International Symposium on Racism, Slavery, and Literature
Organised by Wolfgang Zach and Ulrich Pallua
on behalf of the English Department, the Research Area “Cultures in Contact” and the Centre for the International Study of Literatures in English
Where: Innsbruck University
When: 2 - 5 December 2008
PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 2 December: Kaiser-Leopold Saal
(Karl Rahner Platz 3, Faculty of Theology, Innsbruck University)
- 17:00 Opening Dinner at our Conference Centre (AK-Bildungshaus Seehof)
- 8:15 Departure to Kaiser-Leopold Saal at the City Centre
- 19:00 Welcome and Opening
Opening Lecture
Chair: Ursula Moser, Innsbruck University, Austria
Claude Couture, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
“Race and Racism in French Canada and Francophone Québec”
- Buffet
Wednesday, 3 December: AK-Bildungshaus Seehof
Hungerburg, Gramartstrasse 10 (100 metres from bus J or funicular)
- From 7:00 Breakfast
- 8:45 – 9:45
Chair: Andrew Carpenter, University College Dublin, Ireland
Wolfgang Benz, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Berlin, Germany
“The Construction of Modern Antisemitism: From Race Ideology to Genocide”
- 9:45 – 10:45
Aldo Morrone, NIHMP, Rome, Italy
“Migration, Poverty and Health: a Challenge for the Third Millennium”
- 11:15 – 12:15
Andrew Milne-Skinner, Innsbruck University, Austria
“Liverpool’s Slavery Museum: a Blessing or a Blight?“
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:15 – 16:00
Section I
Chair: Claude Couture, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Mario Klarer, Innsbruck University, Austria
“Eroticizing Slavery: J.G. Stedman’s Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolting Negroes of Surinam (1796)”
Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan, University of Zagreb, Croatia
“Interculturality and (Post)Colonialism: Ethnicity, Nationalism, Cultural Memory and Identity!”
Yasue Arimitsu, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
“Nation and Literature: Literary Possibilities in a Multicultural Society”
Section II
Chair: Gad Heuman, University of Warwick, UK
Brigitte Glaser, University of Göttingen, Germany
“Crossing the Border: Illicit Relationships in Colonial Literature”
Christian Anieke, Institute of Ecumenical Education, Enugu, Nigeria
“Different Faces of Slavery: Slavery in the Traditional Igbo Society versus European Style of Slavery”
Andreas Exenberger, Innsbruck University, Austria
“Human Cargo: The Economics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”
- 16:30 – 18:15
Section I
Chair: Dave Gunning, Birmingham University, UK
Anthony Barthelemy, University of Miami, USA
“Fictions of Benevolence: Huck Finn and the Residual Cruelty of Slavery”
David Luis-Brown, University of Miami, USA
“The Figure of the Poor White in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!”
Donathan Brown, Syracuse University, USA
“On Creating Negative Difference: George Fitzhugh and Negro Slavery”
Section II
Chair: Santosh Sareen, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
Lucy Collins, University College Dublin, Ireland
“Fred d’Aguiar and the Politics of Return”
Susanne Pichler, Innsbruck University, Austria
“Traumas in History: Slavery in Fred d’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts”
Rüdiger Ahrens, University of Würzburg, Germany
“Ethical Norms and Ethnic Frictions in the Novels of J. M. Coetzee”
- 18:30 Dinner
Thursday, December 4: AK-Bildungshaus Seehof
- From 7:00 Breakfast
- 8:45 – 9:45
Chair: Dianne Yerbury, Macquarie University, Australia
James Walvin, University of York, UK
“Atlantic Slavery in History and the Modern Imagination”
- 9:45 – 10:45
Gad Heuman, University of Warwick, UK
“Slave Rebellions in the Americas: A Hemispheric Perspective”
- 11:15 – 12:15
Wolfgang Zach/Ulrich Pallua/Adrian Knapp/Cynthia Rauth
”English Literature and Slavery: The Abolition Period“
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:30 Meet at the Lobby of our Conference Centre for Guided Tour of the City and visit to the Christmas Market
- 18:30 Conference Dinner at Restaurant ‘Goldener Adler’ (City Centre next to the ‘Golden Roof’, Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse 6). After dinner transport back to our conference centre)
Friday, December 5: AK-Bildungshaus Seehof
- From 7:00 Breakfast
- 8:45 – 9:45
Chair: James Walvin, University of York, UK
Joseph Ikechukwu Chidobem, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria
“Petroleum Politics in Nigeria as a Source of Modern Slavery”
- 9:45 – 10:45
Dave Gunning, Birmingham University, UK
“Complicated Family-Related Shit”: Ethnicity Politics and/as Racism in Contemporary Black British and British Asian Literature”
- 11:15 – 12:15
Wolfgang Dietrich, Innsbruck University, Austria
“Racism, the Other and the Idea of Peaces”
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:15 – 16:00
Section I
Chair: David Luis-Brown, University of Miami, USA
Thomas Spielbüchler, Innsbruck University, Austria
“Ethnicity as a Stumbling Block in Postcolonial Africa“
Andreas Oberprantacher, Innsbruck University, Austria
“Bare Life. Sovereignty, Bio-power and Modern Slavery in Contemporary Political Theory“
Josef Berghold, Innsbruck University, Austria
Psychological Perspectives on Racism and Democracy as Fundamental Opposites“
Section II
Chair: Anthony Barthelemy, University of Miami, USA
Santosh Sareen, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
“Racism, Slavery and Ethnicity as non-issues in Indian Society and Literature”
Annabell Marinell, Innsbruck University, Austria
“On the Path from Racial Planning to Reconciliation - Australia's Stolen Generations”
Srilata Ravi, University of Western Australia, Australia
“Grieving Islands: History, Memory and the Chagossian Tragedy”
- 16:30 – 17:30
Section I
Chair: Brigitte Glaser, University of Göttingen, Germany
Laurie Cohen, Innsbruck University, Austria
“The ’Other’ Image of Women Antimilitarists, Or Watching Women Duel”
Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New Orleans
“They Call Her ‘Ida May’: Truth, Fiction, and Race After the Fugitive Slave Act”
Section II
Chair: Lucy Collins, University College Dublin, Ireland
Andrea Strolz, Innsbruck University, Austria
“Mapping Cultural Memory in Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999)”
Giovanna Covi, University of Trento, Italy
“The Politics and Ethics of Translation Between Racisms: Caribbean and American Racialized Identities in Italian”
- 17:30 – 18:15 Summing up and Farewell
- 18:30 Dinner
Saturday, December 6: AK-Bildungshaus Seehof
- From 7:00 Breakfast
Further Information from the Organisers:
wolfgang.zach@uibk.ac.at
ulrich.pallua@uibk.ac.at