FRCPS IGC 2011-Program 25 05 2011 - Frankfurt Research Center ...

FRANKFURT RESEARCH CENTER FOR POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”
COLONIAL LEGACIES, POSTCOLONIAL CONTESTATIONS:
DECOLONIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES
International Graduate Conference
16 th -18 th June 2011, Goethe University Frankfurt
Venue: Campus Westend
Registration: frcps.mail@googlemail.com
General Information: www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de
THURSDAY 16 TH JUNE 2011
12.00-13.00 Registration (Casino Foyer)
13.00-13.30 Welcome Remarks (Casino 823)
Rainer Forst [Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”]
Nikita Dhawan [Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies]
13.30-15.30 Parallel Panel Sessions (Panels 1, 4, 5a, 6a & 11a)
Panel 1 - Political Practice and Third World/Feminist Approaches to International Institutions
(Cas. 1.802)
Panel Convenors: Katja Freistein/Philip Liste
Fanon’s Veiled Woman as an Affirmation of Feminism and a Critique of Colonialism
Oprarah Akagbulem T., Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria
The Samin’s Feminist Movement and Postcolonial Relation in Indonesia
Munawir Aziz, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Inventing Sovereignty within the Colonial Encounter: Re-Writing the History of International (Criminal)
Law in the Context of European Imperialism
Sinja Graf, Cornell University, USA
Panel 4 - Building Bridges: Critical Political Economy and Postcolonial Theory
(HoF E.20)
Panel Convenors: Simone Claar/Nikolai Huke
Not a Trojan Horse: Provincializing The Scale Debate in the Political Economy of Globalisation
Enrique Martino Martin, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
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The Regulation of Globalising Reproductive Labour Markets
Liberty Lopez Chee, National University of Singapore
Comparative political economy and Eurocentrism: A postcolonial critique of the Varieties of
Capitalism approach
Matthias Ebenau, School of Politics & IR, Queen Mary, University of London
Towards a Critical Theory of the Postcolonial Condition under Global Political Economy
Rationality, Hegemony and Political Encounters
Naveen Kanalu, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France
Panel 5 - Culture vs. Capitalism: Postcolonial Emancipations and the Ambivalences of The Market I
(RuW 1.101)
Panel Convenor: Katja Rieck
Transnational Polyvocality: Rural Chilean Women and the ‘Megamachine’ of Neoliberalism
Fernanda Glaser, SUNY Buffalo, New York
The Market Value of Culture in Wadi Araba
Annemarie Vermaelen, Ghent University, Belgium
Unveiling Social Business: A Pragmatic Weapon of Colonial Enslavement
Nazmus Sakib, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Cultural Industries in the Global South. Towards Modernization or Modernities?
Christiaan M. De Beukelaer, University of Warwick, Great Britain
Panel 6 - Postcolonising Methodologies I
(Casino 1.801)
Panel Convenors: Joshua Kwesi Aikins/Nadine Golly/Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar
Decolonising Participant Observation. Writing one’s Privilege – Some Remarks on the Ongoing ‘Crisis
of Representation’
Vanessa Eileen Thompson & Hapreet Cholia, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Towards an Epistemology of Postcolonial Knowledge Production?
Mariam Popal, University of Freiburg, Germany
Critical Epistemological Inquiry and the Insider/Outsider Dichotomy
Anaheed Al-Hardan, University of Dublin, Ireland
Positioning, Post-Colonial Approaches and Decolonizing Methodology through Global Hip-Hop
Miye Nadya Tom, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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Panel 11 - Secularism, Religion and Politics: Critical Interventions I
(IG 1.314)
Panel Convenor: Zubair Ahmad
The State of Secularism and the Ambivalence of Rule: Tales from South Africa
Annie Leatt, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Beyond the Universalisms of Islam and Secularism: the Emergence of a Western-Islamic Public Sphere
Dilyana Mincheva, Trent University, Canada
Examining the Operations of ‘Religion’ and ‘the Secular’. Insights from Postcolonial and
Critical Scholarship for the Sociology of Religion
Nadia Fadil, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Interrogating Music of Tamil Nadu Using Religion-Secular Binary
Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan, University of Sterling, Scotland
Discussant: José Casanova, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C., USA
Permanent Exhibition: Postcolonial Theory and the Visual Arts
Chris Campe
(Casino first floor)
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-18.00 Parallel Panel Sessions (Panels 3, 5b, 6b, 9, 11b)
Panel 3 - Transnational Social Movements and the Postcolonial Condition
(Casino 1.802)
Panel Convenor: Elisabeth Fink
Ethos of Liberation contra Politics of Liberalism: A Foundation for Anti-Slavery and Anti-Capitalist
Movements?
Ondřej Lánský, Center of Global Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Critical Review of Transnational Social Movements Approach and the Diaspora
Luxshi Vimalarajah, Berghof Peace Support, Berlin, Germany
Structures of Coloniality and Transnational Civil Society in Costa Rica: Limits to Postcolonial
Imaginations
Johanna Leinius, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Postcolonial Perspectives on Social Movements: A Study of the ‘Movement of Landless Rural Workers’
and the Zapatistas
Júlia Figueredo Benzaquen, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Panel 5 - Culture vs. Capitalism: Postcolonial Emancipations and the Ambivalences of The Market II
(RuW 1.101)
Panel Convenor: Katja Rieck
‘Clearing their way with bat and ball’: Cricket, Domination and Subaltern Struggle
Samid Suleiman University of Queensland, Australia
Food and Modernity
Stefan Stautner, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
Colonising Sexualities: Operation of the Market, New Regimes of Gender and Popular Culture
Samuel Nowak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Good Girls Gone Gaga: Gender, Race and Sex Represented through Women in Pop Music
Jeannette Bello Mota, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Panel 6 - Postcolonising Methodologies II
(Casino 1.801)
Panel Convenors: Joshua Kwesi Aikins/Nadine Golly/Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar
Decolonizing University Assessment. Explorations in Applied Postcolonial Anthropology
Leonie Bellina, University of San Francisco, USA
Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities
Lleshi Sokol, Central European University Budapest, Hungary
Studying Borderlands: the Political Dimension of Oral History Research
Olga Sasukevich, University of Greifswald, Germany
Reversing the Gaze? Representation, Subjectivity and Postcolonial Perspectives
Nandita Dogra, Goldsmiths, London, Great Britain
Panel 9 - Postcolonial Perspectives on Human Rights
(HoF E.20)
Panel Convenors: Olivia Rutazibwa/Eva Georg/Aylin Zafer
The Other Side of the Story. Human Rights, Race and Social Struggle from a Historical Transatlantic
Perspective
Julia Suárez Krabbe, Roskilde University, Denmark
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Human Rights in the Perspective of Decolonizing Knowledge
Ana Claudia Tavares, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Of Right between the 'Particular' and the 'Universal': the Case of sati
Sourav Kargupta, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
Human Rights Discourse and Undocumented Migration in the Context of Europeanization: Towards a
Postcolonial Rearticulation
Chenchen Zhang, LUISS University of Rome, Italy
Panel 11 - Secularism, Religion and Politics: Critical Interventions II
(IG 1.314)
Panel Convenor: Zubair Ahmad
Fanon’s Intellectual Horizons on the Religion in Africa
Federico Settler, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Enduring Orientalism: The Concepts of Religion and Secularisation in Development Support
Stephanie Garling, University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
‘German Moral Whiteness’- An Attempt to Theoretically Account for ‘Normative Superiority’
Anna-Esther Younes, Geneva University, Switzerland
The Islamic Women’s Rights Activism in Turkey: Prospects and Limitations for a Pluralistic
Construction of Human Rights Regime
Sebnem Kenis, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
16.00 – 18.00 The IG-Farben Campus: Its Past and Present. Guided Tour (organized by ‘Students
Initiative at IG Farben Campus’), Meeting Point: IG-Farben Building, Main entrance
18.00-18.30 Coffee Break
18.30-20.30 Keynote: Patricia Hill Collins (Casino 823)
Winning Miss World: An Intersectional Analysis of Colorblind Racism
20.30-22.00 Reception (Casino 1.801)
21.00 Philipp Khabo Köpsell – Spoken word performance (Casino 1.802)
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FRIDAY 17 TH JUNE 2011
10.00-12.00 Parallel Panel Sessions (Panels 2a, 7a, 16a & 18)
Panel 2 - Saving Brown Women? Deliberating the “Post” in Post-colonialism and Post-conflict I
(Casino 1.802)
Panel Convenors: Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel/ Archana Krishnamurthy
Taking the “Post”-Conflict to its Neo-Imperial Centre: Liberal Multiculturalism, Neo-Imperialism and
Global Feminism
Liljana Burcar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Nationalism and Female Negotiation: the “Post-contact” Disconnection in Destination Biafra
Ofure Odede Maria Aito, Redeemer’s University, Mowe, Nigeria
Feminist Collaboration in the Context of Intersectional Discrimination and Post-war Violence –
Possibilities and Challenges
Eva Kalny, University of Hanover, Germany
Did LMS White Women Missionaries save Brown “Nadar” Women?: Triple Colonization of Bible
Women of South Travancore in 19th Century
Jayachitra Lalitha, Serampore University, India
Panel 7 - Teaching Emancipatory Postcolonial Knowledge I
(Casino 1.801)
Panel Convenors: Nadine Golly/Joanna James
Postcolonial Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Experiences of Marginalized Students in Two
Indian Universities
Bharat Chandra Rout, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi,
India
Teaching Emancipatory Post-Colonial Knowledge: An African University Teacher’s Experience
Nnanna Onuoha Arukwe, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism? Teaching while Black
Ylva Habel, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
Raising Mãori Student Achievement
Cadence Kaumoana, Te Awamutu, New Zealand
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Panel 16 - Taking Postcolonialism elsewhere? Post-Soviet Postcolonialities I
(IG 1.314)
Panel Convenor: Alexander Vorbrugg
‘The Working Woman from Orient is not the Voiceless Slave Anymore’ – ‘Other’ Women and Soviet
Politics of Emancipation and Culturalization in the 1920-1930s (Volga-Ural region)
Yulia Gradskova, Södertörn University, Sweden
Soviet Colonialism? Contesting Visions of the Past in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Moritz Florin, Hamburg University, Germany
Post-Soviet Dynamics of Language in Azerbaijan: Challenges of Postcolonial Legacy in a Changing
Society
Gokhan Alper Ataser & Leyla Sayfutdinova, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Communism, Capitalism and Postcolonial Perspectives: Tracing Transition and Capital Displacements
in Local Communities of Central and Eastern Europe
Miłosz Miszczyński, Faculty of Sociology, Jagiellonian University Poland
Panel 18 - Postcolonial Perspectives on Corruption and Statehood
Panel Convenor: Philip Zehmisch
(RuW 1.101)
Continuity and Adaptation in Corruption Mechanisms in Post-Socialist Romania
Ivana Greti-Iulia, Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Informal Practices and the Access to Adequate Housing for the Urban Poor. The case of Bangalore,
India
Swetha Rao Dhananka, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Corruption is Good! Understanding Postcolonial State Formation beyond the European Paradigm
Peter Finkenbusch & Markus-Michael Müller, Free University Berlin/Leipzig University, Germany
Postcolonial Perspective on Corruption and Statehood – A look into Fiji as a State
Eroni Duaibe, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, India
Film, Photo Exhibition, Lecture and Discussion - ‘Montañas imaRginales: Aesthetic Reflexions on
Urbanity in the Periphery of Lima‘
Karla Villavicencio
(Hof E.20)
12.00-13.30 Lunch break
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13.30-15.30 Parallel Panel Sessions (Panels 2b, 7b, 13, 16b, 20)
Panel 2 - Saving Brown Women? Deliberating the “Post” in Post-colonialism and Post-conflict II
(Casino 1.802)
Panel Convenors: Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel/Archana Krishnamurthy
Post What? Post Who? Post Where? Post How? Gendered and Sexualised Epistemic Violence in the
‘War on Terror’
Claudia Brunner, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Pakistani Literary Perspectives and the “war on/of terror”
Cristy Lee Duce University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Clash of Patriarchies: War, Muslim Women and Film since 9/11
Evelyn Hamdon, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Gendered Counterinsurgency
Keally McBride & Annick T.R. Wibben, University of San Francisco, USA
Panel 7 - Teaching Emancipatory Postcolonial Knowledge II
(Casino 1.801)
Panel Convenors: Nadine Golly/Joanna James
The Frame of Epistemological Innovation in Legal Education in India is the Reconditioning of Colonial
Past: Some Observations and Case Studies
Sanjay Singh, Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University, Lucknow, India
To transform education and make it more inclusive or need for questioning, rethinking and
reinventing hegemonic privileges?
Joyce Kemuma, Högskolan Dalarna, Sweden
The Challenges of Constructing Autonomous Social Sciences in the South: The African Experience and
the way forward
Gordon Onyango Omenya, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
Concluding panel remarks with all panelists (Section I and II) from panel „Teaching Emancipatory
Postcolonial Knowledge“
Panel 13 - Revolution Reconsidered – Slavery Enlightenment and the Haitian Revolution
(RuW 1.101)
Panel Convenor: Jeanette Ehrmann
‘Couté la Liberté dan coeur à nous’: The Slaves' Agency in Saint-Domingue's Revolution (1791-1801)
Antonio Jesús Pinto Tortosa, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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The Haitian Revolution and Spectres of Transatlantic Self-Emancipation
Raphael Hörmann, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Sacred Transvestism: Costume and Gender in the Visual Culture of Haitian Vodou
Charlotte Hammond, Royal Holloway, University of London, Great Britain
Black Atlantic’s Proteus: Pauline Melville’s Fiction, Enlightenment and the Counterculture of
Modernity
Steffen Klävers, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
Panel 16 - Taking Postcolonialism elsewhere? Post-Soviet Postcolonialities II
(IG 1.314)
Panel Convenor: Alexander Vorbrugg
Post-Imperial Identities and Cultural Trauma in Eduaded Bagirov’s ‘The Guest Worker’ and Alexander
Ilichevsky ‘The Persian’
Arseniy Khitrov, University of Sheffield, Great Britain
Becoming Transnational between Post-Soviet and Post-Colonial: Narrations of Polish Female Migrants
in the West
Paula Pustulka, Bangor University, Great Britain
Is the ‘Post’ in Post-Soviet the ‘Post’ in Post-colonial? Reading David Edgar’s ‘Pentecost’
Avishek Ganguly, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
Post-Soviet Women Intellectuals: The ‘Decolonial Options’ of Maria Arbatova and Madina Tlostanova
Ksenia Robbe, Giessen University, Germany
Panel 20 - African Cultural Production in the Global Economy
(HoF E.20)
Panel Convenor: Lotte Arndt
La recherche d’une authenticité culturelle et la quête identitaire dans les personnages féminins de Ken
Bugul et Kangni Alem
Eva Dorn & Aminata Mbaye, Universités Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux 3, France; Frankfurt
University, Germany/ École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France; University of
Bayreuth, Germany
Bill Kouélany en marge de la Francophonie – L'émergence d'une littérature de subversion?
Sarah Burnautzki, University of Heidelberg, Germany/ École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,
Paris, France
Globalization, youth culture, and identity today
Frank Kiwalabye, Director of Youth Crime Watch Uganda
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15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-18.00 Parallel Panel Sessions (Panels 15, 19, 22, 23)
Panel 15 - Postcolonial Thought and the Problem of Periodization
(IG 1.314)
Panel Convenor: Felix Schürmann
The Problem of Periodization in Postcolonial Thought: Disrupting the 'Unified' Colonizer in Colonial
Discourse
Gitika Gupta, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Questioning the Post-colonial: Post-orientalist Genealogies of British Multiculturalism
Zaki Nahaboo, Open University, London, Great Britain
Abdallah Laroui’s Concept of Historicism, Modernity and the Times of History
Nils Riecken, Free University Berlin, Germany
Panel 19 - Weak States, Failed States, Developmental States – Problems and Challenges in
Conceptualising Political Formations in Postcolonial Africa
(RUW 1.101)
Panel Convenor: Anna Krämer
The Otherness and the Reinforcement of Self in “Fragile States” Discourse: the Violence of Calling
Names
Isabel Rocha de Siqueira, King’s College, London, Great Britain
State Reconstruction in Post-conflict Africa: The Relevance of Ake’s Political Thought
Jeremiah Oluwasegun Arowosegba, University of Ibadan, Nigeria/ University of the Western Cape,
South Africa
Rethinking Political Modernity in Africa: a Phenomenological Approach
Luc Ngowet, University Paris VII, France
Discussant: Katharina Lenner, Free University Berlin, Germany
Panel 22 - Decolonizing ‘Development’ and ‘Democratization’ Discourses
(Casino 1.801)
Panel Convenors: Beatriz Junqueira Lage Carbone/Mirjam Tutzer
The Power of Norms. Normative (Counter)-Hegemony within EU-Africa Relations
Franziska Mueller, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
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De-Colonising the EU’s Democratisation Policy through the Maghreb Periphery
Bohdana Dimitrovova, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium
On the Peripheral Ambivalence of Culture and Economy
Stefan Klein, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Panel 23 - (Post-)Colonial Education
(Casino 1.802)
Panel Convenor: Susanne Becker/Archana Krishnamurthy
A Postcolonial Approach to the Internationalisation of Higher Education
Eva Hartmann, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Integration, Nation and Education – Postcolonial Questioning of an Entanglement
by means of a historical perspective on a current discourse
Selma Haupt, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
Disappearing Certitudes – About the Colonial Legacy in Education, (Post-) Colonial Knowledge
Structures and Counter-Hegemonic Struggles in Burkina Faso
Marietta Mayrhofer-Deák, University of Vienna, Austria
A Course on Colonial Attitude and Representations
Ozlem Basak, Goldsmiths, University of London, Great Britain
Film and Discussion – ‘Decolonizing the University’
(HoF E.20)
18.00-18.15 Coffee Break
18:15-20:15 “Frankfurt's Colonial Hangover – A City Tour” (organized by “frankfurt-
postkolonial”), Meeting point: Casino Foyer
SATURDAY 18 TH JUNE 2011
10.00-12.00 Parallel Panel Sessions (Panels 8a, 10a, 14a, 17a, 21a & 24)
Panel 8 - Between Subjection and Subjectivation: Postcolonial-Queer-Feminist Perspectives I
(Casino 1.802)
Panel Convenors: Jasmin Dean/Astride Velho
The Disobedient Wife, and other Tales: Ghanaian Women During Decolonization
Nikki Owusu Yeboah, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
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From Body-Object to Body-Subject: the Subjectivation of the Female Body in Assia Djebar’s Novels
Hamdi Houda, University of Annaba, Algeria
Possession, Obsession and Consumption of the Body: from Colonial Narratives to Contemporary
Representations
Angelica Pesarini, University of Leeds, Britain
Voices from the Borderlands: Between Creativity and Frustration
Duygu Gürsel & Jael Vizcarra, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
Panel 10 - Postcolonial Power and Capitalism – Critical Approaches to Contemporary International
Aid I
(Hof E.20)
Panel Convenors: Olivia Rutazibwa / Kai Koddenbrock
Owning Aid Effectiveness: Subversive Appropriation or Succumbing to Dominant Discourses?
Sonja Killoran-McKibbin, York University, Toronto, Canada
Regional Interventions and Universal Solutions: a Question of Aid?
Stefanie Wodrig, Hamburg University, Germany
Initiatives Africaines et Violence Symbolique du Pouvoir Postcolonial
Amzat Boukari-Yabara, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
A Neo-racism without Races
Alaíde Vences Estudillo, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico
Discussant: Aram Ziai, Hamburg University, Germany
Panel 14 - Postcolonial Perspectives after Auschwitz I
(Casino 1.801)
Panel Convenors: Ulrike Hamann/Cigdem Inan
Politicizing the Connections between US-American White Supremacy and German Anti- Semitism: The
Southern Negro Youth Congress as an Example of Anti-racist Analysis and Organizing in the 1940s in
the US
Noemi Yoko Molitor, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Black Germans in National Socialist Germany
Rosa Fava, University of Hamburg, Germany
(Post)colonial ‘Adaptations’ of the Holocaust in Anita Desai’s ‘Baumgartner’s Bombay ‘
Isabelle Hesse, University of York, Great Britain
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“Near Easterners” and “Orientals”: On Anthropological and Archaeological Cartographies of the Near
East and its Impact on Modern Anti-Semitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Felix Wiedemann, Free University Berlin, Germany
Panel 17 - Representations: The (Post)colonial ‘Body Politic’ in Historical Perspective I
(IG 1.314)
Panel Convenor: Verena Steller
Transgressing Imaginations of the Nation-State in British West Africa
Rouven Kunstmann, Oxford, Great Britain
The Nation, the State and Political Culture in ‚Native’ American Society
Jessica Knuff, University of South Carolina, USA
Historical Perspectives on Ethical and Political Subjectification of the Body Politic in India: Terrorism
and Non-Violence as Forms of Rupture of Colonial Normative Order
Orazio Irrerra, Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, France
Colonizing the Biopolitics of Reproduction in Israel-Palestine
Sigrid Vertommen, Ghent University, Belgium
Panel 21 - Postcolonial Representations of Urban Spaces I - Discourses of the Postcolonial City:
Literary, Language and Media Representations
(Casino 1.812)
Panel Convenor: Andrea Gremels
Orient or the Centre of Englishness? The Image of London’s East End in Contemporary Art and
Literature
Karolina Kolenda, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Language and the Postcolonial City: The Case of Salman Rushdie
Stuti Khanna, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Gendered and Ethnicized Subject Representations in Urban Spaces in Contemporary British Fiction
Sala Rahikkala, University of Oulu, Finland
Discussant: Andrea Gremels, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Panel 24 - The Politics of Affect: Relics, Landscapes, and Conflicts of the Middle East
(IG 1.418)
Panel Convenor: E. Efe Cakmak
Words and Fireworks
E. Efe Cakmak, Sciences-Po, Paris & Gutenberg University, Mainz
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A Landscape of War
Munira Khayyat, Columbia University, New York, USA
Look who’s Speaking
Burcu Gürsel, Free University Berlin, Germany
The Aftermath of Memory in Lebanon
Yasmine K. Cakmak, Columbia University, New York, USA
Exhibition – ‘New Towns in India‘
(IG 0.457)
12.00-13.00 Lunch break
13.00-15.00 Parallel Panel Sessions (Panels 8b, 10b, 12, 14b, 17b & 21b)
Panel 8 - Between Subjection and Subjectivation: Postcolonial-Queer-Feminist Perspectives II
(1.802)
Panel Convenors: Jasmin Dean/Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar
Reflections on Contemporary Class Struggles in Africa and Meanings for Queer Activism
Lyn Ossome, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Pink Nights - The Queer Night-Club Culture in India and Music as the Site of Performance
Ankush Gupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Panel 10 - Postcolonial Power and Capitalism – Critical Approaches to Contemporary International
Aid II
(HoF E.20)
Panel Convenors: Olivia Rutazibwa / Kai Koddenbrock
Secular Missionaries and Epistemic Power
Uchenna Okeja, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Looking for the Relevant Counterfactual
Tomas Profant, University of Vienna, Austria
Developmental Aid and Civil Activism: Inseparable Concomitants or Irreconcilable Contenders?
Bhakti Deodhar, University of Leipzig, Germany/University of Wroclaw, Poland
The Digital Bridge: South-South Cooperation, India’s Emergent Aid Politics, and the Anthropological
Futures of Global e-Health Presences
Vincent Duclos, Université de Montréal, Canada
Discussant: Meera Sabaratnam, London School of Economics, Great Britain
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Panel 12 - Transnational In/Justice in a Postcolonial World
(IG 1.418)
Panel Convenor: Franziska Dübgen
African Conception Of Justice And The Colonial Experience: Limitations And Possibilities
Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, University of Nigeria
Global Citizenship Education – a Project of Social Justice or Imperialism?
Shelane Jorgenson, University of Alberta, Canada
Beyond Legal Justice: The Intricacies of Post-Conflict Truth and Reconciliation Mechanisms in The
Central African Great Lakes Region
Stanislas Bigirimana, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Justice and Injustice of Democracy Promotion
Dorothea Gädecke, Frankfurt University, Germany
Panel 14 - Postcolonial Perspectives after Auschwitz II
(Casino 1.801)
Panel Convenors: Ulrike Hamann/Cigdem Inan
Moderation: Liliana Feierstein, Bayreuth University, Germany
‚Wir sind dafür, die Sache in die Länge zu ziehen‘. Debating and Contesting Continuities and Ruptures
of Colonial Fascist and Nazi Practices in Austria
Eduard Freudmann, Lina Dokuzović, Akademie der Künste, Vienna, Austria
Colonialism versus Shoah: The Color of Memory
Christelle Gomis, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
A Post-Colonial Deconstruction of "German Exceptionalism"
Cengiz Barskanmaz, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
"We are the new Jews". The Role of Turkish Immigrants in the German Erinnerungskultur
Defne Kadioglu, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Panel 17 - Representations: The (Post)colonial ‘Body Politic’ in Historical Perspective II
(IG 1.314)
Panel Convenor: Verena Steller
The Beginning of Education of Urban Women in Colonial United Provinces: Re-negotiating Cultural
Hegemonies in a colonial- post-colonial constellation
Pryamvada Teewani, Delhi
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What Gender Does the New Conception of the Nation in Latin America Entail?
Tania Mancheno, Hamburg University, Germany
Beyond Stasis: Kinetic Political Communities and the National Imaginary in Johannesburg
Samid Suliman, University of Queensland, Australia
Pior-ness, In-sidedness and Out-sidedness: Colour-assignment at the Foundation of the Settler Body-
Politic
Gaia Giuliani, University of Bologna, Italy/University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Panel 21 - Postcolonial Representations of Urban Spaces II - Planning and Regulation
(Casino 1.812)
Panel Convenor: Andrea Gremels
The Signs of Luanda: the City and the Politics of Textuality
Caio Simoes de Araujo, Universidade de São Paolo, Brazil
Negotiating Hybridity in the ‘New’ Indian City
Aditya Mohanty, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Colonial Linkages and Postcolonial Ailments of African Muslim
Cityscapes
Aliyu Barau, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Discussant: Johanna Hoerning, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Film and Discussion – ‘Jahaji Music: India in the Caribbean’
Tejaswini Niranjana
(IG 0.251)
15.00-15.45 Coffee Break
15.45-17.30 Keynote: Dipesh Chakrabarty (Casino 1.801)
History and the Time of the Present
-End of Conference-
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