Wednesday
October 26, 2016
18.00-20.00
Matthias Middell (Leipzig):
Respatialization under the Global Condition
(Term Opening Lecture, University, X Building)
Thursday, October 27, 2016
08.30–09.00
Registration & Welcome
09.00–10.00
Keynote Ella Shohat (New York):
Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: the Case of the Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic
Chair: Julia Roth (Bielefeld)
Comment: Joachim Michael (Bielefeld)
10.00–10.30
Coffee Break
10.30–12.30
Concepts and Methodology
Olaf Kaltmeier and Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld):
No longer the Same: The Entanglements They Are A-Changin
Sarah Corona Berkin (Guadalajara):
De la investigación-acción a los métodos horizontales en Ciencias Sociales y Culturales.
Presencias interamericanas
Chair: Kirsten Kramer (Bielefeld)
Comment: Achim von Oppen (Bayreuth)
and Mario Rufer (Mexico City)
12.30–14.00
Lunch break
14.00–16.00
Practices of Connectedness: Cultural Flows in the Americas
Giselle Anatol (Kansas):
Beyond the Border: Reading Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones as Literature of Cultural Entanglements
Matti Steinitz (Berlin):
A Brand New Beat: Soul music as message carrier of the US African American freedom struggle in the Black Americas (1965-1975)
Yaatsil Guevara G. (Bielefeld):
Los sonidos que migran: La música popular del Sotavento Veracruzano como diáspora cultural
Chair: José Carlos Lozano (Texas A&M International University)
Comment: Julia Roth (Bielefeld)
16.00–16.30
Coffee Break
16.30–18.30
Imaginaries of threat in the Americas
Julie Greene (U of Maryland):
Anxieties of a Migrant Empire: Labor, Race, and the Remaking of the Americas at the Turn of
the Twentieth Century
Mirko Petersen (Bielefeld):
Interamerican Integration in the Face of Soviet Threat: Argentina, the United States and the Rio
Treaty (1945-50)
Valeria Manzano (Buenos Aires):
Shifting Meanings of a 'Social Threat': Youth, Drugs, and Politics in Argentina, 1960s–1980s
Chair: Clara Buitrago (Bielefeld)
Comment: Klaus Weinhauer (Bielefeld)
18.30–20.00
Dinner
20.00–21.30
Mesa Redonda: La doble transferencia del conocimiento: Puentes entre la acción social y la investigación interamericana
Moderación: Yaatsil Guevara y Anne Tittor (Bielefeld)
Corinne Valdivia (Missouri):
Cambio Center. Investigación y apoyo a latinos y comunidades cambiantes
Dan Hawkins (Bogotá):
Área de investigación Escuela Nacional Sindical
Jochen Kemner (Bielefeld):
Material didáctico escolar sobre historia, cultura y medio ambiente en las Américas
Tomás González Castillo (Tenosique):
Hogar-Refugio para personas migrantes "La 72"
Friday, October 28, 2016
09.30–10.00
Registration
10.00–12.00
Entangled Migratory Flows in the Americas
Vilna Bashi Treitler (New York):
How the Knitted Survive: Afro-Caribbean Migrant Networks in Transnational Context
Gilberto Rescher (Hamburg):
-to be announced
Gioconda Herrera (Quito):
Navigating US deportation regime: reflections on agency and criminalization in the experience of
Ecuadorian indigenous migrants
Chair: Doris Löhr (Bayreuth)
Comment: Cornelia Giebeler (Bielefeld)
12.00–13.30
Lunch break
13.30–15.30
Contested Entanglements: Wars for Imperial Order
Kristin Hoganson (Chicago):
Heartland Histories: Placing the U.S. Midwest at Crossroads of Empire and War
Angelika Epple (Bielefeld):
Comparing in Times of War (1898)
Frank Schumacher (London, Canada):
Entangled, Embedded, and Engaged: War and US-Empire in the Philippines, 1899-1913
Chair: Klaus Weinhauer (Bielefeld)
Comment: Stefan Rinke (Berlin)
15.30–16.00
Coffee Break
16.00–18.00
Interamerican borderlands: Political, Geographical and Imperial Spaces in Historical Perspectives
Edith Kauffer (San Cristóbal de las Casas):
Waters and Entangled Borderlands in Southern Mexico and Northern Central America: Revisiting Geography, History and Politics
Holly Karibo (Oklahoma State University):
The Case for a Comparative Approach to the History of the North American Borderlands
Michael E. Donoghue (Marquette University):
The Panama Canal Zone: A Non-Contiguous U.S. Imperial Borderland
Chair: Alice Nash (University of Massachusetts)
Comment: Paul-Matthias Tyrell (Bielefeld)
18.00–19.30
Dinner
19.30–21.00
Ronda de discusión:
Cuba en las Américas: Des-entrelazamientos y miradas futuras
Moderación: Jochen Kemner y Julia Roth (Bielefeld)
Sandra Abd ́Allah-Alvarez Ramírez
(Bloguera, activista, Hanóver y La Habana)
Rosa Muñoz
(Periodista, Bonn y La Habana)
Michael Zeuske
(Historiador, Experto en Cuba, Colonia)
Saturday, October 29
09.30–10.30
Keynote:
Michael Zeuske (Cologne): Slave trades and Slaveries in the Americas: Spaces, transcontinental entanglements and transculturations
Chair: Angelika Epple (Bielefeld)
Comment: Jochen Kemner (Bielefeld)
10.30–11.00
Coffee Break
11.00–13.00
Politics and environmental Change in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Carlos Sanhueza (Santiago de Chile):
La producción transnacional del conocimiento sobre los glaciares chilenos a partir del siglo XIX
Eleonora Rohland (Bielefeld):
300 Years of Environmental Knowledge and Political Change in New Orleans - Implications for the Present?
Dorothea Wehrmann (Bielefeld):
(Dis-)Entangled Polar Regions: The Representation of Environmental Changes in the
Americas
Chair: Alexander Mosena (Bielefeld)
Comment: Anne Tittor (Bielefeld)
13.00–13.15
Closing Remarks & Future Perspectives