Conference schedule:
Friday, 21 April, Hampden Gallery/Southwest Residential Area
4:00 - 7:00
Art Opening and Reception
Paintings by Daniel Kojo Schrade / Video works by Ingrid Mwangi
7:30 - 9:30 Performances by Olumide Popoola (spoken-word poetry) and Patrice (acoustic reggae/neo-soul)
Saturday, 22 April, lsenberg School of Management 137
9:00 - 10:30 Race and Modernity
Fred Moten (University of Southern California), "Black Kant (Pronounced Cant)"
Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis), "After the Invention of Race: Racial Discourse in Germany from Kant to National Socialism"
10:45 - 12:15 Race, Colonialism, and Imperial Germany
Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University), "Bismarck Bell and Booker T. Washington in the Black Atlantic's Berlin"
Sara Pugach (Ohio State University), "A Case of Mistaken Identity: Africans, Germans, and Definitions of Blackness in the Kaiserreich"
2:00 - 3:45 The Black Presence in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
Christian Rogowski (Amherst College), "Black Voices on the Black Horror on the Rhine?"
Tobias Nagl (University of Massachusetts), "Afro-Germanic Doublings: Fragments, History, Identity"
Maria Diedrich (Universitat Munster), "Black Others? African Americans and Black Germans in the Reich"
4:00 - 6:30 Blackness in Two Germanies
Heide Fehrenbach (Northern Illinois University), "Black Occupation Children and the Devolution of the Nazi Racial State"
Randolph Ochsmann (Universitat Mainz), "German Brown Babies in the Fifties: Personal Accounts"
Peggy Piesche (Universitat Mainz) "Relocating 'Race': The GDR and its 'Other'- Black Images in Visual Culture"
Jason Owens (South Dakota State University) "Namibia's 'GDR Kids' from Cadres to Catalysts"
8:30 Artists' Roundtable
Patrice (Bart-Williams), Olumide Popoola, Daniel Kojo Schrade
Sunday, 23 April, lsenberg School of Management 137
9:00-10:30 Race and the Visual Archive
Tina Campt (Duke University), "Capturing the Black German Subject: Race and Gender in the Visual Archive"
Jurgen Heinrichs (Seton Hall University), "Against Race: The Universal Aesthetics of Marc Brandenburg"
10:45-12:15 Black Diasporic Thought and Contemporary Germany
Alexander Weheliye (Northwestern University), "A Volk to Come: Black Germans and the African Diaspora"
Nicola Laure al-Samarai (TU Berlin), "History, Theory, Experience: Diasporic Perspectives in Black German Thought"
2:00-3:45 Black Diasporic Thought and Contemporary Germany
Damani Partridge (University of Michigan), "Travelling Through the 'Black' Body and Finding the German Nation"
Michelle Wright (University of Minnesota), "Blackness and Its Discontents: Modernity and the Afro-German"
Fatima El-Tayeb (University of California at San Diego), "Queering Ethnicity? Beyond the Black Paradigm"