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.
A draft 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.
