Conference - Day 3

Colonial Caleidoscope Caribbean

The Caribbean in the Focus of Cultural Transfer Processes in the 19th Century

Sat, Jul 11, 2009
9 am

English and French with German simultaneous translation

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Haiti in the Caribbean Kaleidoscope

9:00 Opening Lecture - Chris Bongie (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada): Politics, Memory, Literature: The ‘Divisive Universality’ of Nineteenth-Century Haiti

9:45 Anja Bandau (Freie Universität Berlin): Configuraciones atlánticas en la última década del siglo XVIII: Circulación de saberes sobre Haití en el mundo atlántico

10:15 Frauke Gewecke (Universität Heidelberg): Saint-Domingue/Haïti – Santo Domingo: proyectos de una Isla/nación une et indivisible (1795-1801; 1820/21-1843)

10:45-11:00 Coffee break


11:00 Chelo Naranjo (CSIC Madrid): Los rostros del miedo: la sombra de Haití en Cuba (siglo XIX)

11:30 Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität Saarbrücken): Transferts culturels et légitimation postcoloniale du pouvoir – l’émergence de la presse et de la littérature haitiennes pendant le règne du Roi Christophe en Haiti


Colonial Kaleidoscope Caribbean in the Global Context

13:30 Michael Zeuske (Universität Köln): El Caribe, el Atlántico oculto del contrabando de esclavos y las globalizaciones del siglo XIX

14:00 Sibylle Fischer (New York University): Estética y política en el Atlántico esclavista

14:30 Janett Reinstädler (Universität Saarbrücken): El nuevo mundo es un palco: Teatro y viajes en el Caribe decimonónico

15:00-15:30 Coffee break


15:30 Michèle Guicharnaud-Tollis (Université de Pau): Les transferts culturels d’Afrique vers les Caraïbes au XIXe siècle: marginalisation, résistance, recréation

16:00 James Arnold (University of Virginia): Corsaires, Aventuriers, Flibustiers et Pirates: Identité régionale à la frontière de l'empire espagnol dans la Caraïbe

16:30-17:00 Ottmar Ette (Univerität Potsdam): Mundos transarchipiélicos


In collaboration of Universität Potsdam, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Organisation: Ottmar Ette and Gesine Müller (DFG-Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe „Transkoloniale Karibik“)


Sunday, July 12 at 12 noon: book presentation by Juan Flores, literary and cultural scholar, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU: "The diaspora strikes back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning" (2008) with music samples. more...


See also the programme of Water Music, daily after the conference with concerts at 7 p.m. and films at 10 p.m.


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