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 […]
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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 […]