Prof. Dr. Dirk Göttsche
Thursday, 13 September 2012
From 13.00 h Registration, coffee
14.15 h Welcome and introduction
Postcolonialism – Migration – Diaspora
14.45 h Isabel Hoving (Leiden): Dutch postcolonialism, multiculturalism and national identity in theory and literature
15.30 h Monika Albrecht (Limerick): German multiculturalism and postcolonialism in comparative perspective
16.15 – 16.45 coffee break
16.45 h Elke Richter (Bremen): Towards Europe: The phenomenon of migration from North Africa to Europe in recent French literature and film
European Colonialism Overseas in Postcolonial Perspective
17.00 h Paulo de Medeiros (Utrecht): Conceptualizing a post-imperial Europe from a lusophone perspective
17.45 h Natascha Ueckmann (Bremen): Modernidad instead of postcolonialism: Latin American ideas in European clothes
Friday, 14 September 2012
9.15 h Mark Stein (Münster): Memory and translocation: Bernardine Evaristo’s slave narrative in (re)verse
10.00 h Dirk Göttsche (Nottingham): Memory and critique of colonialism in contemporary German and English historical novels about Africa
10.45 – 11.15 coffee break
11.15 h Sarah DeMul (Leuven): Memory of colonialism in contemporary Belgian literature and art
12.00 h Kirsten Thisted (Copenhagen): Letters from Greenland. Danish colonialism from the individuals’ perspective
12.45 – 14.15 lunch break
Conceptualizing Internal European (Post-) Colonialism
14.15 h Tomo Virk (Ljubljana): Literary responses to internal European colonialism in comparative perspective
15.00 h Iulia-Karin Patrut (Trier): Conceptualizing German colonialisms within Europe
15.45 – 16.15 coffee break
Habsburg and the Baltics in Postcolonial Perspective
16.15 h Tiina Ann Kirss (Tartu): Legacies of Baltic-German culture and the ‘pathology’ of Baltic colonialism
17.00 h Anneli Saro (Tartu): Superimposed colonialisms in contemporary Estonian theatre and film
17.45 h Epp Annus (Tallinn): Baltic States in the Context of Soviet Colonialism
Saturday, 15 September 2012
9.15 h Marijan Bobinac (Zagreb): Cultural transfer between Croatia and German-speaking areas from a postcolonial perspective
10.00 h Milka Car (Zagreb): Literary legacies of the Habsburg Empire in postcolonial perspective
10.45– 11.15 coffee break
Colonialism and its Legacies in European Literature and Culture
11.15 h Florian Krobb (Maynooth): Intersections between colonial exploration, cultural memory and nation as ‘imagined community’ in the German/Austrian nineteenth century
12.00 hr Heike Bartel (Nottingham): Postcolonial readings of the cross-cultural and transnational Medea myth in contemporary European film, theatre and opera
12.45 – 14.30 lunch break
14.30 h Liesbeth Minnaard (Leiden): Exoticism in Dutch fin-de-siècle literature in comparative perspective
15.15 h Axel Dunker (Bremen): Orientalisms in twentieth-century and contemporary German literature
16.00 – 16.30 coffee break
16.30 h General discussion: how to take comparative postcolonial studies forward?
17.30 h End of conference
There is no conference fee and guests are welcome. They are requested to register with Mrs Wu, as indicated above.