Please find the preliminary conference program below.
THURSDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2019
11:00-11:30
Conference Opening and Welcome
11:30-12:45
Keynote I: THOMAS SPIJKERBOER (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/ Lund University)
“The 2015 Migration ‘Crisis’ before the European Courts”
Response: PETER SCHNECK (University of Osnabrueck)
12:45-14:15
Lunch Break
14:15-15:45
Panel 1: Managing Migration: Sovereignty, Refugees, and the Law
Chair: SYLVIA MIESZKOWSKI (University of Vienna)
- EWA MACURA-NNAMDI (University of Silesia)
“Except the Sea: Maritime Bodies and the Legal Life of Refugees”
- CHRISTIAN ROSSIPAL (New York University)
“(Un)documenting the State Archive: Biometric Capture and Fugitive Redaction in Northern Europe”
- CHASE BUCKLEW (Independent Researcher)
“Rights of the Stateless and the Movement of People: A Brief History of the Persecution of the Romani People”
15:45-16:15
Coffee Break
16:15-17:45
Panel 2: Migrant Bodies and Sovereignty
Chair: BRUNO ARICH-GERZ (University of Wuppertal)
- NADINE BÖHM-SCHNITKER (University of Bielefeld)
“‘Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art’: Modulations of Bare Life in Different Versions of King Lear“
- FIONA EICHINGER (University of Pittsburgh)
“Laborer, Citizen and Neighbor: Comparing Refugee Subjectivity in Pittsburgh and Berlin”
- LEA ESPINOZA GARRIDO (University of Wuppertal/University of Münster)
“Porous Borders, Porous Bodies – Negotiating Citizenship, Gender, and States of Exception in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land”
18:00
Exhibition of the Video Project “Flight”
(University Library, Wuppertal University)
FRIDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2019
9:00 -10:30
Panel 3: Environmental Displacement, Climate Change, and Migrant Precarity
Chair: BIRGIT SPENGLER (University of Wuppertal)
- MAHMOUD ARGHAVAN (Independent Scholar)
“Global Warming and Climate Refugees: A Permanent State of Exception”
- JENNY STUEMER (University of Auckland)
“Border Climates: Weathering Precarity in Beasts of the Southern Wild“
- DEMI WILTON (Loughborough University)
“‘We are the dispossessed’: Environmental Displacement in Contemporary Fiction of West Bengal”
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:15
Keynote II: MARTINA TAZZIOLI (Goldsmiths, University of London)
“The border as a hotspot. What counts as an exception at the frontiers of Europe?”
Response: MEKONNEN TESFAHUNEY (Karlstad University)
12:15-13:45
Lunch Break
13:45-15:15
Panel 4: Precarious Mobilities and the Nation-State
Chair: MATTHEW LONGO (Leiden University)
- TATJANA TÖNSMEYER (University of Wuppertal)
“World War II Historiography and Migrant States of Exception”
- SMAIL RAPIC (University of Wuppertal)
“Globalized Capitalism, Territoriality, and Migration”
- MEKONNEN TESFAHUNEY (Karlstad University)
“Precarious Mobilities”
15:15-15:45
Coffee Break
15:45-17:15
Panel 5 Narrating the Border as Unnatural Divide
Chair: SANDRA HEINEN (University of Wuppertal)
- PEGGY PRECIADO (Frankfurt University)
“Moral Injury in Francisco Cantú’s ‘Bajadas'”
- JULIA WEWIOR (University of Wuppertal)
“Border Crossings and Migrant States of Exception in The Farming of Bones“
- BRAHIM BENMOH (Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco) (confirmation pending)
“The Making of National Societies: Borders, Boundaries and Migrant Inclusion and Exclusion”
ca. 18:00
Dinner
20:00
Film Screening: Seeds of All Things by Yehuda Sharim
SATURDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2019
9:30-10:45
Keynote III: ALICIA SCHMIDT-CAMACHO (Yale University)
“Migrant Justice in the States of Exception”
Response: MITA BANERJEE (University of Mainz)
10:45-11:15
Coffee Break
11:15-12:45
Panel 6: Subverting the Narrative
Chair: ROY SOMMER (University of Wuppertal)
- CHRIS CAMPANIONI (City University of New York):
“Migration as the Primal Scene of Narrative & the Migratory Text as a Model of Collaborative Authorship”
- SZABOLCS MUSCA (University of Lisbon & Migrant Dramaturgies Network)
“Political Migrant Theatre and Crisis Narratives in the UK: Destabilising Artistic and Cultural Borders”
- KATJA SARKOWSKY (University of Augsburg)
“Borders, Law, and Incongruent Temporalities: Narrating Flight and the Search for Refuge in Recent Anglophone Canadian Literature”
12:45-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-16:00
Panel 7: Movement and Mobility through Space and Time
Chair: KATHARINA RENNHAK (University of Wuppertal)
- YEHUDA SHARIM (University of California, Merced)
“Displacement, Film, and the Future: Seeking Refuge in Contemporary USA
- BIRGIT SPENGLER (University of Wuppertal)
“In/Audibility”
- BETTINA HOFMANN (University of Wuppertal)
“Bodies Stuck in Transit: 21st-Century Narratives on Russian Jews Leaving the (Former) Soviet Union”
- SYLVIA MIESZKOWSKI (University of Vienna)
“Narrating the Suspended Self En Route: The Refugee Project’s Tales and Traces”
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:00
Closing Discussion
Migrant States of Exception 