• Site of Article “The Other Rupture of 1989” at Taylor & Francis Online

    Site of Article at Taylor & Francis Online Published in Global Society 24 1 2010


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  • “The Other Rupture of 1989”

    Abstract This text investigates the cultural context in which the Rushdie affair has been embedded 20 years after the event. Remembering the Rushdie affair in Britain has transformed the rupture into a suture, establishing a narrative link between this event, 9/11, the “war on terror” and the London bombings in 2005. In an emergent historiography,


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  • Description of my PhD thesis at gesis databank (German)

    http://www.gesis.org/sowiport/search/id/iz-foris-91111875


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  • Factual and Fictional Narration

    Factual and Fictional Narration the graduate school investigates the congruencies, interferences, overlaps and distinctions of factual and fictional narrations not only in print-text but also in multimedial settings. I am currently employed as its post-doc fellow.


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  • Site of the project “Translating Society”

    Site of the project “Translating Society”


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  • Site of the 2012 Conference “After Postcolonialism – Similarities in an Entangled World”

    Site of the 2012 Conference “After Postcolonialism – Similarities in an Entangled World” The site of the conference inludes a full bibliography (For login data to access the full texts for download, please contact me.), shortbios of the contributors and a report on the conference originally published on the HSozKult website (in German):http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=4513>.


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