The conference is open to public. There is no conference fee. Please register by sending an e-mail to annnualseminar@uni-bielefeld.de
Thursday, July 4, 2019
1:45-2:15 WELCOME ADRESS
Thomas Welskopp, Bielefeld University (BGHS)
Angelika Epple, Bielefeld University (SFB 1288)
2:15-3:45 KEYNOTE
Nikita Dhawan, Justus Liebig University Giessen "What difference does difference make?"
3:45-4:15 Coffee Break (& Transfer)
4:15-5:45 PANEL “Knowledge Production”
Devin Vartija, Utrecht University "Natural Equality and Racial Inequality: An Enlightenment Paradox?"
Sophie Bitter-Smirnov, University of Graz "Are There Hybrid Human Beings? Polygenism and Monogenism in the Context of Hybridism, Domestication and Man’s Place in Nature, 1750–1900"
Tatiane Muniz, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul "The materialization of race on institutional narratives around health"
5:45-6:15 Transfer
6:15-7:45 KEYNOTE
Demetrius L. Eudell, Wesleyan University "Race and Caste: Toward a History of Comparison"
8:15 pm CONFERENCE DINNER
Indikitchen, Herforder Str. 5-7, Bielefeld
Friday, July 5, 2019
10:00-11:30 KEYNOTE
Manuela Boatcă, University of Freiburg "The Centrality of Race to Inequality Across the World-System"
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-1:00 PANEL “Ethics of Comparison – in Practice”
Sarah Lempp, University of Bayreuth "Doing Race via Comparison: Classification Work in Affirmative Action Practices in Brazil"
João Victor Nery Fiocchi Rodrigues, University of Pennsylvania "Slavery, State Formation and Citizenship: a comparative historical analysis of the United States & Brazil"
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 PANEL “Ethics of Comparison – in Literature”
Senjuti Chakraborti, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta) "De-racing the literary canon: Representing race in Toni Morrison’s ‘Recitatif’"
Julian Gärtner, Bielefeld University "Comparisons and chains: Narrative ways of constructing race in Tocqueville’s Democracy and Beaumont’s Marie"
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 PANEL “Structural Racism & Education”
Sheila Ragunathan, Goethe University Frankfurt "Feminist Classrooms as Sites of Tension: Links between Pedagogy, Affect and Relations of Power"
Vildan Aytekin, Bielefeld University "Inclusion: Organizing incompatible logics within school"
Dennis Röder, University of Augsburg "Back to the future: The invention of the category “racism“ and its shifts in meaning between the 1920s and 1960s. Didactical potentials for the German History classroom in the 21st century"
7:30 VIDEO AND ART PERFORMANCE
DIANA EJAITA
OJUDUN TAIWO JACOB
chaired by: Ouassima Laabich
Bunker Ulmenwall, Kreuzstr. 0, Bielefeld
Saturday, July 6, 2019
9:00-10:30 PANEL “Travel & Contact Zones”
Burrhus Njanjo, University of Cologne "“Contact Zones”: Representing race, science and Power relations in the movies Vénus noire (2010) and A united Kingdom (2016)"
Robrecht De Boodt, K. U. Leuven "Validation by Proximity: Medical and Racial Discourse in Sylva de Jonghe’s ‘Green Heart of Africa'"
Christian Hoffarth, Institut für Personengeschichte (Bentheim) "Like marvels, like monsters: Experiences of otherness and the emergence of racial thought in medieval European travel writing"
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 PANEL “Race & Space”
Tathagato Ganguly, University of Dehli "Making Race, Making Space/Place: Comunas Negras and Extractivism in Northern Esmeraldas, Ecuador"
Meryem Choukri, University of London "Can Hamburg be decolonised? Notes on colonial amnesia, postcolonial remembrance and racism"
L. Katherine Smith, Western Colorado University "Constructing Race at the Ends of the Earth: The Hollow Earth and Open Polar Sea Theories in 19th Century American Literature"
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 FINAL DISCUSSION
Sabine Schäfer, Bielefeld University