Dr. Thomas Overdick
Tuesday, 13th June
Dansk Centralbibliotek, Norderstraße 59, Flensburg
13.30 h Accreditation and welcome coffee at Dansk Centralbibliotek
14.00 h Welcome greeting to conference
14.30 h Per Nielsen, MA: Citizenship – A Question or a Fact?
14.45 h Bolette Blaagaard, PhD: Rereading “The Herald” (1915-1924). Journalism, Citizens and Cosmopolitanism in the Times of Colonialism
16.00 h Curator talk at exhibition “Rum, Sweat & Tears” with Imani-Tafari-Ama, PhD at Flensburger Schifffahrtsmuseum
19.00 h Public lecture
Nadine Marchena-Kean: If Walls Could Talk: A Study of how the shared built environment affected the families that live within it
Wednesday, 14th June
Dansk Centralbibliotek, Norderstraße 59, Flensburg
10.00 h Astrid Nonbo Andersen, PhD:
Figurations of Social Memories of Colonialism and Enslavement
10.45 h Aske Stick, MA: The Complaint as a “Voice”. Slave Complaints on St. Croix, 1800-1850
11.30 h Joshua Torres, PhD: Crossroads of Culture: Pre-Colonial History and Socio-Cultural Development in the US Virgin Islands.
13.30 h Linda Rupert, PhD: Navigating Currents of Freedom: Runaway Slaves in Pan-Caribbean and Atlantic Perspective
14.15 h Mark M. Smith, PhD: The Sensorium on a Constant Strain. A Sensory History of Natural Disasters in the Danish West Indies, 1867
15.00 h Closing remarks
15.30 h Guided tour along the Rum & Sugar Trail:
A walk to the built colonial heritage of Flensburg
19.00 h Öffentlicher Abendvortrag (auf Deutsch)
Susanne Grigull: KulturTransfer. Mahagoni-Möbel als Teil des gemeinsamen Kolonialerbes
(Flensburger Schifffahrtsmuseum, Schiffbrücke 39, Flensburg)