Events

On 2 December, British Japanese author and actor Hanako Footman will discuss the aesthetics and politics of narrating and translating queer diasporas.

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The CTS and the section “Anglophone Literatures / Literary Translation” cordially invite all those interested to the launch of the anthology Terror Australis – Australian Gothic: Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives, which will be published in January 2026 as part of the “Düsseldorf übersetzt” series by C.W. Leske Verlag.

The anthology, which has been created under the direction of Dr. Bettina Burger and in close collaboration between Australian authors and students of the Master’s programme “Literary Translation” at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, brings together contemporary and historical voices of the Australian Gothic and opens up multifaceted perspectives on colonial and postcolonial experiences.

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“What is World Poetry?” asks Stephen Owen (1990) in regard of a new anthology by the Chinese dissident poet Bei Dao. Owen criticized Bei Dao’s as “a poetry written to travel well,” a kind of international poetry that translates itself. It represents a specimen of a creature that never existed before: “world poetry,” detached from any national context and only accidentally written in one national language.

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