The Hidden Colonial Bias of the Anglophone Literary Field in Berlin: Student Output II

20. June 2024Gesa StedmanBookshop, Controversies, Indie Publisher, Initiative, Interview, reception, Rewritingactivism, Berlin, bibliodiversity, bookselling, Centre for British Studies, diversity, indie bookshops, indie publishing, interview, representation, stereotypes

Outputs from a recently completed student project seminar on the Anglophone literary field in Berlin are published on The Literary Field Kaleidoscope. A zine, a podcast, an ethnographic diary, and an academic poster explore questions of subtle (or less subtle) forms of exclusion in the lively English-speaking Berlin book world. […] Read more

Student Projects and the Anglophone Literary Field in Berlin

16. February 2024Gesa StedmanBookshop, Controversies, News, Students' CornerAnglophone literary field, Berlin, bibliodiversity, bookselling, Centre for British Studies, diversity, indie bookshops, publishing, representation

Outputs from a recently completed student project seminar on the Anglophone literary field in Berlin are published on The Literary Field Kaleidoscope. A zine, a podcast, an ethnographic diary, and an academic poster explore questions of subtle (or less subtle) forms of exclusion in the lively English-speaking Berlin book world. […] Read more

coloured book cover of exhibition catalogue

Happy in Berlin? English and British Writers and the Berlin Myth

20. June 2021Gesa StedmanNews, Public reading, Publication, women writersCentre for British Studies, events, exhibition; catalogue; British writers

Musa Okwonga, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Kate McNaughton, Rory McLean – the list can be continued easily. All these writers grew up in Britain, or have close ties with the UK, but they live or have lived in Berlin Read more

Nikesh Shukla reading from his short story

Talking Music, Social Media and Racism: Nikesh Shukla and Musa Okwonga in Berlin

17. November 2017Sandra van LenteEventsCentre for British Studies, food, memory, Musa Okwonga, music, Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

Sophie Thiele, student of English Literatures at Humboldt University Berlin, gives us a very personal account of this week’s public reading, a cooperation between the Literary Field Kaleidoscope and the Centre for British Studies in Berlin. This Tuesday, the Literary Field Kaleidoscope together with the Centre for British Studies hosted […] Read more

Public Reading with Nikesh Shukla – “being real and textured and nuanced and honest and sad and funny and heartbreaking and angry and knowledgeable”

3. November 2017Sandra van LenteEventsactivism, author, Berlin, Centre for British Studies, crowdfunding, editor, Jhalak Prize, Musa Okwonga, Nikesh Shukla, public reading, Rife: Twenty Stories from Britain’s Youth, The Good Immigrant, The Good Journal

The Literary Field Kaleidoscope and the Centre for British Studies invite you to a public reading with author and activist Nikesh Shukla, chaired by Musa Okwonga. The reading and discussion will take place on 14 November, 5pm, at the Centre for British Studies in Berlin (Mohrenstr. 60, U-Bahn Stadtmitte or […] Read more

Coming up: reading with Denise Mina in Berlin (5.12.)

10. November 2016Sandra van LenteEventsCentre for British Studies, crime fiction, Denise Mina, public reading

Please join us for the next Literary Field Kaleidoscope reading with the brilliant Scottish author Denise Mina. Best known for her crime fiction, Denise Mina also wrote plays for TV, radio and theatre, short stories and graphic novels. She will read from a selection of her works and engage in […] Read more