Program overview
Wednesday, 29 May
| 17:00-19:00 | Registration SFG 0140, Enrique Schmidt Straße 7 |
| 19:00-22:00 | Conference Warming Haus am Walde, Kuhgrabenweg 2 |
Thursday, 30 May
| 08:00-09:30 | Registration SFG 0140, Enrique Schmidt Straße 7 |
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| 09:30-10:00 | Location: HS, Opening remarks Kerstin Knopf, Anna-Katharina Hornidge Michi Knecht, Ingo Warnke, WoC Annette Lang, International Office, University of Bremen Annika McPherson, GAPS Tonjes Veenstra, IACPL |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Location: HS, Chair: Sukla Chatterjee Keynote lecture: Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales, Sydney Oceans: The Space of Future Thinking [Video lecture] |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break, SFG 0150 | ||
| 11:30-13:00 | Literature #1: The Indian Ocean Sukanta Das, Frank Schulze-Engler, Gisela Feurle | ||
| Historical Oceans #1 Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Sourav Kumar Nag, Felix Schürmann | |||
| Epistemic Inequalities Anna-Katharina Hornidge/Stefan Partelow/Kerstin Knopf | |||
| Port Cities #1 Anna Wolter, Detlev Quintern, Ulrike Schmieder |
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| Student Panel #1 Matteo Cordi/Dennis Tobias Meyer/Sören Schreiber, Zhou Shi-ting, Nicola Zimmermann |
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| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch, Cafe Unique, SFG ground floor | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Literature #2: The Indian and Atlantic Ocean Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt, Johan Jacobs, Caroline Kögler | ||
| Literature #3: The Caribbean Nemesio Gil, Franziska Gesine Brede | |||
| Historical Oceans #2 Rainer Buschmann, Tirthankar Ghosh, Eva Bischoff | |||
| Littoral Sense-Making #1 Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Marie Aschenbrenner | |||
| Port Cities #2 Papa Sow, Laura Zander | |||
| Student Panel #2 Solomon Chuks Ugwuanyi, Felix Krause, Marina Kornelaki |
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| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break, SFG 0150 | ||
| 16:30-17:30 | Location: HS, Chair: Daniel Schmidt-Brücken Keynote lecture: Nicholas Faraclas, University of Puerto Rico Subaltern Currents and Transgressive Waves: Trans-Oceanic Agents and “Creole” Languages [Video lecture] |
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| 17:45-20:00 | Location: HS, GAPS events | Location: Foyer HS | Location: Foyer HS |
| 17:45-18:15 | Book Launch Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein, Nicole Waller, Dirk Wiemann |
Poster session Digitale Sammlung Deutscher Kolonialismus (DSDK) / Digital Collection German Colonialism Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Elisa Erbe |
ZMT Showcases CORAL REEFS Life below the surface Explore the reef with VR glasses in our 360°film from a ZMT social sciences study on the use of virtual reality in donation campaigns for environmental protection |
| 18:15-18:30 | "(Un)Packing the GAPS Archive @ 30" Annika McPherson |
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| 18:30-19:00 | GAPS Award Ceremony with Reading by Sujata Bhatt | ||
| 19:00-19:30 | "Larger than Life: A Tribute to Geoff Davis (1943-2018)" Pete Marsden |
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| 19:30-20:00 | Reading by Marine Scientist Gema Martinez-Méndez | ||
| 20:00-21:00 | Reception, SFG 0150 | ||
Friday, 31 May
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration SFG 0140, Enrique Schmidt Straße 7 |
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| 09:00-10:00 | Location: HS, Chair: Ingo Warnke Keynote lecture: Anne Storch, University of Cologne Terrible Magical Ways of Healing – Sea, Spa and Skin [Video lecture] |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Location: HS, Chair: Olorunshola Adenekan Keynote lecture: Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Africa in Oceania: Blackness Connecting Islands [Video lecture] |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break, SFG 0150 | ||
| 11:30-13:00 | Literature #4:
The Pacific Ana Sobral/Johannes Riquet, Stefanie Mueller, Sebastian Jablonski | ||
| Literature #5: African Waters Tanimomo Oluseun, Jennifer Leetsch, Stephen Henighan | |||
| Historical Oceans #3 Varsha Patel, Tobias Mörike | |||
| Oceanic Futuring Henryk Alff/Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Epifania Amoo-Adare | |||
| Language & Discourse Studies Maria Mazzoli, Carsten Levisen, Elena Furlanetto |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Literature #6: Post-colonial Readings of European Sea Literature Virginia Richter, Oduor Obura, Marijke Denger | ||
| Literature #7: Critiquing Origins in the Mode of the Archipelago Gigi Adair, Kylie Crane | |||
| Media & Film #1 Marlena Tronicke, Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Jan D. Kucharzewski | |||
| Littoral Sense-Making #2 Anne-Katrin Broocks | |||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break, SFG 0150 | ||
| 16:00-19:00 | Location: HS GAPS members' meeting |
Postcolonial walking tour: “Forgotten, Repressed, Marketized? Re-Narrating Traces of Colonialism in Bremen’s ‘Überseestadt’” | Location: SFG 1040 IACPL members' meeting |
| 20:00 | Conference dinner, Restaurant Al Dar, Konsul-Smidt-Strasse 26 | ||
Saturday, 1 June
Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum | DSM Bremerhaven
| 10:30-10:45 | Welcome Address Sunhild Kleingärtner (Director of DSM) |
| 10:45-11:45 | Chair: Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa Keynote lecture: Karin Amimoto Ingersoll, University of Hawai’i Seascape Epistemology: An Embodied Knowledge of and Movement through the Sea [Video lecture] |
| 11:45-12:30 | Chair: Ruth Schilling Plenary workshop: Tobias Goebel German Colonialism and Objects of Marine Knowledge |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:30 | Chair: Kylie Crane Plenary workshop: Lars Eckstein and Anja Schwarz Tupaia’s Map of Oceania |
| 14:30-15:30 | Chair: Tobias Goebel Plenary workshop: Marleen von Bargen and Ruth Schilling Circulating Memories and Colonial Images: Sea Travelled Souvenirs in Imperial Germany John McAleer, University of Southampton Response |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-18:00 | 3 museum tours to select from: 360° Polarstern / Koggenhalle / Outdoor Area with Selected Original Ships |
| 18:15-19:45 | Dinner |
| 20:00-22:00 | Chair: Kerstin Knopf Reading: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Alvin Pang, Ellen van Neerven |
Sunday, 2 June
| 09:30-11:00 | Literature #8: Transgressing Concepts of Sea and Humans Arnab Kumar Sinha, Geoff Rodoreda, Murat Sezi |
| Literature #9: Turbulent Waters Jolene Mathieson, Karsten Levihn-Kutzler, Nicole Poppenhagen/Jens Temmen | |
| Media & Film #2 Nanna Heidenreich, Moira Hille | |
| Fluid Ethnologies Stefanie Kiwi Menrath/Kiran Kumar, Carsten Wergin | |
| Oceans and Migration Bruno Arich-Gerz, Ursula Kluwick | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break, SFG 0150 |
| 11:30-12:30 | Location: HS, Chair: Kerstin Knopf Keynote lecture: Anne Collett, University of Wollongong Building on the Strata of the Dead: A (Very) Brief History of Coral Reef Ecologies [Video lecture] |
| 12:30-13:30 | Location: HS, Chair: Kerstin Knopf Final Panel Discussion |