Markus Wurzer, Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe "Alpine Histories of Global Change", Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Halle/Saale
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
15.00 – 15.30 CET Introduction by Markus Wurzer (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale)
15.30 – 17.00 CET Panel 1: Addressing One's Own Family History
Chair: Simone Brioni (Stony Brook University, New York)
Veneta Roberts (University of Brighton): Where do I belong?
Dag Henrichsen (University of Basel): „A Glance at Our Africa“. Archives and memorialization in a multi-generational and transnational (post-)colonial Namibian family
Katy Beinart (University of Brighton): Between a rock and a hard place: the colonial and anticolonial networks of a Jewish diasporic family
17.00 – 17.30 CET Break
17.30 – 19.00 CET Panel 2: Generational In/Difference?Chair: Annika Lems (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale)
Louise Ballière and Wouter Reggers (Université Catholique de Louvain): Belgians in the Congo: The collective and individual memories of families involved in Belgian colonization
Rebecca Orr (European University Institute, Florence): The student left, the quasi-parental authority of the university and memories of colonialism in 1960s Britain
Giuseppe Grimaldi (University of Trieste): “Return at the mirror”: Italians of Ethiopian origins confronting with postcolonial spaces in Ethiopia
Thursday, 22 September 2022
09.00 – 10.00 CET Panel 3: Re/Appropriation of Colonial Narratives
Chair: Jacqueline Knörr (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale)
Vanina Profizi (Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent, Paris): Empire inherited: patrimonializing empire through narratives of colonial service as a family tradition in 20th century Corsica
Dennis Yazici (University of Kiel): White Settler Farmer Dynasties and Memories on farm history in Namibia
10.00 – 10.30 CET Break
10.30 – 11.30 CET Panel 4: Family Memory and Restitution
Chair: Markus Wurzer (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale)
Gracia Lwanzo Kasongo (Université Catholique de Louvain): The objects of an intertwined history: how does restitution decolonize narratives?
Ariane Karbe (Independent) and Hannes Obermair (Eurac Research, Bozen/Bolzano): THE ETHIOPIAN CLOAK – An exhibition, a podcast and many questions
11.30 – 12.00 CET Break
12.00 – 13.00 CET Panel 5: Postcolonial Literature
Chair: Markus Wurzer (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale)
Noreen Kane (University of Cork): The Female Body as Site of Intergenerational Memory in Representations of Italian Colonialism and its Legacy: Maaza Mengiste’s Beneath the Lion’s Gaze and The Shadow King; and Ubah Cristina Ali Farah’s Little Mother
Nishant K. Narayanan (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad): Communicating through memory: Familial reconciliation through colonialism