Conference Program
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
(Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke Institute/ Free University Berlin: Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem/ Tel.: (030) 838 53328/ http://www.friedrich-meinecke-institut.de)
11:00 am Empirical Research Group Meeting
Thursday, 27 July 2006
(Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke Institute/ Free University Berlin: Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem/ Tel.: (030) 838 53328/ http://www.friedrich-meinecke-institut.de)
2:00 pm Registration
3:30 pm Opening/ Welcome Words: Randolph Ochsmann (BEST - Mainz) and
Sara Lennox (BEST - Amherst)
3:45 pm Sebastian Conrad (FMI)
4:00 pm Introduction BEST: Peggy Piesche (BEST - Mainz/ Berlin)
4:30 pm Key Note Speaker Lily Golden (Russia/ Intro: Fatima El-Tayeb): " New trends in movements of Diaspora "
5:15 pm Introduction BEST: Fatima El-Tayeb (BEST - San Diego)
6:00 pm Writing Black Austrian History- Remapping Austria: Claudia Unterweger, Stephanie Njideka Iroh
6:30 pm Reception (Food & Drinks)
Friday 28 July/
(Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke Institute/ Free University Berlin: Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem/ Tel.: (030) 838 53328/ http://www.friedrich-meinecke-institut.de)
9:00-10:30 am
1. Panel: Visual Encounters – Black Representations in Early Modern Europe I
Chair: Ineke van Kessel
Dienke Hondius: “Evidence of free black women and men in early modern Amsterdam: new research and findings”
Elmer Kolfin: “Rembrandt and the paradox of the African. The representation of black Africans in Dutch visual art (1500-1800)”
Esther Schreuder: “Black beauty in Netherlandish Art, from supporting act to leading role”
2. Panel: The Enlightenment and its Other I: Constructions of Blackness and Whiteness
Chair: Peggy Piesche
Wendy Sutherland: “Staging Blackness and the Construction of Whiteness in 18th- century Germany”
Cathy Nepomnyashchy: “The Telltale Black Baby, Or Why Pushkin Began Arap Petra Velikogo. But Didn’t Finish It”
Apollon Davidson: “Black Generals in the Russian Army In the 18th century”
3. Panel: Visual Arts I: Blackness in Film, Music and Exhibitions
Chair: Alexander G. Weheliye
Ylva Habel: “Overcoming Race: Josephine Baker's Rainbow Strategies”
Courtney Carliss Young: “And Ya Don't Stop: The Politics of Black American Cultural Expression in Black Europe”
Jeffrey C. Stewart: “Experiments with Truth at Fred Wilson's 2003 Venice Biennale Exhibition. With a postscript on Black Europe's recent rebellions”
4. Panel: Theorizing Literature I
Chair: Maureen Maisha Eggers
Susan Arndt: “Resituating Europe: African Diasporas in Europe and Narration”
Reinhild Steingröver: „Von Farbe bekennen zu Schokoladenkind Generational Change in Afro-German Autobiographies“
Stefanie Ohnesorg: „Schwarze (Deutsche) in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Eine Bestandsaufnahme.“
COFFEE BREAK (10.30-11.30 am)
10:45-11:15 am Key Note Speaker
Sabine Bröck (Germany/ Intro: Sara Lennox): “Rethinking Europe: Slavery and the Constitution of White Western Modernity”
Friday 28 July/
11:30-1:00 pm
1. Panel: Comparatives USA – Europe: Case Studies
Chair: Sara Lennox
Britton L. Carter: “The U.S., Nazi Germany and the Treatment of Blacks: According to W.E.B Du Bois”
Sandra Jackson-Opoku: “Dark Travelers: Fictional Accounts of African-Americans in Europe”
Bill Strickland: “Negotiating Freedom. DuBois' l936 Trip to Germany and His Quest For A Transnational Solution to America's Racial Problem”
2. Panel: Theorizing Black Europe
Chair: Fatima El-Tayeb
Alexander G. Weheliye: “Diaspora’s People Problem”
Astrid Kusser: [unknown Title] (Theorizing Europe)
Young-sun Hong: “Transnationalism and Black European Studies”
3. Panel: Theorizing Literature II
Chair: Reinhild Steingröver
Claudia Breger: “Voice Matters: Race, Violence and Community in Olumide Popoola’s ‘This is not about sadness (a fragment)’”
Kanika Batra: “Kipps, Belsey, and Erskine: Black Diaspora Studies in the British and US Contexts”
4. Panel: Empirical Study of Black European Identities
Chair: Timo Wandert/Randolph Ochsmann
Marie-Francoise Lacassagne
Aneta Chybicka
Peary Brug
LUNCH (1:00-2:00 pm)
Friday 28 July/
2:00-3:30 pm
1. Visual Encounters – Black Representations in Early Modern Europe II
Chair: Dienke Hondius
Frank Martin: “Alessandro de’Medici, La Maniera Tedesca & The Fine Arts: An Afro-European Patron in the Late Renaissance (A Post-Colonial Assessment)”
Paul H. D. Kaplan: “Frederick II, Afro-Europeans, and the Depiction of Black Africans in Pre- and Early Modern European Art”
2. Panel: The Enlightenment and its Other II: Race, Nation Gender in France
Chair: Wendy Sutherland
William Alexander: “A Black Atlantic Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century France?”
Lorelle Denise Semley: “‘The Revolution of Evolution’: Rethinking the African Diaspora through the Strange Career of Marc Kojo Tovalou Houénou”
Guillaume Aubert: “’We Will Soon See the French Nation Disfigured’: Race, Nation, and the Experiences of Maurice de Saxe’s Black Dragoons, 1746-1776”
3. Panel: The Black Atlantic: From the 18th throughout the Centuries
Chair: Ray Fleming
Ray A. Kea: “Africa, The African Diaspora, And Black European Studies”
Jennifer Boittin: “Policing the Diaspora: Africans, Antilleans and Race in the French Third Republic”
Jens Güttel: “Race, Slavery, and ‘Amerika’: Colonialism, the American ‘Rasseproblem’, and Nineteenth-Century German Imperialist Ideology”
4. Panel: New Media, Race and Images: Visualizing Colonialism
Chair: Young Sun Hong
Jeannette Eileen Jones: “Of Great White Hunters and ‘Black Boys’: Safari and the Scientific Construction of Race”
Volker M. Langbehn: “Rewriting Images of Africa – Race and Postcards during German Colonialism”
Susann Lewerenz: “The Deutsche Afrika-Schau – Racism, Colonial Revisionism and Postcolonial Struggles in National Socialist Germany (1935–1940)”
COFFEE BREAK (3:30-3:45 pm)
Friday 28 July/
3:45-5:15 pm
1. Panel: Representation of Blackness in (Post)Socialist Europe: Film and Media
Chair: Cathy Nepomnyshchy
Peter I. Barta: “The Space for Blackness in Russian Cinema”
Lyubov Ivanova/ Aliou Tounkara: “Image of Africa and Africans in mass-media in Russia.”
Irina Novikova: “Black Music, White Freedom: Times and Spaces of Jazz Countercultures in the USSR”
2. Panel: Representing Blackness after WW II
Chair: Sara Lennox
Vera Ingrid Grant: “Mapping Intimate Hierarchies: Children of ‘Ordinary Germans’ and the African Diaspora”
Frank Mehring: “’La Grenouille e(s)t Verte’: European Colour Blindness and the Function
of Blacks in the Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948-1954”
Quinn Slobodian: “Between Black Bodies and Bodies of Law: African Students and Languages of Protest in the West German Student Movement”
3. Panel: Visual Arts II: Blackness in Paint and Religion
Chair: Peggy Piesche
Ernst van den Boogaart: “Mostaert’s Portrait of a christian blackamoor, 1520-1530: results of recent research and suggestions for further study”
Monique Scheer: “Why is She Black?: An Analysis of German Discourse on the "Mystery" of Black Madonnas”
Helen Mears: “Articulating the Invisible? Researching Black histories within the collections of a national museum of art and design”
4. Panel: Gender Politics
Chair: Urmila Goel
Maureen Maisha Eggers: “Gendering Black European Studies?”
Ayo Abietou Coly: “Housing and Homing the Black Female Body in France”
Shekar Bheenuck: “Self and identity in postcolonial Britain: experiences of overseas nurses”
Saturday 29 July/
(Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke Institute/ Free University Berlin: Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem/ Tel.: (030) 838 53328/ http://www.friedrich-meinecke-institut.de)
9:00-10:30 am
1. Panel: Variations of Self Representations
Chair: Timo Wandert
Urmila Goel: “Black or White or something else? - Subjective Attempts at Positioning –“
Nguvitjita Kahiha/ Renate R. Mai-Dalton: “My Personal Diaspora. The Quest for Identity: A personal account of a Black European, seeking to fit in”
Grada Kilomba: “The Mask of Speechlessness - Remembering Slavery, Understanding
Trauma”
2. Panel: Postcolonial Literature
Chair: Claudia Breger
Sandra Pires: “The Angolan And Guinean Diaspora in Portugal: The case studies of the poets Maria Alexandre Dáskalos and Tony Tcheka”
Caterina Romeo: “The Construction of Whiteness in Italy: Representing Race in Migrant and Post-Migrant Women’s Literature”
Sofía Muñoz Valdivieso: “Re-Inscribing Black History in Contemporary British Fiction”
3. Panel: Blackness in France: Theory and Practice
Chair: Sara Lennox
Meryl Altman: “Beauvoir and Blackness”
Janet Hart: “Lived Cosmopolitanism, Families in Movement”
Justin Izzo: “Unmaking Blackness: Sartre, Negritude, and the Production of Race in France”
4. Panel: Enlightenment and the Presence
Chair: Randolph Ochsmann
Charles Simon-Aaron: "White Secrets of French Empire: Post-Colonial Ghosts of Enlightenment's Past."
Mark Stein: “From Equiano to Evaristo”
Mohammad Salama: “Cromer Vs Crusoe: A Critique of British Colonial Reason (1719-1907)”
COFFEE BREAK 10.30-11.30 am
10:45-11:15 am Key Note Speaker: Stephan Small (USA/ Intro: Peggy Piesche): “The Empire Strikes Back! Class, Gender and the Black Presence in Europe.”
Saturday 29 July/
11:30-1:00 pm
1. Panel: Colonial Soldiers
Chair: Paul H. D. Kaplan
Gregory Weeks: “National Socialist Racist Propaganda and the Treatment of Captured French African Soldiers, 1940”
Clara Palmiste: “French West Indian soldiers in WWII and their encounters with Africa, America and Europe: the redefinition”
Julius Bongkorog: “Selective Memories of European Past: The Case of the Commemoration of the end of WWII by War Veterans”
Ineke van Kessel: “The ambiguous identity of the Black Dutchmen: Africans, Indonesians or Dutch”
2. Panel: Place and Displacement
Chair: Sara Lennox
Elizabeth Brown-Guillory: “Place and Displacement in Black British Playwright Trish Cooke’s Running Dream”
Anne Fuchs: „Beyond Postcolonial Culture? Brit-lit and the inner/outer London city novel”
Paul Goodwin: “Re-Visioning Black Urbanism in Europe: Présence Africaine”
Damani J. Partridge: “Occupying Hip-Hop Bodies and Reconfiguring European Belonging—Berlin and other Scenes”
3. Panll: Nation, Identity and Race
Chair: William Alexander
Karima Laachir: "French Muslims and the 'racialization' of identities"
Cilas Kemedjio: “The High Price of Citizenship: Blacks In France, between Racialized Identities and the Republican Rhetoric”
Régine Mfoumou: What colour is black : the quest of identity of young “black” people in today’s French society
4. Panel: Body Politics
Chair: Randolph Ochsmann
Deborah A. Brown: “Counting the ‘Other’ - 1, 2, 3: The National Socialist Censuses of 1933 and 1939 and the Racialization of the German Body-Social”
Christiane Hutson: “’Race’ mapping illness - postcolonial conjunctions in Germany”
LUNCH (1:00-2:00 pm)
Saturday 29 July/
2:00-4:00 pm
1. Panel: Representation of Blackness in (Post)Socialist Europe: Public Discourses
Chair: Damani J. Partridge
Eric Allina-Pisano: “Diasporic but not colonial: African Communities in Post-socialist Europe”
Maxim Matusevich: “Africa’s Challenge to the Soviet Status Quo”
Veronica Usacheva: “Blackness and Africanness in Modern Russia: Mass Media and Mass Culture Aspects”
Gregory R. Witkowski: “Portrayals of Africa: East German Identity and Charity for Africa“
2. Panel: Comparatives USA – Europe: Theorizing the Diaspora
Chair: Susan Arndt
Vanessa Agard-Jones: “Speaking Plainly About Power: Privilege and the Development of Black European Studies”
Andrés Nader: “Thinking the Colorlines Across the Atlantic”
Victoria B. Robinson: „BLACKprint: Die Bezugnahme auf afro-amerikanische Vorbilder
in afro-deutschen Kulturproduktionen”
Allison Blakely: “Light-Hearted Racism: Humorous Black Stereotypes in Modern Europe”
3. Panel: Text – Identity – Education: Traditions of Representations
Chair: Sara Lennox
Araba Johnston-Arthur: “Historical perspectives on the presence of the African diaspora in Austria”
Michaela Mudure: “Are Gypsies Black? Two Literary Responses from Romania”
Helena Oikarinen-Jabai: “Introduction – Sona’s and Mona’s multilayered mythologies.”
Esma Durugönül: “Turks of African Descent in the Region of Antalya”
4. Panel: When Governments Fail: The Black Struggle for Human Rights
Chair: Marion Kraft
Lily Golden: “The bells rang”
Andrée-Nicola McLaughlin: “Black Rights, Poverty and the Bush Administration”
Leticia Thomas Brereton:”Afrodescendants in the Americas: The Struggle Against Invisibility”
Fakhra Salimi: “Women’s Rights and the Rise of the Extreme Right in Scandinavia”
Hellen Felter: “Black Rights, Social Exclusion and the Dutch Government”
Monica Morgan: “White shame, Black blame in the Genocide of the Yorta Yorta People”
5. Panel: African Diaspora Communities – Places, Positioning and Media Representation
Chair: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
Benoit Hazard: “The burkinabe’s ghetto of Foggia : An african scape in the bracciantile history of the Southern Italy (Region of Puglia).”
Elisa Joy White: “What Dublin Tells Us about Paris: Postcoloniality, Global Progression and the Black European Sphere”
Svetlana Boltovskaja: “African Diaspora in Russia: a current sitation”
John William Long: “Partners in International Socialist Solidarity or just Guest workers: Africans in the Former German Democratic Republic (DDR)”
Sunday 30 July
(Venue: Heinrich Böll-Foundation/ Rosenthaler Str. 40-41, 10178 Berlin/ Telefon: 030 - 28 534 400/ Internet: http://www.boell.de)
10:00-10:30 am Key Note Speaker Wangui wa Goro (Kenia/ UK/ Intro: Peggy Piesche): Power, identity, and knowledge development in global contexts:
Translation as a tool for dialogue
10:45-11:15 am Opening Student Project “Mohrenstr.” (HUB)
11:15-11:45 pm Key Note Speaker Michelle M. Wright (USA/ Intro: Fatima El-Tayeb): "Pale By Comparison: Black European Identity and the African American Normative"
11:45-1:00 pm Black European Studies (Perspectives/ Network and Visions)
1:00 pm Lunch Buffet