Tracing Race & Racism

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THE MAKING OF MANKIND: TRACING RACE & RACISM

Whether in natural sciences, social and human sciences or humanities, race as a concept or central category has been widely contested and criticized. But CONTACT the construction of race is a crucial part in the pro- [email protected] cesses of making mankind. As an analytical category, it is intertwined with the emergence of disciplines in ORGANIZERS their respective epistemological contexts (e.g."sci- Lisa Baßenhoff, Andreas Becker, Ina Kiel, Julian Gärtner, entific racism"). The interdisciplinary conference will Lena Gumpert, Malika Mansouri, Malin Sonja Wilckens discuss connections to related discourses such as law, medicine, and health as well as philosophy. Further- WEB more, consequences such as structural racism, e.g. in www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs education, will be examined. VENUE The Annual Seminar is a renowned conference format Bielefeld University of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Soci- Building X ology (BGHS). In cooperation with the Collaborative Universitätsstr. 24 Research Center (SFB) 1288 "Practices of Comparing" 33615 Bielefeld | Germany international researchers at an early point in their careers will present their work on the construction of Conference: Room B2-103 © Diana Ejaita race and racism in an interdisciplinary framework. Public Keynote: Room E0-002 THE MAKING OF MANKIND:

A special part of the conference will be the artistic EVENING PROGRAMME ON 5 JULY TRACING RACE & RACISM confrontation with race and racism by Diana Ejaita Diana Ejaita and Ojudun Taiwo Jacob 4 - 6 July 2019 | 11th Annual Seminar and Ojudun Taiwo Jacob on Friday evening. Bunker Ulmenwall, Kreuzstr. 0, 33602 Bielefeld International Conference

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THURSDAY, 04 JULY 2019 11:30 Coffee Break SATURDAY, 06 JULY 2019

12:45 Arrival and Registration PANEL II: THE ETHICS OF COMPARISON - IN PRACTICE PANEL V: TRAVEL AND CONTACT ZONES 12:00 09:00 Chair: Paola Ravasio, Bielefeld University Chair: Simon Siemianowski, Bielefeld University Welcome Address by Angelika Epple and 13:45 Thomas Welskopp, Bielefeld University Sarah Lempp, University of Bayreuth: Doing Burrhus Njanjo, University of Cologne: "Contact Race via Comparison: Classification Work in Zones": Representing Race, Science, and Power KEYNOTE Affirmative Action Practices in Brazil Relations in the Movies Vénus Noire (2010) and A United Kingdom (2016) Nikita Dhawan, Justus Liebig University João Victor Nery Fiocchi Rodrigues, University 14:15 Giessen: What Difference does Difference Make? of Pennsylvania: Slavery, State Formation, and Robrecht De Boodt, K. U. Leuven: Validation Chair: Lena Gumpert, Bielefeld University Citizenship: A Comparative Historical Analysis by Proximity: Medical and Racial Discourse in of the United States & Brazil Sylva de Jonghe's 'Green Heart of Africa' 15:45 Coffee Break 13:00 Lunch @ Canteen Building X Christian Hoffarth, Institut für Personen- PANEL I: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION geschichte Bentheim: Like Marvels, Like 16:15 Chair: Franz Kather, Bielefeld University PANEL III: THE ETHICS OF COMPARISON - IN LITERATURE Monsters: Experiences of Otherness and the 14:00 Chair: Rebecca Moltmann, Bielefeld University Emergence of Racial Thought in Medieval Devin Vartija, Utrecht University: Natural European Travel Writing Equality and Racial Inequality: An Enlighten- Senjuti Chakraborti, Centre for Studies in Social ment Paradox? Sciences, Calcutta: De-racing the Literary Canon: 10:30 Coffee Break Representing Race in Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" Sophie Bitter-Smirnov, University of Graz: Are PANEL VI: SPACE & RACE 11:00 There Hybrid Human Beings? Polygenism and Julian Gärtner, Bielefeld University: Comparisons Chair: Mohamed Haikel Latiff, Bielefeld University Monogenism in the Context of Hybridism, and Chains: Narrative Ways of Constructing Race Domestication and Man's Place in Nature, in Tocqueville's Democracy and Beaumont's Marie Tathagato Ganguly, University of Delhi: 1750–1900 Making Race, Making Space/Place: Comunas PANEL IV: STRUCTURAL RACISM & EDUCATION Negras and Extractivism in Northern 15:30 Tatiane Muniz, Federal University of Rio Grande Chair: Helene Schlicht, Bielefeld University Esmeraldas, Ecuador do Sul: The Materialization of Race on Institutional Narratives Around Health Sheila Ragunathan, Goethe University Frankfurt: Meryem Choukri, University of London: Can Feminist Classrooms as Sites of Tension: Links Hamburg be Decolonised? Notes on Colonial 18:15 PUBLIC KEYNOTE Between Pedagogy, Affect, and Relations of Power Amnesia, Postcolonial Remembrance, and Racism Demetrius L. Eudell, Wesleyan University: Race Vildan Aytekin, Bielefeld University: Inclusion: and Caste: Toward a History of Comparison Organizing Incompatible Logics Within School L. Katherine Smith, Western Colorado Chair: Malin Sonja Wilckens, Bielefeld University University: Constructing Race at the Ends of the Dennis Röder, University of Augsburg: Back to the Earth: The Hollow Earth and Open Polar Sea 20:15 Conference Dinner @ Indikitchen, Herforder Str. 5-7 Future: The Invention of the Category "Racism" Theories in 19th Century American Literature and its Shifts in Meaning Between the 1920s FRIDAY, 05 JULY 2019 and 1960s. Didactical Potentials for the Ger- 12:30 Lunch (self-paid) @ Westend man History Classroom in the 21st century FINAL DISCUSSION 10:00 KEYNOTE 13:30 EVENING PROGRAMME: THE ARTIST'S VIEW Chair: Sabine Schäfer, Bielefeld University Manuela Boatcă, University of Freiburg: The Diana Ejaita Centrality of Race to Inequality Across the 19:30 World System Ojudun Taiwo Jacob Chair: Malika Mansouri, Bielefeld University Moderation: Ouassima Laabich