Beyond Dichotomies? Transgressive Identities and Topographies of Intercultural Spaces
30/09/2001
International Conference
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.
15.30 Marie-Luise Angerer, Köln
Geschlecht als Gabe. Uber 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 Ubergangsraum. 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. Uberlegungen 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)
Attendence of the conference is free. A registration would be welcomed.
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
Registration and Information
Koordinationsstelle des Graduiertenkollegs "Identität und Differenz"
Denise Daum, M.A.
Dr. Annegret Friedrich (friedricha@uni-trier.de)
Universität Trier
Fachbereich III: Kunstgeschichte
D-54286 Trier
Tel. 0651-2012182 (Sekretariat Martina Hubertz)
