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10.01.2013

Junior Research Workshop der Society of Caribbean Research - SOCARE "Crossing Thresholds: Decoloniality and Gender in Caribbean Knowledge"

  • Ort: Hannover
  • Beginn: 23.01.13
  • Ende: 25.01.13
  • Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
  • Sprachen: Französisch, Spanisch, Sprachenübergreifend

Die interdisziplinäre Nachwuchskonferenz konzentriert sich unter dem Blickwinkel dekolonialer Wissenszirkulationen und Theoriebildungen auf Genderfragen in der karibischen Region.

 

The interdisciplinary research conference focuses, through a perspective of decolonial knowledge circulation and theorizing, on gender issues in the Caribbean region.

 

Programm:

 

Wednesday January 23th

 

16.30 – 20.00

Welcome

Anja Bandau (President of the Society of Caribbean Research-SoCaRe/Department of Romance Studies), Jana Gohrisch, (Department of English Studies), Christine Hatzky, (Director of the Department of History), Junior Research Group SOCARE

 

Opening Lectures

 

Sabine Broeck (Universität Bremen, President of international Collegium for African- American Research - CAAR )

"Re-Reading the Human: Repercussions of Sylvia Wynter's Epistemic Project"

 

Nadia Celis (Bowdoin College, Executive Board Member of the Caribbean Studies Association - CSA)

"The Rebellion of the Girls: Reflections for an Embodied Decolonization"

 

20.00-21.30

Reception

 

Thursday January 24th

 

9.00 – 11.20

Panel A: Decolonizing Gender Identities in Caribbean History

Moderation: Simone Denter

(Leibniz Universität Hannover)

 

Ulrike Schmieder

(Leibniz Universität Hannover)

"Identidades masculinas y femininas de esclavos, patrocinados y libertos en Cuba en la década de 1880"

 

Lisette Acosta Corniel (University at Albany)

"Decolonizing Gender: Women’s Rights and Resistance in Colonial Hispaniola"

 

Henning Marquardt (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

"(De-)Constructing Gender Roles within the Family – Negotiations of Christian Middle-Class Ideals in Jamaican Literature before Independence"

 

Jeanette Ehrmann

(Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. Main)

"After ‘Man’, Towards Emancipation. Female Gendered Agency in the Haitian Revolution"

 

Anja Bandau (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

Comment

 

Discussion

 

Coffee Break (10 min.)

 

11.30 – 13.15

Panel B: Caribbean Conceptions of Masculinity and Race

Moderation: Rebecca Fuchs

(Universität Mannheim)

 

Rafael Gómez (University at Albany)

"The Negotiation of Manhood and the Masculine in two Caribbean Diasporic Novels"

 

Marita Rainsborough (Universität Hamburg)

"The erotic/sexual as crossing threshold - desire in the Brazilian postcolonial context in the literature of Rachel de Queiroz and Rubem Fonseca"

 

Gesine Müller (Universität Potsdam)

Comment

 

Discussion

 

13.15-14.45

Lunch Break

 

14.45 – 17.00

Panel C: Conceptions of Womanhood in Caribbean Literature

Moderation: Julia Borst (Universität Hamburg)

 

Ana Mateos

"(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Mismatched Metaphors: White Women and Slavery in Morúa Delgado's Sofía"

 

Gudrun Rath (Universität Konstanz)

Decolonization of Gender/Genre in Haiti Noir

 

Georgette Mitchell

(Columbia University/Rutgers University)

"Une rencontre avec l’Unheimlich: liminalité, fracture, et théâtralisation de frontières dans Amour, Colère et Folie de Marie Chauvet"

 

Coffee Break (15 min.)

 

Anne Brüske (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

Comment

 

Discussion

 

19.00 – 21.00

Dinner

 

Friday January 25th

 

9.00 – 11.20

Panel D: Cultural Politics and Aesthetics as Decolonizations of Knowledge

Moderation: Pauline Bachmann

(Freie Universität Berlin)

 

"Anel Méndez Velázquez (Rutgers University)

Teaching Puertorriqueñidad: Decoloniality, Governmentality, and Gender in Puerto Rico, 1930s-1970s"

 

Céline Théodose (University of Edinburgh)

“'I let my husband at home and I was in the street...': The Street and the Deconstruction of Gendered Spaces in Martinique in the Context of the 2009 Social Movement"

 

Allison Harbin (Rutgers University)

Becoming Deterritorialized: Feminine Identities in the work of Caribbean Artists Roshini Kempadoo and Holly Bynoe

 

Annika McPherson

(Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)

Negotiating the Gendered ‘Human’ in Caribbean Literature and Criticism

 

Jana Gohrisch (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

Comment

 

Discussion

Coffee Break (10 min.)

 

11.30 – 12.40

Panel E: Caribbean Queerness – Crossing the Gender Threshold

 

Moderation: Ilka Brasch

(Leibniz Universität Hannover)

 

Wiebke Beushausen

(Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

“'Yuh uncle is a battyman': Sexualities and Queer Bodies in Makeda Silvera’s The Heart Does Not Bend and Selected Short Stories"

 

Martina Urioste-Buschmann

(Leibniz Universität Hannover)

"Queering the Hyphen: A Narrative Approach to Lesbian Diasporic Caribbeanness in Achy Obeja’s Memory Mambo"

 

Julia Roth (Freie Universität Berlin)

"Las Krudas Cubensis’ Queer Diaspora Hip Hop as ’New Caribbean Feminism’"

 

12.40-14.00

Lunch Break

 

14.00-14.50

Martha Zapata Galindo (Freie Universität Berlin)

Comment

 

Discussion

 

Coffee Break (25 min.)

 

15.15 – 16.45

Round Table: Final Discussion, Lessons Learned, Questions Raised, Conclusions, Future Projects

Moderation: Martina Urioste-Buschmann

(Leibniz Universität Hannover)

 

Von:  Martina Urioste-Buschmann

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