[Nettime-bold] CONF: Beyond Dichotomies? (Trier/Germany, Oct 11th to Oct 13th, 2001)

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International Conference

Beyond Dichotomies? 
Transgressive Identities and Topographies of Intercultural Spaces

organized by 

Graduiertenkolleg "Interkulturelle Kommunikation in
kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive"
University of Saarbrücken, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink 
(Intercultural Communication in the Perspective of Cultural Studies) 
and
Graduiertenkolleg "Identität und Differenz. Geschlechterkonstruktion und
Interkulturalität (18. bis 20. Jahrhundert)" 
University of Trier, Prof. Dr. Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff
(Identity and Difference. Gender and Interculturality, 18th - 20th
centuries)

October, 11th to 13th, 2001 - Trier (Germany)


Intercultural and gender studies have for a long time criticized the
power structure created by constructions of cultural and sexual
difference. But this critique often reproduced the patterns of thoughts
which it reflected if not even strengthened - like the pattern of basic
dichotomies as own / other, colonizer / colonized, victim / offender,
Orient / Occident, male / female etc. The conference aims at questioning
these bipolar dichotomies. 
During the last years the focus of attention has shifted to hitherto
overlooked phenomena of mixture and intercultural spaces, of
transgressions and of transculturality. In the course of this
development the already dubious notions of stable identities, of
homogeneity and the coherence of cultures and gender have once more been
refuted. Whereas up to now the rehabilitation and recognition of the
colonized "other" was central, it is now time to develop as a figure of
thought conceptual alternatives to the allegedly universal dichotomies. 
The conference will discuss case studies and approaches developped in
cultural studies and social sciences working with the concepts of
hybridity and heterotopia, nomadism and intermediality, circulation and
translation, "third space" and "third gender"; the conference will try
to clarify these often vague concepts. This tendency is exemplified by
the development of the study of Orientalism during the last twenty
years. Whereas Edward Said in 1978 defined the Orient as a
one-dimensional projection and invention of the Occident being part of a
static pattern, other researches in different disciplines have worked
out a whole number of "orientalisms", whose dynamical forces influence
the field of interculturality pointing out the agency and the voice of
the "others". 
The conference is divided into three sections: the first section will
present theoretical approaches "Beyond Dichotomies" from the point of
view of postcolonial- and gender studies. In the second section concepts
of space will be discussed under the key word of "Topographies of
Intercultural Spaces". In the third section conceptions of
"Transgressive Identities" will be up to discussion. 




Programme:

Thursday, Oct 10th, 2001
14.00           Welcome
14.30           Introduction: Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink / Viktoria
                Schmidt-Linsenhoff

                Beyond Dichotomies?
                Moderation: Verena Kuni

15.30           Marie-Luise Angerer, Köln
                Geschlecht als Gabe. Über den Gestus der Verausgabung
                in Kunst und Medien
                (Gender as Gift. On the Mode of Over-spending
                in Visual Arts and Medias)

        Coffee Break

17.00           Maya Nadig, Bremen
                Der Zwischenraum als Übergangsraum.
                Eine psychoanalytische Perspektive
                (The Space in between as a Space of Transgression.
                A psychoanalytical Perspective) 

18.00           Andrea Maihofer, Basel
                Jenseits von Gleichheit und Differenz -
                Auswege aus einem Dilemma?
                (Beyond Sameness and Difference: Ways out of a Dilemma?)

Buffet

                Moderation: Christoph Antweiler 

20.00           Gayatri Spivak, New York
                Gender

Come Together

Friday, Oct 12th, 2001

                Topographies of Intercultural Spaces
                Moderation: Irene Nierhaus 

9.00            Meyda Yegenoglu, Ankara
                Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants
                in the Postcolonial World

10.00           Heike Schmidt, Saarbrücken
                Die literarische Metapher der Stadt als "anderer Raum"
                (The Literary Metaphor of the Town as "Other Space")

        Coffee Break

11.30           Lydia Haustein, Göttingen
                Warburgs Erben in Cyberspace
                (Warburg's Heirs in Cyberspace)

        Lunch Break
        

                Transgressive Identities
                Moderation: Urs Urban

14.00           Sarga Moussa, Lyon
                L'Orient des Saint-Simoniens
                (The Orient of the Saint-Simonists)

15.00           Ulrike Stamm, Berlin
                Transgressionen in Orientreiseberichten
                von Schriftstellerinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts
                (Transgressions in travel reports about the Orient
                by female writers of the 19. century

        Coffee Break 

16.30           Pascale Haab, Saarbrücken
                "Construire la Méditerranée."
                Amin Maaloufs literarische Reflexionen über Identität
                ("Construire la Méditerranée."
                Amin Maalouf's Literary Reflections on Identity)

20.00           Performing the Border
                Video by Ursula Biemann; Introduction: Verena Kuni

Samstag 13.10.2001

                Moderation: Katja Wolf/Melanie Ulz

9.00            Nina Trauth, Trier
                "Regardez Mme X en Sultane!"
                Konstruktionen von Identität im orientalisierenden
                Portrait des Barock
                ("Regardez Mme X en sultane!"
                Masquerades of Cultural Identity in Orientalizing
                Portraiture of the Baroque Era)

10.00           Reina Lewis, London
                Beyond Orientalist Dichotomies:
                Performing Ottoman Identities

        Coffee Break

11.30           Michael Böhler, Zürich
                Hybridisierungs- und Universalisierungstendenzen.
                Überlegungen zur Dynamik und Struktur kultureller
                Austausch- und Transferprozesse am Beispiel der Schweiz
                (Tendencies of Hybridization and Universalization:
                Thoughts on the dynamism and structure of cultural
                processes of exchange and transference in Switzerland)

12.30           Closing Discussion

Moderation: Annegret Friedrich/Herbert Uerlings



Conference Languages: German/English/French


Conference venue: Volkshochschule Trier, Palais Walderdorff, Domfreihof
1, 54290 Trier

Attendence of the conference is free. A registration would be welcomed. 

Registration and Information 
Koordinationsstelle des Graduiertenkollegs "Identität und Differenz"
Denise Daum, M.A. (grako_id@uni-trier.de)
Dr. Annegret Friedrich (friedricha@uni-trier.de)
Universität Trier
Fachbereich III: Kunstgeschichte
D-54286 Trier
Tel. 0651-2012182 (Sekretariat Martina Hubertz)

Coordinator of the conference
Dr. Ulrike Stamm (glca-stamm-kramer@freenet.de). 
Fregestr. 7a 
12159 Berlin 
Tel. 030-8515558

Accomodation Service: 

Tourist Information Trier
Tel. 0049-(0)651-9780816 
Fax 0049-(0)651-700047

website: http://www.uni-trier.de/~linsenho/


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