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June 13, 2012
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As Part of the Black German Cultural Society Convention Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi(Afrotak TV cyberNomads – The Black German Knowledge Education Media Archive Africa – Germany, May Ayim Award, Black Media Congress Germany, Berlin) spoke on: The African Identity in Germany Today
Here you see the Program of the Convention and its participants:
BGCSNJ Convention Program
Friday, August 19
6:00 – 6:15 pm Welcome
6:15 – 6:30 pm Presentation of Award
Hans J. Massaquoi Jr. (on behalf of Hans J. Massaquoi, Sr.)
“Champion of the Humanities Award” of the Humanities Council of
6:30 – 7:30 pm Keynote Address
Noah Sow
“Irmgard and James W. Tanner Memorial Lecture”
Geteilte Geschichte: The Black Experience in Germany and the US
7:30 – 8:30 pm Reception
Saturday, August 20
8:30 – 9:30 am PANEL I: Black Experiences Before WW II
Chair: Martin Klimke (GHI Washington)
William Strickland(DuBois Research Center, UMass Amherst)
Otto von Bismarck: DuBois’ Original Role Model of Racial Statesman
Amilcar Shabazz(DuBois Research Center, UMass Amherst)
Du Bois and the Strengthening of Trans-Atlantic Connections: Digital
Discoveries in the Afro-German Experience
Dan Lee(U.S. Department of Defense)
Reconstructing Jim Crow: the Segregation of German South West Africa
9:30 – 9:45 am Coffee Break
9:45 – 10:30 am PANEL 2: Black Experiences Before WW II cont’d
Chair: Maria Höhn (Vassar College)
James K. Blackwell, Jr.(North Carolina Central University)
Muherero riKarera: The Construction of Blackness in German Colonial
Children’s Literature
Robert Wesley Munro(Michigan State University)
The Historical Phenomenon of African American Scholars Studying in Germany
10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 pm PANEL 3: Race and Gender in Postwar Germany
Chair: Silke Hackenesch (Free University, Berlin)
S. Marina Jones(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Afrophilia and Black Germania: Black German Perceptions and Experiences
in West Germany, 1950-80s
Kira Thurman(University of Rochester)
“She is neither Cleopatra nor the Queen of Sheba:” The Black Female Other
in Postwar German Opera Productions
Tiffany N. Florvil(University of South Carolina)
“A Covenant of Women-Bonding”: Kinship, Friendship, and Belonging
12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 pm PANEL 4: Race and Gender in Postwar Germany cont’d
Chair: Janice D.M. Mitchell (Gallaudet University)
Peggy Piesche(Hamilton College)
Without the master’s tool: Audre Lorde’s Black Internationalism and Black
German Feminists – A transnational shift of Diaspora
Nkechi Madubuko
Importance of Race in the German Labor Market: Acculturative Stress of
Afro-Germans
2:15 – 3:30 pm PANEL 5: Transatlantic Adoption
Chair: Peggy Piesche (Hamilton College)
Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria (German Historical Museum, Berlin)
How to Adopt a German War Baby: Transatlantic Adoption of “Brown Babies”
Silke Hackenesch (Free University, Berlin)
Race, Citizenship, and Identity: The discourse on the so-called brown babies and occupation children in the United States and Germany
Nadine Golly (Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany)
The Idea of a Cosmopolitan Family: The Hidden Experiences of Afro-Germans in the Danish Adoption Discourse
3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:00 pm PANEL 6: Civil Rights in Transatlantic Perspective
Chair: Felicitas Jaima (New York University)
Rebecca Brueckmann
Pointing Fingers: German Reactions to the Central High School Desegregation Crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957
Priscilla Layne (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Lothar Lambert’s film BERLIN HARLEM (1974)
Kimberly Singletary (Northwestern University, Chicago)
Soul Expulsion: Black (American) Women, Sex Appeal, and Representation in German Media
7:00 – 10:00 pm Conference Dinner
Carlyle Suites Hotel: Patio
1731 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Sunday, August 21
9:00 – 9:45 am PANEL 7: Sharing our Stories
Chair: Victoria Robinson
Debra Tanner-Abell (Pittsburgh)
Family History
Vera Ingrid Grant (W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African
American Research at Harvard University)
Paper Girl: A Novel
9:45 – 11:00 am PANEL 8: Research Perspectives
Chair: Leroy Hopkins (Millersville University)
Sara Lennox(UMass Amherst)
Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture
Maria Höhn(Vassar College)
The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany
11:00 – 11:45 pm PANEL 9: Identity
Chair: S. Marina Jones (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi(Afrotak TV cyberNomads – The Black German Knowledge Education Media Archive Africa – Germany, May Ayim Award, Black Media Congress Germany, Berlin)
The African Identity in Germany Today
Claudia Seele
Young Children’s Ethnifying Practices: An Ethnographic Research in a Daycare Center in Berlin
11:45 – 12:15 pm Coffee Break
12:15 – 1:30 pm Concluding Discussion & Roundtable: Organizing Ourselves
Chair: Rosemarie Pena
Claudia Becker (North Carolina Central University)
HBCU/HMC Student Needs and Successes in German Language Studies & in
Study Abroad Experiences in Germany
Leroy Hopkins(Millersvillle College)
Alle lernen Deutsch
Janice Mitchell(Gallaudet University)
Alle lernen Deutsch
1:30 pm Departure
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