Friday workshops
31 MAY
11:30-13:00: Literature #4: The Pacific
Location: SFG 1040, Chair: Gigi Adair
- Ana Sobral, University of Zurich, Switzerland and Johannes Riquet, Tampere University, Finland: “Oceanic Encounters: A Book Project”
- Stefanie Mueller, University of Münster, Germany: “The ‘Poetry of Salt Water’: Archipelagic Thinking and Insular Knowledges in Herman Melville’s The Encantadas, or The Enchanted Isles”
- Sebastian Jablonski, University of Potsdam, Germany: “‘Betwixt and Between’” – Pitcairn Islanders as People in Colonizers’ Liminal Space”
11:30-13:00: Literature #5: African Waters
Location: SFG 1030, Chair: Mark Stein
11:30-13:00: Historical Oceans #3Location: SFG 1030, Chair: Mark Stein
- Tanimomo Oluseun, University of Bremen, Germany: “Narrating the Ocean: Figures of Environmental Degradation, Multinational Imperialism in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water”
- Jennifer Leetsch, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany: “Oceanic Refugee Imaginaries in Warsan Shire’s Poetry”
- Stephen Henighan, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada: “Transcontinental Waters: the Anti-Postcolonial Tide in Angolan Fiction and Film”
Location: SFG 1020, Chair: Eva Bischoff
- Varsha Patel, University of Kassel, Germany: “Memories, Royal Ports and Ruins of Sailing Boats: Sediments of Maritime Routes along the Bhāvnagar Coast, Western India, 1900-2015”
- Tobias Mörike, University of Erfurt, Germany: “Mapping the Red Sea (1869-1890)”
11:30-13:00: Oceanic Futuring
Location: SFG 1010, Chair: Rainer F. Buschmann
Location: SFG 1010, Chair: Rainer F. Buschmann
- Henryk Alff, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) and Anna-Katharina Hornidge, University of Bremen: “China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative and the Governance of Small Scale Fisheries in West Africa. Competition, Co-existence & Contestation”
- Epifania Amoo-Adare, Independent Scholar, Ghana: “Who Rules the Waves? A Critical Reading of (An)Other Modern Future”
11:30-13:00: Language & Discourse Studies
Location: SFG 1080, Chair: Joanna Chojnicka
Location: SFG 1080, Chair: Joanna Chojnicka
- Maria Mazzoli, University of Bremen, Germany: “The French Element in the Michif (Cree-derived) Verb Stem”
- Carsten Levisen, Roskilde University, Denmark: “Salt Water Words: Insulting Etymologies in the Black Pacific”
- Elena Furlanetto, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany: “Travelling with Renegadoes: Declensions of the Word ‘Renegade’ across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic”
14:00-15:30: Literature #6: Post-colonial Readings of European Sea Literature
Location: SFG 1040, Chair: Sukanta Das
Location: SFG 1030, Chair: Ana Sobral
Location: SFG 1040, Chair: Sukanta Das
- Virginia Richter, University of Bern, Switzerland: “‘The whole China Sea had climbed on the bridge’: Oceanic Agency in Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon”
- Oduor Obura, University of Potsdam, Germany: “Voyages and Reroutings of Childhood in Eastern Africa”
- Marijke Denger, University of Bern, Switzerland and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden (visiting fellow): “Swinging Together to the Same Anchor? Cultural Contact, Colonialist Discourse and Salt Water Epistemologies in Joseph Conrad’s The Rescue”
Location: SFG 1030, Chair: Ana Sobral
- Gigi Adair, University of Potsdam, Germany: “Reversing the Currents: Reconceptualizing an Archipelagic African Diaspora”
- Kylie Crane, University of Potsdam, Germany: “Crusoe Archipelagoes: Influence and Confluence, 300 years later”
14:00-15:30: Media & Film #1
Location: SFG 1020, Julian Wacker
Location: SFG 1020, Julian Wacker
- Marlena Tronicke, University of Münster, Germany: “‘What have you done?’: Hauntings of Saltwaters in the BBC’s Taboo”
- Felipe Espinoza Garrido, University of Münster, Germany: “The Terror and the Frozen Sea: Neo-Victorian Introspections of Empire”
- Jan D. Kucharzewski, University of Hamburg, Germany: “‘I’m the Captain Now’: Hegemony and Liminality in Benito Cereno and Captain Phillips”
14:00-15:30: Littoral Sense-Making #2
Location: SFG 1010, Chair: Carsten Wergin
Location: SFG 1010, Chair: Carsten Wergin
- Anne-Katrin Broocks, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) Bremen, Germany: “Mangroves and Meaning-Making: A Mutual Relationship over Time?”