Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig
7 October: Conference Opening, Keynote, First Panel
2:00 pm (UTC+2) | LIVESTREAM | ENGLISH
Opening remarks: PD Dr. Bettina Brockmeyer, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lindner
Introduction: Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Michelle Müntefering
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Writer, Nairobi, Kenya:
Derelict Shards: The Roamings of Colonial Phantoms
Chair: Prof. Dr Rebekka Habermas, Historian, Göttingen, Germany
3 PM (UTC+2): Coffee Break
Technical Introduction
3:30 pm (UTC+2) | via ZOOM | ENGLISH
Conference Introduction
3:45 pm (UTC+2) | via ZOOM | ENGLISH
PD Dr. Bettina Brockmeyer, Prof. Dr. Rebekka Habermas, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lindner
1st Panel: Shared History: Colonialism
4 pm (UTC+2) | via ZOOM | ENGLISH
The panel analyses the impact of colonialism both on overseas colonies and on Europe. It focuses on local contexts, states and organisations, highlighting the agency of people and economic, political and social dynamics. Furthermore, it should reflect that colonial involvement takes place in a trans-imperial context.
Prof. Dr. Michelle Moyd, Historian, Bloomington, USA: African Sovereignties and “Counterinsurgency” in German East Africa, 1890-1908
Prof. Dr. Bertram Mapunda, Archaeologist, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Can Colonialism Ever Have a Positive Element? A Reflection on the Three Decades of German Colonial Rule in Tanganyika
Dr. Kokou Azamede, Historian, Lomé, Togo: The impact of German colonialism in West African societies. The case of Togo and Ghana
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Buettner, Historian, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Remaking Europe Through Migration: Colonial Legacies in Context
Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert, Historian, Berlin, Germany
8 October, Second and Third Panel
2nd Panel: Shared History: Post-colonialism
Time: 02:00 pm (UTC+2) | via ZOOM | ENGLISH
Both in the former colonies as well as in Germany and Europe we are today confronted with the manifold and powerful legacies of colonialism and racism – cultural assets and artifacts, knowledge and human remains, language and linguistic usage, monuments and street names, collective memory and political relations. Thus, it is necessary to critically question collections, museums, knowledge, and politics and to reveal their genealogies and underlying racist conceptions.
Prof. Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, Historian, Washington, USA: Robbery, Representation, Restitution, and Destruction
Prof. Dr. Ciraj Rassool, Historian, African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies, Cape Town, SA: Restitution, decolonisation and the work of undoing race in the museum
Joshua Kwesi Aikins, Research Associate, Development Policy and Postcolonial Studies, Kassel, Germany: Shifting the Perspective of/on Colonial Commemoration: Decolonising Public Space in Germany
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lindner, Historian, Cologne, Germany
3.30 PM (UTC+2): Coffee Break
3rd Panel: Shared History: Projects
Time: 4:00 pm (UTC+2) | via ZOOM | ENGLISH
For a long time, Europeans held the sovereignty of interpretation over colonial history in academia as well as in some wider audiences. This panel explores how the history of colonial violence, economies and knowledge production can be reappraised without the creation of new hierarchies. How can we develop, write, and communicate a shared history? What are the possibilities and limits of such a history?
Dr. Manuela Bauche and Christian Kopp, Historians, Berlin, Germany: Bridging Divides? Collaborative Projects, Entangled Injustices and German Memory Politics
Dr. Michael Mel, Artist, Curator, Goroka, Papua New Guinea
Uwe Jung, Archival Sciences, Potsdam, Germany: The Archive Guide to German Colonial Past – An opportunity for dehierarchized access to documents
Chair: PD Dr. Stefanie Michels, Historian, Hamburg, Germany
9 October: Fourth Panel and Public Discussion
4th Panel: Shared Future
Time: 12:00 pm (UTC+2) | via ZOOM | ENGLISH
This panel asks how a common future can be shaped. Which possible role models exist, which ideas and previous realisations help to build sustainable projects, institutions and spaces for reflection? This panel focuses on existing and planned events, alliances and network ideas.
Flower Manase, Curator, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: The future of Africa-Europe ‘collaboration’ on shared history
PD Dr. Bettina Brockmeyer, Historian, Erlangen & Hamburg, Germany: Proposal for a Center for Research on Colonialism and Racism
Prof. Dr. David Simo, German Studies, Yaoundé, Kamerun: Is it possible to imagine collaborative knowledge productions to resist existing asymmetric structures?
Chair: Junior Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schaper, Historian, Berlin, Germany
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Time: 1:15 pm (UTC+2) | via ZOOM | ENGLISH
PD Dr. Bettina Brockmeyer, Prof. Dr. Rebekka Habermas, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lindner
1.30 PM (UTC+2): LUNCH BREAK
Public Panel Discussion: Dealing with the legacies of colonialism and racism in a shared future
Time: 2:00 pm (UTC+2) | LIVE STREAM | GERMAN (SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH)
Dr. Ibou Diop, Romance Studies, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Albert Gouaffo, German Studies, Dschang, Cameroon
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lindner, Historian, Cologne, Germany
Jackie Thomae, Writer, Berlin, Germany
Hadija Haruna-Oelker, Independent Journalist
Chair: René Aguigah, Deutschlandradio Kultur