Monday, 19 September
10.00 Registration
11.15-11.30 Introduction
11.30-13.00 Opening Lecture: Elements of postcolonial justice: Cameroon and Germany
(Kum’a Ndumbe III., University of Yaoundé I)
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Panel I: Historiography (Chair: Ronja Metzger)
- Walter Gam Nkwi (University of Buea): „The Myth of 1916/19 as a historical break in the History of Cameroon and Germany”
- Caroline Authaler (University of Heidelberg): „ Historiographies of the German-owned plantations in the anglophone part of Cameroon “
16 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00 Panel III: Lieux et Milieux de mémoire (Chair: Parfait Bokohonsi)
- Regina Schleicher (Goethe-University Frankfurt): “Post-colonial Yaoundé“
- Joseph Woudammike (University of Maroua): „Tradition orale et monuments comme source d‘écriture de l’historie allemande au Cameroun”
Evening: guided tour of postcolonial sites in Frankfurt by the group: “frankfurt postkolonial”
Tuesday, 20 September
10.00 – 11.00 Artists’ Space (Chair: Ulrike Hamann)
- Exhibition: “Deutschland schwarz-weiß” (Uwe Jung, Goethe-Institut Yaoundé)
- Uropa in Kamerun (Andréas Lang)
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45 Lecture: Themes in Research and Teaching of German colonialism in Cameroon – the path behind and ahead
(Albert-Pascal Temgoua, University of Yaoundé)
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Panel IV Methods of researching and teaching (Chair: Susanne Heyn)
- Germain Nyada (Concordia University, Canada): “’German colonialism was not that bad!’ Cameroon, Colonial Memory and German Legacy”
- Sylvie Bambona (University of Yaoundé)/Eugène Désiré Eloundou (Ecole Normale Supérieure Yaoundé): “Recension des travaux de recherche sur l’historie coloniale allemande à l’Ecole Normale Supérieur de Yaoundé et dans les lycées”
- Ulrike Schaper (FU Berlin): “European Experts and African objects of study? The production of knowledge on African laws in the German colony Cameroon”
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 18.00 Panelist Discussion: Shared or Divided History? (Chair: Stefanie Michels)
Panelists:
Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Hans-Peter Hahn (Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main)
Albert-Pascal Temgoua (University of Yaoundé)
Kum'a Ndumbe III. (University of Yaoundé)
Astrid Erll (Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main) (subject to approval)