tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80696433905596501402024-03-13T03:38:33.128+01:00blackdiasporaandgermanyDFG NetzwerkAbout the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-91383389028156107902011-03-18T22:14:00.002+01:002011-04-04T18:05:11.707+02:002nd Workshop of the YSN "Black Diaspora and Germany"<b>GENDERING THE BLACK DIASPORA</b><br />
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Sandra Gunning, Tera W. Hunter and Michele Mitchell posited in 2003* that “[t]he use of gender as a category of analysis remains something of a challenge for African Diaspora studies.” Stephen Small later argued: “[O]ne does not and cannot define, conceptualize, theorize, or research the Black Diaspora in Europe without bringing gender ideologies and the experiences of Black women to the foreground.”** <br />
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The focus of the second “Black Diaspora in Germany” Young Scholars Network workshop entails three aspects. First, we will address the theoretical and methodological implications of the issue of gender within the Black Diaspora in Europe. The social construct known as the Diaspora can neither transcend gender, nor can it serve as an epistemological or historical category of analysis without careful consideration of the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Utilising the theoretical and methodological interface between Diaspora and Gender Studies, we seek to underscore the significance of gender in our analysis and theorisation of Black diasporic experiences in Europe and with a particular focus on Germany. <br />
Secondly, this workshop will examine and analyse the development of a collective Afro-/Black German identity and this group’s political activism during the mid-1980s and thereafter. The emergence of a self-defined name, e.g., Afro-/Black German, and “imagined” Black diasporic community in West Germany was primarily advanced by Afro-/Black German female activists and based on specifically ‘Black female’ experiences and analyses. African American feminists, and other feminists of colour contested the construction of a Black Diaspora based on universalized patriarchal parameters. These women notably influenced not only Afro-/Black German activism, but also the development of Afro-/Black German Studies.<br />
Lastly, the workshop will call into question constructions of Black masculinities and femininities, along with the issue of agency and counter-discourses of Black men and women throughout various periods of German historiography. <br />
The members of the organising team cordially invite you to the workshop “Gendering the Black Diaspora”. We are delighted to have with us as keynote speakers: Dr. Gloria Wekker, Professor at the Institute for Media and Culture Studies and Director of GEM, Centre of Expertise on Gender, Ethnicity and Multiculturality, Universiteit Utrecht; and Judy Gummich, long-time Human Rights activist, Black Feminist and Diversity Trainer. We are also happy to announce that Author and Producer Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schultz, emer., will be with us to introduce a new film project on Audre Lorde’s years in Berlin, which is scripted and directed by Filmmaker Zara Zandieh, and to present the film “Hoffnung im Herz: Mündliche Poesie – May Ayim” by Maria Binder.<br />
The workshop organisers: Susann Lewerenz, Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck and Katharina Gerund willl present conference papers, and anticipate two days of lively and interesting discussions. <br />
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The “Gendering the Black Diaspora” workshop will take place at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg on 15 April 2011 and 16 April 2011. For travel and accommodation information, please see below.<br />
For further information and conference registration, please contact the workshop organisers at bdg@uni-muenster.de. <br />
Should you need any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us!<br />
Susann Lewerenz, Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck, Katharina Gerund <br />
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* Sandra Gunning, Tera W. Hunter and Michele Mitchell, Introduction: Gender, Sexuality, and African Diaspora, in: Gender & History, Vol 15, No. 3 (Special Issue: Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas, ed. by Sandra Gunning, Tera W. Hunter and Michele Mitchell), November 2003, pp. 398 f.<br />
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** Stephen Small, Introduction: The Empire Strikes Back, in: Black Europe and African Diaspora, ed. by Darlene Clark Hine, Trica Danielle Keaton and Stephen Small, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2009, p. xxviii.About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-91108051746946774852011-03-18T22:10:00.006+01:002011-04-04T18:09:05.996+02:00Programme<b>Friday, 15 April 2011</b> <br />
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Until 14:00 Arrival and registration<br />
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14:00-14:30 Workshop opening<br />
Prof. Dr. Heike Paul (Erlangen-Nürnberg)<br />
Dr. Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck, Katharina Gerund and Susann Lewerenz<br />
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14:30-15:30 Dr. Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck (Mannheim)<br />
“The Matrilineal Diaspora: Black/Afro-German Women, Claiming Space & Finding Their Voices”<br />
Chair: Cedric Essi (Erlangen-Nürnberg)<br />
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15:30-16:30 Katharina Gerund (Düsseldorf)<br />
“The Sound of Solidarity: Angela Davis, Gender(ed) Politics, and (Protest) Songs”<br />
Chair: Cedric Essi <br />
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16:30-17:00 Coffee break <br />
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17:00-18:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS<br />
Judy Gummich (Berlin) – Human Rights Activist & Diversity Trainer<br />
“Between Racism and Empowerment – Perspectives on Being Black in Germany”<br />
Chair: Dr. Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck<br />
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18:30-18:45 Short break<br />
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18:45-19:30 Film screening<br />
“Hoffnung im Herz: Mündliche Poesie – May Ayim”, a film by Maria Binder, introduction: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schultz, emer. (Berlin)<br />
Chair: Susann Lewerenz (Hamburg)<br />
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19:45 Dinner <br />
Venue: Zen - Cocktail Bar & Thai Restaurant, Theaterplatz 22, 91054 Erlangen<br />
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<b>Saturday, 16 April 2011</b><br />
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9:00-10:00 Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schultz (Berlin) – emer., Author and Producer <br />
“‘Audre Lorde – the Berlin Years’ – a Project in Progress”<br />
Chair: Carmen Dexl (Erlangen-Nürnberg)<br />
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10:00-11:00 Susann Lewerenz (Hamburg)<br />
“How Thea Leyseck became ‘German Southwest African’ – Colonial Revisionism, Gender, and Black Agency in Nazi Germany”<br />
Chair: Carmen Dexl <br />
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11:00-11:30 Coffee break <br />
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11:30-13:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS<br />
Prof. Dr. Gloria Wekker (Utrecht)<br />
“Diving Into the Wreck. Reflections on Gender in the Black Diaspora”<br />
Chair: Katharina Gerund<br />
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13:00-13:30 Plenary session <br />
Introductory remarks: Prof. Dr. Heike Paul<br />
Chair: Dr. Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck<br />
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13:45-15:00 Lunch <br />
Venue: TiO - Bar & Restaurant, Südliche Stadtmauerstraße 1a, 91054 Erlangen<br />
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Departure of workshop participants<br />
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15:00-15:45 Discussion of organisational matters<br />
For members of the YSN “Black Diaspora and Germany”<br />
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15:45 End of workshop<br />
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<b>Workshop venue</b>: <br />
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Amerikanistik/American Studies, Bismarckstr. 1c, 91054 Erlangen, Room C 301<br />
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<b>Contact and registration</b>: <a href="mailto:bdg@uni-muenster.de">bdg@uni-muenster.de</a><br />
Deadline for registrations: 8 April 2011About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-35733116603987793472011-02-07T13:15:00.002+01:002011-03-22T09:36:52.809+01:00Travel and Accommodation<b>Conference Venue</b><br />
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The workshop will take place at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. The conference venue is located at Bismarckstr. 1C, Erlangen and is approximately a 15 minute walk from Erlangen’s main station (Bahnhof).<br />
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<b>How to get to Erlangen</b><br />
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<b>By plane </b><br />
The airport closest to Erlangen is Nürnberg (NUE). A taxi ride from Nürnberg airport to Erlangen takes about half an hour and costs about EUR 25,-. You can also get on the subway to Nuremberg main station (U 2) and from there to Erlangen’s main station (Bahnhof) by train, which costs about EUR 6,-. <br />
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If you fly into Frankfurt (FRA) or München (MUC), you must allow roughly 2.5 h for your train ride to Erlangen. For departure times and fares, visit the Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) website (<a href="http://www.bahn.de/">http://www.bahn.de/</a>) and enter “Erlangen Bahnhof” as your destination.<br />
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<b>By train</b><br />
For departure times and fares visit the Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) website (<a href="http://www.bahn.de/">http://www.bahn.de/</a>) and enter “Erlangen Bahnhof” as your destination.<br />
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<b>Accommodation</b><br />
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The following hotels and hostels in Erlangen are located within walking distance to the conference venue:<br />
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Altmann’s Stube Hotel, Theaterplatz 9, 91054 Erlangen, +49 9131-89160<br />
Single from 66,-, double from 82,-<br />
<a href="http://www.altmanns-stube.de/">http://www.altmanns-stube.de/</a><br />
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Hotel Rokoko Haus, Theaterplatz 13, 91054 Erlangen, +49 9131-7830<br />
Single from 72,-, double from 110,-<br />
<a href="http://www.rokokohaus.de/">http://www.rokokohaus.de/</a><br />
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Hotelchen am Theater, Theaterstraße 10, 91054 Erlangen, +49 9131-80860<br />
Single from 75,-, double from 107,-<br />
<a href="http://www.hotelchen-am-theater.de/">http://www.hotelchen-am-theater.de/</a> <br />
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Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Schuhstraße 13, 91052 Erlangen, +49 9131-7850<br />
Single from 85,50, double from 99,-<br />
<a href="http://www.bayerischer-hof-erlangen.de/">http://www.bayerischer-hof-erlangen.de/</a><br />
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Apartment Hotel Kral, Luitpoldstr. 77, 91052 Erlangen, +49 9131-810090<br />
Single from 120,-<br />
<a href="http://www.hotel-kral.de/de/">http://www.hotel-kral.de/de/</a><br />
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Der graue Wolf, Hauptstraße 80, 91054 Erlangen, +49 9131-810645<br />
Single from 48,-, double from 70,-<br />
<a href="http://www.grauer-wolf.de/hotel-erlangen.html">http://www.grauer-wolf.de/hotel-erlangen.html</a><br />
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Hotel König Otto, Henkestr. 56, 91054 Erlangen, +49 9131-8780<br />
Single from 89,-, double from 116,-<br />
<a href="http://www.koenig-otto.de/">http://www.koenig-otto.de/</a><br />
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Hotel La Brasserie, Nürnberger Str. 3, 91054 Erlangen, +49 9131-206080<br />
Single from 68,-, double from 88,-<br />
<a href="http://www.brasserie-erlangen.de/">http://www.brasserie-erlangen.de/</a><br />
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A. B. Hotel, Harfenstr. 1C, 91054 Erlangen, +49 9131-9244700<br />
Single from 30,- plus 5,- breakfast, double from 45,- plus 5,- breakfast<br />
<a href="http://www.abhotel.de/">http://www.abhotel.de/</a><br />
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Jugendherberge Erlangen Frankenhof, Südliche Stadtmauerstr. 35, 91054 Erlangen, +49 9131 862555<br />
From 18,-<br />
<a href="http://www.erlangen.jugendherberge.de/">http://www.erlangen.jugendherberge.de/</a>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-57162065709051775892011-01-06T13:15:00.003+01:002011-02-18T13:27:25.813+01:00Inaugural Workshop Report<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Transcending Diaspora: Whiteness, Performativity, and the Politics of the Body</i></b></span><br />
December 3-4, 2010<br />
WWU Muenster, Germany<br />
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Report by Holger Droessler (Harvard University)<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The history of Black people in Germany remains a rather underdeveloped subject in contemporary research. In recent years, however, a diverse range of scholars working in various disciplines have devoted increased attention to the historical experiences and present-day lives of people of color living in Germany. On December 3-4, 2010 a group of young scholars working on the history and present of the Black Diaspora in Germany convened at the University of Muenster for the Inaugural Workshop of a new academic network funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Beside two keynote lectures from renowned experts on the topic, four members of the Young Scholars Network “Black Diaspora and Germany” presented from their current research projects. The first workshop “Transcending Diaspora: Whiteness, Performativity, and the Politics of the Body” was designed to address theoretical questions in the study of Black people in Germany such as the adequacy of the concept ‘Diaspora’ itself. <br />
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In their opening remarks, network founder CHRISTINA OPPEL, network chair SILKE STROH, and associated professor MARIA DIEDRICH (all WWU Muenster) stressed the importance of having an institutional basis for young scholars interested in the experiences of Black people in Germany. They went on to point out the need for interdisciplinary exchange and highlighted the network’s critical political responsibility in accounting for present and past inequalities. The network consists of fifteen permanent members based in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States representing academic disciplines as varied as history, sociology, (Black) German, (African) American Studies, and ethnology. In a series of six workshops over three years the Young Scholars Network aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines and advance scholarship on the history and present of the Black Diaspora in Germany. </span></div><div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The first presentation by CHRISTINA OPPEL (WWU Muenster) addressed the question whether “Diaspora” validly assumes exclusivity and hegemony in theorizations of Black transnationalism. Taking on its purely enabling function for Afro-German experiences, Oppel assessed silencing mechanisms and forms of ‘speaking for Others’ with a view to their impact on Black agency and the status of the Afro-German subject in a German context. Based on a close reading of Marie Nejar’s life memoir <i>Mach nicht so traurige Augen, weil du ein Negerlein bist</i> (2007) Oppel first illustrated the problematic legacy of white authorization of Black experiences and relations of power. Co-authored by a white German ‘autobiographer’, Nejar’s biography raises the question of the relationship between narrative text and Nejar’s own voice. Presented as a dissensual, yet non-challenging Bildungsroman, Nejar’s coming-of-age as an Afro-German child actress in the Third Reich and as Schlager singer in postwar Germany was geared towards the white German mainstream market as an alternative Holocaust narrative that encourages white ‘literary humanitarianism’. In a second step, Oppel investigated counterhegemonic strategies that negotiate and reject diasporic association as a means to claim Germanness and selfhood and thus problematized definitions of Diaspora membership from outside or by Afro-Germans themselves. Taking these critical diasporic negotiations seriously, she argued, a glance ‘beyond’ the diasporic offers valuable perspectives to reassess Diaspora from a critical perspective. <br />
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The question of power and agency in defining diasporic experiences also played an important part in the second presentation by FRANK MEHRING (FU Berlin). Taking Lutz Beckmann’s installation “RE-EDUCATION” as a starting point, Mehring called for a new critical look at postwar re-education efforts by the U.S. occupation authorities, foregrounding the often-neglected role of race. His talk addressed the nexus between re-education, the specific functions of Americanization, self-Americanization, and multi-racial tolerance in postwar Germany. Asking about the underlying reasons, cultural assumptions and socio-political integration of Afro-German children, Mehring compared the visual narratives in German films such as Robert Stemmle’s Toxi (1952) with articles (and photos) by the EBONY staff writer Hans J. Massaquoi. German national identity, Mehring concluded, came to be constructed in part by instrumentalizing Blackness and suppressing racial indeterminacy in postwar West German society. By complicating the alleged success story of democratization, he suggested that the issue of misrecognition in the case of Afro-Germans challenges us to redirect the analytical flashlight towards issues of failed integration, imagined reeducation, and gaps in social justice.<br />
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In the first keynote lecture by ALEXANDER WEHELIYE (Northwestern University, Evanston, USA), visual markers of race figured prominently. Drawing from his forthcoming book, Weheliye put W.E.B. Du Bois’s and Walter Benjamin’s oeuvres into a virtual dialogue to illustrate their critique of modernity understood as scientific progress. In his discussion of Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro and Benjamin’s writings on photography and anthropology, Weheliye identified several common themes in the work of these two ‘marginal’ critics of Eurocentric modernity: liminality, urbanity, the colonial roots of modernity, and, perhaps most significantly, their common view that modern science hides the inescapable centrality of chance in human life. By connecting Du Bois and Benjamin in suggestive ways, Weheliye’s talk highlighted processes of diasporic identification across the Atlantic and raised the question of the model function of Jewish conceptions of Diaspora for People of Color.<br />
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The second day of the workshop was opened by TINA CAMPT (Duke University, Durham, USA) who showed a series of unpublished photographs of Afro-Germans growing up in Nazi Germany. Borrowing from Harvey Young, Campt addressed the concept of Diaspora in its tension between displacement and stasis. Like Weheliye, Campt stressed the fundamental ambiguity of visual culture in articulating racial and national belonging. Attentive to the haptic quality of her photographic sources, Campt argued for an understanding of Diaspora as a creative act of dwelling, as a form of home-making in the fluidity of lived experience. Diaspora, according to Campt, is not merely founded on collective suffering, but, crucially, also on shared experiences in the new places of dwelling. After the talk, participants discussed the political stakes involved in foregrounding the vernacular photography of Black life in 1930s and 40s Germany as a counterweight to the much-analyzed iconicity of Holocaust images. <br />
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Following the inspiring keynote lectures, two network members concluded the workshop with presentations on possible theoretical alternatives to the concept of Diaspora in the study of Black people in Germany. SILKE STROH (WWU Muenster) drew from her research in Postcolonial Studies and the history of the Black Diaspora in Britain to explore the concept of ‘transperipherality.’ According to Stroh, transperipherality describes attempts to identify parallels between histories of marginalization and violence experienced by different social and racial groups across the globe, as well as parallel strategies of resistance, and efforts to develop solidarity and strategic alignments between such groups. Stroh cited the transatlantic career of Afro-Caribbean writer and activist George Padmore in the 1930s as an example of transperipheral writing and activism. Despite some analytical shortcomings of the concept (such as the danger of reifying center-periphery dichotomies and glossing over internal conflicts among groups defined as ‘peripheral’), Stroh concluded on a tentatively optimistic note as to the potential usefulness of transperipherality to address and compare historical experiences of racialized groups usually thought of as isolated from each other.<br />
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In the final presentation, HOLGER DROESSLER (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA) proposed another analytical category to supplement the concept of Diaspora in the study of Black people in Germany: the body. Taking the corporeal turn in the humanities as his point of departure, Droessler differentiated between the physical, discursive, and identitarian dimension of the body. The racialization, gendering, and ableing of bodies, he went on to argue, distributed life chances in unequal ways. Slavery, colonialism, and the Holocaust are merely the most blatant examples for the dehumanizing effects of racial body politics. More recent examples for the centrality of the body as an analytical category in the study of Black people in Germany include exoticizing representations of Africans and Afro-Germans in the media coverage of the soccer world championships in South Africa in summer 2010 and the renaissance of biological racism in genetic research. Droessler concluded that paying more attention to the materiality of the body would not do away with the category of Diaspora altogether, but rather add another important angle from which to study the experience of Black people in Germany and beyond.<br />
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In the concluding roundtable discussion a consensus emerged among the network members, associated scholars, and audience members that the category of Diaspora remains indispensable to studying the experience of Black people in Germany. However, more adequate definitions need to be found that attend to the changing relations among members of the Black Diaspora and problematize the distribution between predominantly white academics and Black historical agents. The lived experiences of diasporic belonging has to be kept in focus in applying the concept. The second workshop of the Young Scholars Network Black Diaspora and Germany scheduled for April 15-16, 2011 in Erlangen will address the issue of gender in Black German diasporic contexts.</span></div>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-21995077439460373042010-10-05T19:40:00.001+02:002010-10-05T23:16:01.410+02:00YSN Inaugural Workshop: Transcending Diaspora: Whiteness, Performativity and the Politics of the Body<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">The inaugural workshop of the DFG Young Scholars Network “Black Diaspora and Germany“ will take place in Muenster, Germany on December 3-4, 2010. It will address the potential and limitations of current conceptualizations of diaspora as a category of analysis and identity construction in the German context. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">It is the two-fold aim of the workshop to, first, question and re-evaluate the suitability of the terminology of a ‘Black diaspora’ in the case of Germany and to determine the factors that differentiate the Black diaspora from other collective identities. Second, theoretical approaches in current Black diaspora scholarship that have so far been neglected will be further developed and empirically substantiated. Based on specific case studies, the concept of diaspora will be located within the force field of nationality, transnationality, and ethnicity and interrogated as to its transgressive potential. Exemplary studies dealing with the interdependencies of the body, politics, ethnicity, culture, the territorial state and deterritorialized identities will illuminate transnational parameters and transcultural practices and deconstruct essentializing definitions of diaspora. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The thematic spectrum of the workshop participants ranges from counterhegemonic approaches rooted in critical whiteness studies over analyses of the performativity of diaspora to aspects of body history that understands physical as well as imagined bodies as arenas of power and discursive conflict.<br /><br />The Workshop is organised jointly</span><span> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">by Christina Oppel, Silke Stroh, Holger Droessler and Frank Mehring</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Confirmed Keynote Speakers </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Prof. Dr. Tina Campt (Associate Professor of Women's Studies, History and German, Duke University; Visiting Professor of Women's and Africana Studies , Barnard College, Columbia University)<br /><br />Prof. Dr. Alexander Weheliye (Associate Professor of English, African American Studies, Northwestern University)</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Network Participants Presenting at the Workshop </span><br /><br />Christina Oppel (English Seminar, WWU Muenster)</span><span><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Dr. Frank Mehring (JFK Institute, FU Berlin)<br />Holger Droessler, MA (Harvard / LMU Muenchen)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Dr. Silke Stroh (English Seminar, WWU Muenster)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />For further information and conference registration contact the workshop organizers at <span style="font-weight: bold;">bdg[ad]uni-muenster.de</span><br /></span></div>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-46506589233772832842010-10-05T19:10:00.012+02:002010-11-21T03:37:09.639+01:00Inaugural Workshop Program "Transcending Diaspora"<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><b><span style="color: #e54515; font-family: Arial;">Friday, </span></b><b><span style="color: #d34113; font-family: Arial;">December</span></b><b><span style="color: #e54515; font-family: Arial;"> 3 </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt 17.85pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">2.30pm Workshop Opening</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 17.85pt;"><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Maria I. Diedrich (Münster)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 17.85pt;"><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Silke Stroh (Münster)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 17.85pt;"><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Christina Oppel (Münster)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 17.85pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">3-4pm Workshop Paper 1</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 72pt;"><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Christina Oppel (</span><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Münster): </span><i><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Transcending Diaspora? Relations of Power, (Dis)identification and the Human</span></i><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 17.85pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">4-4.30pm Coffee Break</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 17.85pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">4.30-5.30 Workshop Paper 2</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 72pt;"><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Frank Mehring (</span><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Berlin</span><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant: small-caps;">), </span><i><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Performing Anthropological Authenticity: Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Transatlantic Blues</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 17.85pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">5.30-6pm Break</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 17.85pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">6-7.30 Keynote 1 </span></b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><br />
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<i><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt 17.85pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">10.30-11.00 Coffee Break</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt 17.85pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">11-12am Workshop Paper 3</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 72pt;"><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Silke Stroh</span><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">(Münster), </span><i><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Transperipherality as a Model for Diaspora Studies? Interfaces of Race, Class and (Post)colonialism</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt 17.85pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">12-1pm Workshop Paper 4 </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 72pt;"><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Holger Drössler</span><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">(Harvard), </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -15.8pt 6pt 72pt;"><i><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Resistant Bodies: Towards an Analytics of the Body in African Diaspora Studies </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt 17.85pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">1:30pm Lunch: </span></b><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Schlossgarten Café</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">2:30-3:30 Roundtable Discussion </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><i><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Transcending Diaspora? Concepts and Contexts</span></i><br />
<i><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></i><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">(</span><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial;">Schlossgarten-Café)</span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 18pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">3:30-4:30 Discussion of Organisational Matters </span></b></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="DE" style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">(Network Members only)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt 18pt;"><b><span style="color: #292450; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">4:30pm End of Workshop</span></b></div>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-64817111173959349602010-10-05T18:22:00.006+02:002010-10-05T18:43:20.434+02:00Accomodation in Muenster<b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;"></b><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US">We Recommend the Following Hotels,<br /></span></b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-style: italic;">Please check availabilities and prices for December 3 and 4, 2010. Due to Muenster's popularity during its Christmas-Market season prices may increase. </span><b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ueberwasserhof-muenster.de/english/index.html" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">HOTEL ÜBERWASSERHOF</span></a></b><br /><i>Fine hotel with an ambitious restaurant. Quiet location but near lots of pubs, restaurants and shops.</i><br />Überwasserstraße 3 (5 min walk to the conference venue)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 – 417 70; fax: +49 (0)251 – 417 71 00<br /><a href="mailto:info@ueberwasserhof.de" title="mailto"><span style="color:#000000;">info@ueberwasserhof.de</span></a><br />Single room, shower/WC: 91 €<br />Breakfast included<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.agora-muenster.de/start.php?einstieg=hotel" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">AGORA: das Hotel am Aasee</span></a></b><br />Bismarckallee 5 (15 min walk to the conference venue)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 – 484 26 0; fax: +49 (0)251 – 837 97 26<br /><a href="mailto:hotel@agora-muenster.de" title="mailto"><span style="color:#000000;">hotel@agora-muenster.de</span></a><br />Single room, shower/WC: 60 €<br />Double room, shower/WC: 90 € (as single room: 70 €)<br />Breakfast included<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.agora-muenster.de/sh_start.php?einstieg=hotel" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">AGORA: das Seehotel</span></a></b><br /><i>Good value for money. Newest hotel in town (2008). Great lake views. WLAN available (2 €/4 hours).</i><br />Bismarckallee 47 (20 min walk to the conference venue)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 - 484 26 88 8; fax: +49 (0)251 - 484 26 86 0<br /><a href="mailto:hotel@agora-muenster.de" title="mailto"><span style="color:#000000;">hotel@agora-muenster.de</span></a><br />Single room, shower/WC: 70 €<br />Double room, shower/WC: 100 € (as single room: 80 €)<br />Breakfast included<br /><i>Guesthouse:</i><br />Single room with own wash basin, shared bathroom: 40 €; students 30 €<br />Double room with own wash basin, shared bathroom: 48 €; students 40 €<br />Breakfast: 9,50 €<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/hotel-2206-ibis-muenster/index.shtml" title=" "><b><span style="color:#000000;">ibis HOTEL Münster</span></b></a><br />Engelstraße 53 (15 min walk to the conference venue)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 - 481 30; fax: +49 (0)251 - 481 33 33<br />Single room, shower/WC: 76.26 €<br />Breakfast included<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hotel-international-am-theater.de/home.html" title=" "><b><span style="color:#000000;">Hotel INTERNATIONAL Am Theater</span></b></a><br />Neubrückenstraße 12-14 (15 min walk to the conference venue)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 - 899 78 0; fax: +49 (0)251 - 899 78 29<br />Single room, shower/WC: 62 €<br />Breakfast included<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mauritzhof.de/index_flash_englisch.htm" title=" "><b><span style="color:#000000;">MAURITZHOF Münster</span></b></a><br />Eisenbahnstraße 12 (15 min walk to the conference venue)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 - 417 20; fax: +49 (0)251 - 417 29 9<br />Single room, shower/WC (look onto the road): 104 €<br />Single room, shower/WC (look onto the "Promenade"): 119 €<br />Studio: 116 €<br />Breakfast included<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hotel-martinihof-muenster.de/" title=" "><b><span style="color:#000000;">Hotel MARTINIHOF</span></b></a><br />Hörsterstraße 25 (10 min walk to the conference venue)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 - 418 62 0; fax: +49 (0)251 - 547 43<br /><a href="mailto:Martinihof.Muenster@t-online.de" title="mailto"><span style="color:#000000;">Martinihof.Muenster@t-online.de</span></a><br />Single room, shower/WC: 69 €<br />Double room, with own wash basin, shared bathroom, two single beds: 69 €<br />Double room, with own wash basin, shared bathroom, one double bed: 69 €<br />Breakfast included<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.hotel-international-am-theater.de/home.html" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">HOTEL INTERNATIONAL AM THEATER</span></a></b><br />Neubrückenstraße 12-14 (5 min walk to the conference venue)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 – 899 78 0; fax: +49 (0)251 – 899 78 29<br /><a href="mailto:info@hotel-international-am-theater.de" title="mailto"><span style="color:#000000;">info@hotel-international-am-theater.de</span></a><br />Single room, shower/WC: from 62 €<br />Double room, shower/WC: from 88 €<br /><br /><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.jellentrup.de/98263ffd-00c8-4d08-b850-7717115dff94.html?t=1212736749270" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">HOTEL JELLENTRUP</span></a></span></b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><br />Hüfferstraße 52 (20 min walk to the conference venue)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 – 981 05 0; fax: +49 (0)251 – 981 05 40<br /><a href="mailto:hotel@jellentrup.de" title="mailto"><span style="color:#000000;">hotel@jellentrup.de</span></a><br />Single room, shower/WC: 64 – 74 €<br />Double room, shower/WC: 94 €<br />Breakfast included</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.hotel-marcopolo.de/" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">HOTEL MARCO POLO</span></a></span></b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><br />Bremer Platz 36 (20 min walk to the conference venue)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 – 960 92 00 0; fax: +49 (0)251 – 960 92 00 13<br /><a href="mailto:info@hotel-marcopolo.de" title="mailto"><span style="color:#000000;">info@hotel-marcopolo.de</span></a><br />Single room, shower/WC: from 71 €<br />Double room, shower/WC: from 86 €<br />Breakfast: 9 €<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.hotel-windthorst.de/" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">HOTEL WINDTHORST</span></a></b><br />Windthorststraße 19 (10 min walk to the conference venue)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 – 484 59 0; fax: +49 (0)251 – 408 37<br /><a href="mailto:info@hotel-windthorst.de" title="mailto"><span style="color:#000000;">info@hotel-windthorst.de</span></a><br />Single room, shower/WC: 68 €<br />Double room, shower/WC: 77 €<br />Breakfast included<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.sleep-station.de/english/index.html" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">SLEEP STATION – Backpacker Hostel</span></a></b><br />Wolbecker Straße 1 (central location; direct bus connection to the conference venue: 10 min ride; walk to the conference venue: 15 min)<br />phone: +49 (0)251 – 482 81 55<br />Single room: 32 – 34 €<br />Double room: 44 – 52 €</span></p>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-10773980988596139082010-10-05T17:01:00.001+02:002010-10-05T19:20:03.643+02:00How To Get There<!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US">By plane:</span></b></p> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </span></b></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US">Münster is well served by these four airports:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.flughafen-fmo.de/index.php?sprache=e&menu1=3&nid=63" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">FMO Münster/Osnabrück</span></a></span></b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US">European & domestic flights, incl. budget carriers<br />(Journey time between airport and Münster city: 30 mins.<br />Via a shuttle bus to Münster train station)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.dortmund-airport.de/dortmund_airport.html?&L=1" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">DTM Dortmund</span></a></span></b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><br />European & domestic flights, incl. budget carriers<br />(Journey time between airport and Münster: 60 mins.<br />Catch a train from nearby "Holzwickede" station) </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.dus-travelport.de/?pg=linienflug" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">DUS Düsseldorf</span></a></span></b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><br />Transatlantic, European & domestic flights<br />(Journey time between airport and Münster: 90 mins.<br />Catch a train from one of the airport's own train stations)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.airport-cgn.de/main.php?id=17&lang=2" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">CGN Köln/Bonn</span></a></span></b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"><br />European & domestic flights<br />(Journey time between airport and Münster: 120 mins.<br />Catch a train from the airport train station)</span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" >Alternatively you can fly into <b><a href="http://www.airportcity-frankfurt.com/cms/default/rubrik/9/9682.airport_city_en.htm" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">Frankfurt</span></a> </b>or <b><a href="http://www.munich-airport.de/en/consumer/fluginfo/flugplan/index.jsp" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">Munich</span></a></b> and get a short (1 hour) connecting flight to Münster.<br />From Frankfurt there are also convenient train connections (c. 3 hours, see below).</span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" >You could work out your connecting flight with <a href="http://www.skyscanner.net/" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><b><span style="color:#000000;">www.skyscanner.net</span></b></a> or <b><a href="http://www.amadeus.net/plnext/meb/HomePageDispatcher.action?SITE=BCEUBCEU&LANGUAGE=GB" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><span style="color:#000000;">www.amadeus.net</span></a></b></span></p> <p><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" >By train:</span></b></p> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </span></b></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US">Using the train is a convenient way of travelling within Germany. For departure times and fares visit the <a href="http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en" target="_blank" title="Link öffnet neues Fenster"><b><span style="color:#000000;">Deutsche Bahn</span></b></a> (German Rail) web site and enter 'Munster(Westf)Hbf' as your destination. </span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" >To reach the <i>English Seminar </i><b>from the main train station (Hauptbahnhof) in Münster</b> take bus route 1, 12, 13 or 14 (leaving platform B1) or bus route 2 (leaving platform C1) and exit the station "Aegidiimarkt". </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US">By car:</span></b></p> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </span></b></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US">Münster can also be reached via the <b>"Autobahn" A1 </b>and<b> A43</b>. For the fastest access to the city take the <b>Autobahnkreuz Münster-Süd</b>.</span></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><img src="file:///C:/Users/CHRIST%7E1/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-8.png" alt="" />About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-63914353085091189592010-07-15T17:39:00.008+02:002010-10-05T23:13:50.101+02:00The Young Scholars Network Receives Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">We are happy to announce that as of July 2010, the Young Scholars Network (DFG wissenschaftliches Netzwerk) is officially funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).</span><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Over the next three years, we will organize a series of six workshops dealing with various aspects of the Black Diaspora and Germany, that will eventually result in a book publication. The first workshop on <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Transcending Diaspora: Whiteness, Performativity and the Politics of the Body</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> </span>will be organised Christina Oppel (WWU M</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >ü</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >nster), Dr. Silke Stroh (WWU M</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >ü</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >nster), Holger Droessler (Harvard, Cambridge, MA/LMU M</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >ü</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >nchen) and Dr. Frank Mehring (FU Berlin) and </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >will take place this fall at the University of Münster - so please stay tuned for further information!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" > </span>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-18218545774152418402010-05-16T18:26:00.004+02:002010-05-16T18:37:39.204+02:002011 CAAR Conference2011 Conference of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Black States of Desire: Dispossession, Circulation, Transformation</span>", Paris, April 6-9, 2011.<br /><br />"Placing the emphasis on the conditions of social transformation in the black world, it will articulate two main axes of analysis and reflection: the intersection of a socioeconomic approach with a multicultural and identity-focused perspective; the relation between theorizing processes and material transformation, between intellectual activity and political action, and between different communities with specific agendas."<br /><br />The deadline for paper proposals is <span style="font-weight: bold;">5 September 2010</span>. Please send your proposals by e-mail to Jean-Paul Rocchi, jprocchi@wanadoo.fr<br /><br />For the Call For Papers and latest conference information visit the <a href="http://www.caar-web.org/conference-2011.html">CAAR website</a>.About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-72338363037522117842009-12-15T16:27:00.002+01:002009-12-15T16:29:44.266+01:00Doctoral Fellowship in the History of African Americans and Germans/GermanyDoctoral Fellowship in the History of African Americans and Germans/Germany<br /> <br />The German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, is now accepting applications for a six-month doctoral fellowship in the History of African Americans and Germans/Germany. A six-month extension of this term is possible. The recipient must begin the term in the September 1, 2010.<br /><br />Preference will be given to fellows whose projects fit into the GHI's research foci on the relationships between African Americans and Germans/Germany, including Afro-German History, from a transatlantic perspective (http://www.ghi-dc.org/africanamericans).<br /><br />The fellow will be expected to be in residence at the GHI and participate in GHI activities and events. The fellow will have the opportunity to make use of the resources in the Washington, DC, area, including the Library of Congress and the National Archives, while pursuing his or her own research agenda. Travel within the US to work in archives and libraries will also be possible.<br /><br />The monthly stipend is €1,700 for doctoral students from European institutions; students based at North American institutions will receive a stipend of $1,900. In addition, fellowship recipients based in Europe will receive reimbursement for their round-trip airfare to the US. <br /><br />While applications may be written in either English or German, we recommend that applicants use the language in which they are most proficient. They will be notified approximately six weeks after the deadline.<br /><br />To apply, please send a cover letter, CV, two letters of reference, and a 5-page research project proposal by March 15, 2009. Submission of documents by email is strongly preferred. Please send an email with your application to Bryan Hart (fellowships@ghi-dc.org).<br /><br />For more information, please contact:<br /><br />Dr. Martin Klimke (klimke@ghi-dc.org) or Dr. Anke Ortlepp (Ortlepp@ghi-dc.org)<br />- Doctoral Fellowship in the History of African Americans and Germans/Germany - <br />German Historical Institute Washington DC <br />1607 New Hampshire Ave NW<br />Washington DC 20009<br />U.S.A.<br />Fax: +1.202.483.3430About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-5016784721516264602009-10-23T15:51:00.000+02:002009-10-23T15:52:58.732+02:00Veranstaltungsreihe zur 125ten Jährung der Berliner Afrika-Konferenz<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CSilke%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p>Ab 21.10.2009 lädt <a href="http://www.commit-berlin.de/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Commit Berlin e.V.</span></a> <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">jeden zweiten Mittwoch um 18.30 Uhr im HU-Hauptgebäude </span></strong>(Unter den Linden 6), Raum 3038/3035 die Reihe “Wissensmacht – Machtwissen: Eine Reihe kritischer Auseinandersetzungen mit Rassismus und kolonialen Kontinuitäten in Universität und Wissenschaften” im <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Wintersemester 2009/10.</span></strong></p> <p>Im Rahmen der Kampagne verschiedener Berliner politischer Gruppen <a href="http://www.berliner-afrika-konferenz.de/willkom.htm" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">zur 125ten Jährung der Berliner Afrika-Konferenz</span></strong></a> von November 2009 bis Februar 2010 (<a href="http://www.berliner-afrika-konferenz.de/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">www.berliner-afrika-konferenz.de)</span></a> veranstaltet der Studierendenverein Commit Berlin e.V. eine Reihe, in der koloniale Kontinuitäten im Alltag und in Wissenschaftsbetrieben thematisiert werden sollen.</p> <p>ab 21.10.2009 jeden zweiten Mittwoch um 18.30 Uhr im HU-Hauptgebäude (Unter den Linden 6), Raum 3038/3035</p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">21.10. </span></strong>Natasha A. Kelly
<br />Afroism. Zur Situation einer ethnischen Minderheit in Deutschland</p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">4.11. </span></strong>Katharina Oguntoye
<br />Geschichte(n) Schwarzer Menschen in Deutschland</p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-GB">18.11. </span></strong><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Grada Kilomba
<br />Who can speak? University and the decolonization of knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">2.12. </span></strong>Susan Arndt
<br />Rassismus in der deutschen Sprache</p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">16.12. </span></strong>Yonas Endrias
<br />Rassismus in der Wissenschaft – wissenschaftlicher Rassismus</p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">13.1. </span></strong>Aretha Schwarzbach-Apithy
<br />Weiße kolonial-rassistische Lebensart – innere Kolonisierung</p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">27.1. </span></strong>Prof. Dr. Maureen Maisha Eggers
<br />Dekolonisierung als methodisches und methodologisches Projekt der Wissenschaftskritik</p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">10.2. </span></strong>Podium: Interventionen
<br />Strategien zur De-Kolonisierung der Universität und Wissenschaften</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-79362005685894917652009-09-26T15:00:00.004+02:002009-09-26T15:34:06.436+02:00African American Civil Rights and Germany in the 20th Century<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Meet Members of the Network at the Conference at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">October 8–10, 2009</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Jointly organized by the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">and Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Conveners: Maria Höhn (Vassar College) and Martin Klimke (GHI Washington)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">For the Conference Announcement as well as the larger Project "the Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs and Germany" (a collaborative project of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, the Heidelberg Center for American Studies as well as Vassar College) directed by Maria Höhn, History Department, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, and Martin Klimke, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC / Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg </span><span style="font-family:arial;">visit </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=873&Itemid=392<br />http://www.aacvr-germany.org/AACVR.ORG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=9<br /></span>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-80686124902844138742009-06-23T00:37:00.001+02:002009-06-23T00:40:06.492+02:00Tagung: Rassismus, Wissen(schaft) und UniversitätRassismus, Wissen(schaft) und Universität<br />Vom 26. – 28. Juni 2009 findet in Berlin die Tagung Rassismus, Wissen(schaft) und Universität statt.<br /><br />Rassismus gehört zu den wirkungsmächtigsten und folgenschwersten historischen Hypotheken, mit denen sich die Welt auch im 21. Jahrhundert auseinander zu setzen hat. Der europäische Versuch, Menschen nach 'Rassen' zu unterteilen, ist als gescheitert anzusehen. Doch sein Geschöpf, der Rassismus, ist strukturell und diskursiv – in Form von Macht, Gewalt und Wissen – allgegenwärtig und wirkmächtig. Das verstärkt sich noch dadurch, dass der Rassismus in der bundesdeutschen Gesellschaft weitgehend verleugnet bleibt. All dies hat für Medien, Wissenschaft und die deutsche Literatur- und Theaterlandschaft weitreichende Konsequenzen. Diesen widmet sich die Tagung. Es gilt herauszuarbeiten, wie kolonial entstandenes rassistisches Wissen in der deutschen Gesellschaft bis heute prominent fortwirkt und zugleich auch von People of Colour widerständig herausgefordert wird. Auch ist zu diskutieren, wie über Rassismus gesprochen werden kann, ohne seine Denkmuster und Machtfelder zu reproduzieren. In Performances, Theaterstücken, akademischen Vorträgen, Podiumsdiskussionen und Arbeitsgruppen werden Wissenschaftler_innen und Studierende sowie Künstler_innen und Journalist_innen of Colour Rassismus analysieren, beschreiben und hinterfragen. Die Tagung dient der politischen Bildung und richtet sich an eine interessierte breite Öffentlichkeit.<br /><br />Veranstaltungsort:<br />Amerika Haus<br />Hardenbergstr. 22<br />10623 Berlin<br /><br />Organisator_innen:<br />Susan Arndt (Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)<br />Julia Brilling (Studentin der Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)<br />Ana Keita (Studentin der Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)<br />Philipp Khabo Köpsell (Student der Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)<br />Sharon Dodua Otoo (Limited to You)<br /><br />Veranstaltet in Kooperation mit dem Institute für Cultural Diplomacy und mit der Unterstützung der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung und dem RefRat der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Begleitet durch eine Ausstellung von Ricky Reisers Werken.<br /><br />Änderungen vorbehalten. Für aktuelle Informationen siehe: http://www.limitedtoyou.com<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Freitag, den 26. 6. 2009</span><br /><br />14.00 – 15.00 Begrüßung und Einführung in die Tagung<br /><br />Philipp Khabo Köppsell (Berlin): Begrüßungs-Performance<br />Susan Arndt (Berlin): Eröffnung: Über Rassismus zu sprechen, heißt, sich ihm zu stellen: Einführende Erörterungen zu Rassismus und weißen Verleugnungsstrategien<br />Sharon Dodua Otoo (Berlin): Begrüßung und Lesung: <em>Writing in my Stepmother Tongue </em><br /><br />15.00 – 16.00 Katharina Oguntoye (Berlin): Vorstellen des Jugendkunstprojektes von Satch Hoyt: SCRAMBLE – Der Quiz zur afro-deutschen Geschichte<br />Moderation: Sharon Dodua Otoo (Berlin)<br /><br />16. 30 – 17.45 Keynote Speaker: Vortrag mit Diskussion<br />Natasha A. Kelly (Münster): Nur die Kommunikation kann kommunizieren!<br />Moderation: Katharina Oguntoye (Berlin)<br /><br />18.00 – 19.00 Interaktive Lesung aus <em>Plantation Memories</em><br />Grada Kilomba (Berlin)<br />Moderation: Natasha A. Kelly (Münster)<br /><br />19.30 – 20.30 Romanlesung aus <em>Schanzen-Slam</em><br />Victoria B. Robinson (Hamburg)<br />Moderation: Natasha A. Kelly (Münster)<br /><br />21.00 Theateraufführung:<br />LiberatioNoire "Afro-Deutsche-Geschichten. Ein schwarz-weißer Heimatabend mit Musik"<br />Das Programm umfasst Theater-Szenen, Film-Clips, Stand-Up-Nummern und Improvisationen, genauso wie Kabarett-Songs, Schlager, Opern-Gesang und Ethno-Beats. Auf diese Weise vereinen die Akteure von LiberatioNoire verschiedene dramatische und musikalische Elemente zu einem einheitlichen Ganzen, indem sie sie mischen, uminterpretieren und neu zusammen setzen. So entsteht eine ganz neue Dimensionen der künstlerischen Auseinandersetzung mit aktuellen gesellschaftspolitischen Themen, immer ausgehend von einer afro- bzw. afrikanisch-deutschen, einer Schwarzen Perspektive. www.liberation-noire.de<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Samstag, den 27. 6. 2009</span><br /><br />11.00 – 12.30 Keynote Speaker: Vortrag mit Diskussion<br />Noah Sow (Hamburg): Strukturell dominanter Diskurs am Beispiel deutscher Medien<br />Moderation: Mutlu Ergün (London)<br /><br />13.00 – 14.00 Lesung aus <em>Die Farbe meiner Haut. Die Antirassismustrainerin erzählt</em>.<br />zu den Themen Rassismus und Empowerment<br />ManuEla Ritz (Berlin)<br />Moderation: Tina Bach (Mannheim)<br /><br />15.00 – 16.00 Satire und Performance<br />Sheila Mysorekar (Köln): Satire als Widerstand gegen Rassismus<br />Bra Phil mit Chantal-Fleur Sandjon, begleitet von Danièle Daude (Berlin): Performance<br />Moderation: Magnus Rosengarten (Berlin)<br /><br />16.15 – 18.15 Panel: Deutschlands rassistische Mythen – Erinnerung als Erzählung gegen Verdrängungsstrategien<br />1. Katharina Oguntoye (Berlin): Über die Bedeutung von Geschichten und Geschichte für die afro-deutsche Community<br />2. Andrés Nader (Berlin): Antisemitismus in Deutschland<br />3. Mutlu Ergün (London): Antisemitismus, Anti-islamischer Rassismus, Sprache & Trauma<br />4. Daniel Strauss (Mannheim): Antiziganismus in Deutschland<br />Moderation und Kommentar: Kien Nghi Ha (Berlin)<br /><br />19.00 – 20.30 Podiumsdiskussion: Rassistisches Wissen und Rassismus an der Universität - politischer Anspruch und wissenschaftlicher Rahmen<br /><br />Es werden sich Studierende darüber austauschen, welche Ansprüche sie an die Universität mit Blick auf die Vermittlung von Wissen über Kolonialismus und Rassismus stellen. Es wird diskutiert, wie über Rassismus und Kolonialismus gesprochen werden kann, ohne rassistische Gewalt zu reproduzieren und wie Rassismus wiederum Prozesse der Wissensvermittlung behindert. Die Diskussion erfolgt auf der Grundlage einer gemeinsamen Lektüre von Texten von Kien Nghi Ha, Ursula Wachendorfer und Pierre Bourdieu.<br /><br />Moderation: Julia Brilling (Berlin) und Ana Keita (Berlin)<br /><br />Teilnehmende<br />1. Janina Chetty (Berlin)<br />2. Philipp Khabo Köpsell (Berlin)<br />3. Franziska Kramer (Berlin)<br />4. Chandra-Milena Danielzik (Berlin)<br />5. Patricia Redzewski (Berlin)<br />6. Anna Weicker (Berlin)<br />7. Mai Zeidani (Berlin)<br /><br />21.00 Performance: sesperado im vollen effekt<br />Der Sesperado ist ein junger P.O.C. der Widerstand gegen weiße Vorherrschaft und Empowerment für P.O.C. ganz groß auf seinem Programm zu stehen hat. Dass darüber trotzdem gelacht und Spaß gehabt werden kann, beweist der Sesperado mit seinem Tagebuch.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Sonntag, den 28. 6. 2009</span><br /><br />11.00 – 13.00 Panel: Rassismus und Wissen(schaft)<br />1. Navina Njiabi Bolla-Bong (Münster): Rassismus als Wissensbarriere<br />2. Jan Severin (Berlin): Rassismus gegen Roma und Sinti in der deutschsprachigen Ethnologie<br />3. Joshua Kwesi Aikins (Berlin): Antikolonialer Widerstand statt Kolonialaggression: Straßenumbenennung als Perspektivwechsel in der Berliner Erinnerungslandschaft<br />4. Halil Can (Berlin): Empowermentarbeit gegen Rassismus (an der Universität)<br />Moderation und Kommentar: Chandra-Milena Danielzik (Berlin)<br /><br />14.00 – 16.00 Podiumsdiskussion: Rassismus in der deutschen Gesellschaft und Widerstand<br />Der Widerstand gegen Rassismus in Deutschland baut auf zahlreichen individuellen und kollektiven Widerständen von People of Colour sowie jüdischen Menschen auf. Es soll die Geschichte der Menschenrechtsbewegungen in Deutschland gewürdigt und ihre Präsenzen in Literatur, Kunst und Wissenschaft betrachtet werden. Dazu sollen aus verschiedenen Bereichen (Theater, Literatur, Journalistik, Wissenschaft, Menschenrechtsbewegungen) Vertreter_innen über ihre Arbeit sprechen und dabei auf erprobte Widerstandsstrategien eingehen.<br /><br />Teilnehmer_innen:<br />1. Sharon Adler (Berlin)<br />2. Jonas Berhe (Hamburg)<br />3. Lara-Sophie Milagro (Berlin)<br />4. Judy Gummich (Berlin)<br />5. ManuEla Ritz (Berlin)<br />6. Daniel Strauss (Mannheim)<br />Moderation: Katharina Oguntoye (Berlin)<br /><br />16.30 – 18.30 Uhr Arbeitsgruppen<br />1. Rassismus als Wissensbarriere<br />(Leitung: Navina Njiabi Bolla-Bong, Münster)<br />2. Koloniale Gegenwart remixen – Impulse für weitere antikoloniale Straßenumbenennungen in Berlin<br />(Leitung: Joshua Kwesi Aikins, Berlin und Armin Massing, Berlin)<br />3. Wie positioniere ich mich als weiße Person?<br />(Leitung: Juliane Strohschein, Berlin)<br />4. real life: Deutschland – Der Dokumentationsfilm zum YoungStar Theater Empowerment Projekt<br />(Leitung: Siraad Wiedenroth, Frankfurt am Main)<br />5. Kritisches Weißsein in der Theaterarbeit<br />(Leitung: Dirk Eilers, Berlin)<br />6. Performative Strategien des „Gegensprechens“ – am Beispiel von (Film-)Ausschnitten des Theaterstücks „Amo – eine dramatische Spurensuche nach Fragmenten der Lebensgeschichte des ersten Schwarzen Hochschulprofessors in Deutschland im 18. Jh.“ von Kitunga-Projekte Münster 2005 (Leitung: Tania Meyer, Berlin)<br /><br />19.00 – 20.00 Abschlussdiskussion<br />Moderation: Nadja Ofuatey-Rahal (München)<br /><br />21.00 Szenische Lesung: „Homestory Deutschland. Gelebt-erlebte Schwarze deutsche Geschichte(n)“(von ManuEla Ritz und Sharon Dodua Otoo)<br />Was wäre wenn Anton Wilhelm Amo, Doktor der Philosophie (geboren 1713), Henriette Alexander, Haushälterin und Kinder“mädchen“ (geboren 1817), Billy Mo, Musiker und Psychologe (geboren 1923), Fasia Jansen, Widerstandsaktivistin und Musikerin (1929) und May Ayim Logopädin, Poetin und Aktivistin der Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (geboren 1960) in einem zeitlosen Raum aufeinander träfen? Diese Frage stellt sich der junge Schwarze deutsche Autor Tyrell und fördert bei seinen Recherchen erstaunliche (Er)Kenntnisse zu Tage. Ein Stück, dass 300 Jahre Schwarze deutsche Geschichte erlebbar macht.<br />www.homestorydeutschland.deAbout the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-49257405259892580802009-05-08T00:02:00.000+02:002009-05-08T00:03:04.046+02:00Doctoral Fellowship in the History of African Americans and Germans/ GermanyDoctoral Fellowship in the History of African Americans and Germans/ <br />Germany<br /><br />The German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, is now accepting <br />applications for a six-month doctoral fellowship in the History of <br />African Americans and Germans/Germany. A six-month extension of this <br />term is possible. The recipient must begin the term in the Fall of 2009.<br /><br />Preference will be given to fellows whose projects fit into the GHI's <br />research foci on the relationships between African Americans and <br />Germans/Germany, including Afro-German History, from a transatlantic <br />perspective.<br /><br />The fellow will be expected to be in residence at the GHI and <br />participate in GHI activities and events. The fellow will have the <br />opportunity to make use of the resources in the Washington, DC, area, <br />including the Library of Congress and the National Archives, while <br />pursuing his or her own research agenda. Travel within the US to work <br />in archives and libraries will also be possible.<br /><br />The monthly stipend is €1,600 for doctoral students from European <br />institutions; students based at North American institutions will <br />receive a stipend of $1,800. In addition, fellowship recipients based <br />in Europe will receive reimbursement for their round-trip airfare to <br />the US.<br /><br />While applications may be written in either English or German, we <br />recommend that applicants use the language in which they are most <br />proficient. They will be notified approximately six weeks after the <br />deadline.<br /><br />To apply, please send a cover letter, CV, two letters of reference, <br />and a 5-page research project proposal by June 1, 2009. Submission of <br />documents by email is strongly preferred. Please send an email with <br />your application to Bryan Hart (fellowships@ghi-dc.org),<br /><br />For more information, please contact:<br /><br /><br />Dr. Martin Klimke or Dr. Anke Ortlepp<br /><br />- Doctoral Fellowship in the History of African Americans and Germans/ <br />Germany -<br />German Historical Institute Washington DC<br />1607 New Hampshire Ave NW<br />Washington DC 20009<br />U.S.A.<br />Fax: +1.202.483.3430<br /><br />Email: klimke@ghi-dc.org or ortlepp@ghi-dc.orgAbout the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-63505733248617030842009-04-17T18:14:00.003+02:002009-04-17T18:26:55.531+02:00Lesung mit Noah Sow<strong style="font-family: arial;">Deutschland Schwarz weiß. Der alltägliche Rassismus</strong> <p style="font-family: arial;">Wir sind mit den vielfältigsten Rassismen aufgewachsen. Im Kindergarten spielten wir „Wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann“. Wir denken uns nichts dabei, wenn uns im Schuhgeschäft die Figur eines schwarzen Dieners aus Porzellan begrüßt. Wir stutzen, wenn die Anwältin, die vor Gericht erscheint, Schwarz ist. Alltäglicher Rassismus beginnt nicht erst bei gewalttätigen Übergriffen. Er manifestiert sich in Aussagen wie „die deutsche Nationalmannschaft ist ja wirklich nicht sehr deutsch“ oder in der Feststellung, die Sängerin Jessye Norman trete „wie eine Stammeskönigin“ vor ihr Publikum. Wenn wir gefragt werden, sind wir natürlich gegen Rassismus. Um ihn jedoch bewusst bekämpfen zu können, muss man ihn zunächst verstehen lernen. Und dazu müssen wir lieb gewordene „Gewissheiten“ hinterfragen. Vor dem Hintergrund ihrer langjährigen Antirassismus-Arbeit legt Noah Sow den Finger in die Wunde des unbewussten Rassismus und sorgt für jede Menge erkenntnisfördernder Stolpersteine.</p> <p style="font-family: arial;">Noah Sow ist Musikerin, Sprecherin, Hörspielautorin, Autorin und Produzentin hat sich auch als Komponistin und Sängerin einen Namen gemacht. Weithin bekannt geworden ist sie vor allem als Moderatorin in Personality-Sendungen bei WDR Einslive, HR3, Radio Fritz und YouFm sowie durch zahlreiche TV-Aktivitäten.</p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><strong>20. April 20.00 Uhr Stadtbücherei Münster Alter Steinweg 11<br />Der Eintritt ist frei<br /></strong></p><span style="font-family:arial;">Veranstalter ASTA der FH M</span><strong style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial;">ü</strong><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">nster<br /><br /></span>http://www.astafh.de/2009/04/lesung-mit-noah-sow/</span><p style="font-family: arial;"><strong>23. April Hamburg</strong> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://sankt-georg.info/artikel/787/noah-sow-rassismus-kulturladen-lesung" target="_blank">Kulturladen St. Georg</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, Alexanderstraße 16, Hamburg</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;">Veranstalterinnen: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Hamburg, Verband binationaler Familien und Partnerschaften iaf e.V., Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg</p><p style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.noahsow.de/">www.noahsow.de</a><br /><a href="http://www.deutschlandschwarzweiss.de/">www.deutschlandschwarzweiss.de</a></p><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><br /><p><br /></p>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-91270292064634242502009-04-13T19:09:00.003+02:002009-04-13T19:15:07.742+02:00XXIV. Black International Cinema Berlin<span style="font-size:85%;">"A COMPLEXION CHANGE – International & Intercultural Diplomacy"<br /><br />A tribute to:<br />Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt<br />"Die Zukunft wird nicht gemeistert von denen, die am Vergangenen kleben."<br />"The future will not be mastered by those who dwell on the past."<br /><br />President John-F. Kennedy<br />"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."<br />"Wir dürfen niemals vergessen, dass Kunst keine Form der Propaganda ist; es ist eine Form der Wahrheit."<br /><br />Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<br />"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."<br />"Menschlicher Fortschritt ist weder selbsttätig noch unvermeidlich... Jeder Schritt in Richtung Gerechtigkeit verlangt Opfer, Leid und Kampf; die unermüdliche Anstrengung und das leidenschaftliche Interesse engagierter Personen."<br /><br />President Barack Hussein Obama<br />"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."<br />"Es wird keine Veränderung geben, wenn wir auf jemand anderen oder eine andere Zeit warten. Wir sind diejenigen, auf die wir gewartet haben. Wir sind die Veränderung, nach der wir streben."<br /><br />XXIV. Black International Cinema Berlin<br />Germany & USA 2009<br />May 7-10<br />Veranstaltungsort:<br />Rathaus Schöneberg<br />John-F.Kennedy-Platz<br />10820 Berlin-Schöneberg<br />produziert und geleitet von<br />FOUNTAINHEAD® TANZ THEATRE<br />THE COLLEGIUM - FORUM & TELEVISION PROGRAM BERLIN<br />in Verbindung mit<br />CULTURAL ZEPHYR e.V.<br />in Kooperation mit der Integrationsbeauftragten des Bezirks Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin<br /><br />Zum 24. Mal präsentiert Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre das interdisziplinäre und interkulturelle Festival Black International Cinema Berlin. Erstmalig gastiert das Festival im Rathaus Schöneberg und wird in Kooperation mit der Integrationsbeauftragten des Bezirks Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Frau Gabriele Gün Tank, veranstaltet.<br />Mehr als 50 Filme stehen auf dem Programm, darunter Beiträge aus den Kapverden, Benin, Frankreich, den USA, Iran, Indien, Togo, Senegal, Belgien, Deutschland, Großbritannien, Kolumbien, Spanien, Nicaragua, der Schweiz und Madagaskar.<br />Dazu finden Filmgespräche, Diskussionen, Performances und Seminare statt.<br />Unter dem Titel "A COMPLEXION CHANGE – International & Intercultural Diplomacy" stehen Filme aus Afrika, der afrikanischen Diaspora und Filme, die sich mit interkulturellen Perspektiven befassenn, im Mittelpunkt.<br />„Seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 1986 hat sich das Black International Cinema Festival in Berlin zu einem der angesehendsten Filmereignisse in Europa entwickelt und Filmfans werden zwischen dem 7. und 10. Mai die Möglichkeit haben, dies selbst zu erfahren.<br />Produziert und geleitet vom Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre, ist das ganz Besondere daran, dass es die Beiträge von schwarzen SchauspielerInnen und RegisseurInnen aus der Welt des Films in interdisziplinärer und interkultureller Art feiert.<br />Der Fokus des Festivals liegt auf der Präsentation von Arbeiten, die in kultureller, künstlerischer und politischer Hinsicht mit den allgemeinen sozialen, ökonomischen und bildungsorientierten Interessen der Menschen aus der afrikanischen Diaspora zusammentreffen.<br />Das Festival ist offen für alle FilmemacherInnen und BesucherInnen und stellt eine Plattform zur Verfügung, auf der sich die Kraft des Kinos aus der afrikanischen Diaspora sowie von Menschen mit Interesse an interkulturellen Beziehungen entfalten kann.<br />Die Organisation Fountainhead® engagiert sich gegen religiöse, ethnische und geschlechtsbezogene Verfolgung und strebt danach, Diskriminierung mit den Mitteln des Dialogs und des Verständnisses zu bekämpfen.<br />Die Veranstalter sind überzeugt davon, dass durch den Einsatz von Kunst, Theater, Tanz, Musik und Seminaren Vorurteile gegenüber benachteiligten Gruppen infrage gestellt und eine stärkere Verbundenheit innerhalb der Gesellschaft aufgebaut werden können.<br />BesucherInnen werden dazu eingeladen, wirkungsvolle und zum Nachdenken anregende Filmbeispiele aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart zu sehen.“ (Railbookers)<br />Informationen:<br />Tel.: 030-782 16 21/75 46 09 46 oder Fax: 786 34 66.<br />Internet: http://www.blackinternationalcinema.de<br />http://www.black-international-cinema.com<br />http://www.fountainhead-tanz-theatre.de<br />e-mail: bicdance@aol.com<br /></span>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-27444259608292588082009-02-26T16:46:00.021+01:002009-04-13T19:03:28.003+02:00The Network at the CAAR Conference in Bremen, March 2009<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 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<br /><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <u3:p></u3:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"><b><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" >Chairs</span></b><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" >: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <u3:p></u3:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" ><u1:p></u1:p><u1:p></u1:p>Silke Hackenesch (JFK Institut, FU Berlin)
<br />Christina Oppel, (Englisches Seminar, WWU Münster)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-US"><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p>This workshop presents some of the theoretical premises the interdisciplinary and transnational Young Scholars Network “Black Diaspora and Germany” (English Seminar, University of Münster) intends to contribute to the field of German centered Black Diaspora Studies. Merging Afro-German and African American-German perspectives, this interdisciplinary network intends to initiate a fruitful dialogue between postcolonial discourses which have so far been lead separately in intersecting disciplines. The first workshop offers a discussion forum for present and future members of this network under construction. In the second workshop (Papers 2-4 are going to take place on the Friday session), three network participants will present their work inside the network at the intersections of Black Diaspora and (German) Critical Whiteness Studies. In the former panel, key questions and problems will be addressed which the network faces in the contested space of the Black diaspora: issues of representation, the participants’ positionality and the power and authority to define. As the network works against tendencies toward an Americanist “hegemony” in Black diaspora studies institutional and content –related ways will be sought to counterbalance this recent tendency in order to establish a more fruitful dialogue among scholars of Afro German and African American Studies. In order to establish a setting in which to address these pertinent questions and to stimulate an exchange of ongoing projects from a variety of perspectives, we seek to establish a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <u3:p></u3:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"><b><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <u1:p></u1:p><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p><u1:p></u1:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-US">Paper 1:</span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-GB"> YSN Black Diaspora and <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> - A Forum for Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-US">In recent years, scholarly work on <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s colonial past and its continuing consequences has stressed the relevance of notions of Blackness and whiteness to German national identity formation. Afro German feminists conducted pioneering work in exploring the various histories and experiences of People of Color in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The increasing recognition and analysis of the Black presence in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> has provoked a critical examination of whiteness as a hitherto largely unexamined category. This field of study often overlaps with the self-organization and knowledge productions of People of Color. In this contested space, issues of representation, one’s own positionality and the power and authority to define have to be addressed. Building on already existing work in these fields, what conceptual tools can help continue the ongoing, yet often disparate debates? Within the field, are there tendencies toward an Americanist “hegemony” that should be counterbalanced? Can there be a more fruitful dialogue among scholars of Afro German and African American Studies? Do deconstructivist analyses of race run the risk of obscuring persistent effects of racialization/racism? In order to establish a setting in which to address these pertinent questions and to stimulate an exchange of ongoing projects from a variety of perspectives, we invited Dr. Eske Wollrad and S. Marina Jones for a discussion of the challenges the network faces and our own experiences in the field.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span><b><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-US"><u3:p></u3:p>Paper 2</span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-US">: Dr. Eske Wollrad (Frauen- und Geschlechterstudien, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg), „Changing Concepts in Constructing Race: Black Diaspora, “Critical Whiteness Studies” and the Black <st1:place st="on">Atlantic</st1:place>: <strong><span style="">Dis(re)membering terror – White Amnesia in US-American Critical Whiteness Studies and German Research on Weißsein”</span></strong></span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-US">On which historiographic frames of reference are US-American Critical Whiteness Studies and German research on Weißsein based and how do both fields of research relate to the fundamental historic eras of slavery and colonialism? Although critical explorations of both Whiteness and Weißsein assume an antiracist stance, their propensity to reproduce and revitalize White amnesia regarding White terror of slavery and colonialism cannot be ignored. Using the <i>Black Atlantic</i> as hermeneutical key, Eske Wollrad will delineate hegemonic aspects of Whiteness studies and their implications, that is, the negation of Black diasporic knowledge productions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <u3:p></u3:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <u1:p></u1:p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10;">Paper 3</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10;">: <b style="">Christina Oppel (Englisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, “African Americans, <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the Black German Diaspora.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10;">Investigating African American accounts of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and German Blackness, of the first half of the twentieth century this paper questions the character and quality of these rare comparative explorations of race and color prejudice in <st1:place st="on">Europe</st1:place> and the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Deeply rooted in the systematics of American racial patterns and, despite their international orientation, clearly embedded in the American context, these singular African American accounts represent African American culture as the dominant point of reference and implicitly established hierarchies between different Black communities that have since undergone fundamental transformation, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10;">yet still influence the present Black Diaspora discourse. It is these argumentative gaps, discrepancies and temporal as well as social differences and (ir)regularities that emerge in the process of translation of ideas, events and their meanings into different contexts that my paper focuses on. In particular, I look at moments of <i>decalage</i> (Edwards, Senghor) and processes of adaptation, negotiation and transformation of ideas that are particular to African Americans who were reporting, analyzing, transforming and appropriating ideas and news of Nazi Germany. Analysing these early African American documentations of the Black German diaspora with the aid of paradigms of German Critical Whiteness Studies (Kritische Weissseinsforschung), this paper critically assesses African American accounts of Black and White Germany<st1:country-region style="font-family: verdana;" st="on"><st1:place st="on"></st1:place></st1:country-region> and questions their meaning for conceptionalisations of diaspora for the first half of the twentieth century.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10;"><u3:p></u3:p>Paper 4</span></b><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10;">: Frank Mehring (John F. Kennedy Institute, Abt. Kultur, Freie Universität <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berlin</st1:place></st1:state>), “Blackness’ and ‘Whiteness’ in 20<sup>th</sup> Century German Popular Culture: Authenticity and Performance”</span></b><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <u3:p></u3:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-US">Frank Mehring will focus on questions of authenticity and performance by addressing transcultural confrontations between the Afro-German experience and imagined constructions of African American performance culture. Musical theater and HipHop have established heterotopic spaces in the sense of Michel Foucault to negotiate blackness as a symbol of vitality and primitivist modernity. Blackface minstrelsy has largely been associated with American Vaudeville and <st1:city style="font-family: verdana;" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Hollywood</st1:place></st1:city> films. German avant-garde composers of the <st1:place style="font-family: verdana;" st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Weimar </st1:placename><st1:placetype st="on">Republic</st1:placetype></st1:place>, however, turned to jazz and blackface as a means to break with 19th century conventions in high musical art. Today, German HipHop artists appropriate American and German elements of minstrelsy to gain recognition while debating different conceptions of German national identity. In order to understand the attraction of “becoming black” or exaggerating stereotypes of blackness in a German cultural context, the aesthetic dimension of visual and acoustic media have largely been overlooked by contemporary media studies. In this context, aesthetics is not so much understood as a philosophy of art or as a theory of aesthetic judgement. Rather, by following Winfried Fluck’s suggestion to re-interpret aesthetics as aesthetic experience, the attraction of black popular culture in German cultural contexts is not limited to the discourse on authenticity. The act of self-fashioning as the black cultural outsider triggers a process of recognition through difference (<span style="color:black;">Tzvetan Todorov) which appeals both to the artist and the audience. </span></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <u3:p></u3:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:10;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <u1:p></u1:p><u3:p></u3:p><u1:p></u1:p>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-31461582434465967112008-11-18T23:18:00.014+01:002009-03-20T18:49:59.856+01:00Call for Submission of Research Proposals<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong></strong>In recent years, scholarly work on Germany’s colonial past and its continuing consequences has stressed the relevance of notions of blackness and whiteness to German national identity (which has historically been constructed as white). Afro-German feminists did pioneering work in exploring the various histories and experiences of Black people in Germany. This increasing recognition and analysis of the Black presence in Germany has provoked a critical examination of whiteness as a hitherto largely unexamined category. The complex role Germany plays in Black diasporic thought is also being explored. Furthermore, in public and academic discourse, more recent processes of migration, transnationalism, and the flow of transcultural forms and commodities pose the question whether issues of race, racialization and racism have to be re-examined and re-conceptualized.<br /><br />In many cases, these fields of study overlap with self-organization and productions of knowledge by people of color. In this contested space, issues of representation, one’s own positionality and the power and authority to define have to be addressed. Building on existing work in the field, what conceptual tools can help continue the ongoing, yet often disparate debates? For instance, can “diaspora” serve as an all-encompassing concept, and if so, how is it being modified, gendered, re-articulated? Within the field, are there tendencies toward an Americanist “hegemony” that should be counterbalanced? Can there be a more fruitful dialogue among scholars of Afro-German and African American Studies? Do deconstructivist analyses of race run the risk of obscuring persistent effects of racialization/racism? In order to establish a setting in which to address these pertinent questions and to stimulate an exchange of ongoing projects from a variety of perspectives, we seek to establish a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars. Our collaborative research network will run over an estimated period of three years and will consist in several workshops which will possibly conclude with a publication on the subject. These workshops may center around issues of Black Diaspora and Critical Whiteness Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Authenticity and Performance of Blackness(es), Modernity and Transnationalism, Anticolonialism and Slavery, and Black Power (and its Reception in Germany).<br /><br />If you would like to participate in the network, please send a short CV with your contact information and a brief description of your research project (250 words) in German or English to <a href="mailto:bdg@uni-muenster.de">bdg@uni-muenster.de</a>.<br /><br /><strong>The submission deadline is February 15th, 2009.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />You can get in touch personally and meet current participants at the CAAR conference 2009 in Bremen (<a href="http://www.caar2009.eu/">http://www.caar2009.eu/</a>), where a network workshop will be held. Here, individual projects of network participants will be presented and the general network idea and its concept will be discussed.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><strong><br /></strong>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069643390559650140.post-68628415999663232202008-11-18T13:00:00.034+01:002009-05-26T18:00:29.828+02:00Active Participants and Associated Scholars<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Active Participants (as of March 2009)</strong></span>
<br /></div><ul style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;"><li>Dr. Robbie A i t k e n (Research Fellow, University of Liverpool)
<br /></li><li>Felix A x st e r, MA (Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungskolleg „Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation,“ SFB/FK 427, Universität zu Köln) </li><li>Holger D r o e s s l e r, MA (Amerika Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
<br /></li><li>Moritz E g e, MA (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin)</li><li>Dr. Cassandra E l l e r b e - D ü c k (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, EU Project "Searching for Neighbors") </li><li>Maja F i g g e, MA (Graduiertenkolleg "Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie", Humboldt-Universität Berlin)</li><li>Katharina G e r u n d , MA (Amerikanistik, Bremen)</li><li>Silke H a c k e n e s c h, MA (Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institut, Freie Universität Berlin)</li><li>S. Marina J o n e s (Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
<br /></li><li>Dr. Sigrid K ö h l e r (Germanistisches Institut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)</li><li>Susann L e w e r e n z, MA (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
<br /></li><li>Dr. Frank M e h r i n g (Abteilung Kultur, John F. Kennedy Institut, Freie Universität Berlin)</li><li>Christina O p p e l (Englisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)</li><li>Dr. Damani P a r t r i d g e (Anthropology, Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan, USA)</li><li>Dr. Silke S t r o h (Englisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)</li></ul><div style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;"><strong></strong>
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Associated Scholars</strong></span></div><ul style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;"><li>Dr. Susan A r n d t (Abteilung Neue Englischsprachige Literaturen und Kulturen, Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Eva B o e s e n b e r g (American Studies, Humboldt-Universität Berlin)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Claudia B r e g e r (German Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Sabine B r o e c k (American Studies, Universität Bremen)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Tina C a m p t (Women's Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Maria I. D i e d r i c h (American Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Maisha-Maureeen E g g e r s (Hochschule Magdeburg, Diversity Studies)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Heide F e h r e n b a c h (History, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Larry G r e e n e (History, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Jürgen H e i n r i c h s (Art History, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Maria H ö h n (History, Vassar College, USA)</li><li>Dr. Martin K l i m k e (Heidelberg Center for American Studies, German Historical Institute Washington DC, USA)</li><li>Dr. Wolfram K n a u e r (Jazz Institut, Darmstadt) </li><li>Karin K o l b e r (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München)
<br /></li><li>Prof. Dr. Sara L e n n o x (German Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)</li><li>Alexandra L i n d h o u t, MA (Amerikanistik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)</li><li>Alanna L o c k w a r d, MA (Zentrum für Transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien, Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
<br /></li><li>Dr. Stefanie M i c h e l s (Exzellenzcluster "Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen," J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Randolph O c h s m a n n (Psychology, Universität Mainz)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Heike P a u l (American Studies, Erlangen-Nürnberg)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Heike R a f a e l – F e r n a n d e z (English, University of Maryland in Europe, Heidelberg)</li><li>Dr. Alexander G. W e h e l i y e (African American Studies and English, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA)</li><li>Dr. Eske W o l l r a d (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung – ZFG Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)</li><li>Prof. Dr. Michelle M. W r i g h t (English Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)</li></ul>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Short Bio-Blurbs of Active Participants</span>
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His doctoral research focused on the historical creation of racial categories in the settler colony of German Southwest Africa during the period 1884-1914 and drew on aspects of post-colonial theory and critical whiteness studies. This was published as part of Peter Lang’s <i>Cultural</i> <i>Identities </i>series in 2007: <i>Exclusion and Inclusion: Gradations of</i> <i>Whiteness and Socio-Economic Engineering in German Southwest</i> <i>Africa 1884</i>–<i>1914. </i><span style="">It was accompanied by a case study of Afrikaner migration into Namibia which focused on their assimilation into the colony’s existing social and racial hierarchy: </span>Looking for Die Besten Boeren: The Normalisation of Afrikaner Settlement in German South West Africa, 1884-1914, in <i>Journal of Southern African Studies</i>, 33/2 (2007), pp.343-360. He is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at Liverpool carrying out a large-scale investigation into Germany’s African Diaspora, 1884–1960. In particular the project focuses on survival strategies, political and social networks, and identity construction. He has published a number of articles in connection with this research including, From Cameroon to Germany and Back via Moscow and Paris: The Political Career of Joseph Bilé (1892-1959), in <i style="">Journal of Contemporary History </i>43/4 (2008), pp.597-616, which details African anti-colonial activities in Germany during the interwar period. At the University of Liverpool he runs a course on the history of Africans in Germany, Germans in Africa.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Felix Axster</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"> has studied History and Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. Until the end of 2008, he has been a research assistant in the project „Koloniale Repräsentationen auf Bildpostkarten in Deutschland (1870-1930)“, which has been located at the „Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungskolleg Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation“ in Aachen, Bonn and Köln. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Currently, Felix Axster is working on his dissertation entitled „Die Angst vor dem ‚Verkaffern’ – Kolonialer Humor auf deutschen Bildpostkarten um 1900.“ </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">Focusing on picture postcards as a new visual mass medium around 1900, he is concerned with phantasms of colonial degeneration defined as ‚Verkafferung’. As these phantasms on the picture postcards were mostly negotiated in the form of visual jokes, the question arises how these jokes relate to the making of whiteness during German colonial history. As a member of the exhibition group of the „Hamburger Institut für Migrations- und Rassismusforschung“ Felix Axster has also – in cooperation with Heike Hartmann, Astrid Kusser and Susann Lewerenz – curated the exhibition „Bilder verkehren. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Postkarten in der visuellen Kultur des deutschen Kolonialismus“, which has been shown in Hamburg in 2005 and subsequently in Nürnberg and Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Holger Droessler</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"> studied American Cultural History, American Literary History and Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich as well as African American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In fall 2009 he will enter the PhD program in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. In his master thesis, which he finished in 2008, he analyzed the transatlantic discourse on the Afro-German “occupation children” in postwar Germany and the children’s instrumentalization for the debates about African American civil rights. In fall 2008 he was a fellow of the Bavarian American Academy at the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University in New Haven, CT. His interest in Afro-European history has resulted in an entry on Leonardo Ortíz, a mixed-race lawyer in 17<sup>th</sup> century-Spain, published in Eric Martone’s two-volume </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture</span></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:85%;"> (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008). Currently, he is doing research for his dissertation</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">, tentatively entitled “Navigating the Crosscurrents of Racism and Nationalism: Interracial Relationships in the United States and Germany, 1877-1914.” Alongside this concrete research project, he is more generally interested in the history of racism and racial science, the challenges of writing global histories and the work of Michel Foucault. In his dissertation with the working title “Navigating the Crosscurrents of Racism and Nationalism: Interracial Relationships in the United States and Germany, 1877-1914”, <span style="">Holger Droessler</span> extends his interest in interracialism back into a formative period for the interplay of Euro-American racism and nationalism. In an attempt to bridge the gap between scholarship on African American and Afro-German history, he foregrounds the transatlantic interdependencies between national and racial identities around 1900 and connects these with a social history of interracial relationships in the United States and the German colonies. Against the backdrop of Euro-American imperialism, colonialism, and industrialization at the turn of the twentieth century the variegated contacts between white Americans/Germans and African Americans/black Africans received high symbolic significance for the national self-conceptions of the United States and Germany. Studying interracial relationships at the turn of the twentieth century thus offers a historical perspective on the racialized definitions of American and German national belonging that continue to wield political clout at the beginning of the twenty-first.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Moritz Ege</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"> is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt Universität, Berlin. He studied European Ethnology, Philosophy and American Studies at Humboldt-Universität (M.A. 2005), and was a graduate exchange fellow at Brown University, Department of American Civilization in 2002/2003. Furthermore, he was a researcher at the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore, Dresden, in 2006. He has been a recipient of a German National Academic Foundation<span style=""> </span>Ph.D. fellowship since 2007. His research interests are concerned with popular culture in the U.S. and Germany, cultural theory, “race” and racism, urban studies, and qualitative methods in cultural analysis. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">He is a member of the editorial committee of <i style="">Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften</i> and the author of <i>Schwarz werden: "Afroamerikanophilie" in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Cassandra Ellere-Dück </span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">studied at the universities of Paris (VIII) in France and LMU in Munich, Germany (Magister) and completed a PhD in Comparative Cultural Studies/Anthropology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. She has been a member of ADEFRA (Munich) since 1988 and active in various ISD activities in Munich and Cologne. Her research interests include Ethnography, Black European Studies, Gender Studies, German and American Cultural Studies, Migration and Transnational Studies, migration and development, and Western and Eastern classical dance forms. From November 2005-July 2006 she worked as a researcher and co-authored the German report with Judy Gummich “<i style="">She Gives Back”, Gendered Diasporic Philanthropy</i>, a research project sponsored by the <a href="http://www.mamacash.nl/site/nl/index.php"><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mama Cash Foundation</span></a>, (<a href="http://www.mamacash.nl/">www.mamacash.nl</a>) Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From February 2007 to May 2007 Cassandra worked as a researcher for the EU <a href="http://www.ulb.ac.be/socio/gem"><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sixth Framework NEWS (Network on Ethnicity and Women Scientists) project</span></a> (The State of Black, Migrant and Refugee Women in Academia in the Netherlands; www.ulb.ac.be/socio/gem) and co-authored the Netherlands research report with Prof. Gloria D. Wekker. Her most recent publications include “Afro-German Identities” in <i style="">Afroeurope@ns Cultures and Identities </i>(ed.) Marta Sofia López. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; and “Black European Women in Europe 2008” in <i style="">Voices of Black European Women</i> 1, Reflections Challenges and Strategies from the First Black European Women’s Congress. July 2007 Cassandra was appointed Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the EU Sixth Framework Project “Searching for Neighbours”: Dynamics of Mental and Physical Borders in Europe. Her main area of research looks at networks and network practices of African migrants in Germany (Bavaria) and Austria: <a href="http://www.sefone.soton.ac.uk/">www.sefone.soton.ac.uk</a>. Dissatisfied with the subordinate positions often ascribed to women within Black liberation movements across the globe, Black females have sought to find their own voices, self-determined identities, and means of self-empowerment. While such movements have been meticulously documented within the African American context, there is still much to be discovered in regard to Black Europe. The 1980s and 1990s saw a proliferation of Black women’s organisations and the spread of Black feminist practices across Europe This, too, was the case with the Black Diaspora in Germany particularly where the lack of predominate Black neighbourhoods points to issues linked to the concepts of community, solidarity, the weaving of networks and the creation of “safe spaces”.<span style=""> </span>Cassandras research project focuses on the grassroots activism and networking of Black women in Germany and Austria, and the formation of the Black European Women’s Council (BEWC) in Vienna, Austria. Moreover, this research looks at the Black lesbian feminist activist Audre Lorde’s role within the Matrilineal (Black feminist) Diaspora and links her activism to Black feminist consciousness- raising and the subsequent creation of Black diasporic “communities” in Germany and Austria. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Maja Figge</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">, M.A. studied Cultural Studies, Art History and History at the University Bremen and Humboldt-University Berlin and is currently working on a transdisciplinary PhD project „Fading out, Fading in, Cross Fading. (Re-)Production Processes of Germanness in West-German Cinema of the 1950s” as an associate member of PhD research group “Gender as a Category of Knowledge” at Humboldt-University. In her dissertation she examines the correlation of Vision, Knowledge, Race & Gender within 1950s West-German Cinema. Starting point is the hypothesis that the crisis of heteronormative gender relations represented in the postwar movies that worked on the reconstruction of national identity in the early FRG, is not only gendered but that these national (re)production processes are also racialized and intrinsically linked to the cinematographic production of whiteness. White masculinity as intersectional figuration, that is the center of the representation of crisis and stabilization and also the vehicle to maintain/perpetuate the reproduction processes of germanness, is the main focus of the examination of the performative and discursive production of whiteness and gender. In comparative micro analysis of selected movies it is analyzed which racialized and gendered images/imaginations and discourses work on the production of Germanness. The project aims to trace the ambivalent, multi-layered cinematographic movements and discoursive negotiation processes of Germanness between whiteness and becoming black in the 1950s. My research focuses on media and gender, critical whiteness studies, postcolonial studies, intersectionality, film and history, German cinema after 1945. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">In 2009 two articles are published: <a name="_Toc193108355"></a><a name="_Toc193108091"><span style="">„Tanzen zum Soundtrack der Demokratisierung</span></a><a name="_Toc193108356"></a><a name="_Toc193108092"><span style="">. Zum Verhältnis von Männlichkeit, Weißsein und Deutschsein in »Alle lieben Peter</span></a>« (BRD 1959, R: Erich Engel<a name="_Toc193257137"></a><a name="_Toc193108357"></a><a name="_Toc193108093"><span style=""><span style="">)</span></span></a>“, in: D. Wentz/ A. Wendler (Hg.): Die Medien und das Neue, Marburg 2009, „Die Heide als weißer Raum: Deutschsein zwischen Erinnern und Vergessen in »Grün ist die Heide« (BRD 1951, R: Hans Deppe)“, in: Chr. v. Braun, D. Dornhof, E. Johach (Hg.): Das Unbewusste. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">Krisis und Kapital der Wissenschaften, Bielefeld 2009. Maja Figge also worked as project assistant of the interdisciplinary festival <i style="">Black Atlantic. Travelling Cultures, Counter-Histories, Networked Identities</i> (2004) at the House of World Cultures, Berlin and was also co-curator of the exhibition and lecture series <i style="">MOV!NG ON. </i></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><i style=""><span style="">Border Activism – Strategies for Anti-Racist Actions</span></i></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> (2005) at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Katharina Gerund</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"> studied American Cultural Studies, Theater and Media Studies, and Psychology at the University of Erlangen and Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison as a DAAD fellow. She was a doctoral fellow at the University of Bremen from 2007-2009 and now works as a lecturer at the University of Düsseldorf. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Bremen and Erlangen University, among other things, on the Black Power movement and African-American literature. Katharina has published an article on Audre Lorde and Afro-German women’s communities, which appeared in the online journal <i style="">gender forum</i> in 2008 (http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/blackwomenswriting/article_gerund.html), and has contributed to Eric Martone’s <i style="">Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture</i> (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008). She is currently working on her dissertation project entitled “Transatlantic Cultural Exchange: African-American Women’s Art and Activism in Germany.” In her dissertation project entitled “Tansatlantic Cultural Exchange: African-American Women’s Art and Activism,” Katharina Gerund examines how cultural productions (i.e. literature, film, public speeches, and political activism) by African-American women have been received, (re)negotiated, and (re)appropriated in (West-)Germany. Her research focuses primarily on four central figures who gained particular prominence in Germany: Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. Their reception in and interactions with Germany are viewed on the one hand within the earlier tradition of African-American jazz singers and show stars (e.g. Josephine Baker), on the other hand against the background of post-World War II Americanization processes. The four case studies ranging from 1970 to the early 1990s, then, provide an overview of how African-American art and activism has entered into German social and cultural discourses from the Black Panther solidarity movement to the development of Afro-German communities and the broad attention garnered by such popular texts like <i style="">The Color Purple</i>. Ultimately, the project aims at complementing German cultural history with the aspects of African-American influences, localizing Germany in the Black diaspora, and contributing to the on-going investigation of the transatlantic cultural exchange with particular focus on race and gender.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <h1 style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">
<br /></span></h1><h1 style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">Silke Hackenesch</span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB"> is a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of North American Studies, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin. From 1999 until 2006 she studied American Studies, Anglo-American History and Sociology at the University of Cologne, where she obtained her Master degree with a thesis on the “Political and Cultural Aspects of African American hair(styles).” Endowed with a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service, she spent one academic year at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, focusing on Women’s Studies and African American Studies; and one semester as a ERASMUS-student at the Université de La Réunion, St. Denis, Ile de La Réunion, where she concentrated on European colonialism and Atlantic slavery. Silke worked as a student assistant for the project “Koloniale Repräsentation auf Bildpostkarten in Deutschland, 1870-1930“, funded by the German Research Association (DFG), and was a tour guide at the exhibition “Projekt Migration” in Cologne (<a href="http://www.koelnischerkunstverein/">http://www.koelnischerkunstverein</a>. de/migration/). After teaching classes on African American activism at the Department of Anglo-American History, University of Cologne for one year, she joined the Graduate School of North American Studies and began working on her dissertation project tentatively entitled “Constructing Blackness: Chocolate as a Racial Signifier in Historical and Cultural Perspective,” where she analyzes how “chocolate” operates as a floating signifier to denote “Blackness” and thus not only represents, but produces race. With the help of the “chocolate”-metaphor and other naming practices, one can explore how “Blackness” is constructed, performed and construed, and how it is thus literally made visible and discernible to various audiences. Focusing not only on the U.S., but taking the German context into account, allows one to detect what different, even conflicting notions of “Blackness” the signifier chocolate produces in the Black Diaspora. <o:p></o:p></span></h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">S. Marina Jones</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"> studied translation at the Johannes Gutenberg University, School of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Science at Germersheim, Germany, completing an M.A. in Translation at Kent State University in Kent, OH, USA. Moreover, she has studied German Literature, Modern European and Gender History, and Race Relations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, where she received an M.A. in German Literature in 2005. In 2008, she received fellowships from the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, to conduct research at the National Archives II and at the Library of Congress. A Graduate Student Summer Travel Research Grant from the UNC-Center for European Studies and an Off-Campus Dissertation Fellowship for the fall of 2008 enabled her to research for her dissertation project tentatively titled "'Outsiders Within': Afro-Germans in West Germany - Discourses, Perceptions and Experiences, 1949-1989." Marina is currently completing her research in Germany and writing her dissertation.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Sigrid Köhler </span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">is Assistant Professor at the German Department of the University of Münster. Her research areas include Law and Literature, Postcolonial Studies – Forms of Speech about Africa, Literary Theory, Concepts of Materiality in Literature, Philosophy and Science, and Literatures from the 18<sup>th</sup> to the 21<sup>st</sup> Century. Her PhD Thesis was published 2006 under the title <i style="">Körper mit Gesicht. </i></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><i style=""><span style="">Rhetorische Performanz und postkoloniale Repräsentation in der Literatur am Ende des 20. </span><span lang="EN-GB">Jahrhunderts. </span></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">Currently she works on her second book project ‘The Fiction of Contract around 1800’. Within the network her research interest focuses on the racially founded white discourse of self-cultivation (<i style="">Bildung</i>) in German literature. Departing from literary genres such as the novel of self-cultivation (<i style="">Bildungsroman</i>) and the autobiography, both closely linked to this discourse, she analyses the discursive mechanisms of exclusion due to the racial foundation. She will study how theses mechanisms, which have their roots in the 18<sup>th</sup> century, still continue to show their effects in literary discourse today. She has already worked on the subject of the network in a scientific context as well as in an artistic one. As dramaturge she was engaged in the theatre productions <i style="">Zungen – Eine Klangkomposition in 10 Sprachen</i> (first performance 2006) and <i style="">Agathas Kind</i> based on the novel <i style="">Le fils d’Agatha Moudio</i> written by Francis Bebey (first performance 2003). Her publications on the subject of the network include articles and book chapters on Herder (forthcoming), Claire Goll, Calixthe Beyala, and Amadou Hampâté Bâ.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Susann Lewerenz</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"> studied History and English Literature and Culture at the University of Hamburg. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">In 2006, her master’s thesis was published under the title „Die ‚Deutsche Afrika-Schau‘ (1935-1940). Rassismus, Kolonialrevisionismus und postkoloniale Auseinandersetzungen im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland“. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">Susann Lewerenz does her PhD at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg as a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung. In her PhD thesis, she deals with the presence of artists of African and African American as well as of Asian and Arabian descent working in the German show business between 1920 and 1960. She analyses the show business as a field in which social hierarchies, political and racial power relations and national identites are negotiated and symbolic as well as actual borders are drawn. Combining questions of social and cultural history, she investigates the forms, functions, and effects of visual displays of the ‚exotic‘ as well as the living and working conditions and the agency of artists of color in Germany. In several articles as well as in a publication accompanying the exhibition „Zwischen Völkerschau und Kolonialinstitut. AfrikanerInnen im kolonialen Hamburg“ (2006), which she wrote in collaboration with Heiko Möhle and Susanne Heyn, she addresses the migration of Africans to Germany, racism in German visual culture, as well as the living conditions and the agency of black people in Nazi Germany. As a member of the exhibition group of the Institut für Migrations- und Rassismusforschung (Hamburg), Susann Lewerenz curated the exhibition „Bilder verkehren. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Postkarten in der visuellen Kultur des deutschen Kolonialismus“, which was shown in Hamburg (2005), Nuremberg (2006), and Berlin (2006/2007). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">As a member of the network, Susann Lewerenz engages in the organization of the workshop on <i style="">Authenticity, Performance and (Black) Popular Culture in 20<sup>th</sup>-Century Germany</i>. In her own particular project, she is concerned with the question how the categories of race, class, and gender were negotiated and visualized in German popular culture of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. In connection with this, she investigates in what way German colonialism influenced presentations of black and white bodies and how elements of African American culture were received, appropriated and (re)contextualized on German stages.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Frank Mehring</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"> is a research fellow and Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies of the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies at the Free University Berlin. He studied English and American literature, history, and musicology at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, and currently holds an MA and a PhD of the University of Giessen. Furthermore, he has been awarded postdoctoral visiting fellowships at the Universities of Madison Wisconsin (1995/6) and Harvard (2004/5). His research interests are concerned with transatlantic frictions regarding the gap between the principle and performance of the American promise of democracy. His latest research project is dedicated to patterns of conflict in German-American discourses during the last two centuries. Frank Mehring analyzes patriotic dissent of naturalized immigrants like Charles Follen, Ottilie Assing, Franz Boas, Kurt Weill, Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi, and Hannah Arendt to address the discrepancy between principle and performance of American democracy. Within the Young Scholar’s Network “Black Diaspora and Germany” he proposes to focus on autobiographies, documentary films, and HipHop culture to address transcultural negotiations and dialogues of identity formation in the 20<sup>th</sup> century. He is particularly interested in processes of reception, appropriation, and (patriotic) dissent.<span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;">His book publications include </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><i><span style="">Sphere Melodies: Die Manifestation Transzendentalistischen Gedankenguts in der Musik von Charles Ives und John Cage</span></i></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> and <i><span style="">Sight & Sound: Naturbilder in der Englischen und Amerikanischen Romantik</span></i><span style="">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Christina Oppel</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"> is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the English Department at the University of Münster, Germany. She </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">graduated from the University of Münster with a degree (Staatsexamen) in </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">History, English and Paedagogics </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">and worked as the DAAD German Language Assistant at the Department of German at the University of Bristol, GB in 2005/6. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">She further worked as a </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">research and teaching assistant at the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">English Department (WWU</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"> Münster)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">from 2007 to 2008 and was endowed an eight month doctoral grant by the German Academic Language Service (DAAD). </span><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOKUME%7E1%5CMM%5CLOKALE%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:applybreakingrules/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:usefelayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-alt:宋体; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 135135232 16 0 262145 0;} @font-face {font-family:"\@SimSun"; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 135135232 16 0 262145 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:DE;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">Her main fields of research and teaching include (African) American Cultural Studies, the History of Human Rights, African American and German History, Black Atlantic and Diaspora Studies</span><span style="font-size:85%;">. In </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">her doctoral dissertation, which she conducts under transnational interdisciplinary supervision at the Universities of Münster, Germany, and Seton Hall, USA, (<em>Harnessing Germany. African Americans, Nazi Germany and Human Rights) </em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">she works on Germany and Human Rights in the African American literary and historical discourse.</span></em> Christina Oppel initiated the research network in spring/summer 2007. She has published three articles in the thematic scope of the network: „(Re)writing 20th Century Slavery: Postmodern Representations of African American Third Reich Experience(s),“ <i>From Black To Schwartz. Cultural Crossovers between African America and Germany, e</i>d. Maria I. Diedrich, Juergen Heinrichs<em> </em>(2009). „W.E.B. Du Bois, Nazi Germany and the Black Atlantic,“ <em>Beyond the Nation. American History in Transnational Perspective, </em>e.d Uwe Luebken, Thomas Adams<i> </i>(Bulletin of the German Historical Insstitute Washington DC, Supplement 5) 2008. Next to representations of Nazi Germany in African American texts, her interests also include representations of Germany in the larger postcolonial „Black Holocaust“ and slavery discourse (Cf. "(Re)writing 20th Century Slavery: Maillet's <i>L'Étoile Noire</i>," <i>Postcolonial Slavery: Colonialism's Legacy</i>, eds. Charlotte Baker and Jennifer Jahn (Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2008).<span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Ph.D. Damani Partridge </span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and at the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He received his B.A. cum laude in Political Science at Amherst College in 1995, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, in May 2003.<span style=""> </span>In addition to teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses on "Race and Displacement," "Citizenship and Non-Citizens," "Urban Anthropology," "The Races of Sexuality and the Sexualities of Race," "Diasporic Aesthetics," and "The Anthropology of Europe," he is currently completing his book manuscript: “Becoming non-citizens: racialized subjects and exclusionary incorporation into post-wall Berlin.” His research and writing have examined questions of citizenship and exclusion in contemporary Germany through the experiences of labor migrants, racialized subjects and refugees in the midst of the fallen Berlin Wall and through the contradictions of post-Cold War “freedom.” In particular, since he initially left for Germany as a Fulbright Scholar in 1995, he has been engaging the politics and literature in “Black” German and by extension “Black” European studies as a window onto citizenship and exclusion.<span style=""> </span>This position has allowed him to get beyond the stunted discourse of<span style=""> </span>“immigration politics” and “xenophobic violence,” to examine the roots of a problematic of non-citizenship that is neither purely legal nor solely cultural.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">
<br /></span></b></span></p><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOKUME%7E1%5CMM%5CLOKALE%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: arial;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: arial;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: arial;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: arial;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:applybreakingrules/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:usefelayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-alt:宋体; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 135135232 16 0 262145 0;} @font-face {font-family:"\@SimSun"; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 135135232 16 0 262145 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:70.9pt 70.9pt 2.0cm 70.9pt; mso-header-margin:35.45pt; mso-footer-margin:35.45pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" ><strong style="font-family:arial;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Dr. Silke Stroh</span></strong></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB"> is a research and teaching assistant at the English Department at the </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><st1:place style="font-family:arial;"><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-GB">University</span></st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Münster</span></st1:placename></st1:place></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB">. Silke Stroh studied English, German, Political Science and Celtic Studies at the Universities of Aberdeen and </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><st1:place style="font-family:arial;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Frankfurt</span></st1:place></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB">, where she graduated in 2000 with a Magistra Artium and, in 2006, with her doctoral dissertation on "<em><span style="font-style: normal;">(Post)Colonial Scotland? Literature, Gaelicness and the Nation"</span></em>. She currently works on a post-dcotoral project (<i style="">Habilitation</i>) on colonial settler cultures. Further key aspects of her research and teaching include postcolonial theory, <em><span style="font-style: normal;">Black/Asian British</span></em> and African literature and culture, English literature and film, as well as transcultural teaching strategies in EFL classes. In the context of her <i style="">Habilitation</i> and her participation in a research group on "<em><span style="font-style: normal;">Transmigration: Cultures of Movement"</span></em> (http://www.anglistik.uni-muenster.de/en/ptts/Muenster/transmigration.html), Silke Stroh has intensively and interdisciplinarily dealt with comparative diaspora theory and D<em><span style="font-style: normal;">iaspora Studies</span></em> in the fields of English Literary and Cultural Studies, as well as Sociology. As part of her doctoral project she developed a theoretical concept that bridges transnational and postcolonial concepts and newer forms of transculturalism and that also proves applicable in the scope of diaspora studies where it can lead to new approaches. She is a member of an informal academic network on "<em><span style="font-style: normal;">Postcolonial </span></em></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><st1:country-region style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><em><span style="font-style: normal;" lang="EN-GB">Britain</span></em></st1:place></st1:country-region><em style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: normal;" lang="EN-GB"> & </span></em><st1:country-region style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><em><span style="font-style: normal;" lang="EN-GB">Germany</span></em></st1:place></st1:country-region><em style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: normal;" lang="EN-GB">"</span></em></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB">. In the scope of the network "<span style="">Black Diaspora and </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><st1:country-region style="font-family:arial;"><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Germany</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB">",</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > Silke Stroh puts her emphasis on theoretical work, investigating comparative perspectives with regard to diaspora studies and theory, with a special focus on transperipherality. Her critical interest lies with the transferability of postcolonial concepts from the British context to the domain of </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><em style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: normal;">German Studies</span></em></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > and investigations of main problem areas in the comparative transfer of postcolonial theories to other regions. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </div>About the Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01550191350450054393noreply@blogger.com0