POSTCOLONIAL OCEANS
Contradictions and Heterogeneities
in the Epistemes of Salt Water
Welcome to the website of the Joint Annual Conference of GAPS and IACPL Postcolonial Oceans. Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water that took place on 30 May-2 June 2019 at the University of Bremen in Germany.
Call for Participation
This year there are two call for papers, the standard and the a CFP for the student panel association
We are grateful for the generous support of:
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Below you'll find the schedule for the conference. We'll keep this page regularly updated with all new speakers and sessions, so be sure to keep checking in!
DAY 1
- 17:00 - 19:00
- SFG 0140, Enrique Schmidt Straße 7
Welcome & Registration
- 19:00 -22:00
- Haus am Walde, Kuhgrabenweg 2
Conference Warming
DAY 3
- 08:00-09:30
- SFG 0140, Enrique Schmidt Straße 7
Registration
- 09:30-10:00
- HS
Opening remarks
Kerstin Knopf, Anna-Katharina Hornidge Michi Knecht, Ingo Warnke, WoC Annette Lang, International Office, University of Bremen Annika McPherson, GAPS Tonjes Veenstra, IACPL
- 10:00-11:00
- Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales, Sydney
- HS
Keynote lecture: Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Oceans: The Space of Future Thinking [Video lecture]
Chair: Sukla Chatterjee
- 11:00-11:30
- SFG 0150
Coffee break
- 11:30 - 13:00
- HS
Student Panel #1
Matteo Cordi/Dennis Tobias Meyer/Sören Schreiber, Zhou Shi-ting, Nicola Zimmermann
- 13:00-14:30
- Cafe Unique, SFG ground floor
Lunch
- 14:30-16:30
- Foyer HS
Closing Keynotes
Explore the reef with VR glasses in our 360°film from a ZMT social sciences study on the use of virtual reality in donation campaigns for environmental protection
- 17:00-20:00
- SFG 0150
End of Conference Party
DAY 2
- 08:00-09:30
- SFG 0140, Enrique Schmidt Straße 7
Registration
- 09:30-10:00
- HS
Opening remarks
Kerstin Knopf, Anna-Katharina Hornidge Michi Knecht, Ingo Warnke, WoC Annette Lang, International Office, University of Bremen Annika McPherson, GAPS Tonjes Veenstra, IACPL
- 10:00-11:00
- Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales, Sydney
- HS
Keynote lecture: Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Oceans: The Space of Future Thinking [Video lecture]
Chair: Sukla Chatterjee
- 11:00-11:30
- SFG 0150
Coffee break
- 11:30 - 13:00
- HS
Student Panel #1
Matteo Cordi/Dennis Tobias Meyer/Sören Schreiber, Zhou Shi-ting, Nicola Zimmermann
- 13:00-14:30
- Cafe Unique, SFG ground floor
Lunch
- 16:00-16:30
- SFG 0150
Coffee break
- 16:30-17:30
- Nicholas Faraclas, University of Puerto Rico
- HS
Keynote lecture: Nicholas Faraclas, University of Puerto Rico
Subaltern Currents and Transgressive Waves: Trans-Oceanic Agents and “Creole” Languages [Video lecture]
Chair: Sukla Chatterjee
- 17:45-18:15
- HS
Book Launch Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction
Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein, Nicole Waller, Dirk Wiemann
- 18:30-19:00
- Sujata Bhatt
- HS
GAPS Award Ceremony with Reading by Sujata Bhatt
- 18:30-19:00
- Pete Marsden
- HS
"Larger than Life: A Tribute to Geoff Davis (1943-2018)"
- 19:30-20:00
- Gema Martinez-Méndez
- HS
Reading by Marine Scientist Gema Martinez-Méndez
- 17:45-20:00
- Foyer HS
Poster session
Digitale Sammlung Deutscher Kolonialismus (DSDK) / Digital Collection German Colonialism
Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Elisa Erbe
- 17:45-20:00
- Foyer HS
ZMT Showcases - CORAL REEFS - Life below the surface
Explore the reef with VR glasses in our 360°film from a ZMT social sciences study on the use of virtual reality in donation campaigns for environmental protection
- 20:00-21:00
- SFG 0150
Reception
Conference Keynote Speakers
We have a wide range of conference speakers this year.
They include surfers, poets, linguists and wanderers amongst many more.
They include surfers, poets, linguists and wanderers amongst many more.
Bill Ashcroft
ProfessorSchool of English, Media and Performing Arts of the University of New South Wales in Sydney
Nicholas Faraclas
PhD
Robbie Shilliam
PhDResearches the political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in global order
Anne Storch
PhDInstitute of African Linguistics at the University of Cologne
Authors
Alvin Pang
Poet, writer, editor, anthologist and translatorSingapore
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
AuthorAuthor from Nairobi, Kenya, and self-described ‘wanderer’
Ellen van Neerven
Indigenous writerAward-winning Indigenous writer whose mother is from the Yugambeh people of eastern Australia, and father is Dutch
