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“Borders, Borderthinking, Borderlands” Summer Institute
Program Fri, May 15, 2015 16.00 - 18.00: Arrival and registration Sat, May 16, 2015 9.30 - 12.00: • Welcoming of Summer Institute participants • Introduction to the Summer Institute and its topics • Introductory debate based on “interventionist reading list” • Assistance in stipend paperwork Sun, May 17, 2015 10.30 – 16.00: Visit to the German Immigration Museum in Bremerhaven Mon, May 18, 2015 09.30 – 12.00: Elizabeth Arend: Border Discourse in Literary and Filmic Representations of the Mediterranean 13.00 - 17.00: Participants’ Presentations: • Anna Carastathis: Borderthinking about and against Borders: Methodological Nationalism and the Politics of Migration, Crisis and Austerity
• Roza Asrar Yenus: The Dynamics of Cross-Border Cattle Raiding: Case Study of Jonglei State of South Sudan and Gambella Region of Ethiopia • Karsten Schulz: The New Risk Frontier: Social Transformations at the Rural/Urban Interface in West Africa • Olivia Mena: Warehouses of Steel and Bounded Present 18.00 – 19.30 Keynote 1: Maissara M. Saeed:
There is a Rat in my kitchen, what am I gonna do? Tue, May 19, 2015 09.30 – 12.00: Postcolonial City Tour Bremen with Kim Annakathrin Ronacher 13.00 - 17.00: Participants’ Presentations: • Kathryn Medien: Sex, Race and Israeli Nationalism • Shreesha Udupa: Borders and Contours: The Case of Indian Reflective Traditions • George Williams: Interrogating the Borders inscribed upon Women’s embodied Reproductive Health Experiences • Christian Langer: Decolonizing Egyptology Wed, May 20, 2015 09.30 - 12.00:
Juliane Hammer: "Is Change Liberation? Religions, Feminisms, and Boundaries of Academic Systems“ 13.00 - 17.00: Participants’ Presentations: • Nassef Manabilang Adiong: Comparative Conundrum of Territoriality between Nation-State and Muslim Governance • Lea Willeke: Borders and Diaspora. The Saharawi Community in Germany • Emily Frazier-Rath: German Muslim Feminist Activism • Tanita Jill Poeggel: Being Political in the Context of „Migration and Managment“ Thu, May 21, 2015 09.30 - 12.00: Gisela Febel: Visible and Invisible Borders in Literature and Art 14.00 – 16.00 (in cooperation with INPUTS): Dr. Cheikh Moctar Ba: L’Afrique et les Lumières (Room: SFG 2080) Evening: Pub Crawl (optional) Fri, May 22, 2015 11.00 – 13.00: Brunch (optional)
Sat, May 23, 2015
13.00 - 17.00: Participants’ Presentations:
09.30 – 12.00:
• Rustem Ertug Altinay: Diplomatic Fashion Shows and the Turkish Nation State
Sabine Broeck: Enslavism and the Borders of White Agnotology
• Marius Henderson: Conjunctive Readings & the Poetics of Bordercrossing
13.00 - 17.00: Participants’ Presentations:
• Raheem Saheed Oke: Border Consciousness and Language Contact in Selected Nigerian Hip-Hop Lyrics
• Paula von Gleich: The Black Border: Border Concepts in African American Narratives of Captivity and Fugitivtity
• Amara Antilla: Internationalism and Borderthinking in the Arts
• Dominique Hanesell: On the Potentialities of Afropolitanism: Rethinking Spatiality and Temporality in Black Cosmopolitanism
Mon, May 25, 2015
• Katherine Merriman: Racial Capitalism and the Link between Palestinian and Black Liberation Movements
09.00 – 12.00: Participants’ Presentations: • Tobias Jochum: (Re)Imagining the Intolerable: The Ethics of Representation in Contemporary Transnational Narratives of Feminicide
• Derrais Carter: Real, Prime Venuses: The Moens Affair, Black Washington, and the Racial Politics of the Scandal
• Kenneth J. Richards: Religion and American Indian Sovereignty
18.00 – 19.30:
• Marc Woons: At the Confluence of Theory and Practice: Understanding Indigenous Self-Determination in Canada
Keynote 2: Isabel Soto:
13.00 - 17.00:
‘Surrounded by a clamorous Throng of Whites and Blacks:’ Chronotopic Mediations of Race and Language in Benito Cereno
Closing Address
Sun, May 24, 2015 09.30 – 12.00: Walter Mignolo: Dwelling in two Borders of Coloniality (Human/less Human and Human/Non-Human) and thinking/doing in two Horizons of Decoloniality
Closing Plenum of Faculty and Participants Feedback-Round Evaluation Tue, May 26, 2015 Departure
All panels and presentations except that by Dr. Cheikh Moctar Ba will be in the conference room of the: Gästehaus Teerhof der Universität Bremen Teerhof 58, 28199 Bremen The lecture by Dr. Ba will be in: Building SFG, Room 2080 on U Bremen Campus
We would like to thank the German Academic Exchange Service for the generous financial support given to the Summer Institute. The “Borders, Borderthinking, Borderlands” Summer Institute is a cooperative project of the following Universities and Institutions: