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DDGC 2021: 
​A Virtual Gathering
March 11th - 14th, 2021 

Focus: antiracism, antiblack racism, white supremacy, and Black resistance in German studies

Conference Reading List

Plenary Speakers

Tiffany Florvil, University of New Mexico
author of Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (University of Illinois Press 2020)
"Quotidian Intellectuals: Black German Women’s Knowledge Production"
5 pm - 6:15 pm Mountain Time, Thursday, March 11th

Kira Thurman, University of Michigan
author of Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, forthcoming with Cornell University Press
"Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms"
3-4:00 pm Mountain Time, Friday, March 12th
​
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Tiffany Florvil, "Quotidian Intellectuals: Black German Women’s Knowledge Production"
Kira Thurman, "Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms"

Organizers

Adrienne Merritt, St. Olaf College
and
Beverly Weber, University of Colorado Boulder

Program

 All times in Mountain Time - note switch to Mountain Daylight Time on Sunday
Thursday, March 11th (Mountain Standard Time)
5 - 6:15 pm
Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
Adrienne Merritt and Beverly Weber


Plenary Speaker
Tiffany Florvil, University of New Mexico
author of
Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (University of Illinois Press 2020)
"Quotidian Intellectuals: Black German Women’s Knowledge Production"
Q&A moderated by: Vanessa Plumly


Friday, March 12th (Mountain Standard Time)
9:00 - 9:45 Opening Listening Exercise
Adrienne Merritt and Beverly Weber

10:00 - 11:30 am

Workshop: Rassismuskritik and German Studies
Peggy Piesche


[Midday break]

1:00 - 2:30    
Roundtable: Teaching in an Age of White Supremacy
Roundtable participants: Brenna Byrd, Maureen Gallagher, Mary Rambaran-Olm, Didem Uca
Moderator and commentator: Adrienne Merritt
​

3:00 - 4:00 
Plenary speaker:
Kira Thurman, University of Michigan
author of
Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, forthcoming with Cornell University Press
​Q&A Moderator: Beverly Weber


Saturday, March 13th (Mountain Standard Time)
9 - 10:30 am            
Roundtable: Using primary historical documents and teaching about Black Germans, activism and resistance
Roundtable participants:
Tiffany Florvil, Michelle Moyd, Kira Thurman
Moderator: Beverly Weber

10:45 - 11:25
​Presentation:
Meryem Choukri, “I Imagine the Archive as a Treasure Chest” 
Q&A Moderator: Tom Smith

Presentation:
11:30 - 12:10 
Jamele Watkins, “I am not Your Afterthought”
Q&A Moderator: Maria Stehle

[Midday Break] 
Presentation:
1:15 - 1:55
Jessica Ruffin, “The Will-to-Breathe: Between Self-Preservation and Suicide”
Q&A Moderator: Emily Frazier-Rath

Presentation:
2:15 - 2:55
Jason Groves, 
“Remembering the Shoah in the Anti-Black Anthropocene: Reading Paul Celan Today”
Q&A Moderator: Joela Jacobs

3:15 - 3:45
Introduction to the work of the Black German Research Heritage Association (BGHRA)
​Rosemarie Peña


​Sunday, March 14th (Mountain Daylight Time)
​Note that Daylight Savings Time begins this morning in most of North America, so that may change the interval between Mountain Time and your time zone!

9 - 10:30 am
Workshop: Antiracism and Pedagogical Best Practices
Regine Criser, Priscilla Layne, and Rosemarie 
Peña

11:00 - 12:00 am
Workshop: Rethinking the German Studies Curriculum and Beyond
Adrienne Merritt and Adam Oberlin

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
DDGC Steering Committee Report - Rosemarie Peña and Ervin Malakaj
DDGC Blog - Regine Criser​
Report on Action Groups​ - Derek Price

​Open Discussion: The Future of the DDGC

Hosted by...

Hosted virtually and sponsored by the Program in German Studies, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado Boulder. Participation is free.

​Continue to watch this space for more information!
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