Perceptions of Apartheid in Western Europe 1960 – 1990

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Perceptions of Apartheid in Western Europe 1960 – 1990

Organizer
Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (FZH), University of Copenhagen
Venue
University of Hamburg, Main Buildung, East Wing, Room 221, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg
Location
Hamburg
Country
Germany
From - Until
13.09.2018 - 15.09.2018
Deadline
01.09.2018
Website
https://www.zeitgeschichte-hamburg.de/index.php/veranstaltungen/articles/konferenz-416.html
By
Sebastian Justke

How did Western European societies respond to the apartheid system in South Africa? In the last two decades this question has mainly been answered in the contexts of specific national historical researches, more or less detached from each other. Understanding those responses as a transnational and entangled history between Western European and South African societies on the contrary is still a desideratum in contemporary historical research. The conference will focus on those entanglements during the time of the 1960s until the 1990s. A key term for analyzing and understanding those responses is the one of ‘perceptions’. Governments, companies, trade unions, churches, political parties, protest movements and other societal groups and institutions reactions on the apartheid system were based on a complex processes of perceptions. Those processes of perception refer to different systems of meaning linked to different spheres and times of Western European societies and those in South Africa. What the conference aims at is to reflect ‘Perceptions of Apartheid’ in its complex manifestations and ramifications.
The lectures will discuss ‘reactions from afar’, they will examine the involvement of West European protagonists in South African society during apartheid era, and they will focus on entanglements, transitions and processes of cultural translations between Western Europe and South Africa. What changed in Western European societies through those ‘Perceptions of Apartheid’? To which specific national contexts do those perceptions refer? In which way do those perceptions and reactions exceed the national frames and enter a transnational space? Can we speak of a specific West European way of perceiving events and developments in South Africa from 1960s to 1990s or were those perceptions totally disparate?

Programm

Thursday, 13th September 2018

14:00 Address of Welcome

14:15 Detlef Siegfried (Copenhagen): Introduction

14:30 Keynote I

Angelika Epple (Bielefeld): Beyond Othering. Analyzing the Practices of Comparing
Moderator: Kirsten Heinsohn (Hamburg)

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Panel 1: Paths of Perceptions

Sebastian Justke (Hamburg): Perceptions On-site, Apartheid and Lifestyles. West German Ministers and German-language Congregations Abroad
Andrea Thorpe (Grahamstown): Apartheid in the Black British Imaginary. Literary Solidarities and Transnational Touchstones
Tal Zalmanovich (Jerusalem): Screening Solidarity in Late 1960s Britain. Racism, Anti-Apartheid, and a Televised Debate
Moderator: Christoph Marx (Duisburg-Essen)

Friday, 14th September 2018

09:00 Keynote II

Saul Dubow (Cambridge): Northern Platforms, Southern Vistas. Astronomy and Apartheid
Moderator: Michael Wildt (Berlin)

10:00 Coffee Break

10:15 Panel 2: Conscience or Capital? Human Rights, Ethics & Economy

Knud Andresen (Hamburg): Multinational Corporations in South Africa and the Code of Conduct. Commitment or Political Intervention?
Jakob Skovgaard (Copenhagen): Naming and Shaming. Anti-Apartheid and Corporate Social Responsibility
Benjamin Möckel (Oxford): Anti-Apartheid Enterprises. Human Rights and the Invention of the “Conscious Consumer” in the 1980s
Moderator: Jan Eckel (Tübingen)

12:15 Lunch

13:15 Panel 3: International Entanglements in the Apartheid Conflict

Hanno Plass (Hamburg): Jewish Exiles in London and the Beginnings of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Simon Stevens (Sheffield): The Turn to Boycotts and Sanctions in the Struggle against Apartheid
Anna Konieczna (Paris): Entangled Perceptions? France, Francophone Africa and (Anti-)Apartheid
Moderator: Alexander Sedlmaier (Bangor)

15:15 Coffee Break

15:45 Panel 4: Experiences, Memories and Apartheid
Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (Amsterdam): Lingering Feelings of Kinship between Dutch and Afrikaners during the Apartheid Era
Namara Burki (Paris): Beyond Perceptions. A Study of the French Solidarity Movement with the Anti-Apartheid and Liberation Struggle in South Africa, c. 1970-1990
Georg Kreis (Basel): The Swiss Perception of Apartheid-regime. More Similarities than Differences?
Moderator: Dorothee Wierling (Berlin)

Saturday, 15th September 2018

09:30 Panel 5: Reactions. Public Awareness of Apartheid
Detlef Siegfried (Copenhagen): Anti-Apartheid and the Politicization of Pop Music. Controversies around the Mandela Concert 1988
Andreas Kahrs (Berlin): Defending Apartheid or Fighting Anti-Apartheid? South African Lobbyism and Propaganda in West Germany
Tal Sela/Louise Bethlehem (Jerusalem): Intellectuals and the Public Debates on Apartheid. The Cases of Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida
Moderator: Axel Schildt (Hamburg)

11:30 Concluding Remarks & Final Discussion
Rob Skinner (Bristol) and Hakan Thörn (Gothenburg)
Moderator: Louise Bethlehem (Jerusalem)

Registration

Due to the spatial conditions, only a limited number of participants is possible. For registration please contact Joana Betke until September 1, 2018.
E-Mail: betke@zeitgeschichte-hamburg.de
Telephone: +49 40 43 13 97 – 20

Contact (announcement)

Joana Betke

Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (FZH)
Beim Schlump 83, 20144 Hamburg
+49 40 43 13 97 – 20

betke@zeitgeschichte-hamburg.de

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