International workshop

Race in Time

Historical perspectives on the contemporary matter of Blackness

We cordially invite all interested parties to the workshop ”Race in Time. Historical perspectives on the contemporary matter of Blackness“ organised by Nicholas R. Jones (Yale) and Monika Raič (HU Berlin). The workshop is scheduled to take place on Monday, 26 May 2025, within the premises of the Humboldt University main building, Unter den Linden 6, Lichthof Ost, from 1 to 7 p.m. A detailed account of the workshop can be found in the programme (https://www.romanistik.hu-berlin.de/de/aktuelles/raic_programme-race-in-time.pdf).

The workshop will be preceded by an informal book presentation and discussion in collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room (https://www.instagram.com/hopscotchreadingroom/?hl=de) on Saturday, 24 May at 7:30 p.m. at the premises of the project space AGIT (Nansenstraße 2, 12047 Berlin).

It is not necessary to register in advance for any of the events.

PROGRAMME

1 p.m. Welcome and introduction

1:30 p.m. Nicholas R. Jones, Yale University 
Keynote Cervantine Blackness

2:30 p.m. Monika Raič, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Response Loneliness and blackness in Argentine Literature. On Roberto Arlt’s “La isla desierta”

3:30 p.m. Joanne Brueton, University of London, Institute in Paris 
Rewriting the ‘grand récit’: palimpsestic fictions in Mbougar Sarr and Chamoiseau

4:30 p.m. Michail Leivadiotis, Freie Universität Berlin 
Canonised Blackness. Textual and visual hagiographic testimonies of black discourse in Byzantium

5:30 p.m. Juan Antonio Macías Amoretti, Universidad de Granada
Blackness and subaltern culture/s in the Afro-Arab context