Colloquium: TODO&FRIENDS: Conversations on Diaspora, Queerness, and Archives

Artwork by Natthapong SAMAKKAEW “The Lazy Drawing”/ Poster Design: Thao Ho

Program

Colloquium: “TODO and Friends – Conversations on Diaspora, Queerness, and Archives”

January 18-19, 2024 at Unter den Linden 6, R. 2249a

Please register until January 15 at diasporic.ordinary@hu-berlin.de, stating on which days you want to participate, and if you would like to join us for dinner on January 18, 2024.

Thursday, January 18, 2024

11:45 – 12:00Opening
12:00 – 12:50Thao Ho: “Nationalism and Vietnamese Diasporic Anti-Colonial Activism in the 1940s”  

Chair: Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen
13:00 – 13:50Evangelia Kindinger: “The Hillbilly Diaspora in Appalachian Literature”

Chair: Anne Potjans
14:00 – 14:30COFFEE BREAK
14:30 – 15:20 Tijana Ristić Kern: “Queer Entangled Subjectivities in Djuna Barnes’s Ladies Almanack and Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”

Chair: Thao Ho
15:30 – 16:30Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen: “An Archive of Empty Spaces” 

Chair: Fenja Akinde-Hummel
16:30 – 16:45COFFEE BREAK
16:45 – 17:35Selma Bidlingmaier: “Anthology Project: The Berlin Asian Diaspora” 

Chair: Elahe Haschemi Yekani
18:15DINNER 
Otito, Leipziger Str. 3010117 Berlin  
**Everyone is welcome to join! Please note, however, that we cannot cover your expenses**

Friday, January 19, 2024

12:45 – 13:35Jasper Verlinden: “Suspicious Minds, Suspicious Bodies: Edith Eaton and the Rise of the Immigration Bureaucracy” 

Chair: Fenja Akinde-Hummel
13:45-14:35Anne Potjans: “Night Shift – Queer Subcultural Spaces and the Black Diasporic Experience”

Chair: Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen
14:35-15:00COFFEE BREAK
15:00-15:50Fenja Akinde Hummel: “Black Diasporic Temporalities (of the City)” 

Chair: Thao Ho
16:00-16:50Elahe Haschemi Yekani: “Tales and Lies in Iranian Diasporic Writing” 

Chair: Anne Potjans
17:00-18:00 Wine & Talk Discussion/Get-Together
with Wine and Salty Snacks

Pictures from the Colloquium

2024-01-06 | Posted by Thao Ho