Symposia and Conferences
QUEERING POSTCOLONIAL WORLDS
THE 2023 POSTCOLONIAL NARRATIONS POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
We propose to organize the 2023 Postcolonial Narrations Forum under the title “Queering Postcolonial Worlds.” The
main objective of the conference is to probe and interrogate the overlaps and intersections between queer studies and postcolonial studies while maintaining a critical approach to disciplinary boundaries and their assumptions and limitations. In so doing, we establish continuities to the 2022 conference’s focus on “Postcolonial Matters of Life and Death” in productive ways.
Conference with conformed keynote speaker Shola Adenekan's “How Should a Heterosexual African Male Theorise Queer Africa in the Digital Age?”
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a panel workshop with Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Paula von Gleich, and Deborah Nyangulu "Cultivating Solidarity Networks in Academia”
MasterVision 2023 – Hybrid Conference on Literature, Linguistics, Culture and Media
MasterVision is the annual student conference, organised by students of the MA program English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media at the University of Bremen.
More Information: blogs.uni-bremen.de/maesc/2023/01/10/mastervision-2023-hybrid-conference-on-literature-linguistics-culture-and-media-february-22-23-2023/
Mundos plurales 2021
Conferencia digital: ?Mundos plurales: perspectivas actuales sobre las culturas, lenguas y literaturas de Guinea Ecuatorial“
18 May 2021, from 9.30 am until 6.30 pm (CEST, UTC+2)
A video conference on Equatoguinean cultures, languages and literatures, organized by Julia Borst (U Bremen), Max Doppelbauer (U Kiel) and Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr (U Basel), will take place as a videoconference via Zoom. The event is conducted in Spanish and is free and open to everyone.
To register please send an email to max.doppelbauer@univie.ac.at.
In collaboration with INPUTS, “The Spanish Black Diaspora” research project (funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), project n° 353492083) and the University of Vienna
Program:
| Time | Programa |
09.30-9.45 | Inauguración del congreso |
| 09.45-11.15 | Sesión 1 – Moderación: Max Doppelbauer |
Yolanda Aixelà Cabré (CSIC Barcelona): Bata, Ciudad Vilangwa, Mang: una fanguización glocalizada Gustau Nerín Abad (U de Barcelona): La mesa de la discordia. Cocina e identidades en conflicto en la Región Continental ecuatoguineana Miguel Gutiérrez Maté (U de Augsburgo): Nuevos testimonios y nuevas reflexiones sobre la etapa fundacional del espa?ol de Guinea Ecuatorial (1860-1890) Andrea Chagas (U de Mannheim): El espa?ol como factor de construcción de identidad dentro del discurso de la Hispanidad | |
| 11.15-11.30 | Pausa |
| 11.30-12.30 | Sesión 2 – Moderación: Julia Borst |
Joanna Boampong (U de Ghana): Acercamientos alternativos en la literatura de Guinea Ecuatorial. El blog de Juan Tomás Avila Laurel y los comics de Ramón Esono Ebalé Tim Christmann (U del Sarre): Retorno al trauma y retorno del trauma. Dos novelas de Juan Balboa Boneke y Horacio Castellanos Moya Nathalie Sagnes-Alem (U Paul Valéry Montpellier): Paisaje y desterritorializaci?n en la obra de Donato Ndongo Bidyogo: Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra | |
| 12.30-13.45 | Pausa |
| 13.45-14.45 | Sesión 3 – Moderación: Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr |
Adeline Darrigol (U Rennes 2): La gestión de la pluralidad lingüística en Guinea Ecuatorial: retos presentes y futuros Susana Castillo Rodríguez (SUNY Geneseo): Sociolingüística de Guinea Ecuatorial Justo Bolekia Boleká (U Salamanca): La resistencia de la lengua bubi en la reconstrucción cultural | |
| 14.45-15.00 | Pausa |
| 15.00-16.00 | Sesión 4 – Moderación: Elisa G. Rizo |
Jeanne Rosine Abomo Edou (U Maroua) Espacio y construcción de la memoria colectiva de los exiliados: aproximación afrofuturista de Panga Rilene de Juan Tomás ?vila Laurel Danae Gallo González (U Justus Liebig Giessen) Fa?m e mina y “Mina e? fam”: la homosexualidad en la novela ecuatoguineana contemporánea Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (U Justus Liebig Giessen) Diálogos con la muerte en la poesía de Justo Bolekia Boleká | |
| 16.00-16.30 | Pausa |
| 16.30-18.00 | Sesión 5 – Moderación: Joanna Boampong |
Véronique Solange Okome Beka (ENS Libreville): Mujerismo, interculturalidad y afrohispanismo: Matinga (2013) de Joaquín Mbomío Bacheng como medio de valoración de la identidad afrobantu Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (Murcia) Literatura e identidad Elisa G. Rizo (U Estatal de Iowa): Pluriverso y regeneración en el teatro de Guinea Ecuatorial Michael Ugarte (U de Missouri): Escritores y figuras culturales guineanos topan con la “iglesia” de la industria editorial espa?ola | |
| 18.00-18.30 | Clausura |
MasterVision 2.0: Online Conference on Literature, Linguistics, Culture, and Media
16 and 17 February, 2021
We, English-speaking cultures Master students at the University of Bremen, are delighted to announce that this year we will be holding the second version of the MasterVision conference directed to English-Speaking Cultures Master students at the University of Bremen who would like to share their research. We kindly invite you to participate in this online conference that is taking place on 16 and 17 February 2021. MasterVision 2.0 created by and for Masters students of English-Speaking Cultures provides students with knowledge and experience in academic work through discussion, research, and presentation with peers and the interested public. Presentations in this conference include a large range of subjects varying from Linguistics to Cultural History and Literary Studies.
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Kingsley Ugwuanyi
Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and world Englishes,
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Dr. Amalia Ortiz de Zárate
Professor of Literature, Theater and Culture
Universidad Austral de Chile
More Information: https://esc-ma-uni-bremen.wixsite.com/mstervision
Digital workshop "Diaspora and (post-)digitality: imagined communities in cyberspace", 28-29 August 2020 (via Zoom)
Organizers: Shola Adenekan, Julia Borst, Linda Maeding
The growing popularity of diaspora studies in the fields of cultural studies, is happening around the same time as diasporic movements are generating renewed interests in the news media, as well as in art and literature - a phenomenon that is associated with the effects of globalization, particularly transmigration and transnationalization. Increasing social digitization arguably involves a fundamental change for these communities.
The workshop takes on the task of theoretically exploring a fresh relationship between diaspora and (post-)digitality and using case studies to investigate how marginalized groups design themselves as decentralized “imagined communities” (B. Anderson) in the internet and actively shape their self-image. A crucial notion to be discussed is the concept of “digital diaspora” and its specificities as well as the consequences for diasporic communities’ practices of self-representation and performances.
Conference languages are: English, Spanish and German.
Open to an interested audience. Please contact maedinguni-bremen.de to get access to the ZOOM meeting.
This workshop is organized by the research lab "Digital Diaspora – Imagined Communities in Cyberspace" of the interdisciplinary and collaborative research platform ?Worlds of Contradiction“ (U Bremen).
With financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – project numbers 353492083 and 404354183 as well as the Spanish research project REC-LIT: Reciclajes culturales (project number RTI2018-094607-B-I00). In cooperation with the Institute for postcolonial and transcultural studies (INPUTS) and the Institut für kulturwissenschaftliche Deutschlandstudien (Ifkud), U Bremen
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien, 2019
Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water
At the University of Bremen, 30 May-02 June 2019
Organised by Knopf, Kerstin, with Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Michi Knecht, Thomas Stolz, Ingo Warnke
INPUTS International Symposium
“Karl Marx, Marxism, and the Global South”?
University of Bremen, City University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, 4-5 May 2018
“Karl Marx, Marxism, and the Global South”
Venue: City University of Applied Sciences, Neustadtswall 30, 28199 Bremen, S11/S12
Website: Karl Marx, Marxism and the Global South
Programme available here.
Third Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts (BCLL #3): “Postcolonial Knowledges”
March 15-18, 2016
Keynote Speakers
- Jeannette Armstrong (The University of British Columbia, Canada): “Syilx knowledges: A decolonial strategy”
- Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University): “Can Non-Europeans think? Intellectual traditions and decolonization of epistemology”
- Michel DeGraff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): “Local languages as technology for liberation in (neo-)colonial contexts: The case of Kreyòl in Haitian schools”
- Gloria Emeagwali (Central Connecticut State University): “Intersections between endogenous and hegemonic knowledge systems with a focus on Africa and Native America”
- Lisa Lim (The University of Hong Kong): “Paradox of the periphery: Postcolonial and postvernacular (re)positionings in 21st-century Asia”
- Sinfree Makoni (The Pennsylvania State University): “What does food have to do with multilingualism?”
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of different academic backgrounds to explore how knowledge systems, cultures, languages, and literary traditions have been affected by colonial and postcolonial conditions that are increasingly marked by contradictions, cultural heterogeneity, and transcultural processes. We are interested in the ways in which colonial and postcolonial constellations have been reflected, shaped, and negotiated by communication, symbolic practice, and knowledge practices.
We will look critically at ongoing knowledge production and Eurocentric ‘intellectual dominance’ (Emeagwali 2003) in knowledge centers and discourses around the world. We aim to crystallize decolonial strategies to challenge neocolonial tendencies in institutions of knowledge production and to probe the possibilities of integrating postcolonial knowledges into present knowledge discourses. Many collaborations and attempts to interlink Eurocentric and non-Eurocentric knowledge systems are already taking place, and scholars around the globe are producing alternative postcolonial visions of reality and the world that are embedded in non-European lives, ontologies, and philosophies (e.g. Armstrong 2009; Atleo 2009, 2011; Dogbe 2006; Garcés V 2012; Moctar Ba 2013).
To address these issues, this conference focuses on themes related to the marginalization and displacement of local knowledge systems and the endangerment of languages as well as on epistemological and language ideologies in colonial and postcolonial settings.
Conference Program
http://www.bcll.uni-bremen.de/schedule/
Conference Organizers
- Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf, Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Bremen
- Prof. Dr. Eeva Sippola, Postcolonial Language Studies, University of Bremen
Contact and Information
- Dr. Marivic Lesho, Dr. Janelle Rodriques
Download: BCLL #3 Call for Papers