Thursday, 23 November 2017

14:00 – 14:30 Welcome Coffee and Registration

14:30 - 15:00 Sarah Fekadu-Uthoff (LMU) und Moritz Baumstark (CASLMU): Welcome Address and Introduction

Panel I Chair: Tobias Döring (LMU)

15:00 - 15:45 Frank Schulze-Engler (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Beyond the Middle Passage Episteme: Afrasian Entanglements in African Literature

15:45 – 16:30 Yogita Goyal (UCLA)
The Refugee Crisis and the Afterlife of Slavery

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

Panel II Chair: Elfi Bettinger (LMU)

17:00 – 17.45 Sarah Fekadu-Uthoff (LMU)
Regarding Pain: Reconfiguring Africa in Recent Ethiopian Diasporic Fiction

17.45 – 18.30 Daniel Graziadei (LMU)
Transculturation and Syncretism: Ras Tafari from Ethiopia to Jamaica and Back to Zion

Friday, 24 November 2017

Panel III Chair: Kathrin Härtl (LMU)

9:30 – 10:15 Jennifer Leetsch (JMU Würzburg)
'She was splintered wood and sea water': Transoceanic Geocorpographies in Warsan Shire’s Poetry

10.15 -11.00 John Njenga Karugia (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Afrasia and its Beyond: Responsible Geographies of Planetary Memory

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

Panel IV Chair: Sarah Fekadu-Uthoff (LMU)

11.30-12.15 Christine Matzke (Universität Bayreuth)
Revolutionary Culture at the White House? Cold War Trajectories in
Eritrean Drama Practice, 1970s-1991

12.15-13.00 Magnus Treiber (LMU)
Projecting Modernity - The Eritrean Struggle for Independence

13:00-13:15 Closing Remarks and Discussion