Thursday, 15 September
18.00-19.30
Keynote Speech: Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University): “The German Empire, the Atlantic Revolutions of the Nineteenth Century, and the Colonial Construction of the Precolonial”
Friday, 16 September
9.30-9.45
Introduction:
Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin)
Colonial Subjects and Identities
9.45-11.15
Ulrike Schaper (FU Berlin): „Colonial subjectification at court? Trials as a means to become a colonial subject in Cameroon 1884-1916”
Marie Anna Muschalek (Cornell University): „Honor and Respectability: Formations of Violent Identities in the Colonial Police Force of German Southwest-Africa“
Chair: Sebastian Conrad
11.15-11.45
Coffee Break
German Colonialism and Islam
11.45-13.15
Sebastian Gottschalk (FU Berlin): „Colonial Rule and Islam in West Africa: German North Cameroon and British Northern Nigeria compared”
Armin Owzar (University of California, San Diego): „From Interdenominational to Interreligious Competition: Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam in Colonial Africa, Germany and Europe, 1890-1920“
Chair: Sebastian Conrad
13.15-14.30
Lunch
German Colonialism compared – European and African Dimensions
14.30-16.00
Ulrike Lindner (Universität Bielefeld): "German colonialism within the development of European imperialism. Common features - exceptional aspects"
Felicitas Becker (University of Cambridge): „What difference did German colonialism make? Comparing colonial legacies in Tanzania and Kenya“
Chair: Jürgen Osterhammel
16.00-16.30
Coffee Break
From Africa to Poland? German Colonialism in Eastern Europe
16.30-18.00
Dörte Lerp (Europa-Universität Viadrina): „Farmers to the Frontier. Settler Colonialism in the Eastern Prussian Provinces and German Southwest Africa”
Patrick Bernhard (FRIAS): „From Libya to the Generalgouvernement. Italian colonialism as a model for the German planning in Eastern Europe“
Chair: Jürgen Osterhammel
Saturday, 17 September
Postcolonial Germany and the Memory of Colonialism
10.00-11.30
Emma Hunter (University of Cambridge): „Language, empire and the world: Karl Röhl and the entangled history of the Swahili Bible in East Africa“
Britta Schilling (University College London): „Imperial Heirlooms: the Private Memory of Colonialism in Germany“
11.30-12.00
Coffee Break
12.00-12.45
Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College): „Bandung in Germany: Postcolonial Education Migrations in East and West“
Chair: Richard Evans
12.45-14.00
Lunch
Exhibiting World Orders – Colonial and Postcolonial
14.00-15.30
Christof Dejung (Universität Konstanz): „Time travels through the world. Temporal and spatial orders on world fairs in the colonial period“
Katherine Pence (Baruch College): “The West German Scramble for Africa: Exhibiting Cold War Competition in the Age of Decolonization”
Chair: Barbara Könczöl
15.30-15.45
Coffee Break
15.45-16.30
Final Discussion
16.30
End of the Conference