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