Reworking Space, Re-Narrating Belonging Workshop Program
INTERNATIONAL YOUNG RESEARCHERS' WORKSHOP
REWORKING SPACE,
RE-NARRATING BELONGING
Transregional Perspectives on Contemporary Media, Gender and Visibility Practices
THURSDAY, 08.02.2018
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13:00-13:30 |
Welcome Address Alexa Altmann & Nadja-Christina Schneider (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
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13:30-14:30 |
Keynote Address Marwan M. Kraidy (University of Pennsylvania) Igniting the Caliphate: How “Islamic State” Uses Fire to Articulate Space, Belonging and Gender |
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15:00-19:00 |
Panel 1 Translocal Networks, Self-Making and New Modes of Situatedness and Relatedness Chair: Marwan M. Kraidy (University of Pennsylvania) Dhanya Fee Kirchhof (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Ravidassia: Neither Sikh nor Hindu? – Challenging Caste-Based Discrimination and Ascriptions of Situatedness through Mediated Practices of Self-Making
Simone Pfeifer (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Intimate Pictures: Gendered Images and Mobility in Senegalese Transnational Social Relationships
Anna Antonakis (Freie Universität Berlin) Claiming Visibility and Staying in Control: Feminist Counter-Publics in Times of Multi-layered Transformations in Tunisia
Short Break
Salma Siddique (Freie Universität Berlin/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) You Are My Love Charger: Media Technology and the Dera Sachcha Sauda Community
Lillian Boxman-Shabtai (Northwestern University) Decoding Income Inequality: An Examination of Interpretive Spaces on Digital Platforms |
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19:00-21:00 |
Film Screening and Reception |
FRIDAY, 09.02.2018
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10:00-13:00 |
Panel 2 Performance, Narration and Remediations of Space and Belongings Chair: Max Arne Kramer (Universität Leipzig) Persefoni Myrtsou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Spaces of Migration: The Production of Space and “Homing” as Artistic and Social Practice
Alexa Altmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Desert (Be)Longings: Space Bending and Identity Play in Contemporary Israeli Pop Culture
Milica Trakilović (Utrecht University/University of Florence) Bodies Making Spaces: Understanding the Airport as a Mediated (European) Cultural Heritage Site
Julia Giese (Loughborough University) Embodied Partitions: Exploring Women’s Embodied Memories of the 1947 Partition of India through Dance |
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13:00-14:00 |
Student Project Exhibit Luncheon |
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14:00-17:00 |
Panel 3 Gendered Spaces, Urban (Im)Mobilities and Visibilities Chair: Nadja-Christina Schneider (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Paridhi Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Painting Visibilities: An Analysis of Women’s Protests in Indian University Spaces
Carolin Genz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Raging Grannies: Senior Women Protesting the City
Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza (University of Illinois) Waiting for the Promise: Visibilizing Zones of Desire through Digital Media in Contemporary Gay Manila
Tarishi Verma (Bowling Green University) Understanding Subversive Performances of Women in Indian Beauty Parlours
Short Break |
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17:30-19:00 |
Closing Session |