Blackness Imagery and Colonial Fantasies in CEE Modernism(s)

Programm

Wednesday, 20 September 2023 Arrival Day / Check-in Thursday, 21 September 2023 10:00 Welcome Petra James / Jana Kantoříková / Alfrun Kliems 10:30–11:30 Keynote Culture and Race in the Habsburg Empire: 1848–1918 Pieter M. Judson (Florence) 11:30 Coffee Break 11:45–12:30 František Kupka, Freidenker, und seine Illustrationen für L’Homme et la Terre von Elisée Reclus, Anarchist-Humanist Markéta Theinhardt (Paris) 12:30–13:15 Artistic Representations of „Racial Mixing“ in Czech Modernism Jana Kantoříková (Berlin/Paris) 13:15 Lunch Break 15:00–15:45 My Little Indigenous Neighbour: Colonial Gazes among East Central Europeans Alfrun Kliems (Berlin) 15:45–16:30 Race, Ethnicity, the Post- and the De-Colonial: Metaphors(?) to Bring Down Hierarchical Structures Beáta Hock (Leipzig) 16:30 Coffee Break 17:00-17:45 White Menʼs (and Womenʼs) Négritude: The Critique of Civilization in Narrative Literature of French and German Avantgardes in the 1920s Urs Urban (Berlin/Weimar) 17:45-18:30 Entgrenzte Avantgarden: Zur Reziprozität von osteuropäischem Modernismus und afrikanischen Poetik-Bewegungen Nadjib Sadikou (Flensburg/Chicago) 19:00 Dinner Friday, 22 September 2023 9:00–10:00 Keynote Gutta, Bella and the Others: African Women under the European Gaze Markéta Křížová (Prague) 10:00 Coffee Break 10:15–11:00 Gendered Tensions of Blackness in Cyganka Aza (Starycʼkyi) and V nediliu rano zillja kopala (Kobylianʼska) Gesine Drews-Sylla (Würzburg) 11:00–11:45 On Colonial Bodies: Poetics and Politics of Blackness in Russian Modernism Anita Frison (Padua) 11:45 Coffee Break 12:00–12:45 Strategic Racializations of the Slav in German Colonial Literature Kristin Kopp (Columbia) 12:45–13:15 On the Concept of Racism: Theory and Practice Manuela Božadijev (Berlin) 13:15 Light Lunch