Transferts Culturels – Kulturtransfer – Intercultural Transfers
Année universitaire 2026/27, en ligne
The transnational seminar is based on the long-term collaboration between Leipzig University and the École normale supérieure-PSL Paris. It consists of lectures by invited international scholars dedicated to the study of cultural transfers, transnational history and transregional studies.
The transnational research seminar consists of lectures by invited international scholars dedicated to the study of cultural transfers in very different regions. The presenters discuss the relationship between cultural transfer research, transnational history and transregional studies using examples from their ongoing research.
The sessions take place monthly and are open to all interested students and researchers. The seminar is organized entirely online. It is based on the long-term collaboration between the École normale supérieure Paris (UMR Pays Germaniques - Transferts Culturels) and the Leipzig Centre for the Study of France and the Francophone World and the Research Centre Global Dynamics at Leipzig University. The sessions of this seminar are held in French, English or German, whereby the language of the lecture results from the given working title, while interventions in the discussion are possible in all three languages.
Programme
9 octobre 2026 : Kulturtransfer in der Musikwissenschaft Buchvorstellung
"Musik und Kulturtransfer. Eine Einführung", Stefan Keym, Universität Leipzig
Musikästhetik im Transfer: Französisch-deutsche Übersetzungen im 18. Jahrhundert, Benedikt Leßmann, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig
30 octobre 2026 : Refugeedom on the Indian Subcontinent
Unheard Voices and Untold Stories: Recovering Refugee Voices along the Bengal Borderlands, Anindita Ghoshal (Diamond Harbour Women’s University)
Negotiating the Concepts of Modernity and Religion: a case of Dalit refugees in India, Sipra Mukherjee (West Bengal State University)
13 novembre 2026 : La culture persane envisagée sous l’angle des transferts
De Saadi à Sadi (Carnot) : comment un poète persan devint allemand et français, Mandana Covindassamy (ENS-PSL)
Comment transformer un dictionnaire du turc en dictionnaire du persan ? L’East India Company, les savoirs lexicographiques ottomans et le projet de republication du Meninski (années 1770), Rahul Markovits (ENS-PSL)
27 novembre 2026 : Construction of Southeast Asian Identities through Colonialism and Diaspora
From Cochinchine to Indochine: Print, Bureaucracy, and the Semantics of Colonial Space, Yasmine Najm (Utrecht University)
Looking for East/West Crossings: Transnational Readings of Vietnamese Diasporic Narratives Across Europe
Maika Nguyen (French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences Prague)
11 décembre 2026 : Multilingualism in Belgium and Congo
From Translation Flows to Cultural Diversity: Rethinking Bibliodiversity through Policy, Reine Meylearts (KU Leuven)
Band. A Flemish periodical in Congo (1942-1960), Elke Brems (KU Leuven)
15 janvier 2027 : Zirkulationen deutscher Texte in Polen
Eighteenth-century Warsaw as a space for Polish-German Cultural Transfer, Marta Kuc-Czerep (Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla)
Weltliteratur hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang: Infrastruktur und transnationale Netzwerke im Ostblock, Paweł Zajas (Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität)
05 février 2027 : Germanophone-Australian Entanglements
ATTENTION ! À titre exceptionnel de 14h00 à 16h00 !
Shifting Images of a Continent: German Peritexts of Australian Literature, Oliver Haag (Austrian Centre for Transcultural Studies)
Displaced Knowledge: Cultural Transfer and the Adaptation of Cultural Capital among Refugees from National Socialism in Australia, Philipp Strobl (University of Alberta)
12 mars 2027 : Les approches anthropologiques des questions de transferts en Chine
La construction interculturelle de l’histoire du corridor culturel naxi et le rôle pionnier de
sinologues français, Nina Mu (Université des Minorités du Sud-ouest)
La régulation des marchés aux animaux (wetmarkets) en Chine durant la crise de Covid-19, Frédéric Keck & Nan Nan (CNRS)
23 avril 2027 : Transferts francophones au‑delà de l’Europe
Modernités connectées - les transferts littéraires et culturels Québec-Allemagne, 19e-21e siècles. Conjonctures historiques, figures de médiateurs/trices, et dynamiques interculturelles, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität des Saarlandes)
Transmedial Approaches within and beyond the Francosphere, Doyle Calhoun (University of Cambridge)
14 mai 2027
Shalini Randeria (Universität Bremen)
(Title and abstract to follow)
tbc
04 juin 2027
Ottmar Ette (Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)
(Abstract und Titel folgen)
Übersetzung durch den Bambusvorhang – Zur Geschichte des transnationalen Wissenstransfers nach Gründung der Volksrepublik China, Marc Matten (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen)
25 juin 2027
tbc
Mis à jour le 4/9/2026