Presents the First Annual International Workshop in the Duke-Bremen Series:
Transcultural Humanities -
Between Globalization and Postcolonial Re-Readings of History
University of Bremen,
June 17 – June 19, 2006
Gästehaus der Universität Bremen, Teerhof 58
Program:
Saturday, June 17, 2006
14.00 Conference Opening
14.15 – 15.30 Keynote Address: Walter Mignolo (Duke)
Decolonial Humanities and Corporate Values
Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.00 Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Berkeley)
The Role of Ethnic Studies in the New Humanist Revolution
17.00 – 18.00 Ottmar Ette (Potsdam)
‘Ici est un autre’: Writing ‘After’ Migration and Survival Knowledge in Cécile Wajsbrot and Sherko Fatah
Coffee Break
18.30 – 19.30 Madina Tlostanova (Moscow, Bremen)
Between Intellectual Mimicry and Neo-Imperial Revival:
The Humanities of the Ex-Second World in the Global Epistemic Context
Dinner
Sunday, June 18, 2006
09.00 – 10.00 Gabriele Dietze (Berlin)
Critical Occidentalism
10.00 – 11.00 Jean-Paul Rocchi (Paris)
Queering Historiography: Body Consciousness and the Re-Reading of the (Post)Colonial South African Experience
Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30 Manuela Boatca (Eichstätt)
Narcissism Revisited: Social Theoretical Implications and Postcolonial Antidotes
Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.00 Sérgio Costa (Sáo Paulo, Flensburg)
Deprovincializing Sociology: Postcolonial Contributions
15.00 – 16.00 Markus Wachowski (Bremen)
Shiite Islam: Being Rational within the Irrational: A Weberian Approach beyond the Occidental Bias
Coffee Break
16.15 – 17.15 Anja Bandau (Berlin)
Transnational Autobiography, Border Literature, and the Analytical Tools of the Transcultural
17.15 – 18.15 Mark Stein (Münster)
Censorship and Transcultural Frameworks of Reception: The Production of ‘Behzti’ by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
Coffee Break
18.30 – 19.30 Sabine Broeck (Bremen)
Transcultural Projects: A Challenge to the Humanities
Monday, June 19, 2006
09.30 – 10.30 Alexandra Karentzos (Trier)
Optical Encyclopedism: Critical Encounter between Postcolonial Art and Art History
10.30 – 11.30 Christophe Singler (Besancon)
Frontiers of Visual Culture: Power of Taste, Taste of Power?
Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.00 Bernal Herrera (Costa Rica)
Modernity and Colonial Worlds
Lunch Break
14.30 – 15.30 Louise Meintjes
Sound Knowledge and Global Flow: Zulu Repercussions in a South African Studio
Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.00 Tiago de Oliveira Pinto (Sáo Paulo, Berlin)
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Local Organizers: INPUTS (Prof. Dr. Sabine Broeck, Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel)
In cooperation with
- Doktorandenkolleg Universität Bremen: Prozessualität in transkulturellen Kontexten: Dynamik und Resistenz
- Center for Global Studies, Duke University
The organizers wish to thank theSparkasse Bremen for their support.
Contact: PD Dr. Ulf Schulenberg (FB 10):uschulen@uni-bremen.de, INPUTS: febel@uni-bremen.de
last updated June 2006