The University of Bremen has a strong research and teaching focus in Postcolonial Studies, with many colleagues engaging in diverse projects in this area, teaching postcolonial topics, and employing postcolonial theories and approaches as methods of critical inquiry. Activities and programs in this area are organized through the following centers and initiatives:
- the Institute for postcolonial and transcultural studies (INPUTS)
- the Bremen Institute for Canada and Québec Studies (BICQS)
- the Creative Unit | Koloniallinguistik: Language in Colonial Contexts
- Worlds of Contradiction.
We want to create and maintain an interdisciplinary and intercultural research environment for researchers, teachers, and students across the faculty and related fields that enables scholars and students to combine traditional and novel methods, to learn about diverse epistemes and knowledge practices, to assess knowledge production in global power matrixes, and to interact with other disciplines in order to better understand histories, power relations, experiences, and discourse formations in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
Prof. Sabine Broeck, Prof. Norbert Schaffeld, Prof. Thomas Stolz and Prof. Ingo H. Warnke initiated the establishment of two professorships in Postcolonial Language Studies (Prof. Eeva Sippola) and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies (Prof. Kerstin Knopf) in order to sustain and extend the excellent work in this field and enhance the university profile in Postcolonial Studies. The professorships were funded by the Initiative for Excellence through the federal and state governments of Germany and the University of Bremen.
Prof. Eeva Sippola accepted a professorship at the University of Helsinki and left the University of Bremen in December 2017.
