
			* '''“Let's listen to ''The Commitments'', you wanna?”: Realising and identifying suggestions in spoken English conversations'''


			''Abstract:''<br>
			In his programmatic publication How to Do Things with Words John Austin estimates that there are between 1,000 and 9,999 different speech acts. Of these illocutions, only a handful has been empirically and systematically analysed. ‘Famous’ illocutions include requests, apologies and compliment (responses). Suggestions, on the other hand, belong to the vast group of speech acts which have so far been largely neglected by researchers. They are, however, an interesting case because they not only seem to challenge Searle’s (1976) very influential classification of illocutionary types but they also share many attributes and surface realisations with other speech acts (e.g. requests and offers). This functional overlap has raised the question of how conversationalists are able to (correctly) identify the illocution, i.e. the speaker’s intention, of a speech act. The talk will give an overview of how suggestions are realised in British and American English and will provide ideas of how identification of illocutions can be studied in spoken language.

Holger Limberg at 14:10, 18 November 2009

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	futher questions, please contact the organizers:		futher questions, please contact the organizers:
	Dr. des. Holger Limberg (Linguistics/Didactics), h.limberg@uni-oldenburg.de		Dr. des. Holger Limberg (Linguistics/Didactics), h.limberg@uni-oldenburg.de
	Dr. des. Annika Pherson (Literary and Cultural Studies), annika.mcpherson@uni-oldenburg.de		or Dr. des. Annika Pherson (Literary and Cultural Studies), annika.mcpherson@uni-oldenburg.de

	The schedule for the current term will be posted soon (below)!		The schedule for the current term will be posted soon (below)!