The 28th Anglo-German Colloquium will take place from 3-6 September 2025 in Somerville College, with some sessions in the Taylorian Institution.
The topic of the 2025 conference is Posthumane Perspektiven im Dialog mit vormoderner Kultur: Neue Zugänge zur deutschsprachigen Literatur des Mittelalters.
Papers (in German and English) will explore how post-human approaches can be used to analyse medieval texts, and conversely, how medieval culture may offer new perspectives for understanding entangled relations with and in the world.
The conference programme is available here. If you would like to attend, please contact almut.suerbaum@some.ox.ac.uk; places are limited.
The conference is framed by two public events in English: at the opening, a joint session with the Association of German Studies conference sees contemporary poets Caroline Bergvall and Ulrike Draesner in conversation about their work on human and non-human voices and echoes of the medieval in contemporary culture. It will conclude with a round table discussion between medievalist colleagues and post-human philosopher and Distinguished University Professor Emerita Rosi Braidotti.
The Anglo-German Colloquium was founded by Peter Ganz and Werner Schröder in 1966 and has provided regular exchanges between German and English-speaking scholars and early career researchers since then. You can find a list of all conferences and conference volumes here, as well as correspondence relating to the inaugural meetings.
