Gastvorträge/ Guest Lectures/ Conférences d'invité.e.s

André Dudemaine (Directeur du Festival international Présence autochtone de Montréal & Récipiendaire du PRIX DROITS ET LIBERTÉ 2017):
“The Representation of Boarding Schools in Older Than America /La représentation des pensionnats autochtones dans Older Than
America”

Jeudi 19 mai 2022, 10h15-11h45, MZH 1460

Poster

Paul Seesequasis: "Decolonizing the Indigenous Visual Narrative"

Thursday, 14 July 2022, 10.15-11.45 hours, MZH 1460

Paul Seesequasis will be exploring the reframing of the Indigenous archival photographic image. Photography taken from the outsider (colonial) gaze has contributed to the erasure of Indigenous peoples as living, vibrant cultures. It has constructed a colonial framing centred on statis, victimhood and the past. Contemporary Indigenous photographers are challenging these artificial poses, reframing the photographic legacy and contemporising the Indigenous image. This talk will explore the ways the archival Indigenous images, from the outside gaze, can be reclaimed and reframed and will explore the work of several contemporary Indigenous photographers as visual recorders of resistance and resurgence.

Poster

Professor Jade Ferguson, School of English and Theatre Studies, College of Arts, University of Guelph:

Seeking Sanctuary: Mob Violence, Black Citizenship, and Anti-Lynching Activism in Canada

1. Bremen – Guelph Lecture

Tuesday, 25th April 2017 | 02:15 p.m. – 03:45 p.m. | UNICOM 3, Haus Turin, Ebene 0, Seminarraum 4

Abstract: In 1922, the Bullock case became an international cause célèbre that dramatically encapsulated the multiple forms of desubjectivation, dispossession, and violence historically experienced by Blacks in the United States and Canada. Matthew Bullock, a young African American man, fled to Hamilton, Ontario after his brother and cousin were lynched by a white mob on the outskirts of Norlina, North Carolina. Shaped by the enduring and eponymous images of black masculinity that emerged in the US South, the rhetorical strategies employed by black activists to garner public support for Bullock’s extraordinary petition for safety and justice reflected the highly constrained meaning of black citizenship in both nations. In this lecture, Professor Ferguson will trace the political sophistication of black activists to use the press to re-shape white readers' commonsense perceptions of national citizenship and identity. However, the repeated scene of weeping in black churches in Hamilton and Toronto, after the United States’ request for Bullock’s extradition was denied, was not an expression of black gratitude for sanctuary in Canada, as reported in the local newspapers, but a response to the strangled freedom and illegible humanity of black lives that the granting of sanctuary exposed.

Professor Jade Ferguson is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada. Her research and teaching interests include 19th to mid-20th century American and Canadian literatures, Black cultural and literary studies, New Southern Studies, whiteness studies, and critical race theory. She is currently completing a manuscript on the cultural history of lynching in Canada, provisionally titled Lynching in Canaan: Race, Violence, and Cultural Memory in Canada, 1880-1950.

Video

Poster

Evelyn Camille (Elder of Tk'emlúps Indian Band, Secwepemc Nation, Canada) :

“Indigenous Knowledge, Ecologies and Resistance”, Bremen 

Thursday, 6th April 2017

Video

Martina Seifert: “Of Boys and Bears: Canada in German Children’s Literature”

Universität Bremen, Kanada-Studientag 

Thursday, 15th December 2016

Jeanette Armstrong (The University of British Columbia, Canada):

Keynote: “Syilx knowledges: A decolonial strategy” 

Wednesday, 16th March 2016 | 09:30 – 10:30 a.m. | GW1, Room HS 0070 

Third Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts (BCLL #3): “Postcolonial Knowledges”, 15th-18th March 2016.

Amatoritsero Ede (Carleton University, Canada):

"The Untranslatability of African Language Literature"

Thursday, 17th March 2016 | 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | GW1, Room HS 1010 

Third Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts (BCLL #3): “Postcolonial Knowledges”, 15th-18th March 2016.

Prof. Stéphanie Nutting (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada) :

"Réflexions sur le conte et l’affect dans la culture québécoise contemporaine"

Mardi, 23 Juin 2015 | 08h30 – 09h45 | Studierhaus D 1020 

Pourquoi, en cette ère de l’image, est que le Québec connaît un engouement pour l’art des contes ? Comment est-ce que les jeunes conteurs comme Fred Pellerin et Fabien Cloutier sont devenus aussi célèbres que les chanteurs de rock ? La professeure Nutting vous présentera un aperçu de ces conteurs connus et explorera quelques thèmes qui résonnent chez les spectateurs québécois contemporains. Elle évoquera aussi, brièvement, des hypothèses qui expliqueraient pourquoi le conte peut susciter une réaction puissante, tant émotive que physique, chez le récepteur. 

"Reflections on Storytelling and Affect in Contemporary Quebec Culture"

Why is it that, in this intensely visual era, Quebec has witnessed a surge of interest in the art of storytelling? How did young « conteurs » like Fred Pellerin and Fabien Cloutier become as popular as rock stars ? In her talk, Professor Nutting will offer a glimpse of the work of these well-known storytellers and discuss some of the themes which resonate with contemporary Quebec audiences. She will also touch briefly on some hypotheses about why storytelling is such a powerful force in eliciting emotional and physical response in the listener.

Poster

Prof. Paul Morris (Université de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg, Canada) :

"The History of Emily Montague and the Representation of Francophone Canada"

Tuesday, 07th July 2015 | 10.15 a.m. – 11.45 a.m. | MZH 1090 

In his presentation, Professor Morris will discuss several of the various political dimensions of Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague as they pertain to the representation of Francophone Canada. Through a reading of her references to the colonial policies of post-conquest New France and, in particular, her framing of the central marriage plot of the novel, he will suggest that the novel’s depiction of Canada’s Francophone population established what was to become a longstanding perception. More specifically, Professor Morris will suggest that the (gendered) politics of marriage represented by the central English characters of the novel serve as the key metaphoric device in representing Québec’s Francophone population. He will conclude in proposing that Brooke’s (gendered) depiction of Canada’s Francophone population has persisted into the twenty-first century making of Emily Montague a novel which is deeply Canadian in terms of its depiction of the country’s French-English relations.

Poster

Prof. Jocelyn Létourneau (Université Laval, Québec, Canada) :

"Les jeunes savent sans savoir. Le passé du Québec dans la conscience de sa jeunesse"

Mercredi, 18 Juin 2014 | 14h15 – 15h45 | GW2 B 2900 

«Jadis, il y avait des Amérindiens, ensuite des bûcherons, maintenant des indécis. - Damals gab's Indianer, dann Holzfäller und jetzt Unentschlossene" - so lautet eine der Perlen in Jocelyn Létourneaus neuestem Buch "Je me souviens? Le passé du Québec dans la conscience de sa jeunesse" (Montréal: Fides 2014) über das Geschichtsbild junger Québecer. Über 10 Jahre lang wurden dazu über spontane Kurzfassungen von über 3000 Schülern und Studenten gesammelt und ausgewertet. Über ein Drittel sehen den Verlauf der québecer Geschichte seit der Gründung Neufrankreichs im 17. Jahrhundert - über die britische Eroberung, das schwierige Überleben als kulturelle Minderheit in Nordamerika bis zu den mehrfach gescheiterten Versuche nationaler Unabhängigkeit - als eine Kette von Niederlagen. Ein gutes Viertel beurteilt die Geschichte der Provinz als ein "Weder-noch" oder enthält sich einer Wertung, nur ein knappes Fünftel zieht eine überwiegend positive Bilanz. Wie entwickelt sich dieses "gefühlte" Geschichtsbild mit zunehmendem Alter? Unterscheidet sich der Blick der anglophonen Jugendlichen von denen der französischsprachigen? Sind die Autochtonen, ist Kanada für sie Teil der québecer Geschichte? Auf diese wie auf (Ihre) weiteren Fragen verspricht der Vortrag von Prof. Létourneau überraschende Antworten.

Poster

Prof. Paul D. Morris (Université de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada):

"Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: Canadian Literature and the Evolution of the Canadian Paradigm of National Identity"

Friday, 20 June 2014 | 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | SFG 2020 

The Canadian literary institution has long played a pivotal role in both shaping and reflecting successive paradigms of national identity. Since confederation, Canadian literature has consistently provided faithful representation of each of the successive paradigms of national self-understanding.

In this presentation, I wish to explore Canadian literature for evidence of what I will present as a harbinger of a contemporary, multi-dimensional challenge to the current paradigm of multiculturalism. Canadian literature, I will suggest, is showing signs of broader societal discontent with multiculturalism, a concept which is increasingly perceived as inadequate in responding to the varying forms of difference at play in Canadian society. Although the challenge to multiculturalism is emanating from disparate sources, this presentation will make primary reference to texts expressive of a “postethnic” understanding of both individual and national identity.

Poster

Prof. Dr. Rinaldo Walcott (Toronto):

“Genres of Human: A New Cosmo-Politics”
Wednesday, 13 April 2011 | 10 – 12:00 | SFG 2030

Rinaldo Walcott is associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on Black Studies, Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies and Gender and Queer Theory. He is currently the Canada Research Chair of Social Justice and Cultural Studies.

supported by the Bremer Institut für Kulturforschung