German Post-/Colonial History in a Global Age

German Post-/Colonial History in a Global Age

Veranstalter
Free University of Berlin; Cambridge University
Veranstaltungsort
Free University Berlin, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Room 336
Ort
Berlin
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
15.09.2011 - 17.09.2011
Website
Von
Sebastian Conrad

In recent years, German colonial history has emerged as a vibrant field of scholarly debate. During the 1990s and early 2000s a growing number of studies focused on the cultural underpinnings, the discursive patterns and the Gender aspects of German colonialism and questioned the traditional assumption of colonialism as a one-way process of political domination and cultural diffusion. But only recently, scholars have begun to systematically explore the history of German colonialism beyond the spatial and temporal boundaries of the immediate colonial empire. In their work they not only compare German colonialism to the colonial politics of other imperial powers, but also address its transnational entanglements and situate it in the context of globalisation and the worldwide circulation of people, goods, and ideas. Moving beyond the older picture of colonialism as a short and inconsequential period of German history the postcolonial aftermath and the long-term cultural as well as political continuities have become an equally important issue.

The conference, hosted by the Free University of Berlin and organised in cooperation with Cambridge University, is generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. It is intended as a forum for the discussion and evaluation of these recent trends in the field and for the debate of its future directions.

Everyone is invited to attend; please contact Sebastian Gottschalk (s.gottschalk@fu-berlin.de)

Programm

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

Kontakt

Sebastian Gottschalk

Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Koserstr. 20
14195 Berlin


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