Nordsüdlicher Divan. Intercultural Worldmaking in Literature and Film from Europe and the Global South, University of Illinois Chicago
Nordsüdlicher Divan: Intercultural Worldmaking in Literature and Film from Europe and the Global South Department of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago, November 2 & 3, 2023
Thursday, November 2, 2023
3:00- 3:30 pm Coffee & Welcome
José Camacho, Director, UIC School of Literatures, Cultural Studies & Linguistics,
Susanne Rott, Head, UIC Department of Germanic Studies
Imke Meyer, Germanic Studies, UIC, Opening Remarks
3:30-4:15 pm Keynote
Nadjib Sadikou: “Writing the North-South Divan: Some Reflections on Intercultural Worldmaking in Literature”
4:30-6:00 pm Panel I
Iulia-Karin Patrut, Europa-Universität Flensburg : "South-North Transitivity in Wilhelm Raabe and Gottfried Keller. Revisiting Europe’s Colonial Past on the Eve of German Colonialism”
Richard Sperber, Carthage College: “The Global South, Literary Realism, and the Autoexotic”
Moderator: Imke Meyer, UIC
6:00 pm Dinner Reception
Friday, November 3, 2023,
8:30-9:00 am Coffee & Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome Remarks
Rosilie Hernández, Associate Dean, UIC College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Ellen McClure, French and Francophone Studies Director, UIC Institute for the Humanities
9:00-10:30 am Panel II
Matthias Bauer, Europa-Universität Flensburg: "Approaching the Next Step: From Bakhtin to Glissant and Beyond"
Michael Stern, University of Oregon: “Violent Rhythms: Misrecognizing the Self, Manufacturing the Other in Nietzsche’s Zur Genealogie der Moral and Fanon’s Damnés de la terre”
Moderator: Susanne Rott, UIC
10:45 am-12:15 pm Panel III
Jana Kantoříková, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: "South Conveyed by the North/West: The Early Domestication of Colonial Imagery in the Czech Lands"
Anke Biendarra, University of California at Irvine: “Visualizing Transnational Memory and Implication in Birgit Weyhe’s Madgermanes”
Moderator: Elizabeth Loentz, UIC
12:15-1:30 pm Lunch Buffet
1:30-3:00 pm Panel IV
Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Building Community and Fostering New Perspectives through Asian German Filmmaking”
Kristin Dickinson, University of Michigan: “Unraveling the Self: Imagining Turkey's Multilingual Past in Zafer Şenocak's First Light and Shore and Shells.”
Moderator: Astrida Orle Tantillo, UIC
3:00-3:15 pm Coffee & Cookies
3:15-4:45 pm Panel V
Xan Holt, Northwestern University: "Planetary Spam: Hito Steyerl and the Transnational Circulation of Material and Digital Debris."
Reto Rössler, Europa-Universität Flensburg: „Traveling Objects. Intercultural Worldmaking, Entangled History, and the Role of Things”
Moderator: Sara Hall, UIC
5:00-6:00 pm Graduate Student Roundtable
Titilope Ajeboriogbon, Germanic Studies, UIC / Cheyenne Otto, Germanic Studies, UIC/ Ireti Ruth Falaiye, Germanic Studies, UIC/ Folorunso Odidiomo, Germanic Studies, UIC/ Andy Modaff, Germanic Studies, UIC
Moderator: Heidi Schlipphacke, UIC
Discussant: Lauren Stokes, Northwestern University
Contact Information
Dr. habil. Nadjib Sadikou, Visiting Max Kade Professor, UIC / Europa-Universität Flensburg
Contact Email
nsadikou@uic.edu