Conference Program for Black Germany and Beyond

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Conference Welcome: 7:30 – 7:55

KEYNOTE, Emilia Roig: 8:00 – 9:00

History Panel: 9:15 – 10:45

Tawreak Gamble-Eddington “The Black Experience in Early to Mid-20^th-Century Great Britain, France, and Germany”. (NEED TO NARROW THE SCOPE DOWN A LOT)
Sara Pugach
Robbie Aitken

Literary Authorship Panel: 11:00 – 12:45

Aika Swai, “Africans on the Zugspitze” (Author/
Judy Billingsley, “Too Brown to Keep”
Heidi Lewis and Dana Maria Asbury, In Audre’s Footsteps: Transnational Kitchen Table Talk
The video “Raw” by Jordan Awori – 10-minute film

LUNCH: 12:45 – 1:15

KEYNOTE, Michael McEachrane: 1:15 – 2:15

Black German Women Authors: 2:30 – 4:00

Ayasha Guerin, “Matter and Memory: Black Feminist Poetics and Performance in Berlin” (focus on Ayim and Lorde and current performances)
Andrea Bryant, “Synaesthesia, Intertextuality, and Multigenerational Knowledge Production in the Work of Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo and May Ayim”
Rita Maricocchi, “Canon (Re)Formation through the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize: Sharon Dodua Gröttrup setzt sich hin.”

Postwar & Next Generation: 4:15 – 5:45

BLM Activism Panel: 9:00 – 10:30

Vera Seyra, “Activism: Black Lives Matter in Aotearoa”
Marisa Pickett, “Wir Wollen kein Krieg’: Solidarity Between Black Communities in the BLM Movement as Depicted in the Philipp Khabo Köpsell’s Poetry and the Music of Jeff Braun.”
Asia Cureton (coming soon)

Transnational Journeys: 10:45 – 12:15

Noaquia Callahan Banks, “Freedom Abroad: The Art of Life Writing as African American Antiracist Feminist” (focuses on Mary Church Terrell, an AA activist who had ties to Germany) Part of a book project on this topic. Has a PhD in History from U Iowa.
Jessica Varela, “Black Women Migrants in Berlin: An Autoethnographic. Reflection on Class and Difference.” (Will go on a separate panel)
Vanessa Plumly

LUNCH: 12:15 – 12:45

KEYNOTE, Vanessa Spanbauer: 12:45 – 1:45

Polishness and Blackness: 2:00 – 3:30

KEYNOTE, Branwen Okpako: 3:45 -4:45

Black German Film: 5:00 – 6:00

KEYNOTE, Araba Johnson-Arthur: 9:00 – 10:30

Museum Panel: 10:45 – 12:15

William Daniels, “Celebrating Black Queer Lives: Reclaiming Monuments in Germany”
Maureen Gallagher, “Black German Challenges to White German Cultural Hegemony” (about black scholars/activists intervention into discourses about museums and objects.
Katrin Sieg, “Curating Black German History at the Museum and Beyond” (MUSEUM PANEL?)

LUNCH: 12:15 – 12:45

KEYNOTE, Natasha Kelly: 12:45 – 1:45

Adoption Panel: 2:00 – 3:45

Azziza Malanda, “Wir hatten ein freies Leben’: Growing up in the Albert Schweitzer Children’s Home for Mixed-Race Children in the early FRG.”
Silke Hackenesch, “Germany, Race, and Civil Rights: African American Responses to Black German Children”
Martina Koegeler-Abdi, “Adoption, Race, and Secrecy: New Perspectives on the Relations of the Danish ‘Child Import’ to the German WWII Occupation of Denmark”. (adoption panel)
Kori Graves

Adoptees in Reunion: 4:00 -5:30

Transnationalism: 9:00 – 10:30

BGHRA Academy: 10:45 – 12:15

LUNCH: 12:15 – 12:45

KEYNOTE, Priscilla Layne: 12:45 – 1:45

BGHRA Institute: 2:00 – 3:30