* Enlightenment & its Presuppositions: Early Modern History
_ Moderator: Peggy Piesche/ University of Mainz
1. John Brackett,
University of Cincinnati:
Alessandro De’ Medici, 1529-1537: Europe’s First Black Prince?
2. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze,
DePaul University:
Black European Intellectual History: Perspectives From Philosophical Traditions
3. Dienke Hondius,
Free University Amsterdam:
Africans in the Early Modern Netherlands
4. Agustin Lao-Montes,
University of Mass., Amherst:
An (Other) Europe: Toward a Genealogy of Afro-Hispanic Difference
5. Pap Ndiaye,
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris:
Writing a history of Blacks in France
6. Dwain C. Pruitt,
Emory University:
Nantes Noir: Living Race in the City of Slavers
* (Pop) Cultural Productions
_ Moderator: Tobias Nagl/ University of Mass., Amherst
1. Kanika Batra,
Loyola University:
Performing Blackness and Sexuality
2. Alessandra Di Maio,
University of Palermo:
Black Italia
3. Nicola Lauré al-Samarai,
Technical University, Berlin:
History, Theory, Experience: Aspects of Diaspora in Black German Feminist Thought
4. Tobias Nagl,
University of Mass., Amherst:
Counterfeit Discourse: Black German Articulation in the Weimar Republic
5. Maboula Soumahoro,
Université François Rabelais, Tours:
J’suis pas venu en touriste ! French Rap and the debate over Race and Racism : A Long Gone Decade of Black Protest, 1992-2000
6. Alexander G. Weheliye,
Northwestern University:
Dieses Lied ist eine Hymne für mein Volk das es so noch nicht gibt: Minoritarian Strategies in Afro-German Popular Music
* Theorizing Blackness Europe wide
_ Moderator: Sara Lennox/ University of Mass., Amherst
1. Allison Blakely,
Boston University:
Black Identity and Invisibility in Europe
2. Maisha R. Eggers, Humboldt University, Berlin:
Black Children in Germany - Identity development and concepts of [political] Consciousness Raising
3. Terri E. Givens,
University of Texas, Austin:
Black Politics in a Multicultural Europe
4. Young-sun Hong,
Stony Brook, NY:
Theorizing Black Europe From a Global Perspective
5. Elisa Joy White,
University of Hawai`i:
Blacks in Postcolonial Europe: The Case of the African Diaspora in Ireland
* Cultural Politics
_ Moderator: Gloria Wekker/ Utrecht University
1. Rada Bogdacenco,
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.:
The History of African Transnationalism in Romania
2. Yacoub Cisse,
Norwegian Business School:
Africans in Norway. A scattered community… small African community in Danmark-Norway
3. Nadine Golly,
University of Oldenburg:
About being Black and Danish
4. Anna Rastas,
University of Tampere, Finland:
Racialised relations in Finland
5. Lena Sawyer,
Mid-Sweden University, Östersund:
Black and Swedish: Racialization and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in Stockholm
6. Tracy Fisher,
Univeristy C. Riverside:
Rethinking the Political: Black Women’s Grassroots Activism in Britain
* Questioning Notions of Blackness and Europe
_ Moderator: Fatima El-Tayeb/ UC San Diego
1. Kelly Brewer,
Sabanci University, Istanbul:
Black Turks: (Self)representation at the Crossroads of the Ottoman Legacy and Contemporary African Migration
2. Karima Laachir,
University of Birmingham:
African Diaspora in France
3. Maxim Matusevich,
Seton Hall University:
Africa, Africans, and Africanness in Soviet Popular Culture and Imagination
4. Michaela Mudure,
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania:
The Black Romanians. A Question of Race or a Question of Gypsiness?
5. Irina Novikova,
Stony Brook, NY:
Black Baltics
Regional Workshops
(with scholars across all disciplines)
* Northwest (Netherlands, Scandinavia, UK, Ireland, Germany)
* Southwest (Spain, France, Italy)
* East (Finland, Russia, Baltic states, Rumania, Turkey)
