Temporalities and Power. Oppression | Resistance | Justice

Large Language: An Afro-Queer Hallucination

Lecture Performance and Poetry Reading by Logan February

In Cooperation with Literaturhaus Bonn. Further information can be found here.

8:30-9 a.m. Registration

9-9:30 a.m. Welcome address

9:30-11 a.m. Reading by Dominique Haensell & Open Discussion

11-11:30 a.m. Coffee break

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Panel 1: Postmigrant German Literature and Film

Eva Goldbach (HU Berlin): “Past Futures and Frozen Present: Temporal Violence and Resistance in ‚postmigrant‘ German Literature”

Hannah Willcox (Greifswald University): “‘Uns gehört die Zukunft’ – Futurity, Belonging and Postmigration in Contemporary German Literature and Film“

Insa Birkenhagen (FU Berlin): “Fabulation, Friendship and Fiction. Reading Shida Bazyar’s Drei Kameradinnen (2021) Through the Lense of Saidiya Hartman’s ‚Critical Fabulation‘”

1-2:30 p.m. Lunch break

2:30-4 p.m. Panel 2: Working With/Against the Archive

Norah El Gammal (Viadrina Frankfurt Oder University): “Faint Tracks. Engaging with Archival Silences in Tessa McWatt’s Shame on Me”

Marcelo Fornari Lopez (Barcelona University): “No Time at All: Temporal Refusals and Autotheoretical Form in Frank B. Wilderson III’s Afropessimism”

Emmanuel Adeniyi (Federal University Oye-Ekiti): “Clash of
Temporalizations? Mapping Colonial, Postmodern Temporalities and African Colonial Historiography in Heart of Darkness and The Sahara Testaments”

4-4:30 p.m. Coffee break

4:30-6 p.m. Panel 3: Temporalities and Nature. Out of Space, Out of Time

Hannah Pardey (HHU Düsseldorf): “‘Touching Time’: Resistant
Temporalities in Nineteenth-Century Sailors’ Diaries and Journals”

Bogdan Burghelea (HU Berlin): “Found at Sea, Lost on Land. Bridging Queer Temporalities and Brazilian Naturalism in Adolfo Caminha’s Bom-Crioulo (1895)”

Azzeddine Tajjiou (UMP Oujda): “Decolonial Spectral Ecologies: Jungle Agency and Temporal Refusal in Mittelholzer’s My Bones and My Flute“

7 p.m. Dinner

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9:30-11 a.m. Panel 4: Alternative Histories, Alternative Futures

Andrin Albrecht (Jena University): “The Child Is Dead—Or Is He? Fluid Histories and Story-Telling Pasts in Marlon James’s ‘Dark Star’ Trilogy”

Julia Siepak (Guglielmo Marconi University of Rome): “Resisting Settler Time: Indigenous Temporal Sovereignty in Louise Erdrich's Writing”

Magdalena Leichter (Innsbruck University): “Out of Time and In Defiance: Counterfactual Hopes, Utopian Counter-Memories, and the Temporalities of Resistance”

11-11:30 a.m. Coffee break

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Panel 5: Gendered Biopolitics, Feminist Revisitings

Sarah Lias Ceide (Heidelberg University): “Control the Womb, Control the World: Europe, Africa, and the Temporalities of Birth-related Knowledge“

Lahcen Ait Idir & Soukaina Aouaki (Hassan II University Casablanca): “Gendered Gaps in Narratives of Displacement: A Look at Nada Awar Jarrar’s An Unsafe Haven (2016)”

Charlotte Rathjen (Leipzig University): “Contested Lifespans in Literature: Female Aging as a Challenge to Chrononormativity in Gabriele Reuter’s Out of a Good Family”

1-2:30 p.m. Lunch break

2:30-4 p.m. Panel 6: Sensed and Seen. Temporalities in Visual Art

Kaimé Guerrero (UDE Berlin): “Ancestral Temporalities, Re-Turning, and Re-Configuring: Trans*-Indigenous Practices of World-Making”

Angelos Theocharis (Newcastle University): “Indigenous Temporalities: Tampuan and Bunong Audiovisual Storytelling from Cambodia”

Ana Catarina Pinho (IHA Nova University of Lisbon): “Fragments of an Imperial Time: Artistic Practice Undoing Dictatorial Narratives”

4-4:30 p.m. Closing remarks and departure

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