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With: Esther Adeyemo, Tomaz Amorim, Laura Bieger, Farai Chipato, Dominic Davis, Natalie Erkel, Lee Flamand, Henry Ivry, Mark Jerng, Claas Oberstadt, Kerstin Schmidt, Susan Zieger
Attendance is free of charge. If you want to attend, please send an email to: Hildegard.Sicking@ruhr-uni-bochum.de.
Friday, June 26
9:00
Opening
9:15-11:00
Session 1 – Chair: Esther Adeyemo
Laura Bieger (RUB): Genre as Infrastructure and the Specter of Race.
Tomaz Amorim (RUB): Names of Peoples, Names of Places: Extractivism and Race in Euclides da Cunha and Oswald de Andrade.
11:00-11:30
Coffee
11:30-1:00
Session 2 – Chair: Natalie Erkel
Susan Zieger (UC Riverside): Suspense, Explosivity, and the Logistical Labor of Racial Capitalism in Sorcerer (1977).
Claas Oberstadt (HU Berlin): Infrastructures of Slavery: Credit, Information, and Insurance.
1:00-2:00
Lunch
2:00-3:30
Session 3 – Chair: Laura Bieger
Mark Jerng (UC Davis): Incorporating Race: Cyberpunk, Multinational Corporations, and Legal Infrastructures of Personhood.
Esther Adeyemo (RUB): The Aesthetics of Racial Legibility in Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929).
3:30-4:00
Coffee
4:00-5:30
Session 4 – Chair: Lee Flamand
Henry Ivry (University of Glasgow): Listening to Infrastructure: Black Musics, Contrapuntal Genres.
Kerstin Schmidt (LMU): Shipping Blackness: World-Making on the Stage.
7:30
Conference Dinner
Saturday, June 27
9:00-10:45
Session 5 – Chair: Tomaz Amorim
Lee Flamand (RUB): After-the-End-of-the-Worlding: Trans-genetic Infrastructures, Genre Hybridity, and Afrofuturist Post-humanism in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis novels.
Farai Chipato (University of Glasgow): Black Geographies and the Infrastructure Humanities.
10:45-11:15
Coffee
11:15-12:45
Session 6 – Chair: Esther Adeyemo
Natalie Erkel (RUB): Martin Delaney and the Republic of New Afrika: Infrastructuring a Black Nation-State.
Dom Davies (City St George’s, University of London): Plumbing the Nation: Hotels, Drains, Borders, Britain, and the Racialised Politics of Blockage and Flow.
12:45-1:45
Lunch & Wrap-Up
Afternoon
Infrastructure Tour: Bochum Westpark & Jahrhunderthalle and Essen Zeche Zollverein
Meeting Point: 2:30 p.m. at Entrance to Westpark next to IG Metall Building, Alleestr. 80, 44793 Bochum