For this year’s culture week, PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club took a full tour of Howl’s moving castle by discussing Diana Wynne Jones’s 1986 children’s novel and Hayao Miyazaki’s 2004 anime adaptation by the same title. Here are some impressions from an afternoon filled with magical moments and in-depth discussions of […]
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PADERBORN2READ organizes an afternoon all about Howl’s Moving Castle as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Culture Week. May 28, 2026 2.00–6.00 p.m. J3.213 Diana Wynne Jones’s 1986 children’s novel Howl’s Moving Castle is celebrating its 40-year anniversary. While being a beloved classic to some, it is still a somewhat lesser-known […]
PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club organizes an afternoon on “dystopia and reality”, based on the modern classic The Hunger Games, as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Culture Week. June 12, 2025 2.00–7.00 p.m. J4.219 & J4.319 Young adult dystopias are becoming modern classics—in times of dystopian fiction turning into dystopian reality. […]
written by PADERBORN2READ member Maty Parzival “‘Oh, Dickon! Dickon! Dickon!’ she said. ‘I’m so happy I can scarcely breathe!’” On a rainy Thursday, in the early hours of a January morning, a group of orphans arrived— Alright, no, actually, on a sunny afternoon where the wind was nice and the […]
PADERBORN2READ organizes an afternoon all about the literary and film classic The Secret Garden as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Reading Week. May 23, 2024 2.00–6.00 p.m. J4.319 & campus grounds The 1911 tale of Mary, Dickon, and Colin, the atmospheric Yorkshire Moors, and the titular locked-up garden has been […]
Pride month sets the theme for this summer term’s June discussion session on June 15, 2023: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas&Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe Thomas’s 2020 YA novel follows a latinx trans boy engaging with the Mexican death culture and features actual magic. Kobabe’s 2019 graphic novel […]
PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club and FRAG, the student committee representing Paderborn University’s students of Romanic Studies, English and American Studies, and Germanic Studies, organized an afternoon filled with book-related activities as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Reading Week this summer term. Book lovers from different departments of Paderborn University as […]
Only two more weeks to go and there are exciting news to share about our very bookish afternoon: PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club organizes the very bookish afternoon filled with book-related activities as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Reading Week and has now joined hands with FRAG, the student committee representing […]
PADERBORN2READ—The English Book Club organizes an afternoon filled with book-related activities as a contribution to Paderborn University’s Reading Week. May 30, 2023 3.00–8.00 p.m. J4.219 Book Exhibition & Book Grab (3.00–6.00 p.m.) Throughout the afternoon there is an open exhibition of members’ book favourites and other reading recommendations as well […]