(Post-) Colonialism Across Europe. Transcultural History and National Memory

(Post-) Colonialism Across Europe. Transcultural History and National Memory

Veranstalter
Professor Dr. Axel Dunker, Universität Bremen; Professor Dr. Dirk Göttsche, University of Nottingham, Großbritannien; INPUTS (Institut für Postkoloniale und Transkulturelle Studien, Universität Bremen)
Veranstaltungsort
Gästehaus der Universität Bremen, “Teerhof”, Auf dem Teerhof 58, 28199 Bremen
Ort
Bremen
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
13.09.2012 - 15.09.2012
Deadline
10.09.2012
Website
Von
Prof. Dr. Dirk Göttsche

This conference explores the cultural history of colonialism and its contemporary legacies across Europe. It seeks to reconfigure Postcolonial Studies through comparative, transnational inquiry into European cultural history, memory and identity from the nineteenth century to the present day. Moving beyond Britain, the United States, and France, the traditional focus of postcolonial inquiry, the conference papers make original contributions to international Postcolonial Studies by considering the cross-cultural dynamic of colonialism and postcolonial migration in countries such as the Netherlands, Denmark, Estonia, Croatia, Germany, Austria, Portugal, and the former Habsburg Empire and by inter-relating the methodologies of Postcolonial Studies with research in Cultures of Memory. Examining public discourse, journalism, scholarship, literature, theatre, and film, the conference explores how involvement in and critique of colonialism has transformed European identities and cultures, combining global impact with regional diversity, and how (post-) colonial memory, intersecting with other (national) memory discourses, shapes European identities today. The conference also aims to create a platform in Comparative Postcolonial Studies across Europe.

Location: University Guest House “Teerhof”, Auf dem Teerhof 58, 28199 Bremen
Contact for inquiries and registration: Mrs Wu, email: bwu@uni-bremen.de,
tel. +49 (0)421 218-68060

Programm

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.

Kontakt

Frau Wu

Fachbereich10: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Universität Bremen, GW 2
28359 Bremen
+49 (0)421 218-68060

bwu@uni-bremen.de


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