Dear all, although the emphasis here is perhaps
understandably on France, there's plenty that is or
could be relevant to German Studies as well. Also from
H-German.
Debbie

--- Will Gray <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
> 
> From: Sara Lennox <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: CONF: Black European Studies in
> Transnational Perspective
> Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2006
> 
> CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
> 
> 2nd International BEST Conference:
> "BLACK EUROPEAN STUDIES IN TRANSNATIONAL
> PERSPECTIVE"
> 
> Organizers:
> Black European Studies Program at the
> Johann-Gutenberg-University  
> Mainz in cooperation with the
> Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut of the Free  
> University Berlin and the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung,
> Berlin
> 
> Date, Place:
> 
> 27-29 July
> Friedrich-Meinecke Institute/ Free University Berlin
> Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
> 
> 30 July
> Heinrich Böll-Foundation
> Rosenthaler Str. 40-41, 10178 Berlin
> 
> 
> The Center for Black European Studies of the Johann
> Gutenberg  
> University Mainz, in cooperation with the
> Friedrich-Meinecke- 
> Institut/ Free University of Berlin, the Heinrich
> Böll Foundation and  
> ASU Berlin, is pleased to announce the 2nd
> International Conference  
> on Black Europe, "Black European Studies in
> Transnational  
> Perspective", to be held at the Free University of
> Berlin, Germany,  
> July 27 - 30, 2006.
> 
> Within Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, the African
> Diaspora has long  
> been recognized as an important concept. The history
> and culture of  
> African populations violently transported to the
> "New World" via the  
> slave trade are the subjects of vigorous scholarly
> debates. The  
> history of Black (Continental) Europeans, however,
> still remains  
> largely unknown. Over the last two years, the Black
> European Studies  
> Project (BEST) has emerged as an international forum
> of exchange for  
> scholars of this under-researched subject.
> 
> The first BEST conference, "Challenging Europe -
> Black European  
> Studies in the 21st Century" was held in November
> 2005 in Mainz,  
> Germany. It was conceived as a small, intense
> workshop, taking  
> inventory of research on Black populations in
> various European  
> nations, including Eastern Europe and Turkey, and
> exploring the  
> theoretical and methodological challenges faced by
> the emerging  
> interdisciplinary and transnational field of Black
> European Studies.
> 
> The 2nd International BEST Conference will endeavour
> to continue  
> these debates in a broader context. This public,
> interdisciplinary  
> encounter will facilitate cross-disciplinary
> discussion of previous  
> scholarly research but will above all promote the
> development of new  
> theoretical perspectives on Black Europe that might
> potentially  
> inform both academic and political discourse. It
> will thus enable  
> direct exchange among scholars working in the area
> of Black European  
> history; it will encourage the formation of on-going
> scholarly  
> networks focused on particular research questions;
> and it will help  
> to make Black Europeans and their history as well as
> present visible  
> beyond the bounds of academic discourse.
> 
> 
> CONFERENCE PROGRAM
> 
> Thursday, 27 July 2006
> 
> (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke Institute/ Free
> University Berlin:  
> Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem/ Tel.: (030) 838
> 53328/  
> www.friedrich-meinecke-institut.de)
> 
> 2:00     Registration
> 
> 3:30     Opening Words and Introduction to BEST
> 
> 4:30     Keynote:  Lily Golden, Russia:  "New Trends
> in Movements of  
> Diaspora"
> 
> 6:00     Multimedia Presentation:  "Writing Black
> Austrian History -  
> Remapping Austria"
> 
> 6:30     Reception
> 
> 
> Friday, 28 July
> 
> (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke Institute/ Free
> University Berlin:  
> Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem/ Tel.: (030) 838
> 53328/  
> www.friedrich-meinecke-institut.de)
> 
> 9:30 	Panels
> 
> 1.  Visual Encounters - Black Representations in
> Early Modern Europe I
> 
> 2.  The Enlightenment and Its Other I -
> Constructions of Blackness  
> and Whiteness
> 
> 3.  Visual Arts I:  Blackness in Film, Music, and
> Exhibitions
> 
> 4.  Theorizing Literature I
> 
> 
> 10:45   Keynote:  Sabine Broeck, University of
> Bremen:  "Rethinking  
> Europe:  Slavery and the Constitution of White
> Modern Europe"
> 
> 
> 11:30	Panels
> 
> 1.  Comparing the USA and Europe: Case Studies
> 
> 2.  Theorizing Black Europe
> 
> 3.  Theorizing Literature II
> 
> 4.  Empirical Study of Black European Identities
> 
> 
> 2:00	Panels
> 
> 1.  Visual Encounters - Black Representations in
> Early Modern Europe II
> 
> 2.  The Enlightenment and Its Other II - Race,
> Nation, Gender in France
> 
> 3.  The Black Atlantic:  From the 18th Century to
> the Present
> 
> 4.  New Media, Race, and Images:  Visualizing
> Colonialism
> 
> 
> 3:45     Panels
> 
> 1.  Representation of Blackness in (Post)Socialist
> Europe:  Film and  
> Media
> 
> 2.  Representing Blackness after World War II
> 
> 3.  Visual Arts II:  Blackness in Painting and
> Religion
> 
> 4.  Gender Politics
> 
> 
> Saturday, 29 July
> 
> (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke Institute/ Free
> University Berlin:  
> Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem/ Tel.: (030) 838
> 53328/  
> www.friedrich-meinecke-institut.de)
> 
> 9:30     Panels
> 
> 1.  Variations on Self-Representation
> 
> 2.  Postcolonial Literature
> 
> 3.  Blackness in France:  Theory and Practice
> 
> 4.  Enlightenment and the Present
> 
> 
> 10:45   Keynote:  Stephen Small, University of
> California, Berkeley:   
> "The Empire Strikes Back!  Class, Gender and the
> Black Presence in  
> Europe"
> 
> 11:30   Panels
> 
> 1.  Colonial Soldiers
> 
> 2.  Place and Displacement
> 
> 3.  Nation, Identity, and Race
> 
> 4.  Body Politics
> 
> 
> 2:00     Panels
> 
> 1.  Representation of Blackness in (Post)Socialist
> Europe:  Public  
> Discourses
> 
> 2.  Comparing the USA and Europe:  Theorizing the
> Diaspora
> 
> 3.  Text - Identity - Education:  Traditions of
> Representation
> 
> 4.  When Governments Fail:  The Black Struggle for
> Human Rights
> 
> 5.  African Diaspora Communities:  Places,
> Positioning and Media  
> Representation
> 
> 
> Sunday, 30 July
> 
> (Venue: Heinrich Böll-Foundation/ Rosenthaler Str.
> 40-41, 10178  
> Berlin/ Telefon: 030 - 28 534 400/ Internet:
> www.boell.de)
> 
> 10:00   Keynote:  Wangui wa Goro, Kenya/UK:  "Power,
> Identity, and  
> Knowledge Development in Global Contexts: 
> Translation as a Tool for  
> Dialogue"
> 
> 10:45   Opening, Student Project "Mohrenstr."
> 
> 11:15   Keynote:  Michelle M. Wright, University of
> Minnesota:  "Pale  
> By Comparison: Black European Identity and the
> African American  
> Normative"
> 
> 11:45   Concluding Discussion:  Black European
> Studies:   
> Perspectives, Network, and Visions
> 
> 1:00     Lunch Buffet
> 
> 
> FOR INFORMATION ABOUT REGISTRATION, CONTENT OF
> PANELS, CONFERENCE  
> PARTICIPANTS AND TITLES OF PAPERS, CONFERENCE
> LOCATION, AND HOUSING,  
> PLEASE SEE THE BEST WEBSITE:
> 
> <www.best.uni-mainz.de>
> 
> OR CONTACT:
> 
> Peggy Piesche
> Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität
> Psychologisches Institut
> Staudingerweg 9
> D - 55099 Mainz
> Germany
> Tel.: +49 (0) 6131 39 22244
> Fax: +49 (0) 6131 39 25655
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> 



		
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