Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
5 p.m. Opening by the Organizers
Welcoming Address by Meike Zwingenberger (Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations/Amerikahaus)
5.30 – 7 p.m. Keynote
Susan L. Carruthers (University of Warwick):
Re-education: The Imperial Pre-History and Afterlives of a Punitive/Pedagogical Conceit
Chair: Heike Paul (FAU)
7.30 p.m. Conference Dinner
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Panel 1: Colonization and Reeducation
Chair: Akino Oshiro (FAU)
9.30 – 10.15 a.m. Holger Droessler (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): The Americanizing Mission and the Politics of Incorporation in Eastern Sāmoa, 1900-1937
10.15 – 11 a.m. Federica Guazzini (Università per Stranieri): British Reeducation Policies in Occupied Eritrea: The Antinomies between the Quest for Democracy and Imperial Design
Coffee Break
11.30 a.m. – 12.15 p.m. Juan José Vélez-Peña: ‘Re-educational’ Policies and Coloniality in Puerto Rico: Folklorization and Whitening of Afroboricua Music
12.15 – 1 p.m. Christine de Matos (University of Notre Dame Australia): The Occupied Home as a Space of Re-education: Power, Democracy and Housekeeping Manuals
Lunch Break
Panel 2: The Global Entanglements of Post-World War II "Reeducation”
Chair: Katharina Gerund (FAU)
2.30 – 3.15 p.m. Ji Hee Jung (Seoul National University): Reeducation as an Inclusive Trope for Post-colonial Imperialism: Three Redemption Stories of Juvenile Vagrants in Transwar Transpacific
3.15 – 4 p.m. Alisa Freedman (University of Oregon): Occupied Exchange: A Student’s Guide to Surviving American Imperialism and Reeducation in the 1950s
Coffee Break
4.30 – 5.15 p.m. Birte Christ (University of Gießen): Rowohlt’s ‘Internalized’ Reeducation: American Novels and their German Framings in the RORORO Newspaper Format, 1946-1949
5.15 – 6 p.m. Sandra Schell (University of Heidelberg): Reeducation from a Literary Studies Perspective: Mediation Attempts in Margret Boveri’s Amerikafibel für erwachsene Deutsche (1946)
Friday, February 18, 2022
Panel 3: “Reeducation” in Contemporary Postcolonial and Post-Conflict Settings
Chair: Jana Aresin (FAU)
9.30 – 10.15 a.m. Greta Biro (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg): The State-Islamic Re-education of Transgender People in Malaysia
10.15 – 11 a.m. Sarah Sporys (Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg): Reeducation, Liberation, Democratization, Nation-Building? The United States and Its Post-War Strategy in Iraq
Coffee Break
11.30 a.m. – 12.15 p.m. Björn Alpermann (University of Würzburg): Transforming the Ethnic “Other”: China’s Re-education Drive in Xinjiang
12.30 – 1.30 p.m. Keynote
Werner Sollors (Harvard University): ‘Everybody gets fragebogened sooner or later’: The Denazification Questionnaire as Cultural Text
Chair: Fabian Schäfer (FAU)
1.30 – 2.15 p.m. Concluding Discussion