Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration: Intermedial Perspectives (19 - 21 March 2020, JMU Würzburg)
Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration: Intermedial Perspectives
19–21 March 2020
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Am Hubland, Department of English Literature and Culture
Organised by Jennifer Leetsch (Würzburg), Frederike Middelhoff (Frankfurt), Miriam Wallraven (Würzburg)
Conference Programme
Wednesday, 18 March 2020
Arrival and Check-In for Participants from Abroad
Thursday, 19 March 2020
11:30 – 12:30 Registration at Conference Venue & Coffee
12:30 – 13:00 Welcome and Introduction
Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff, Miriam Wallraven
13:00 – 14:30 Keynote & Discussion
Ananya Jahanara Kabir (London, UK): Moving Material: (Un)Making Migration through Dance
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break
Section 1: Visualizing Migration, Constructing Affective Knowledges
Panel Chair: Patricia Kemmer
15:00 – 16:30
Ömer Alkin (Magdeburg, GER): The Mediality of Migration in Audiovisual Material
Kyung-Ho Cha (University of Bayreuth, GER): The Refugee Experience in Virtual Reality Documentaries
16:30 – 17:00 Break & Refreshments
17:00 – 17:45
Mahmoud Arghavan (Munich, GER): Facts and "Alternative Facts" about Global Warming and Climate Refugees: Medial Representations of Causes and Effects of Migration from the Global South
19:00 Conference Dinner
Friday, 20 March 2020
Section 2: Writing Migration, Configuring Knowledges
Panel Chair: Heike Raphael-Hernandez
9:30 – 11:00
Kai Wiegandt (Tübingen, GER): Western Migrant Fiction Between Mimesis and Mimicry
Christian Sinn (St. Gallen, CH): Problematised Reception in Aesthetic Representations of Migration
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00
Jennifer Burns (University of Warwick, UK): Telling Lives: Itineraries of Knowing and Imagining through Stories of Migration
Frederike Middelhoff (Goethe University Frankfurt, GER): Imagining Migration, (Not) Knowing Migration around 1800
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Panel Chair: Zeno Ackermann
14:30 – 16:00
Miriam Wallraven (JMU Würzburg, GER): “No narrative to make sense of what had happened”: The Genres of Narrating Migration during the Yugoslav Wars in English-Speaking Literature
Corina Crişu (University of Bucharest, ROM): Stories in the Stepmother Tongue: Eastern European Immigrant Women Writing in English
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00
Carmen Zamorano Llena (Dalarna University, SWE): Questioning the Distribution of the Sensible through ‘noeuds de mémoire’ in Rose Tremain’s The Gustav Sonata
Katrin Dennerlein (JMU Würzburg, GER): Mobility in Contemporary German Historical Novels
19:00 Public Reading and Discussion
Olumide Popoola (Venue: Stadtbücherei Würzburg, Falkenhaus)
Saturday, 21 March 2020
9:30 – 11:00 Artist Intervention & Discussion
Charl Landvreugd (Rotterdam, NL): Notes on Ososma: Imagining Spaces
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
Section 3: Performing Migration, Staging Knowledges
Panel Chair: Johannes Schlegel
11:30 – 13:00
Josephine Fontaine (JMU Würzburg, GER): “I have to know who I am.”: Searching for Belonging and Identity in Fatou Kandé Senghor’s Documentary Film L'autre en moi (The Other in Me)
Jennifer Leetsch (JMU Würzburg, GER): Black Men Walking (2018): Reconfiguring British Memory Landscapes through Migratory Theatre Practices
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Heike Raphael-Hernandez (JMU Würzburg, GER): Imagining Protest: African Diasporic Visual Art and European Politics Concerning Mediterranean Sea Crossings
Burcu Dogramaci (LMU Munich, GER): Performing Migration: Želimir Žilnik, Nil Yalter and Medial Self-Representation of “Guestworkers” in the 1970s
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Final Discussion / Closing Remarks / Research Cooperation
17:00 End of Conference; Departure
The conference is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) . Please visit https://imaginingmigration2020.wordpress.com/ and http://www.anglistik.uni-wuerzburg.de/abteilungen/englische-literatur-und-kulturwissenschaft/research/imagining-migration-knowing-migration-intermedial-perspectives/ for further information. If you have any questions concerning the event and the programme, please email imagining.migration.2020@gmail.com.