>>From Daniela Hrzan <[email protected]> __________________________________________________
Conference Announcement "De/Constructions of Occidentalism. A Gender-Critical Intervention in the Construction of the Self through the Other" International Conference Graduate Research Group "Gender as a Category of Knowledge", Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany) 21-23 June 2007 __________________________________________________ We are very pleased to announce the following conference: "De/Constructions of Occidentalism. A Gender-Critical Intervention in the Construction of the Self through the Other" which has been organized by the graduate research group "Gender as a Category of Knowledge". The conference will take place from June 21st through June 23rd, 2007 at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. The preliminary conference program is posted below. More detailed information concerning the conference venue, the registration process as well as the cultural program will be available shortly under this link: http://www.okzidentalismus-konferenz.de Debates about 'parallel societies', the politics of integration and recognition, as well as the perceived degree to which immigrants might be able to submit to democratic organizational structures and values not only reveal anxieties about the presence of 'too many foreigners'. They also serve to stabilize and newly construct the unmarked 'Self'. With reference to the scholarship of Edward Said who has analyzed concepts of an oriental 'Other' as constructions of colonial hegemony, it seems obvious why the aforementioned processes should be linked to his work on 'Orientalism'. In the face of current 'cultural wars' against Muslims and other persons living in European immigration societies who are being identified as 'foreign' or 'not belonging', one can even speak of 'Neo-Orientalism' which must be seen in relation with eurocentrism and ethnocentrism and in conjunction with what postcolonial theorists have also termed 'Occidentalism' (Fernando Coronil). The conference will take up the task of examining new constructions of the 'Occident' in the sense of a 'Critical Occidentalism'. These renewed expressions of 'Occidentality' can be most clearly observed in debates about a seemingly unbridgeable cultural 'difference' which is seen as manifesting itself first and foremost in the arena of gender and sexual politics (patriarchy, headscarf, forced marriage). Therefore, the conference will make a sustained attempt to contribute to a transfer of gender-critical postcolonial theory to German/ European societal contexts. By focusing on three major thematic fields (Knowledge/Religious Belief, Criticizing Hegemony: Theories in Dialogue, and Critical Occidentalism) we hope to encourage discussions about strategies towards a decentralization of Occidentalism which aspires to be (self)-critical of hegemonic structures. Confirmed keynote speakers are Rey Chow, Fernando Coronil, Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Jasbir Puar und Yasemin Yildiz. Conference languages are German and English. Unfortunately, translation services cannot be provided. Project Director: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Dietze Academic Support Team: Prof. Dr. Edith Wenzel, Claudia Brunner, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Daniela Hrzán, Jana Husmann-Kastein, Carsten Junker, Karolina Krasuska, Beatrice Michaelis, Simon Strick. Organization and Administration: Viola Beckmann, Desirée Zwanck, Dörthe Schulz ------- PRELIMINARY PROGRAM THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2007 4.00 pm Registration 6.00 pm Arrival 6.15 pm Greeting/ Opening Words: Christina von Braun (Berlin) 6.30 pm Selection of short films, presented by Nanna Heidenreich (Berlin), followed by a discussion 7.30 pm Break 7.45 pm KEYNOTE Yasemin Yildiz (Urbana-Champaign): Agency, Address, Occidentalism: The Discourse of "Muslim" Women in Europe Chair: Inge Stephan (Berlin) - not yet confirmed 9.00 pm Reception ------- FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2007 9.30 Gabriele Dietze (Graz/Berlin): Critical Occidentalism (presentation in English) 10.00 KEYNOTE Lisa Lampert-Weissig (San Diego): Supersession and Redemption: Woman and Jew as Hermeneutic Strategy Chair: Edith Wenzel (Berlin) 11.00 Coffee break 11.30 - 2.00 pm PARALLEL PANELS "KNOWLEDGE/ RELIGIOUS BELIEF" and "DOGMA/DEMOCRACY" PANEL "KNOWLEDGE/RELIGIOUS BELIEF) Language: German Introduction: Edith Wenzel (Berlin) Presenters: Christina Lutter (Wien): Geschichten des Möglichen. Gelehrte Frauen und Männer in mittelalterlichen Reformbewegungen Isabell Lorey (Berlin): Kritik der Immunisierung. Aussatz und Lepra von der Bibel bis ins Mittelalter Waltraud Ernst (Hildesheim): Das Erotische zwischen "Zivilisation" und "Evolution" PANEL "DOGMA/DEMOCRACY" Language: English Introduction: Carsten Junker (Berlin) Presenters: Nanna Heidenreich (Trier/Berlin) und Serhat Karakayali (Frankfurt a.M.): "Phallic Democracy". Claiming Entitlement Antje Hornscheidt (Berlin): Muslim Curry? How religious and ethnic identity categories are stirred up and conflated into each other Tina Spies (Kassel): Gender - Ethnicity - Hybridity: Rethinking Public Discourses on Immigrants' Delinquency 2.00 pm - 3.30 pm Lunch break 3.30 pm - 6.00 pm PARALLEL PANELS "HEGEMONY/INTERVENTIONS" and "OTHERING" PANEL "HEGEMONY/INTERVENTIONS" Language: German Introduction: Elahe Haschemi Yekani (Berlin) Presenters: Alexandra Karentzos (Trier): Neu-Besetzungen. Ironisierungen des Okzidentalismus in der Kunst Parastou Forouhars Kea Wienand (Trier/Oldenburg): Olaf Metzels "Türkenwohnung" - künstlerische Intervention in einen "deutschen" Okzidentalismus Kien Nghi Ha (Berlin): Das deutsche Integrationsregime als koloniale Pädagogik PANEL "OTHERING" Language: German Introduction: Claudia Brunner (Berlin/Wien) Presenters: Stanislawa Paulus (Lüneburg): Fremde Welten und Kartografien des Eigenen. MuslimInnen in TV-Dokumentationen Sabine Berghahn (Berlin) und Petra Rostock (Berlin): Widersprüchliche Neutralität. Eine geschlechtersensible Analyse der derzeitigen juristischen und politischen Kopftuchdebatte(n) Helmut Krieger (Wien): Unerwünschte Patriarchen und die Dialektik des Globalen 6.00 pm Coffee break 6.30 pm KEYNOTE Jasbir Puar (New Brunswick): Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Chair: Elahe Haschemi Yekani (Berlin) 7.30 pm End of Program 8.00 pm Dinner ------- SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2007 10.00 KEYNOTE Rey Chow (Providence): 'Human' in the Age of Disposable People: Humanism, Globalization, and the Chinese Film BLIND SHAFT Chair: Karolina Krasuska (Berlin/Frankfurt (Oder)) 11.00 Coffee break 11.30 - 2.00 pm PARALLEL PANELS "WHITENESS/OCCIDENTALITY" and "FEMINISM/PATRIARCHY" PANEL "WHITENESS/OCCIDENTALITY" Language: English Introduction: Daniela Hrzán (Berlin) Presenters: Kristin Ørjasæter (Århus): Feminism and Racism. White Woman in the Aftermath of Colonialism Ina Kerner (Berlin): Challenges of Critical Whiteness Studies Susan Arndt (Berlin/ Frankfurt a.M.): The Racial Turn. Whiteness, Critical Occidentalism and Europe PANEL "FEMINISM/PATRIARCHY" Language: German Introduction: Jana Husmann-Kastein (Berlin) Presenters: Anette Dietrich (Berlin): Konstruktionen weißer Weiblichkeit in der Ersten deutschen Frauenbewegung Nazli Hodaie (München): Vom Orientalismus zur Patriarchatskritik: Selbst- und Orientwahrnehmung in der deutschen Presse Daniela Marx (Göttingen): Feministischer Okzidentalismus in Deutschland und den Niederlanden 2.00 pm - 3.30 pm Lunch break 3.30 pm - 6.00 pm PARALLEL PANELS "NATION/RELIGION" und "PUBLIC SPHERE /(GEO)POLITICS PANEL "NATION/RELIGION" Language: German Introduction: Beatrice Michaelis (Berlin) Presenters: Sigrid Köhler (Münster): Nationale Zungen von Herder bis ZaimoglU Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin): Okzidentalismus-Konstruktionen? Westliche und östliche Koranforschung als Schauplatz Susanne Lanwerd (Berlin): Anachronistische Säkularisierungs-Theoreme und Neo-Orientalismus PANEL "PUBLIC SPHERE/(GEO)POLITICS" Language: English Introduction: Karolina Krasuska (Berlin/Frankfurt (Oder)) Presenters: Schirin Amir-Moazami (Frankfurt/Oder): Secular Muslim Feminists in European Public Spheres: Empowerment or Cooption? Nicole Dörr (Florenz): The Discourse on "Shy Eastern Women" in the European Social Forum Manuela Boatca (Eichstätt): Long Waves of Occidentalism. Gender, Racial and Ethnic Othering in the Modern World-System 6.00 pm Break 6.30 pm KEYNOTE Fernando Coronil (Ann Arbor): Darkness in the Heart of Knowledge - Beyond Occidentalism Chair: Claudia Brunner (Berlin/Wien) 7.30 pm Wrap-up/ Good-bye 8.00 pm End of Conference Contact: Daniela Hrzán Graduate Research Group "Gender as a Category of Knowledge" Humboldt-Universität Berlin E-Mail: [email protected] Web: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/gkgeschlecht/index.php __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
