Minorities and Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990:
Intersections, Interventions, Interpolations
Organizers: Ela Gezen (UMass Amherst), Priscilla Layne (UNC Chapel Hill), Jonathan Skolnik (UMass Amherst)
Intersections, Interventions, Interpolations
Organizers: Ela Gezen (UMass Amherst), Priscilla Layne (UNC Chapel Hill), Jonathan Skolnik (UMass Amherst)
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday March 3rd, 2017
UMass Amherst
Campus Center Room 904-908
Friday March 3rd, 2017
UMass Amherst
Campus Center Room 904-908
9.30 a.m. Welcome and Coffee
9.45 a.m. Welcoming Remarks by Dean Julie Hayes (College of Humanities and Fine Arts)
10.00-11.15 a.m. Keynote Address (via Skype)
Leslie Adelson (Cornell University) The Future as Contested Ground: A Comparative Approach to Narrative Future-Making in E.S. Özdamar's 'On the Train' and Michael Götting's Contrapunctus
11.15 a.m.-12.30 p.m. Panel 1
Chair: Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth College)
Evan Torner (University of Cincinnati)
Uncanny Pasts, Afro-Futures: Sharon Dodua Otoo's Synchronicity (2014)
Krsna Santos (Michigan State University)
From Ghetto to Goethe: German Hip-Hop's Decolonial Refugee Politics
Britta Kallin (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Oliver Polak, Dave Davis, and Serdar Somuncu: German Comedians Work Against Stereotypes and Discrimination
12.30 p.m.-2.00 p.m. Lunch (for participants)
2.00 p.m.-3.30 p.m. Panel II
Chair: Alicia Ellis (Colby College)
Christiane Steckenbiller (Colorado College)
“Immer bunter:” Minority Discourses in Contemporary Berlin
Johanna Schuster-Craig (Michigan State University)
Germany's First Integration Law
Kevina King (UMass Amherst)
Tools and Tolls of Germanness: Institutional Racism and Racial Profiling
3.30 p.m.-4.15 p.m. Coffee Break
4.15 p.m. Screening of TransPolitix & Uyan Uyan! followed by a discussion with DJ İpek İpekcioğlu
6.30 p.m. Dinner (for participants)
8.00 p.m. - 11. 00 p.m. "Auftaktparty" with DJ İpek İpekcioğlu (Amherst Room, Campus Center)
Saturday March 4th, 2017
Amherst College
Pruyne Lecture Room, Fayerweather Hall
Amherst College
Pruyne Lecture Room, Fayerweather Hall
9.25 a.m. Shuttle Pick-up to Amherst College
10.00 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Keynote Address
Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) German Orientalism and Antisemitism
11.15 a.m. -12.30 p.m. Panel III
Chair: Damani Partridge (University of Michigan)
Farid Hafez (University of Salzburg)
Public and Scholarly Debates on the Comparison of Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Germany
Joshua Shelley (UNC Chapel Hill)
Moses and German Jewish, Turkish German Resonances
Christine Achinger (University of Warwick)
Modernity and its Discontents – Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Racism
12.30 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. Lunch (for participants)
2.00 p.m.- 3.30 p.m. Five Colleges Undergraduate Research Panel
Shannon Lenihan (UMass), Daniel Navas (Amherst College), Rebecca Reichel and Muyuan Li (Mount Holyoke College), Siraj Sindhu (Amherst College), Ria Geguera and Anna Moreland (UMass)
3.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Panel IV
Chair: Angelica Fenner (University of Toronto)
Olivia Landry (Stanford University)
Beyond Duty and Hybridity – Black German Cinema and Sheri Hagen's Auf den zweiten Blick (2012)
Karina Griffith (University of Toronto)
The Cinematic Tent City: Autodidact Films of African Refugee Claimants in Berlin
Berna Güneli (Grinnell College)
Young, Diverse, and Polyphonic Film: The Cases of Amelia Umuhire and Ilker Catak
Meryem Deniz (Stanford University)
A Renegotiation between Ethnos and Demos: Postmigrant Theater in Germany
5.30 p.m. Reading by Olga Grjasnowa (via Skype)
6.30 p.m. Dinner (for participants)
9.00 p.m. Shuttle Pick-up to Hotel UMass
10.00 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Keynote Address
Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) German Orientalism and Antisemitism
11.15 a.m. -12.30 p.m. Panel III
Chair: Damani Partridge (University of Michigan)
Farid Hafez (University of Salzburg)
Public and Scholarly Debates on the Comparison of Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Germany
Joshua Shelley (UNC Chapel Hill)
Moses and German Jewish, Turkish German Resonances
Christine Achinger (University of Warwick)
Modernity and its Discontents – Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Racism
12.30 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. Lunch (for participants)
2.00 p.m.- 3.30 p.m. Five Colleges Undergraduate Research Panel
Shannon Lenihan (UMass), Daniel Navas (Amherst College), Rebecca Reichel and Muyuan Li (Mount Holyoke College), Siraj Sindhu (Amherst College), Ria Geguera and Anna Moreland (UMass)
3.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Panel IV
Chair: Angelica Fenner (University of Toronto)
Olivia Landry (Stanford University)
Beyond Duty and Hybridity – Black German Cinema and Sheri Hagen's Auf den zweiten Blick (2012)
Karina Griffith (University of Toronto)
The Cinematic Tent City: Autodidact Films of African Refugee Claimants in Berlin
Berna Güneli (Grinnell College)
Young, Diverse, and Polyphonic Film: The Cases of Amelia Umuhire and Ilker Catak
Meryem Deniz (Stanford University)
A Renegotiation between Ethnos and Demos: Postmigrant Theater in Germany
5.30 p.m. Reading by Olga Grjasnowa (via Skype)
6.30 p.m. Dinner (for participants)
9.00 p.m. Shuttle Pick-up to Hotel UMass
Sunday March 5th, 2017
Hampshire College
West Lecture Hall in Franklin Patterson Hall
Hampshire College
West Lecture Hall in Franklin Patterson Hall
9.15 a.m. Shuttle Pick-up to Hampshire College
10.00 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Keynote Address
Damani Partridge (University of Michigan) Refugee Futures and Holocaust Heritage: European Dilemmas in “Teaching Democracy’’
11.15 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Panel V
Chair: Karen Remmler (Mount Holyoke College)
Maya Caspari (University of Leeds)
Touching Histories: Multidirectional Memory in Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther
Kristin Dickinson (University of Michigan)
Planetary Perspectives on the Archive in Özdamar's Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde
Nick Block (Boston College)
Shared Spaces: Jewish-Muslim Relations in 21st-Century German Culture
1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. Lunch Break
2.30-3.15 p.m. Lecture-Performance by Daniel Kojo Schrade (Hampshire College)
3.15 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Concluding Remarks Sara Lennox (UMass Amherst)
4.30 p.m. Shuttle Pick-up to Hotel UMass
10.00 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Keynote Address
Damani Partridge (University of Michigan) Refugee Futures and Holocaust Heritage: European Dilemmas in “Teaching Democracy’’
11.15 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Panel V
Chair: Karen Remmler (Mount Holyoke College)
Maya Caspari (University of Leeds)
Touching Histories: Multidirectional Memory in Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther
Kristin Dickinson (University of Michigan)
Planetary Perspectives on the Archive in Özdamar's Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde
Nick Block (Boston College)
Shared Spaces: Jewish-Muslim Relations in 21st-Century German Culture
1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. Lunch Break
2.30-3.15 p.m. Lecture-Performance by Daniel Kojo Schrade (Hampshire College)
3.15 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Concluding Remarks Sara Lennox (UMass Amherst)
4.30 p.m. Shuttle Pick-up to Hotel UMass
This event is funded by the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at UMass, the Max Kade Foundation, the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UMass, German and Scandinavian Studies at UMass, the Department of History at UMass, the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at UMass, the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at UMass, the Graduate School at UMass, the Program of Modern European Studies at UMass, the Department of German Studies and the Department of Jewish Studies at Smith College, the Department of German and Dean of Faculty at Amherst College, the Department of German Studies at Mount Holyoke College, the School of Critical Inquiry, the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, and the Program of Art History at Hampshire College, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the Five College Lecture Fund.