{"id":78,"date":"2026-06-14T14:55:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacesintransition.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?p=78"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:18:41","slug":"26-27-6-2026-workshop-race-genre-as-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacesintransition.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/26-27-6-2026-workshop-race-genre-as-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"26.-27.6.2026: Workshop „Race\/Genre as Infrastructure“"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More information here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendance is free of charge. If you want to attend, please send an email to: Hildegard.Sicking@ruhr-uni-bochum.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday, June 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:00     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:15-11:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 1<\/em> – Chair: Esther Adeyemo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00-11:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coffee<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30-1:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 2<\/em> – Chair: Natalie Erkel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Zieger (UC Riverside): Suspense, Explosivity, and the Logistical Labor of Racial Capitalism in Sorcerer (1977).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claas Oberstadt (HU Berlin): Infrastructures of Slavery: Credit, Information, and Insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1:00-2:00 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lunch<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:00-3:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 3<\/em> – Chair: Laura Bieger <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Jerng (UC Davis): Incorporating Race: Cyberpunk, Multinational Corporations, and Legal Infrastructures of Personhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Esther Adeyemo (RUB): The Aesthetics of Racial Legibility in Nella Larsen\u2019s Passing (1929).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:30-4:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coffee <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4:00-5:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 4<\/em>  – Chair: Lee Flamand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry Ivry (University of Glasgow): Listening to Infrastructure: Black Musics, Contrapuntal Genres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerstin Schmidt (LMU): Shipping Blackness: World-Making on the Stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Dinner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, June 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:00-10:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 5<\/em> – Chair: Tomaz Amorim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee Flamand (RUB): After-the-End-of-the-Worlding: Trans-genetic Infrastructures, Genre Hybridity, and Afrofuturist Post-humanism in Octavia Butler\u2019s Xenogenesis novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farai Chipato (University of Glasgow): Black Geographies and the Infrastructure Humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:45-11:15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coffee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:15-12:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 6 – Chair: Esther Adeyemo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natalie Erkel (RUB): Martin Delaney and the Republic of New Afrika: Infrastructuring a Black Nation-State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dom Davies (City St George\u2019s, University of London): Plumbing the Nation: Hotels, Drains, Borders, Britain, and the Racialised Politics of Blockage and Flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:45-1:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lunch & Wrap-Up<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afternoon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infrastructure Tour:<\/em> Bochum Westpark & Jahrhunderthalle<\/a> and Essen Zeche Zollverein<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meeting Point: 2:30 p.m. at Entrance to Westpark next to IG Metall Building, Alleestr. 80, 44793 Bochum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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