Friday, 30 January Saturday, 31 January 13.00–14.00 Opening Germany before and after Audre Lorde Christine Vogt-William (HU Berlin) Eva Boesenberg (HU Berlin) Maisha Eggers (Universität Magdeburg-Stendal/ HU Berlin) 9.30 – 9.45 Pre-Panel Poetry Reading Tracie Morris (Pratt Institute, Brooklyn) reads Audre Lorde: ‘Power’. Sarah Mouwani ‘Im Namen des Volkes’ (‚In the Name of the People‘) 14.00–14.15 BREAK 9.45–11.15 Graduate Student Workshop Studying Audre Lorde’s Poetry and Politics CHair Noa Ha (Centre for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin) 11.15–11.45 COFFEE BREAK 11.45–12.00 Pre-Panel Poetry Reading MAY AYIM ‘Borderless and Brazen’ 14.15–15.45 Keynote Fatima El-Tayeb (UC San Diego) Dimensions of Diaspora: Women of Color Feminism, Black Europe and Queer Memory Discourses Moderation Nicola Lauré al-Samarai (Adefra, Berlin) 15.45–16.15 Coffee Break 12.00–13.30 Transatlantic Dialogues 16.15–16.30 Pre-SCreening Poetry Reading Gloria Wekker (Utrecht University) reads Audre Lorde: ‘A Litany for Survival’ 16.30–18.00 Film Screening A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1995) 18.00–18.30 BREAK 18.30–20.00 Distinguished W.E.B. Du Bois LecturE (Senatssaal) Kara Keeling (University of Southern California) “A Now that can Breed Futures“: Audre Lorde and the Cinematic Politics of Documentary Projects as Legacy Building moderation Peggy Piesche (Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies) 21.00 CONFeRENCE DINNER Cassandra Ellerbe-Dück (Eine Welt der Vielfalt e.V., Mannheim) Black Women in the Whirlwind: Forging Diasporic Connections in Audre Lorde’s Footsteps Katharina Gerund (University of Erlangen) Sisterhood in and beyond the Black Diaspora: Audre Lorde’s Feminist Politics ‘Berlin is Hard on Colored Girls’. / ‘Audre Lorde‘s Mirror: Myrna Bain, A Reflection’ Sharon Dodua-Otoo reads excerpts from …the things I am thinking while smiling politely 15.15–16.45 Film Screening Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years (1984- 1992) (2012) 16.45–17.15COFFEE BREAK 17.15–18.45 Three-Part Conversation The Stories of Our Lives: Historicisation as a Feminist Task MAISHA EGGERS, Nicola LaurÉ al-Samarai, Katja Kinder (Adefra, Berlin) CHAIR Maisha Eggers 18.45–19.00 Break 19.00–19.15 Pre-Panel Poetry Reading Tracie Morris reads Audre Lorde: ‘A Woman Speaks’ Sarah Mouwani ‘Erdreflektion’ (‘Earth Reflection’) CHair Eva Boesenberg 19.15–20.45 Keynote Conversations Moving Forward: Lorde’s Legacy of Intersectional, Queer, Black, Feminist Cultural Politics Katharina Oguntoye (JOLIBA, Berlin), Gloria Wekker, Tracie Morris, Peggy Piesche 13.30-14.30 Lunch Chair Christine Vogt-William Maggi Morehouse (Coastal Carolina University SC) African American Women Warriors in the US Armed Forces in Germany 14.30–15.15 Pre-Screening Reading Tracie Morris reads Audre Lorde: 20.45 Final Remarks from the OrganiZers Diese Fachtagung befasst sich mit A u d re L o r d e s E i n f l u s s a u f d e n d e u t s c h e n K o n t e x t . L o r d e s I d e e n , i h re E n t w ü r f e v o n G e s e l l s c h a f t , i h re P a ra d i g m e n u n d i h re A n w e s e n h e i t i n Deutschland geben den Rahmen für die Auseinandersetzung mit Gesellschaft aus der politisierten Position e n g a g i e r t e r , f e m i n i s t i s c h i n s p i ri e r t e r , Schwarzer weiblicher Handlungssubjekte. Thematisiert werden bedeutende a k t i vi s t i s c h e , a k a d e m i s c h e u n d s c h ri f t s t e l l e ri s c h e S t r u k t u re n i n L o r d e s L e b e n . A u d re L o r d e wi r d a l s S ym b o l f i g u r , a l s k o n k re t e P e r s o n u n d a l s I d e e n g e b e ri n f ü r z a h l re i c h e g e s e l l s c h a f t s k ri t i s c h e Bewegungen gewürdigt. Embassy of the United States of America O r g a n i s at i o N This conference will focus on Audre Lorde’s influence on the German context. Her ideas, social paradigms and her p r e s e n c e i n G e r m a n y p ro v i d e t h e f r a m e wo r k f o r a n e n g a g e m e n t w i t h s o c i e t y f ro m p o l i t i c i z e d B l a c k f e m i n i s t f e m a l e subject positions. Significant activist, academic and authorial structures in Lorde’s life will be thematised. The c o n t r i b u t i o n s s y s t e m a t i c a l l y a p p ro a c h Audre Lorde as a symbolic figure, as a r e a l p e r s o n , a n d a s a p ro v i d e r o f i d e a s for countless socially critical movements. C h r i s t i n e V o g t - W i l l i Am Maisha Auma Eggers E VA B o e s e n b e r g D i e K o n f e re n z w u r d e d u rc h d i e f i n a n z i e l le Unterstützung des Instituts für Anglist i k u n d A m e ri k a n i s t i k , d e s Z e n t r u m s f ü r t ra n s d i s z i p l i n ä re G e s c h l e c h t e r s t u d i e n , der Forschungsabteilung der HumboldtU n i v e r s i t ä t z u B e rl i n , d e r G e n e ra t i o n A d e f ra , d e s L e h r s t u h l s P ro f . A n d re a s K ra s s ( I n s t i t u t f ü r d e u t s c h e L i t e ra t u r ) u n d d e r B o t s c h a f t d e r Ve re i n i g t e n S t a a t e n v o n A m e ri k a e rm ö g l i c h t . J AN 3 0 - 3 1 , 2 0 1 5 HU B e r l i n Unter den Linden 6, Raum 2094 Af r i c a n D i a sp o r i c P r e s e n c e s a n d I n f l u e n c e s o n C o n t e mp o r a r y G e r m a n L i t e r a r y a n d C u lt u r a l P o l i t i c s
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