Friday, 07.07.2023

14:30 – 14:45 Arrival, registration and coffee

14:45 – 15:00 Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Kien Nghi Ha and Prof. Dr. You Jae Lee

15:00 – 16:00 Keynote: History

Lok Siu, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California (Berkeley)
Making Asians Foreign: Methods of Exclusion and Contingent Belonging

Chair: Bernd-Stefan Grewe, Professor of History, University of Tübingen

16:00 – 17:00 Panel: History

You Jae Lee, Professor of Korean Studies, University of Tübingen
Discrimination, Resistance, and Meritocracy. Korean Guest Workers in Germany

Kien Nghi Ha, Postdoc Cultural Scientist, University of Tübingen
The Pogrom in Rostock-Lichtenhagen as Institutional Racism

Chair: Jee-Un Kim, Managing Director of “korientation – Network for Asian German Perspectives”

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 – 18:30 Keynote: Theory

Rotem Kowner, Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Haifa
The Intersections between European Racial Constructions and Modern Colonialism: Theoretical Issues and the Place of Asia

Chair: Anthony Pattahu, Habilitation Candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen

18:30 – 19:30 Panel: Theory

Lucas Poy, Assistant Professor in Global Economic and Social History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Socialists and Anti-Asian Sentiment in the Era of Mass Migration (1880-1930)

Cuso Ehrich, Graduate Student, Institute of Sociology, Justus Liebig University Gießen
Abolitionist Perspectives on Demands of Asian-German Formations

Chair: Bani Gill, Junior Professor of Sociology, University of Tübingen

Saturday, 08.07.2023

09:00 – 10:00 Keynote: Cultural Representations

Qinna Shen, Associate Professor of German Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Racialized Screen in Early German Cinema: What Asian German Studies Can Address

Chair: Fei Huang, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen

10:00 – 11:00 Panel: Cultural Representations

Feng-Mei Heberer, Assistant Professor for Cinema Studies, New York University
Anti-Asian Racism and the Politics of Asian Self-Representation in Germany: the Asian Film Festival Berlin

Anno Dederichs, Postdoc Sociologist at China Center, University of Tübingen
Opportunity and Threat: Ambivalent Reporting on China in Der Spiegel, 1947-2023

Chair: Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (from fall 2023)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30 Panel: Antiracist Movements

Sara Djahim, Independent Researcher, Asian and International Development Studies & Tae Jun Kim, Sociologist at German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin
“Take Off Your Masks“: The Invisibility and Visibility of Anti-Asian Racism in Germany

Ya-han Chuang, Postdoc Sociologist at the Institut national d'études démographiques (Ined), Sciences Po Paris
Yellow is the new Black? Emergence and Development of Asian Antiracist Activism in France

Chair: Yewon Lee, Junior Professor of Korean Studies, University of Tübingen

12:30 – 13:00 Round Table

Challenging Anti-Asian Racism in Society and Academia
Panelists: Qinna Shen, Lok Siu, Rotem Kowner, You Jae Lee
Chair: Kien Nghi Ha