Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to the daylong symposium 'Cultural Narratives of Race in the German Empire 1871-1945' held the University of Edinburgh on September 13th. It will explore the (dis)continuities of cultural narratives of race and its surrounding discourses in 19th and 20th century German history. Further objectives are to investigate the impact of race on popular cultural narratives and vice versa, to identify implicit mechanisms of appropriation in cultural production, and to question the use race as a monolithic conceptual framework for understanding or conceiving of a German nation and people.
We are very pleased to announce a keynote lecture by Tina Campt, Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University:
‘The Truth(s) of the Image: Race, Narrative and Black German Family Photography'
Program
8:30-09:00 Registration: School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Entrance
9:00-9:15 Welcome address by Lara Day Benjamin and Oliver Haag
Venue: Meadows Lecture Theatre
9:15 -10:30 Tina Campt keynote lecture
Venue: Meadows Lecture Theatre
10:30-10:45 Coffee break – McMillan Room
Session 1: 10:45-12:15
Venue: Meadows Lecture Theatre
Chair: Pertti Ahonen (University of Edinburgh)
Johanna Gehmacher (University of Vienna)
“German Women” and the “Community of the People”: Concepts of Female Participation and Narratives of Race in German-nationalist Movements: Austria and the German Reich after the First World War’
Eva Blome (University of Konstanz)
‘Miscegenation dystopian/utopian: Politics and Poetics in Colonial and Early Postcolonial Germany’
Lukas Bormann (University of Erlangen)
‘The Jewish CEO and the Lutheran Bishop: The impact of German colonial studies on the racial cultural narratives of young Jewish and Christian academics’
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch – McMillan Room
13:15 – 14:45 (N.B.: Sessions 2 & 3 are paralell)
Session 2:
Venue: Meadows Lecture Theatre
Chair: Christian Weikop (University of Edinburgh)
Markus End (T.U. Berlin)
„Die Zigeunerfrage“: The racially based antigypsyism in Tobias Portschy’s pamphlet
Sarah Panzer (University of Chicago)
‘Honorary Aryans?: Negotiating the Status of the Japanese in the Nazi Racial State’
Jeff Bowersox (University of Southern Mississippi)
‘Performing Race: Black Entertainers in Imperial Germany’
Session 3: 13:15 – 14:45
Venue: 1M.19, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Chair: Fabian Hilfrich (University of Edinburgh)
Ulrich Charpa (Leo Baeck Institute London/Ruhr University Bochum)
The Origin of the Germans. Narratives, Speculations, and Research Work
Arndt Kremer (University of Malta)
‘“Ist nicht die Sprache alles?“ The idea of a language defined Kulturnation in Germany versus racial-biological determinations of nationality
Nicole Perry (University of Vienna)
‘Karl May’s Winnetou: An Example of Anti-American Rhetoric’
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee – McMillan Room
15:00 – 16:30 Session 4
Venue: Meadows Lecture Theatre
Chair: Stephan Malinowski (University of Edinburgh)
David Moshfegh (U.C. Berkeley)
“On the Concept of Race in Islamwissenschaft”
Volker Zimmermann (Collegium Carolinum Munich/Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
‘A Question of “Race”? Crime Rates and Polish Population in the Eastern Provinces of Prussia (1871–1914)’
Arne Offermanns (University of Hamburg)
‘Ernst Lissauer – Advocating Deutschtum against Cultural Narratives of Race’
16:30 Symposium Close
Please note that registration for the Annual Conference of the German History Society begins at 17:00 in the entrance of the HCA building.
All locations are in the History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) Building of the University of Edinburgh: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/history-classics-archaeology/about-us/visiting-us
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