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"
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"
Couldn't register for the full conference but would like to attend our plenary talks?
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"
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"
Couldn't register for the full conference but would like to attend our plenary talks?
Organizers
Adrienne Merritt, St. Olaf College
and
Beverly Weber, University of Colorado Boulder
and
Beverly Weber, University of Colorado Boulder
Preliminary Program
All times currently in Mountain Time
Thursday, March 11th
5 - 6:30 pm
Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
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"
Friday, March 12th
9:00 - 9:45 Opening Listening Exercise
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
Moderator and commentator: Adrienne Merritt
Roundtable participants: Brenna Byrd, Maureen Gallagher, Mary Rambaran-Olm, Didem Uca
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
Saturday, March 13th
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Roundtable: Using primary historical documents and teaching about Black Germans, activism and resistance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
10:45 - 11:25
Presentation:
Meryem Choukri, “I Imagine the Archive as a Treasure Chest”
Presentation:
11:30 - 12:10
Jamele Watkins, “I am not Your Afterthought”
[Midday Break]
Presentation:
1:15 - 1:55
Jessica Ruffin, “The Will-to-Breathe: Between Self-Preservation and Suicide”
Presentation:
2:15 - 2:55
Jason Groves, “Remembering the Shoah in the Anti-Black Anthropocene: Reading Paul Celan Today”
3:15 - 3:45
Introduction to the work of the Black German Research Heritage Association (BGHRA), Rosemarie Peña
Sunday, March 14th
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 - Steering Committee Members
Report on Action Groups - Derek Price
Open Discussion: The Future of the DDGC
Thursday, March 11th
5 - 6:30 pm
Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
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"
Friday, March 12th
9:00 - 9:45 Opening Listening Exercise
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
Moderator and commentator: Adrienne Merritt
Roundtable participants: Brenna Byrd, Maureen Gallagher, Mary Rambaran-Olm, Didem Uca
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
Saturday, March 13th
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
10:45 - 11:25
Presentation:
Meryem Choukri, “I Imagine the Archive as a Treasure Chest”
Presentation:
11:30 - 12:10
Jamele Watkins, “I am not Your Afterthought”
[Midday Break]
Presentation:
1:15 - 1:55
Jessica Ruffin, “The Will-to-Breathe: Between Self-Preservation and Suicide”
Presentation:
2:15 - 2:55
Jason Groves, “Remembering the Shoah in the Anti-Black Anthropocene: Reading Paul Celan Today”
3:15 - 3:45
Introduction to the work of the Black German Research Heritage Association (BGHRA), Rosemarie Peña
Sunday, March 14th
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 - Steering Committee Members
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.
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