Reconfiguring Black Europe
When: Saturday, 5 November 2016
Where: Room 243, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
How can we dislocate European Blackness (as ontology, identity, or ideology) from its implicit racial-historical point of departure in order to arrive at as-yet undefined conceptualizations of subjectivity,
belonging, and aesthetics? What does Blackness mean in/for Europe? What elements of Blackness or Black diasporic identity are privileged in European discourses and how do these configurations solidify hegemonic expectations of racial/gendered/classed normativity?
This event aims to foreground less explored/familiar paradigms of Blackness throughout Europe with the intention of unsettling what has become taken for granted in contemporary discussions of 'Black Europe'.
Programme
09.00-11.00 Session 1
Jean Beaman (Purdue): The ‘French Barack Obama’: Boundaries
of Blackness and the North African Second-Generation in France
Valerie Anishchenkova (Maryland): Caucasian ‘Blacks’ and
the Construction of Russian National(ist) Identity in the Post-Soviet Space
Nile Davies (Columbia): Concerning the Cultural: Stuart Hall
and the Problem of Migration in Modern Britain
Charles Leavitt (Reading): The ‘Southern Question’ and the
‘Negro Question’ in Italy
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.45 Session 2
Alessandro Buffa (Naples, L’Orientale): The Black Mediterranean:
A Counter-Geography of Sound
Paul J. Edwards (Boston): Black Kultur:
The New Negro Challenge to Weimar Germany
Stuart Green (Leeds): Title TBC
12.45-13.30 Lunch (own arrangements)
13.30-15.00 Session 3
Julia Prest (St Andrews): Black or Post-Black Performance?
Ronald Samm Plays Otello
Enza De Francisci (UCL): European (Sicilian) Blackness: Giovanni
Grasso’s Othello in London
Elizabeth Stewart (Cambridge): Reconfiguring Othello in Turkish-German Terms? Iconoclastic
Alliances and Questions of Casting in Perceval/Zaimoglu-Senkel's Othello
15.00-15.15 Tea
15.15-17.15 Session 4
Carmen Fracchia (Birkbeck, London): Picturing “Blackness”
in Imperial Spain
Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken (CUNY): Cosmopolitanism and ‘Black
Europe’: How the Culture Industry Shapes Narratives of Suffering
Malinda Rhone Midkiff (Maryland): Blackness
from Brooklyn to Britain: An Exploration of Color and Context
Antonia Dawes (LSE): Title TBC
17.20-18.00 Round-Table
Chairs: Emma Bond (St Andrews) and S.A.
Smythe (Santa Cruz)
Workshop Organisers: Emma Bond (St Andrews/IMLR) and S.A. Smythe (California/IMLR)
Programme [PDF] (19.9.16)
Attendance free of charge, but places are limited and will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. To reserve a place, or for more information, please email [log in to unmask]" target="_blank">[log in to unmask] (Registration
closes on 21 October 2016)
This Workshop is organised under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the University of St
Andrews
With all best wishes.
Katia Pizzi
Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies
Director, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory
Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU