Workshop 2022:

Media, Discourses, and Practices in the African Atlantic

Event Schedule July 18-19, 2022

July 18

10.00h Welcome at the JFKI and Berlin
10.15h Introduction: Claudia Crowie, Michael Thomas & Martin Lüthe
11.00h Dustin Breitenwischer, “The Paratextual Environment of Black Autobiographical Writing“
12.00h Lunch
13.30h Khary Polk, “Queering Tuskegee: Segregated Homosexuality and Racialized Homophobia from World War II to the Lavender Scare“
14.30h Gigi Adair, “Reading the African Diaspora Now”
15.30h Coffee
16.00h Herman Bennett, “In ein Fremdesland (In a Strange land): Post-War Black Domesticity in Germany”
17.00h Frank Kelleter, “Liberal Whiteness and the American Enlightenment”
18.00h Wrap-up Day 1: Rebecca Brückmann & Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Workshop / conference dinner

July 19

10.30h Gary Wilder, “C.L.R. James’s Universal Republic"
11.30h Lunch
13.00h AARG Business Meeting – volume, special issue, webpage

Join in person or remotely.

John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Monday: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m79faf4f262286c24ba077957af630686

Tuesday: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m0ade9b2b6d3897811d37f0b8fe2d4e4a