17 June 2024
Humboldt Labor at Humboldt Forum (Schloßplatz 1, 10178 Berlin)
09.00-09.30 Coffee
09.30-10.00
Introduction
Eva Ehninger (Berlin) and Ittai Weinryb (New York, NY)
10.00-12.15
Space
Valika Smeulders (Amsterdam): “… Placing a Moor Next to Young Girls”: The Colonial World Order in Dutch Art
Meredith Martin (New York, NY): Neoclassicism and Pro-Slavery Ideology in Paris and Saint-Domingue
Burcu Dogramaci (Munich): Remembering Forced Labor: DP Artist Exhibitions in Munich in 1947 and 1948
Moderation and Response: Elisaveta Dvorakk (Berlin)
12.15-14.15 Lunch Break
14.15-16.00
Capital
Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton, NJ): Mobile Enclosures: Cultivating Plantation Life Across the British Empire
Carrie Pilto (Amsterdam): Someone Is Getting Rich
Moderation and Response: Johanna Függer-Vagts (Berlin)
18.00-19.45
Kino Central (Rosenthaler Str. 39, 10178 Berlin)
Other Women Stopped Work and Joined Us: Filmic Re-imagination of Work in Yugantar‘s Molkarin
Film Screening and Conversation with Pallavi Paul (New Delhi) and Nicole Wolf (London)
Organization and Moderation: Aisha Allakhverdieva, Franziska Blume, Justine Ney and Hanna Steinert (Berlin)
18 June 2024
Humboldt Labor at Humboldt Forum (Schloßplatz 1, 10178 Berlin)
10.00-12.15
Materiality
Jennifer Chuong (Cambridge, MA): An Unforced Production: Dox Thrash and the Invention of Carborundum Engraving
Elizabeth Dospel Williams (Washington, D.C.): Concealing/Revealing: Depictions of the Enslaved in Late Antique Furnishing Textiles
Matthew Rampley (Brno): Modern Architecture and Global Material Extraction
Moderation and Response: Juliette Calvarin (Berlin)
12.15-13.45 Lunch Break
13.45-16.00
Body
Ana Lucia Araujo (Washington, D.C.): Iron: The World Enslaved Blacksmiths Made in the Americas
Mahalakshmi Rakesh (New Delhi) and Sneha Ganguly (New Delhi): Artisanal Production and Agency: Regulations and Control in Early India
David Joselit (Cambridge, MA): Disfiguration and Survivance
Moderation and Response: Katja Müller-Helle (Berlin)
16.00-16.30
Closing Remarks