Friday, September 30, 2022

02.00pm Arrival, Coffee and Tea

03.00pm Welcome Address
Michael Mayer (Akademie für Politische Bildung)
Chouki El Hamel (Center for Maghrib Studies at Arizona State University)

Section 1: Race and Slavery in Precolonial Islamic Africa

03.15pm
Eunuchs, Sexual Anxiety, and the Making of Racial Difference in the Late Medieval Islamicate World
Mathilde Montpetit (New York University)

War and Slavery in Dar al-Islam: The Racialization of Otherness in Early Modern Muslim Africa
Samia Errazzouki (University of California, Davis)

Resisting Racial Slavery at Home and Abroad: Ethnic State and Healing Community as Political and Religious Strategies
Ousmane Traoré (Pomona College, Claremont)

04.30pm Break

05.00pm
On Racial Capitalism in Mauritania
Hassan Ould Moctar (University of London)

Compensations for Slavery in the French Empire
Myriam Cottias (National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris)

Traces of Racism on the French Public Space: The Example of the District “a négresse of Biarritz” in the Basque Country
Karfa Diallo (Fondateur-Directeur de Mémoires & Partages, Bordeaux)

06.30pm Dinner

Saturday, October 1, 2022

08.15am Breakfast

Section 2: Blackness, Otherness and Jewishness in Africa and Europe

09.00am
Berbers, Blacks, Jews: The Racialization of Indigeneity in Amazigh Politics
Paul A. Silverstein (Reed College, Portland)

African, Jewish, and Black: Racial Politics and the Jewish Civilizing Mission
Rachel Smith (University of California, Los Angeles)

Whites? Jews, Albinos and Others: Racial Categorization, Classification and Inbetweenness. A Legal Inquiry
Eszter Kovács Szitkay / Andras L. Pap (Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest)

Framing Islam as Race in the Netherlands
Sam Cherribi (Emory University, Atlanta)

10.30am Break

Section 3: Blackness and Colonialism

11.00am
The Origins of Racism in the Histories of the Iberian Peninsula and Colonial Latin America (15th–19th centuries)
Christine Hatzky (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

“African Backwardness in Spain”: Catalan Racialisation of Spain
Tobias J. Klee M.A. (Freie Universität Berlin)

A Twenty-First-Century Right to Correct Nineteenth-Century Wrongs: Concepts of Race, French Racism, and the Advenuresome Life of Alexandre Dumas
Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)

Imagining the [Black] Arabs of Tarıkh al-Su dan
Bayan Abubakr (Yale University, New Haven)

12.30pm Lunch

Section 4: Race and Ethnicity in 19th and 20th Century

02.30pm
Black Internationalism and Race
Rashad Shabazz (Arizona State University, Tempe)

Les H’rar (libres) et les Chawachines (noirs) dans la région de Kébili, le fardeau de l’esclavage et le déni de métissage
Maha Abdelhamid (Le Centre arabe de recherches et d’études politiques de Paris, CAREP)

“It Was Not Black Man that Made Law, but White Man”: Racial Constructs in Mid-Nineteenth Century Freetown
Megane Coulon (Colby College, Waterville, ME)

Black and White of Late Ottoman Imperialists
Mostafa Minawi (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

The United Arab Republic and the Categorization of Arabs and Africans in Africa
Amal Ghazal (Doha Institute, Doha, Qatar)

04.00pm Coffee Break

04.30pm The Racialization of Civic Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Africa
Jonathon Glassman (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)

What Race Has to Do with It: Skin Bleaching in Khartoum
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf (Georgetown University, Doha, Quatar) / Salah M. Hassan (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

The Historical Production of Racialisation in the Context of Algeria
Kheira Arrouche (The University of Leeds)

Race and Ethnicity in Algerian Students’ Organization UGEMA
Elizabeth Bishop (Texas State University, San Marcos)

Understanding Gendered Racialization in Tunisia: Comparative Spatialities
Yasmine Akrimi (University of Ghent)

06.00pm Concluding Remarks

06.30pm Dinner, End of Conference