Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration: Intermedial Perspectives (25. - 26.02.2021)
International Conference
Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration: Intermedial Perspectives
25. - 26.02.2021 (Online via Zoom)
Funded by the German Research Foundation
Organised by Dr. Jennifer Leetsch (JMU Würzburg), Jr.-Prof. Dr. Frederike Middelhoff (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), PD Dr. Miriam Wallraven (JMU Würzburg)
The conference - originally planned for March 2020 - had to be postponed due to the spreach of Covid-19 and is now taking place online as a closed event. However, the keynote (Ananya Kabir), artisti intervention (Charl Landvreugt) and reading are (Olumide Popoola) public and free to attend, please register here (t1p.de/im2021-zoom) and also see the official conference website: https://imaginingmigration2020.wordpress.com/.
Programme
Thursday, February 25, 2021
10:30 Welcome and Introduction
Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff, Miriam Wallraven
Section 1: Visualizing Migration, Constructing Affective Knowledges
Chair: Patricia Kemmer
11:00 – 12:00 Kyung-Ho Cha (University of Bayreuth, GER): The Refugee Experience in Virtual Reality Documentaries
Christian Sinn (St. Gallen, CH): Problematised Reception in Aesthetic Representations of Migration
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
Section 2: Writing Migration, Configuring Knowledges I
Chair: Heike Raphael-Hernandez
13:30 – 15:30 Kai Wiegandt (Tübingen, GER): Western Migrant Fiction Between Mimesis and Mimicry
Katrin Dennerlein (JMU Würzburg, GER): Mobility in Contemporary German Historical Novels
Frederike Middelhoff (Goethe University Frankfurt, GER): Imagining Migration, (Not) Knowing Migration around 1800
15:30 – 16:30 Coffee Break
Artist Intervention, Followed by Roundtable Discussion
16:30 – 18:00 Charl Landvreugd (Rotterdam, NL):
Notes on Ososma: Imagining Spaces
Friday, February 26, 2021
Keynote, Followed by Roundtable Discussion
10:00 – 11:30 Ananya Jahanara Kabir (London, UK):
Moving Material: (Un)Making Migration through Dance
11:30 – 13:00 (Lunch) Break
Section 2: Writing Migration, Configuring Knowledges II
Chair: Zeno Ackermann
13:00 – 14:30 Miriam Wallraven (JMU Würzburg, GER): “No narrative to make sense of what had happened”: The Genres of Narrating Migration during the Yugoslav Wars in English-Speaking Literature
Corina Crişu (University of Bucharest, ROM): Stories in the Stepmother Tongue: Eastern European Immigrant Women Writing in English
Carmen Zamorano Llena (Dalarna University, SWE): Questioning the Distribution of the Sensible through ‘noeuds de mémoire’ in Rose Tremain’s The Gustav Sonata
14:30 – 15:30 Coffee Break
Section 3: Performing Migration, Staging Knowledges
Chair: Johannes Schlegel
15:30 – 17:00 Jennifer Leetsch (JMU Würzburg, GER): Black Men Walking (2018): Reconfiguring British Memory Landscapes through Migratory Theatre Practices
Heike Raphael-Hernandez (JMU Würzburg, GER): Imagining Protest: African Diasporic Visual Art and European Politics Concerning Mediterranean Sea Crossings
Burcu Dogramaci (LMU Munich, GER): Performing Migration: Želimir Žilnik, Nil Yalter and medial self-representation of “Guestworkers” in the 1970s
18:00 – 19:30 Public Reading and Discussion
Olumide Popoola (London, UK)
Drinks and Informal Get-Together Online Afterwards
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Organised by Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff, Miriam Wallraven