Programme as PDF: programme_rethinking postcolonial Europe
Day 1: Wednesday, 10 February 2021 9.30 WebEx Room opens for last minute sound and presentation checks 10.00 Welcome and Introductions 10.30 – 11.30 Keynote Journeys Through Europe: The Anglophone Travel Literature and Postcoloniality Dr. Nadia Butt, Giessen University Chair: Johanna Munzel, Giessen University Coffee Break 11.45 - 13.00 Panel 1: Journeys and Travelers Chair: Nadia Butt, Giessen University Just as in the Stories I Read: A (Literary) Construction of an Imagined (Europe) Place in two Latin American Short-Stories Iyari Martínez Márquez, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Identities Lost, Identities Found? Reading Jamal Mahjoub’s Road Novel Travelling with Djinns through a Transcultural Lens Michelle Stork, University of Frankfurt Towards ‘Afropean’ perspectives: Evolving and conversing Afro-European narratives from The European Tribe (1987) to Afropean (2019) Raphaëlle Efoui-Delplanque, Freie Universität Berlin 11.45 - 13.00 Panel 2: Postmigrants in Germany Chair: Meryem Choukri, Giessen University Becoming Black - Black Identity, Activism and Politics: Politicization and Identity Formation of Black People in Germany Josephine Akinyosoye, University of Hamburg Role of Media Narratives in Formation of Anglophone Mental Images of Migrants from the Commonwealth to Germany: A Postmigrant Analysis of Academic Indians and Africans Mahtab Dadkhah, University of Erfurt Diasporic Soundcultures: The “third chair” as a metaphor to reconfigure postcolonial Europe? Johann Erdmann, Giessen University 13.00-14.00 Lunch Break 14.00 – 15.15 Panel 3: Memory Chair: Theresa Krampe, Giessen University On Boomerang Effects and Transnational Entanglements in Spanish 20th century history and memory Rafael Perez Baquero, University of Murcia Decolonising the European city: deconstructing Lisbon's imperial urban geography Daniel Gamito-Marques, Nova University of Lisbon European Colonial Legacy and Historical Memory in Contemporary Tanzania Nadezhda E. Khokholkova, Russian Academy of Sciences 14.00 – 15.15 Panel 4 – Performing Selves Chair: Johanna Munzel, Giessen University Subjectivity, resistance and Dis_placement in a self-organized theatre collective Nuriani Hamdan, University of Berlin LOOKING AT LOOKING: Exploring the topography of perception in Western European theatre as an active refusal to see Martina Gimplinger, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Corpus Mundi: a performative research on the female Afro-diasporic body Bárbara Luci Carvalho, Actor, Dancer and Theatre Pedagogue Coffee Break 15.30 – 17.00 Poetry Performance Black Poetry Matters: Eine dekoloniale Poetry Performance Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo Chair: Jeannette Oholi, Giessen University; Nadiye Ünsal, Giessen University/ Humboldt University Berlin Day 2: Thursday, 11 February 2021 10.00 – 11.15 Panel 5: Metacritical Approaches Chair: Theresa Krampe, Giessen University CancelledGerson da Cunha - Historiographies of Empire or Shared history from the margins? Tobias Mörike, Erfurt UniversityDecolonizing European Solidarity Rouven Symank, European University Institute, Florence On the Contaminated Geographies of Europe/Germany Katharina Schmidt; Katrin Singer, University of Hamburg (project supported by Emma Monama; Martina Neuburger, University of Hamburg) 10.00 – 11.15 Panel 6: Beyond Eurocentrism Chair: Anne Stellberger, University of Bayreuth Decoloniality and the Museum’s Episteme Achia Anzi, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat Renegotiating the Values of Time and Temporality in Literary Contexts Beyond a European Perspective Nele Grosch, Giessen University Rethinking Community and Subaltern Agency – Critical Perspectives on Europe and Migration in Equatoguinean Literature Julia Borst, University of Bremen Coffee break 11.30 – 12.45 Academic Talk “Decolonising Migration Studies” Iris Rajanayagam, xart splitta; Çiçek Tanli, Research Network in Queer Studies, Decolonial Feminisms, and Cultural Transformations/Department of Sociology, Giessen University Chair: Nadiye Ünsal, Giessen University/ Humboldt University Berlin 12.45- 14.00 Lunch Break 14.00 – 15.30 Poster Session “I don’t want to go back”. Experiences of young Ghanaian dancers during their stays in Germany as part of international youth encounter projects between 2013 and 2019 Felix Büchner, Georg-Eckert-Institute for International Schoolbook Research Braunschweig Tell it as it is? Narratives of whiteness in government documents on primary schooling in Germany Sarah Gerwens, European Institute, LSE Make a way out of no way: Black Women’s Itinerant Practices in Early America and beyond Johanna Heide, University of Potsdam Between expectations and conditions of practice: a critical race analysis of project contributors in queer education Dome Ravina Olivo, Humboldt University Berlin The Risk of Becoming Free: Moving Through Time and Space as a Slave in the 19th Century Anne Stellberger, University of Bayreuth Plasticity of Borders in Salman Rushdie's Dream Narration Sanja Vaudano, University of Bern 15.30 – 16.45 Panel 7: Contested Spaces Chair: Nadiye Ünsal, Giessen University/ Humboldt University Berlin The Articulation of the “Problem of Immigration” and Its Current Implications on Immigration Policymaking in France Marina Choy, Michigan Technological University Postmigrant Media and the Idea of Multiculturalism in the French 1980s Christian Jacobs, University of Berlin Building BRIDGES – Eurocentrism, Neoliberal Compliance, and Migra*BPoC resistance in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Europe María Cárdenas; Sebastian Garbe; Douglas Neander Sambati (project supported by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez; Marina Faherty, Giessen University) 15.30 – 16.45 Panel 8: Mobile Identities in Visual Arts Chair: Johanna Munzel, Giessen University The Emergence of Non-White Female Actors in Contemporary French Cinema. An Intersectional Investigation Ewelina Pepiak, Giessen University Roma Necropolitics: Repressed Topographies of Anti-Romani Racism,Necroaesthetics and Affirmative Resistance in Documentary Film Aron Korozs, Freie Universität Berlin Narratives of European identities beyond the EU: Unveiling the Paris of South-America Paula Cordoba, Universidad de Buenos Aires Coffee Break 17.00-18.30 Networking Day 3: Friday, 12 February 2021 10.00 – 11.00 Keynote “Leave this Europe. From crisis to abolition. Dr. Vanessa Eileen Thompson, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) Chair: Jeannette Oholi, Giessen University; Nadiye Ünsal, Giessen University/ Humboldt University Berlin Coffee Break 11.15 - 12.30 Panel 9: Travelling Theory, Queer Narratives Chair: Daniel Heinz, Giessen University “Traveling theory? Europe constructing female citizens in Jordan” Barbara Schenkel, University of London “Feminist Utopias: Bridging Feminisms in the countries of the former USSR and in Germany” Soph Benja Petzelberger, Humboldt University Berlin; Vica Kravtsova; Alexandra Frank, Bridging Feminisms ‘I ain’t no homosexual, I am a . . . Barrysexual!’: Queering the Bildungsroman in Bernadine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman (2013)” Miriam Hinz, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf 11.15 - 12.30 Panel 10: Contesting Borders Chair: Nadiye Ünsal, Giessen University/ Humboldt University Berlin What Power have the Powerless? Immigrants’ Resistance at the European Union’s Borders Lea Augenstein, University of Tuebingen “Challenging the boundaries of exclusive Europeanisation: How young refugees unsettle normative spaces of urban citizenship and belonging! Elisabeth Kirndörfer, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography “Hostipitality and neo-colonial logics at the Mediterranean border: Giulio Cavalli's Carnaio” Silvia Ruzzi, University of Berlin 12.30-13.30 Lunch Break 13.30 - 14.45 Panel 11: Redefining Europe in the 21st Century Chair: Nele Grosch, Giessen University Italy’s Invisible Race: on #BLM, structural racism and Italian “evasiveness” Giulia Fabbri, University of Rome Postcolonialism and COVID-19 in Europe. A Marxist perspective Eleonora Roldán Mendívil, University of Kassel ; Chandrika Yogarajah, Humboldt University Berlin Colonial Reparations in European Context Cresa Pugh, Harvard University 13.30 - 14.45 Panel 12: Migration and the Boundaries of Human Rights Chair: Eva Zimmermann, Giessen University How European acclaimed cultural practices are used as a justification of human rights violations - The example of the handshake Miriam Yosef, Giessen University; Ezinwanne Raymond, Nottingham Trent University Calling for Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism: Human Rights Narratives in Olga Grjasnowa`s Gott ist nicht schüchtern and Wolfgang Fischer`s Styx Isabell Sluka, University of Connecticut Rewriting the European Forced Migrant Narrative: Helon Habila’s Travellers and Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel’s The Gurugu Pledge Paula Brauer, University of Muenster Coffee Break 15.00-16.00 Closing Remarks and Postcolonial Narrations General Assembly