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Report on the workshop Entangled Histories

http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=3242


Entangled Histories: Reflecting on Concepts of Coloniality and Postcoloniality

Workshop: May 28th /29th 2010

Friday 28th May

Session for PhD-students of the BGHS Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Room V 221
13.30-15.30
Entangled Histories: Comparative Perspectives on Empires and Postcoloniality
Olaf Kaltmeier, Ulrike Lindner, Binu Mailaparambil

Start of the international workshop Bielefeld University, Room U 2-200
Evening lecture
16.00-19.00 Elizabeth Buettner (University of York) "'This is Staffordshire not Alabama': Racial Geographies of Commonwealth Immigration in Early 1960s Britain"

19.00 Dinner


Saturday 29th May

Bielefeld University, Room C 01-239
9:30-10.00
Welcome to the Conference
Introduction: The use of postcoloniality/ coloniality in a global context

Olaf Kaltmeier, Ulrike Lindner, Binu Mailaparambil

10.00-12.00
Colonial /postcolonial governance (chair: Christian Büschges, Bielefeld)
Michael Pesek (Berlin): Foucault hardly came to Africa. Colonial and postcolonial spaces of governmentality
Thoralf Klein (Erfurt): The Other German Colonialism? Power, Conflict, and Resistance in a German-speaking Mission in China, c. 1850-1920.
Nira Wickramasinghe (Leiden): Colonial Governmentality: A Critique

12.00-13.00 lunch break

13:00-15:00
Flows of knowledge (chair: Angelika Epple, Bielefeld)
Felix Brahm (Bielefeld): ?Techniques éprouvées au cours des siècles?. African students at the Paris grande école of overseas administration, 1951-1967
Julia Tischler (Bielefeld/Köln): Orders of modernity: The Kariba Dam project in the Central African Federation.
Ute Schneider (Essen): The international worldmap

15.00-15:30 coffee break

15:30 -17:30
Changing identity formations in a colonial/postcolonial world (chair: Elizabeth Buettner, York)
Eva Bischoff (Münster): ?The Cannibal Within: White Masculinity in (Post)Colonial Germany, 1880-1933?
Stephan Scheuzger (Zürich): ?Representations of Emancipation: Postcoloniality, Marxism and Nation in Latin America from José Carlos Mariátegui to the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional?
Sebastian Knake (Bielefeld): ??Dreadlocks and golden necklaces?. Cultural entanglements between the Jamaican dance-hall-scene and US Hip-Hop?

17:45 -18:45 Concluding discussion with round table (Buettner, Büschges, Epple, Kaltmeier, Lindner Mailaparambil)


Organization: Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier, Dr. Ulrike Lindner

The workshop is supported by the BGHS Bielefeld.

Registration/Contact:
Please register until 14 May 2010

Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier/ Dr. Ulrike Lindner
Fakultät Geschichtswissenschaften
Universität Bielefeld
Universitätsstr. 25
33615 Bielefeld
Email:
olaf.kaltmeier@uni-bielefeld.de
urike.lindner@uni-bielefeld.de