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Abstracts and Conference program for the Symposium "Multiculturalism and Beyond: Identity Politics, Cultural Difference, and Hybridity in the Americas" (July 22-25, 2009) |
| 08.- 11.10. |
Inaugural Conference of the Research
Group: E Pluribus Unum? - Ethnic Identities in Processes
of Transnational Integration in the Americas
Call for Papers
Further information [List of Lectures, Abstracts] |
Thursday, 2-6pm, Long Table Room, ZiF
| 16.10. | Constitutional Session of the Research Group E Pluribus Unum? |
| 23.10. | Introduction to Citavi and Wiki |
| 30.10. |
Conflict and Violence in the Field of Identity Politics
Peter Imbusch (Marburg) |
| 06.11. |
The Field of Politics and the Field of Identity Politics
Heinrich Schäfer and Adrián Tovar |
| 13.11. |
Critique on "From the Flap of a Butterfly's Wing in Brazil to a Tornado in Texas?: Approaching the Field of Identity Politics and Its Fractal Topography" by Sebastian Thies and Olaf Kaltmeier
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (Bielefeld) |
| 20.11. |
Inter-American Studies and Transnationalism in the Field of Identity Politics
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez |
| 27.11. |
Intersections of Gender and Ethnicity
Elisabeth Tuider |
| 04.12. |
Paul Ricoeur and Michel de Certeau
Jens Gurr |
| 11.12. |
Niklas Luhmann: Wissenschaft als Passion
Salvador Millaleo Self-Reflection through Video Footage Libia Villazana |
| 18.12. |
De- and Reconstructions of Identities Alfonso de Toro (Leipzig) |
| 08.-09.01. |
Symposium "Ethnicity Under (Visual) Construction in the Americas: Workshop on Communication Analysis"
[Further information] [Program] |
| 22.01. |
Theory Reading Session: Mapping Media Theory
Daniela Opitz, Sebastian Thies |
| 29.01. | Wikiworkshop |
| 05.02. | Canceled! |
| 12.02. |
Quantitative Methods in Media Analysis José Carlos Lozano (Monterrey); Moderator: Libia Villazana |
| 19.02. |
Etnicidad y el sujeto transnacional en el cine Libia Villazana; Moderator: Adrián Tovar |
| 26.02. |
Theory Reading Session: Mapping Media Theory Annete Rukwied, Madalina Stefan; Moderator: Astrid Haas |
| 05.03. |
Ethnicity, Media Participation and Cultural Citizenship Lorena Frankenberg (Monterrey); Moderator: Alexander Greiffenstein |
| 12.03. |
Theory Reading Session: Mapping Media Theory
David Wood (México D.F.); Moderator: Annete Rukwied |
| 16.-18.03.
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Conference "Mediating Ethnic Identity in the Americas: Ethnic Filmmaking
and Film Politics in Globalizing Markets"
with Iván Sanjinés and Marta Rodriguez; Organisation: Sebastian Thies and Libia Villazana [Call for Papers] [Preliminary Program] |
| 18.-20.3. |
Conference "EthniCities: Metropolitan Cultures and Ethnic Identities in the Americas"
(funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung)
Organisation: Olaf Kaltmeier, Jens Gurr, Martin Butler [Program] |
| 23.03. |
Urban Imaginaries in the Americas
Maria Herrera Sobek (Santa Barbara) & Alicia Ortega (Quito) |
| 02.04 | Wiki-Workshop |
| 06.-13.04. | Osterferien |
| 15.04
18-20 h Hörsaal 16 |
The autonomy of the own gaze. A mestizo methodology for a
mestizo society (Colloquium of the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology)
Sarah Corona Berkin (Guadalajara) |
| 16.04.
9:30-18:00h |
Intercultural Education in the Americas
International Workshop (Org. Olaf Kaltmeier & Juliana Ströbele-Gregor) Program |
| 21.04.
18-20h (S2-147) |
Berufliche Integration von Migrantinnen aus
Lateinamerika in der Schweiz (In cooperation with the Research Colloquium InterAmerican Studies)
Yvonne Riaño (Bern) |
| 23.04. |
Theory Reading Session: Urban Studies Stephan Lanz |
| 28.04. 18-20h (S2-147) |
To be announced (In cooperation with the Research Colloquium InterAmerican Studies) Stephan Lanz |
| 30.04. |
Doing research in multi-local contexts: Methodological implications. Potentials and limitations of multi-sited ethnography Yvonne Riaño (Bern) |
| 05.-07.05. | Symposium "Selling EthniCity. Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas" |
| [further information] | |
| [Program] |
| 12.05. 18-20h (S2-147) |
Crisis económica, crisis social y su impacto en la niñez mexicana (In Kooperation mit dem Forschungskolloquium InterAmerikanische Studien)
Ricardo López Santillan (Mérida) & Sylvia Meichsner (London) |
| 14.05. |
Ethnic Identities in Urban Spaces
Ricardo López Santillan (Mérida) & Sylvia Meichsner (London) |
| 18.-20.05. |
Symposium "'Cornbread and Cuchifritos': Ethnic Identity Politics, Transnationalization, and Transculturation in American Urban Popular Music" |
| [further information] |
| 28.05. |
Architecture of Fear and Urban Violence
Sofia Mendoza & Ulises Zarazúa (Guadalajara) Juliana Ströbele Gregor (Berlin) |
| 3.06. Wednesday |
Arte indigena en Chiapas (en Español) Luca d' Ascia (Pisa) |
| 4.-7.06. | DGfA Conference |
| 11.06. | Corpus Christi Day - No jour fixe |
| 18.06. |
Language, Ethnicity, and Identity Politics Stephan Gramley (Bielefeld), Judith Carvajal Mora, Paloma Coatlicue Rodríguez Villarruel, Antonio Magaña Macias (all three: Guadalajara) |
| 25.06. |
Engendering Ethnicity - The Biographical Approach in Defining Identities
Cornelia Giebeler (Bielefeld) Identity Politics in the Works of Sigrid Nuñez Luz Angélica Kirschner (Bielefeld) |
| 29.06.-01.07. |
Symposium "Beyond Borders: Reconceptualizing Fine Lines, Fences, and Frontiers in the Americas"
Organisation: María Herrera-Sobek (UC Santa Barbara) & Josef Raab (Univ. Duisburg-Essen) |
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[Preliminary Program] [Poster of the Symposium] |
| 29.06.-14.8. |
Art exhibit Las Mujeres Nobles de la Frontera/ Noble
Women of the Borderlands of the Mexican-American artist Santa Barraza Opening lecture by Santa Barraza on June 29 Further Information [pdf] and [MS Word] |
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| 09.07. |
Intercultural Education and Citizenship: The Cases of USA, Canada and Bolivia Juliana Ströbele-Gregor (Berlin) |
| 16.07. |
9-12h: Discussion of dissertation projects (Mansfeld, Greiffenstern, Boens) 14-16h: Asian Americans, the "Model Minority"? Ruth Hsu (Hawai'i) 16-18h: Indigeneity and Identity Politics in the Andes Guillaume Boccara (Paris) |
| 22.-25.07. |
Founding Conference of the International Association of
Inter-American Studies: Multiculturalism and Beyond: Identity Politics, Cultural Difference, and Hybridity in the Americas |
| [More Information] | |
| [Preliminary Program] |
2004-2008: "Ethnization and de-ethnization of the political. Negotiations on inclusion and exclusion in Andean and south asian spaces";
geleitet von Christian Büschges und Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
Project of the SFB 584 "The Political as communicative space in history"
[further information]
Jan. 2008: Conference: "Latina/o Images for the 21st Century" (organized by Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez/ Josef Raab/ Sebastian Thies)
funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
[further information]
Jun. 2007: DFG-Conference: "Colonialisms and the Culture of Writing: Language and Cultural Contact in Colonial Discourse Traditions" (organized by Sebastian Thies/ Barbara Job/ Rosa Yáñez)
[further information]
Dec. 2006: DFG-Conference: "Of Fatherlands and Motherlands: Gender and Nation in the Americas" (organized by Sebastian Thies/ Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez/ Luzelena Gutiérrez)
[further information]
Nov. 2005: DFG-Conference: "ImagiNations: Documentaries and the Narration of Nation in the Americas" (organized by Sebastian Thies/ Josef Raab)
[further information]
Apr. 2005: Conference: "E pluribus unum?: National and Transnational Identities in the Americas" (organized by Sebastian Thies/ Josef Raab)
[further information]
Oct. 2002: Conference: "Hybrid Americas: Contacts, Contrasts, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures" (organized by Josef Raab)
funded by VolkswagenStiftung
[further information]
