Centre for Translation Studies

22/06/2026, 18:00, Haus der Universität (4a/ 4b)

Moderation: Dr. Yongli Li, Dr. Hannah Pardey (HHU)

How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? Cinematic Guerrillas is a media history of Chinese film exhibition and reception that offers fresh insights into the powers and limits of propaganda. Drawing on a wealth of archives, memoirs, interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork, this book talk examines the media networks and environments, discourses and practices, experiences and memories of film projectionists and their grassroots audiences from the 1940s to the 1980s. Using "cinematic guerrillas" to refer to onscreen militants, off-the-grid movie teams, and unruly moviegoers, this presentation reconceptualizes socialist media practices as "revolutionary spirit mediumship" that aimed to turn audiences into congregations, contribute to the Mao cult, convert skeptics of revolutionary miracles, and exorcize class enemies.

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16/06/2026, 18:00, Haus der Universität (BSR 4a/b)
Dr. Isabel Hufschmidt (HHU) 
Guest Lecture 
Moderation: Dr. Hannah Pardey (HHU)

Decolonizing museums demands applicable tools within and beyond the museum space. In view of this imperative, “(Un)Translating the Museum” focuses on the hegemony of the museum concept, as defined by the West, through the lens of translation as a counter-practice. It is about workable perspectives to challenge the term as a pan-global standard. Can we unlearn the term through un-translating, i.e. resisting and reversing cultural imposition? 
The analysis is not least an advocacy for applicable approaches to the concept’s decolonization and contextualization, squarely for its unlearning. Therefore, a work path based on case studies will be presented to illustrate how to introduce this process of unlearning essentially into academic education at the interplay of transcultural, translation and museum studies. 
The talk is part of the speaker’s current research project Ur & Alexandria: Counter-Narrating Museum History.

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18:00 - 20:00 STADTFENSTER (Zentralbibliothek, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1)

Der Arbeitskreis Düsseldorf Postkolonial veranstaltet am 10.9. 18-20 Uhr einen Diskussionsabend mit Input und Podium zum Umgang mit dem „Kolonialkriegerdenkmal" am Frankenplatz.

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Wir gratulieren Tasun Tidorchibe herzlich zur erfolgreichen Verteidigung seiner Dissertation "Revisiting formalism from a West African perspective: Konkomba folktales across generations and cultural contexts". Sein Projekt beschäftigt sich aus afrozentrischer Perspektive mit Form-​Inhalts-Beziehungen in (weitgehend westlichen) Strömungen des Formalismus am Beispiel populärer Erzählungen (folktales) der Konkomba in Nordghana. Über Translating Minor Forms macht sein Projekt zudem einen Korpus der Erzählungen, deren Übersetzungen, und weiteren Inhalten zugänglich. Mehr Informationen finden Sie hier.