!Programme Changes!
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
TU Dortmund University
IBZ (Emil-Figge-Straße 59, 44227 Dortmund)
14:00
Registration
15:00-15:15
Welcome Address
Gerold Sedlmayr (Chair of British Cultural Studies, Dean of Faculty for Culture Studies, TU Dortmund)
Evangelia Kindinger und Mark Schmitt (conference organizers)
15:15-16:45
Panel I
Tonnia L. Anderson (University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, USA): “For the Common Good: Re-inscribing White Normalcy into the American Body Politic”
Ariane de Waal (Universität Innsbruck, Austria): “‘Anyone Foreign?’ Passing in the White City from 7/7 to Brexit”
Jenifer L. Barclay (Washington State University, USA): “America’s Politics of Fear, Pity, and Race: From Ferguson to Charleston”
16:45-17:15
Break
17:15-18:30
Keynote Address
Vron Ware (Kingston University, GB): “A Journey through Europe’s Heart of Whiteness”
Thursday, 12 January 2017
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Mensafoyer, Rooms 01 and 02
9:15-9:30
Welcome Address
Kornelia Freitag (Chair of American Studies, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs and Professional Development, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
9:30-10:45
Keynote Address
Matt Wray (Temple University, USA): “White People in Trump’s America: A Field Guide”
10:45-11:15
Break
11:15-12:45
Panel II
Christi van der Westhuizen (University of Pretoria, South Africa): “Strategies of Whiteness and the Counter-Potential of Shame in the Production of ‘Afrikaner’ Femininity in Postapartheid South Africa”
Andrea Brown (Independent Scholar, USA): “Threading Hope: Afro-Pessimism and Whiteness”
Moon Charania (Spelman College, USA): “Ethical Whiteness and the Death Drive: The Visual Failure of American Compassion”
12:45-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-15:30
Panel III
Anne Potjans (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany): “Citizenship and National Identity in Ika Hügel-Marshall’s Daheim Unterwegs: Ein Deutsches Leben”
Sarah Heinz (Universität Mannheim, Germany): “Home-Making Practices and White Ideals in the Contemporary British and Nigerian Novel”
Katrin Becker (Universität Hamburg, Germany): “White = Middle Class?! – The Intersections of Ethnicity and Class in the Postcolonial Fictions by Contemporary British Novelists”
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:15
Keynote Address
Amanda D. Lotz (University of Michigan, USA):
“Watching White Men on TV: Intersectionality in Fictional Media”
18:30
Conference Dinner
Yamas (Greek restaurant)
Massenbergstraße 1, 44787 Bochum
!please let organisers know whether you will join the conference dinner!
Friday, 13 January 2017
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Mensafoyer, Room 01 and 02
9:30-11:00
Panel IV
Blanca Gamez-Djokic (University of California Berkeley, USA): “White Longing and Affective Curriculum: Reconstructionist Interventions to the White Hegemonic Mind and Heart”
Adam Haupt (University of Cape Town, South Africa): “Possessive Investments in Whiteness at a Post-Apartheid University”
Julia Coursey (University of Alabama, USA): “The Unbearable Whiteness of Kaling: Performing Race on The Mindy Project”
11:00-11:30
Break
11:30-12:45
Keynote Address
Katharine Tyler (University of Exeter, GB): “The Suburban Paradox of Conviviality and Racism in Postcolonial Britain”
12:45-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-15:30
Panel V
Kai Linke (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany): “From White Perpetrator to Queer Victim: Queer White Fantasies of Racial Innocence”
Maureen O. Gallagher (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA): “Exploring White Germanness in Wilhelmine Adventure Novels”
Dietmar Meinel (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany): “For White Men Only: 1950s Science Fiction Films in Soviet Russia and the United States”
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:30
Panel VI
Anette Pankratz (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany): “50 Shades of White: Benidorm and the Joys of Karaoke”
Monika Müller und Verena Minow (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany): “Whiteness and/in Country Music”
Robert A. Winkler (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany): “‘Only a Pawn in Their Game.’ Reverberations of the Poor White Man in Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign”
You can download the programme here.
Click on the last names for abstracts.
