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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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
Couldn't register for the full conference but would like to attend our plenary talks? Register using the buttons below! Free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Organizers
Adrienne Merritt, St. Olaf College
and
Beverly Weber, University of Colorado Boulder
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
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.
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