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Goodbye Germany?
Migration, Culture, and the Nation State
An International Conference
October 28-30, 2004
Townsend Center
Organized by the UC Berkeley German Department and the Goethe-Institute - San Francisco, in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Institute for European Studies, the Pacific Film Archive, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
Thursday
5:30-7:00 pm
Arrival and reception
7:00-10:00 pm
Screening at the Pacific Film Archive: Kleine Freiheit (2003), followed by a Discussion with the Director Yüksel Yavuz
Friday
9:15-9:30
Opening Remarks by Deniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley)
Comparative Perspectives on Migration and Nation
9:30-11:00
Chair: Tony Kaes (UC Berkeley)
Regina Römhild (Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Confronting the Logic of the Nation-State: Transnational Migration and Cultural Globalisation in Germany
Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley)
Postnational Light: Reflections on Habermas
Respondent: Minoo Moallem (San Francisco State University)
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-12:45
Chair: Paola Bacchetta (UC Berkeley)
Richard Herzinger (Die Zeit)
Deutschland ist kein Einwanderungsland: German Migration Policy and the Myth of National Homogeneity
Werner Sollors (Harvard):
The US and Germany: Notes on a Classic and a Not-So-Classic (Romantic?) Einwanderungsland
Respondent: David Hollinger (UC Berkeley)
12:45-2:00 Lunch break
Migration and Memory
2:00-3:30 Chair: Todd Presner (UCLA)
Kaja Silverman (UC Berkeley): Dis-Locations
Claire Kramsch (UC Berkeley): The Multilingual Experience: Insights from Language Memoirs
3:30-5:00
Workshop 1 on Migration and Cinema: Focus on Kleine Freiheit (Chairs: Deniz Göktürk and Tony Kaes)
Workshop 2 on Multilingualism, Memory, and Autobiography
(Chairs: Claire Kramsch and Chantelle Warner)
5:00-5:30 Pooling Results from the Day
5:45-7:30 Drinks & Dinner
Saturday
Axial Aesthetics
9:15-10:45 Chair: Ernst van Alphen (UC Berkeley)
Isabel Hoving (University of Leiden)
Circumventing Openness: How Migrant Writers and Other Dutch Citizens Create Space for New Senses of Dutchness
Hinrich C. Seeba (UC Berkeley)
The Rhetoric of Origin: Language and Exclusion
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:00
Leslie A. Adelson (Cornell University)
“Hello, Germany! Towards a New Critical Grammar of Migration”
12:00-12:30
Responses and Panel Discussion: “Whither Transnationalism?”
12:30-1:45
Lunch break
1:45-2:30
Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam): Migratory Aesthetics
Screening: Glub (Hearts) by Bal/Entekhabi
2:30-3:45
Multiculturalism, Multilingualism, and Race: A Panel Discussion on Archives and Projects
– David Gramling: The Multicultural Germany Sourcebook Project
– Encarnacion Guiterrez: “Spricht die Subalterne Deutsch?”
– Werner Sollors: “Multilingual America” and “Interracial Literature”
– Isabel Hoving: “Migration to the Netherlands”
– Fatima El-Tayeb: “Black Europe”
3:45-4:00 Coffee
4:00- 4:45 David Theo Goldberg (UC Irvine): Provisional Multiculturalism
4:45-5:30 Response to the Conference by Michael Watts (UC Berkeley)
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