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. […]
Our reading list for summer term 2025 has been completed and promises psychopathic and dystopian stories, experimental reading experiences, feminist science fiction as well as some classic fantasy. May 8, 2025: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll […]