Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institut für Romanistik

International workshop:
Race in Time. Historical perspectives on the contemporary matter of Blackness

We cordially invite all interested parties to the workshop Race in Time. Historical perspectives on the contemporary matter of Blackness. The workshop is scheduled to take place on Monday, 26 May 2025, within the premises of the Humboldt University main building (Unter den Linden 6), Lichthof Ost, from 1 to 7 p.m. 

A detailed account of the workshop can be found in the programme.

The workshop will be preceded by an informal book presentation and discussion in collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room  on Saturday 24 May at 7 p.m. at the premises of the project space AGIT , Nansenstraße 2, 12047 Berlin.

All interested people are warmly invited to come and take part in the conversation.

Workshop programme

1 p.m.              Welcome and introduction

1:30 p.m.          Nicholas R. Jones, Yale University 
                        Keynote Cervantine Blackness

2:30 p.m.          Monika Raič, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
                        Response Loneliness and blackness in Argentine Literature.
                        On Roberto Arlt’s “La isla desierta” 

3:30 p.m.          Joanne Brueton, University of London, Institute in Paris 
                        Rewriting the ‘grand récit’: palimpsestic fictions in Mbougar Sarr and Chamoiseau 

4:30 p.m.          Michail Leivadiotis, Freie Universität Berlin 
                        Canonised Blackness. Textual and visual hagiographic testimonies of black discourse
                        in Byzantium

5:30 p.m.          Juan Antonio Macías Amoretti, Universidad de Granada
                        Blackness and subaltern culture/s in the Afro-Arab context

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