Being on the Move. Transfers, Emancipation and Formations of the Black Atlantic

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Being on the Move. Transfers, Emancipation and Formations of the Black Atlantic

Organizer
DFG-Projekt „Interdependenzen schwarzer Emanzipationsbewegungen in Nordamerika und im karibischen Raum vom späten 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert“, Lehrstuhl für Nordamerikanische Geschichte, Universität Erfurt; DFG-Graduiertenkolleg „Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs“, Universität Rostock
Venue
Universität Erfurt, Kleine Synagoge, An der Stadtmünze 4/5, 99084 Erfurt
Location
Erfurt
Country
Germany
From - Until
01.07.2010 - 03.07.2010
Website
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/geschichte/nordamerikanische-geschichte/forschung/
By
Richard Steinberg

African American emancipation struggles have influenced the histories of Atlantic communities while at the same time the Atlantic has shaped the histories of its people. The conference will concentrate on cultural exchanges within the Atlantic world and focus on various forms of transfers such as trading, the distribution of knowledge and the movements of individuals who crossed the waters, for example as merchants, political activists, slaves, travelers and migrants. From a theoretical and empirical perspective we seek to discuss how transatlantic transfers, emancipation, and identity constructions were interdependent: In which ways were transatlantic transfers constitutive elements for black emancipation movements of the 19th and 20th century? How did transfers and transatlantic contacts influence formations of identities? How did Atlantic networks operate with mechanisms of both inclusion and exclusion and shape notions of peripheries and centers within the Atlantic world?

The conference is coordinated by the DFG-project “Interdependencies of Black Emancipation Movements in North America and the Caribbean from the late 18th to the 20th century” at Erfurt University in cooperation with the DFG-Graduate School “Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship” at Rostock University.

Discussants and guests are welcome to join the conference. For registration and further information, please contact being-on-the-move@web.de

Programm

Thursday, July 1, 2010

5.30-6.30 pm Coffee

Welcome: Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock University) and Jürgen Martschukat (Erfurt University)
Introduction: Nora Kreuzenbeck (Erfurt University) and Patricia Wiegmann (Erfurt University)

6.30-7.30 pm
Reading
Chair: Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock University)

Foreign Shores
Marie Hélène Laforest (Naples University)

8.00 pm: Dinner

Friday, July 2, 2010

10.00-12.00 am
Narrations within the Atlantic
Chair: Raphael Hörmann (Rostock University)

The Haitian Turn and Transatlantic Representations of the Revolution in Saint-Domingue at the End of the 18th Century
Anja Bandau (FU Berlin)

Conditions of Movement: The Middle Passage Epistemology and Its Discontents
Michelle Wright (University of Minnesota)

Commentary
Norbert Finzsch (Cologne University)

12.00-2.00pm Lunch

2.00 pm-4.00 pm
(De)Colonialisation
Chair: Olaf Stieglitz (Erfurt University)

“Progress and Peace for All”: The Dominican Provisional Government and Unity with Haiti, 1863-65
Anne Eller (New York University)

Islands in the Twilight: Waugh and Race in the Postwar British West Indies
Harvey Neptune (Temple University)

Commentary
Ralph Poole (Paris Lodron University Salzburg)

4.00 pm-4.30 pm: Coffee

4.30-6.30 pm
Transfers of Knowledge
Chair: Ilka Saal (Erfurt University)

Knowledge and Indifference: The New York City Race Riot of 1900 in the Black Atlantic
Martha Hodes (New York University)

Cuban Teachers on the Move: South-South Cooperation, Transfers of Knowledge and Mutual Perceptions in Angola 1976-1991
Christine Hatzky (University Duisburg-Essen)

Commentary
Steve Estes (Sonoma State University/Erfurt University)

8.00 pm: Dinner

Saturday, July 3, 2010

10.00-12.00 am
Commodities and Consumerism
Chair: Philipp Dorestal (Erfurt University)

Chocolate, Race, and the Atlantic World: A Bittersweet History
Silke Hackenesch (FU Berlin)

The Racialised World of the Havana Cigar
Jean Stubbs (University College London)

Commentary
Bruce Dorsey (Swarthmore University)

12.00 am-2.00 pm: Lunch

2.00-4.00 pm
Art and Entertainment
Chair: Melanie Henne (Erfurt University)

Beyond the Slave Ship: Theorizing the Limbo Imagination and Black Atlantic Performance Geographies
Sonjah Stanley Niaah (University of the West Indies)

Black ART-lantic
Sieglinde Lemke (Freiburg University)

Commentary
Barbara Lüthi (Basel University)

Contact (announcement)

Patricia Wiegmann
Universität Erfurt
Lehrstuhl Nordamerikanische Geschichte

Postfach 104
99105 Erfurt

being-on-the-move@web.de

http://www.uni-erfurt.de/geschichte/nordamerikanische-geschichte/forschung/
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03.06.2010
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