Konferenz
"Not So Plain as Black and White: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the
Afro-German Experience"
"Not So Plain as Black and White: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Afro-German Experience" will be held at the State University of New York at Buffalo's North Campus October 12 and 13, 2000. Africans have been in Germany since the 1400s, and Afro-German children have been born to couples as diverse as German colonial settlers and African women and African American GIs and their German "Frolleins" after World War II. Today there are 500,000 Afro-Germans. Speakers will address the questions of race, identity, and belonging that have emerged in this context. Professor Anne Adams of Cornell's Department of Africana Studies will give the keynote speech, "The Souls of Black Volk." To begin the meeting, "Everything Will Be Fine," an award-winning comedy about Afro-Germans today, will be shown at Hallwalls Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. A full day of presentations and films will follow on Oct. 13 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the university's North Campus and from 8 to 10 p.m. at Hallwalls. For information contact Patricia Mazon,(716) 645-2181 x 584, (716) 645-5954 (fax) or mazon@acsu.buffalo.edu.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Not So Plain as Black and White: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Afro-German Experience
Thursday,
Opening Program. October 12 Hallwalls, 2495 Main Street, Suite 425, Buffalo.
8 p.m. Introduction, Professor Reinhild Steingrver-McRae, Humanities, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
Screening of "Everything Will Be Fine" (Alles Wird Gut), subtitled. Angelina Maccarone's award-winning comedy explores issues of racism and sexuality in the frantic lives of two Afro-German women today. Screenwriter Fatima El-Tayeb will be present. Reception follows.
Friday,
Morning sessions. October 13 Park Hall 280, North Campus.
8:30 a.m. Coffee and croissants.
9 a.m. Welcome, Dean Kerry Grant, College of Arts & Sciences, SUNY-Buffalo.
Introduction, Professor Patricia Mazn, History, SUNY-Buffalo.
Keynote Address. "The Souls of Black Volk." Professor Anne Adams, Africana Studies, Cornell University.
10:15 a.m. Coffee break.
10:30 a.m. Historical Perspectives on Afro-Germans "Colonial Contacts: The Negotiation of Race and Ethnic Identity in the German Empire." Professor Krista Molly O'Donnell, History, William Paterson University. "'We Are Germans, We Are Whites, and We Want to Stay White!' African Germans and Citizenship in Early 20th-Century Germany." Dr. Fatima El- Tayeb, History, University of Hamburg. Comment, Professor Heidi Gengenbach, History, SUNY-Buffalo.
12 p.m. Lunch. Clemens Hall 120, North Campus. Simultaneous screening of "Toxi" (FRG, 1950s; 84 min., no subtitles). A girl born to an African American GI father and German mother, Toxi is left with a German family, which after some hesitation cares for her. In the end, though, her father takes her "home."
Afternoon sessions. Park Hall 280, North Campus.
2 p.m. "Sociological, Psychological, and Cinematic Assessments of African American Occupation Children in Postwar Germany." Professor Heide Fehrenbach, History, Emory University. Comment, Professor David Gerber, History, SUNY-Buffalo.
3 p.m. "Alterity and Postwar German Film." Professor Randall Halle, Modern Languages, University of Rochester. Comment, Professor Masani Alexis De Veaux, Women's Studies, SUNY-Buffalo.
4 p.m. "Writing Diasporic Identity: Afro-German Autobiography." Professor Leroy T. Hopkins, Foreign Languages, Millersville University. Comment, Professor Christian Onikepe, Modern Languages, SUNY-Buffalo.
Evening program. Hallwalls.
6 p.m. Dinner for conference participants.
8 p.m. Screening of "An Angel Strikes Back" (Ein Engel schlaegt zurueck), subtitled. A film by Angelina Maccarone featuring multiculturalism in Germany today.
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