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PD Dr. Monika Albrecht (University of Vechta) with David Kim (University of California, Los Angeles) Funded by

Picture Credits »Bremer Elefant« (© Monika Albrecht) »›Die Akropolis in Athen‹ von Lancelot Théodore Comte de Turpin de Crissé« (© Lempertz Archiv) »Tallinna vabastajate monument« (© WikiCommons)

Postcolonialism and its New Discontents

Envisioning New Relations to the Colonial Past and Postcolonial Future

27–29 September 2017 Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover, Germany

Wednesday (27 September 2017) Seminar Room 3

10:00–11:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee 11:00–11:30 Welcome and Introduction Monika Albrecht (University of Vechta) 11:30–13:00 Moderator: Dirk Göttsche (University of Nottingham)

Commentator: Oliver Kozlarek (University of Vechta)

John Noyes (University of Toronto) »Humanism and National Liberation in the Postcolonial World«

Reinhart Kößler (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg i.B./Institute of Reconciliation and Social Justice, The University of the Free State, South Africa) »Postcolonial asymmetry. Coping with the Consequences of Genocide between Namibia and Germany«

13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:30 Moderator: Epp Annus (Estonian Literature Museum/ Ohio State University) Commentator: Peter Nitschke (University of Vechta)

Madina Tlostanova (Linköping University) »The Postcolonial Condition and the Decolonial Option«

Benedikts Kalnačs (University of Latvia) »Latvian Multiculturalism and Postcolonialism«

Karina Turmann (University of Marburg) »Bodies within the Empire: Medical Knowledge in the British Caribbean as a Scientific Tool of Colonialism, 1780–1830«

13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Moderator: Hala Halim (New York University) Commentator: Eva Eglāja-Kristsone (University of Latvia)

Françoise Lionnet (Harvard University/University of California, Los Angeles) »Postcolonial Creolizations?«

David Kim (University of California, Los Angeles) »Whither Postcolonialism?«

16:00 End of Conference

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Friday (29 September 2017)

Seminar Room 3

08:30–09:00 Welcome Coffee 09:00–10:30 Moderator: Madina Tlostanova (Linköping University) Commentator: Markus Schmitz (University of Münster)

Florian Krobb (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) »Accomodating ›Syrien im Krieg‹: Matrices of Colonialism, 1914–1917«

Dirk Göttsche (University of Nottingham) »Afrasian Prisms of Postcolonial Memory: German Colonialism in East Africa and the Indian Ocean universe in contemporary Anglophone and German literature«

10:30–11:00 Coffee break

11:00–13:00 Ph.D. Project Presentations III

Moderator: Jonas Nesselhauf (University of Vechta)

Alexander Bräuer (University of Rostock) »Looking for a Middle Ground: The Avon River Valley of Western Australia in the 1840s«

Julia Engelschalt (University of Bielefeld) »Science and Subalternity: Local Elites and Colonial Transformation in the Philippines, 1872–1916«

15:30–16:00 Coffee break

16:00–17:30 Ph.D. Project Presentations I

Moderator: Jonas Nesselhauf (University of Vechta)

Kaya de Wolff (University of Tübingen) »›Are we Postcolonial?‹: Public Debates and Reasoning on Germany’s Colonial Past and its Legacies«

Julien Bobineau (University of Würzburg) »Colonial Discourses and Postcolonial Identities in Belgium«

Elisabeth Hutter (University of Konstanz) »Between Helplessness and Heroism: Rhetoric of Adventure in German Colonial Literature«

17:30–19:00 Moderator: David Kim (University of California, Los Angeles) Commentator: Olaf Kaltmeier (University of Bielefeld)

Hala Halim (New York University) »The Pre-Postcolonial: Afro-Asian Literary Interrelations«

Robert J.C. Young (New York University) »Frantz Fanon and the Pathology of Freedom: The New Writings«

19:00 Dinner

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Thursday (28 September 2017)

Seminar Room 3

09:00–09:30 Welcome Coffee 09:30–11:00 Moderator: Florian Krobb (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) Commentator: Özgür Türesay (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)

Gregory Jusdanis (Ohio State University) »From Cuzco to Constantinople: Rethinking Postcolonialism«

Monika Albrecht (University of Vechta) »Unthinking Postcolonialism?«

11:00–11:30 Coffee break

11:30–13:00 Moderator: Françoise Lionnet (Harvard University/ University of California, Los Angeles) Commentator: Christine Vogel (University of Vechta)

Gabriele Dürbeck (University of Vechta) »Postcolonial Ecocriticism from the Perspective of the Cultural Discourse on the Anthropocene«

Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos (Panteion University of Athens) »Colonial Lifestyle and Nostalgia for the Ottoman Belle Époque in Greek Heritage TV Series«

13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:30 Time for recreation (for instance: Herrenhausen Palace Gardens)

15:30–16:00 Coffee break

16:00–17:30 Ph.D. Project Presentations II

Moderator: Jonas Nesselhauf (University of Vechta)

Florens Eckert (University of Bayreuth) »›Afro-Brazilians‹ in Togo as a Challenge for Colonial and Postcolonial Patterns of Thought«

Lina Brink (University of Tübingen) »Norms of Recognition — Media Representations of Women during Protests in Egypt since 2011«

Malte Kleinschmid (University of Hannover) »A postcolonial analysis of Students’ Ideas on Globalization«

17:30–19:00 Moderator: Benedikts Kalnačs (University of Latvia) Commentator: Maija Burima (Daugavpils University/ University of Latvia)

Epp Annus (Estonian Literature Museum/Ohio State University) »Why the Colonizer can’t take a day off? Colonial Subjectivities in the Soviet-era Baltics«

Dirk Uffelmann (University of Passau) »Postcolonial Theory as Post-Colonial Nationalism«

19:00 Dinner

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