Transoceanic Imaginations
International conference, September 30–October 2, 2024, University of Konstanz
Venue: Y 311
Monday, September 30
13:00 Anne Kraume/Miriam Lay Brander (Konstanz/Eichstätt): Welcome and Introduction
13:30 Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarbrücken): Jean-Baptiste Lislet-Geoffroy – the subaltern voice of a former slave in the transoceanic literary and scientific field. Colonial issues and postcolonial imaginations
14:15 Julia Schlicher (Konstanz): Transoceanic entanglements on the Carreira da Índia in Pour mourir, le monde (2023) by Yan Lespoux
15.00 Coffee Break
15:30 Jobst Welge (Leipzig): Indian Ocean Imaginaries: Fluid Boundaries and Intersecting Histories in Mozambican Literature
16:15 Gesine Brede (Frankfurt): Conquering the free sea. On the simultaneity of transoceanic and circum-Caribbean mobilities in 17th century French pirate narratives
17:00 Rolando Carrasco (Berlin): Configuraciones transoceánicas y marítimas del destierro jesuita (1767) de las Indias
19:30 Dinner (Constanzer Wirtshaus, Spanierstraße 3)
Tuesday, October 1
09:00 Karen Poe (San José): El mar Caribe como espacio de resistencia contrahegemónica en la novela Limón blues de Anacristina Rossi
09:45 Gustavo Gutiérrez (Eichstätt): Of Gods and Seas: La mucama de Omicunlé and The Salt Roads
10.30 Coffee Break
11:00 Natalia Eduardo (Eichstätt): Oceanic Infrastructures in Two Caribbean Science Fiction Novels: Tentacle from Rita Indiana and Caja de fractales from Luis Othoniel Rosa
11:45 Rebecca Seewald (Köln): Floating in time and memory. Oceanic imagery in El asedio animal (2021) by Vanessa Londoño
12.30 Lunch Break
13:30 Norah El Gammal (Frankfurt/Oder): Hiatus and Haunting – The Ocean as the site of disaster
14:15 Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (Gießen): “Water Spirituality” and “Oceanic Modernity” – Interpreting Global Literatures
15.00 Coffee Break
15:30 Steffen Schneider (Graz): Mediterranean vs. Caribbean? Geophilosophical constructions of cultural and natural spaces
16:15 Marta Puxan Oliva (Palma de Mallorca): Narrating the rise of sea levels: narrative voice in Núria Perpinyà’s Diatomea and scientific reports
19:30 Dinner (Il Boccone, Bodanstraße 20-26)
Wednesday, October 2
09:00 Laura Meltke (Chemnitz): The other returning across the Strait of Gibraltar: Cinematic moments of trans-Mediterranean repatriation of deceased migrants
09:45 Markus Lenz (Saarbrücken): Spaces of trauma, spaces of new beginning: (Trans)oceanic imaginaries between Vietnam, France and Canada
10:30 Andreas Hartmann (Mainz): Un échange intra-océanique sur l’île et la terre dans la littérature de la Polynésie française chez Chantal T. Spitz et Titaua Peu
11.15 Coffee Break
11:45 Laura Torres-Rodríguez (Atlanta): Insular Borders: Centering the Pacific in Mexican and Latin American Studies
12:30 Bieke Willem (Köln): ‚En busca del mar‘. El imaginario oceánico en la narrativa de María Luisa Bombal
13.15 Lunch Break
14:15 Berit Callsen (Osnabrück): Imaginarios transpacíficos en el documental chileno: Guillermo Ribbeck y Patricio Guzmán
15:00 Kirsten Kramer (Bielefeld) – The Pacific Ocean between Earth, Sky, and Water. A Planetary Genealogy of Aquatic Space in Chilean Film and Literature (Guzmán, Zurita, Zúñiga)
15.45 Coffee Break
16:15 Kaimé Guerrero (Berlin): Transatlanticidade as a world-making intervention
17:00 Eduardo Luersen (Konstanz): Ocean Machine: Imageries of Connectivity and Disruption Surrounding Submarine Cable Networks
19:30 Dinner (Restaurant Wessenberg, Wessenbergstraße 41)