Thursday December 6th • Friday, December 7th • Saturday, December 8th • Films And Installations
THURSDAY, December 6th
1:00 – 3:00 PARALLEL PANELS I
INDIGENOUS NATIONALISMS VS. INDIGENOUS COSMOPOLITANISMS? [Conference Room 1]
Katerina Teaiwa, Hinemoana Baker, José Benjamín Inuca Lechón & Tony Birch
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THE ARABIC SPEAKING REGION: MEDIA, NETWORKS & COUNTER-NARRATIVES [Conference Room 2]
Walid El-Houri, Sara Abou Ghazal & Dalia Othman
3:I5 – 5:I5 PARALLEL PANELS 2
INDIGENOUS NATIONALISMS VS. INDIGENOUS COSMOPOLITANISMS? [Conference Room 1]
Dialogue Amongst Participants (in English/Spanish Simultaneous Interpreting)
THE BODY AS A SITE OF PLEASURE & PAIN [Conference Room 2]
Isaiah Lopaz & Linda Gabriel (moderation by Anna von Rath & Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss)
6:00 – 9:30 KEYNOTE I: BIG & SMALL [Auditorium]
STITCHES OF POWER, STITCHES OF SORROW, Performance by Patricia Kaersenhout
Arjun Appadurai on PASSPORT
Michelle Wright AFROEUROPOLIS: MAPPING MINOR COSMOPOLITANISM IN THE BLACK DIASPORA
Sundar Sarukkai on EMPTY OBJECTS
Mario Bellatin EL PALITO DE LA JAULA DEL PÁJARO DE LA ABUELA+
Ananya Jahanara Kabir on MARACAS
FRIDAY, December 7th
11:00 – 1:00 GUIDED TOURS
11:00 – 12:00
Radiophonic Spaces*
11:30 – 12:30
Installing the minor cosmos [Registration Desk]
with the artists Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat, Marina Camargo & Sikho Siyotula (with moderation by Irene Hilden)
1:00 – 3:00 PARALLEL PANELS 3
FILM, WOMEN’S WORK & LABOR ORGANIZING [Conference Room 1]
Vivian Price & Mary Jirmanus Saba (moderation and comment by Saima Akhtar, Clio Nicastro & Rosa Barotsi)
OTHER EUROPES: PAST & FUTURE [Conference Room 2]
Ayşe Zarakol, Lucy Gasser, Regina Römhild (moderation and comment by Sebastian Conrad)
BOOK LAUNCHES [Hirschfeld Bar]
I:00 – 2:00
NEVA AGAIN: HIP HOP ART, ACTIVISM AND EDUCATION IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
Adam Haupt & Quentin Williams with Monishia Shoeman & Bradley Lodewyk
2:00-3:00
QUEER ANCIENT WAYS: A DECOLONIAL EXPLORATION
Zairong Xiang & Vincent Van Gerven Oei
3:30 – 5:30 PARALLEL PANELS 4
KOSMOS: SCIENCE FICTION, SOUND AND COSMOLOGY, RELIGION & ECOLOGY [Conference Room 1]
James Miller, James Burton & Noa Hegesh (moderation and comment by Sundar Sarukkai)
TRANSLATION IS BETTER [Conference Room 2]
Delfina Cabrera, Julio Prieto & Susanne Zepp (in English and Spanish; moderation and comment by Jorge Estrada)
SPELL REEL [Lecture Hall]
Screening & Discussion with Director Filipa César
6:00 – 7:00 CINE VIVO [Conference Room 1]
KAWABATA, THE TRANSVESTITE PHILOSOPHER & THE FISH
Mario Bellatin (reading by Rodrigo García Bonilla)
Link to the film text
7:00 – 8:00 KEYNOTE 2 [Lecture Hall]
Kidlat Tahimik & Katrin De Guia NO LONGER TRAPPED IN THE ECHO CHAMBER OF HIS-MASTER’S-VOICE: LET THE SLAVE SPEAK!
8:15 – 10:30 SCREENING [Lecture Hall]
BALIKBAYAN #1 MEMORIES OF OVERDEVELOPMENT No.? (since 1979)
by Kidlat Tahimik
8:30 – 9:30 READING [Hirschfeld Bar]
READING
by Tony Birch
9:45 – 10:30 PERFORMANCE [Hirschfeld Bar]
WHEN YOU DIED, THE CITY DIED WITH YOU – A MEDITATION ON LOVE, WAR, GENTRIFICATION & BERLIN
by Liad Hussein Kantorowicz
10:30 LIVE MUSIC [Hirschfeld Bar]
#INTHEKEYOFB
by Monishia Shoeman, Bradley Lodewyk & Adam Haupt
SATURDAY, December 8th
12:00 – 1:00 GUIDED TOURS
11:30 – 12:30
Installing the minor cosmos [Registration Desk]
with the artists Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat, Marina Camargo, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro & Sikho Siyotula (with moderation by IreneHilden)
12:00 – 1:00
Humanity at Work*
The Most Dangerous Game*
1:00 – 3:00 PARALLEL PANELS 5
FACING TROUBLE: (ANTI)QUEER COSMOPOLITANISMS [Conference Room 1]
Ingrid Hotz-Davies & Gero Bauer in dialogue with Miguel Vale De Almeida & Gloria Careaga
ON DARK MATTER [Conference Room 2]
Mariya Nikolova, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, Sikho Siyotula, & Oduor Obura (with moderation and comment by Kathy-Ann Tan)
SURREALISMS FROM THE PERIPHERY, PERIPHERIES OF SURREALISM [Lecture Hall]
Huang Ya-Li & Tom Holert (with English/Chinese translation and moderation by Kimiko Suda)
3:30 – 5:30 PARALLEL PANELS 6
LITERATURES [Conference Room 1]
Jaye Austin Williams, Elnathan John, Rasha Chatta & Yvonne Owour (moderation and comment by Michelle Wright)
ACROSS CURRENTS: BOOK LAUNCH WITH LECTURE [Conference Room 2]
“SĀMOAN YOUTH GANGS & THE TRANSOCEANIC WORLD – A COMMENTARY ON INDIGENEITY, POWER & RACE”
by Keith L. Camacho (moderation by Jens Temmen & Nicole Poppenhagen)
POLITICS OR ART? CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE INDEPENDENT ART [Lecture Hall]
Xu Ruotao in conversation with Dong Bingfeng
(in Chinese with English translation and moderation by Zairong Xiang)
6:15 – 8:15 KEYNOTE 3: BEYOND OCULARCENTRISM [Conference Room 1]
Julian Henriques COSMOPOLITRICKS: STREET TECHNOLOGIES & WAYS-OF-KNOWING AS COSMOPOLITAN CRITIQUE
followed by a conversation with Marcus Boon
Ananya Jahanara Kabir MOVING TO ‘MUMBO JUMBO’: CUBA, DANCE & AFFILIATIVE AFROMODERNITY
followed by a dance performance and workshop by Francesca Negro & Yonel Castilla
7:00 – 8:20 SCREENING AND DISCUSSION [Lecture Hall]
AN OPERA OF THE WORLD (2017)
followed by a discussion with the director Manthia Diawara and Dorothee Wenner
9:00 CLOSING PARTY [Hirschfeld Bar]
MINOR COSMOPOLITAN SOUND & DANCE
DJ lineup: DJ Ipek, DJ Hilwi, DJ Mista Wallizz
*: guided tours only open to the speakers of the “minor cosmopolitan weekend”
+: Spanish: The Perch of Grandmother’s Birdcage