FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2018
9:00 Registration, Coffee
9:15 Welcome, Opening of the Conference
9:30 Keynote: Javier Sanjinés (Michigan): "Whither Modernity? Latin
America, an 'Entanglement of Spaces?'"
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 PANEL I Entangled Temporalities: Concepts and Politics of Time and Memory in the Americas
Joachim Michael (Bielefeld): "Present Pasts in Latin America: Literary Challenges of Time"
Carolina Crespo (Buenos Aires): "Memorias en el espacio público. Itinerarios en el tiempo y el espacio en torno a los monumentos de Juana Azurduy y Cristóbal Colón en Argentina"
Heike Raphael-Hernández (Würzburg): "Dreaming about the Right to Freedom: Ernst Bloch`s not-yet and Early Eighteenth Century Slave Societies in the Danish West Indies and Dutch Suriname"
Chair: Kirsten Kramer
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:15 PANEL II Addressing Persistent Colonial Hierarchies and Decolonial Futures
Claudia Rauhut (Berlin/Leipzig): "Envisioning a Shared Future of Global Reparatory Justice: Why Caribbean Activists Claim Slavery Reparations from Europe"
Ulrike Schmieder (Hannover): "Memories of Slavery in France and the French Afro-Antillean Diaspora and the Entanglements with British and US-American Images of Slavery and Debates on Reparations"
Julia Roth (Bielefeld): "'The First Global Players': Re-Thinking Germany from the Americas"
Moderation: Albert Manke
15:15-15-45 Coffee Break
15:45-17:00 Roundtable: "Hip Hop, Education, and Social Transformation"
Nicole Schwabe, Julian Voloj (graphic novel author), Rebeca
Lane (rapper)
17:00-17:15 Break
17:15-18:15 PANEL III Memories, Heritage and Retro-Topias: Idealizing, Commodifying, and Re-Viving the Past
Olaf Kaltmeier (Bielefeld): "Ahead to the Past: Refeudalization in the Americas"
Giselle Anatol (Kansas): "Zootopia's Utopia: Distorted Visions of Racial Harmony"
Chair: Daniela Noll-Opitz
19:00 Kulturamt Bielefeld (Kavalleriestraße 17, 33602 Bielefeld)
Reception, Rap-Performance Rebeca Lane
20:00 Dinner (in town: L'arabesque, August-Bebel-Straße 47, 33602 Bielefeld)
afterwards: Party with DJ Matti Steinitz @Cutie (Große-Kurfürsten-Straße 81, 33615 Bielefeld)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2018
10:30-12:45 PANEL IV Utopian Practices - Past and Present
Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld): "Utopia Reloaded? Political Art Practices and Public Space from Zapatista to Occupy"
Jeroen Dewulf (Berkeley): "'It's our Duty to Help Each Other': On the Afro-Iberian Substratum in African American Fraternal History"
Yolanda Campos (Guadalajara): "La utopía posrevolucionaria en el cine de Emilio Fernández y los murales de Diego Rivera"
Cornelia Giebeler (Bielefeld): "De- and Re-Constructing Family by InterAmerican Mobility"
Chair: Yaatsil Guevara
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-16:15 PANEL V Revising Histories of Entanglement in the Americas
Film Screening "Allen Report: Retracing Transnational African Methodism" by Alanna Lockward (Santo Domingo) with introduction by the director Discussion, Questions and Answers
Moderation: Julia Roth
16:15 Break
16:15-18:00 PANEL VI The Future in Question: Re-envisioning the Social
Eleonora Rohland (Bielefeld): "Decolonizing the Anthropocene"
Rüdiger Kunow (Potsdam): "Preemption as Neoliberal Utopia"
Paula Diehl (Bielefeld): "Populism and Narratives of the Past/Visions of the Future"
Chair: Mirko Petersen
18:00 Sum-up, closing remarks, end of conference
19:00 Dinner (in town: Kachelhaus, Hagenbruchstraße 13, 33602 Bielefeld, self-pay)