Thursday, 25 June, Senatssaal der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
5.00pm Introduction and Welcome
5.30pm Keynote Address
Mishuana Goeman (University of California, Los Angeles):
“Electric Lights, Tourist Sights: Gendering Dispossession and Colonial Infrastructure at the Niagara Falls Border”
7pm Opening Reception
Local Wine, Pretzels, and Cream Cheeses
Friday, 26 June, Senatssaal
9.00-10.30am Lands and Lives in the Geo-and Biopolitical Logics of Settler Colonialism
Mark Rifkin (University of North Carolina, Greensboro):
“Fictions of Land and Flesh: Indigeneity, Blackness, Speculation”
Andrea Smith (University of California, Riverside):
“Without the Right to Exist: the Settler Colonial Logics of National Security Law”
10.30-11.00am Coffee Break
11.00am-12.30pm Theorizing Settler Colonial Geo- and Biopolitics
Michael R. Griffiths (University of Wollongong):
“’While We’re on Twins’: Global Settlement and the Transit of Deconstruction”
Robert Nichols (University of Minnesota):
“The Violence of Dispossession”
12.30-2.00pm Catered Lunch
2.00-3.30pm Settler Colonialism, Indigeneity, and Gender
Audra Simpson (Columbia University, New York City):
“The State is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders and the Gendered Cost of Settler Sovereignty in Canada”
Kathy-Ann Tan (University of Tuebingen):
“Decolonial Aesthetics, Indigeneity and Queer(ing) Settler Colonialism”
3.30-4.00pm Coffee Break
4.00-5.30pm Forms of Life in Biopolitics, Animal Studies, Ecocriticism
Brian Hudson (University of Oklahoma, Norman):
“Nonhuman Sovereignty and Cherokee Politics”
Gesa Mackenthun (University of Rostock):
“The Myth of the Unecologial Indian. Bisoncide and Neo-Savagism”
8pm Reading by Deborah A. Miranda
Raised by Humans. Poems (2015), Bad Indians. A Tribal Memoir (2013)
Saturday, 27 June, Senatssaal
9.00-10.30am Temporality and Spatiality of Settler Geo- and Biopolitics
Sandy Grande (Connecticut College):
“Indigeneity and the Biopolitics of Aging”
Norbert Finzsch (University of Cologne):
“The Smooth Space of Nomads: Indigenous People and their Spatial Outopia”
10.30-11.00am Coffee Break
11.00am-12.30pm Dispossession and Violence vs. Agency and Sovereignty in Settler-Indigenous Relations
Jaqueline Fear-Segal (University of East Anglia, Norwich):
“Owning the Image: Native Students Claim Visual Sovereignty far from Home”
Ursula Lehmkuhl (University of Trier):
“Resilient to Regulation: Métis Self-assertiveness and Adaptability to the Early System of Settler Colonialism in the Red River Area”
12.30-1.30pm Light Lunch
1.30-3.00pm Geo- and Biopolitics in North American Indigenous Literatures
Sabine N. Meyer (Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur”/”Culture as Law,” Bonnn):
“’I was nothing but a bare skeleton walking the path’: Biopolitics and Life in Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear (1996)”
René Dietrich (University of Mainz):
“Radical Relationality, Settler Knowledge, and Indigenous Lifeworlds in Recent Native Memoirs”
3.20-5.00pm Film Screening, introduced by Kerstin Knopf (Bremen)
Alanis Obomsawin, dir. Is the Crown at War With Us? NFB, Canada, 2002, 97 min.
5.00-6.00pm Final Discussion (Chair: René Dietrich, Kerstin Knopf)