BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.7//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news86@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180205T174906 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180222 SUMMARY:Tagung: James Baldwin DESCRIPTION:Organization: Tina Büchler\, Noémi Michel\, Patricia Purtsche rt\, Jovita dos Santos Pinto\, Vanessa Näf\\r\\nJames Baldwin’s work is preeminent in discussions around race in the US. Baldwin’s writing\, hi s persona as well as his public speeches\, interviews and discussions have been rediscovered\, redi used and revived with the formation of the Black Lives Matter Movement\, through Queer of Color Theory and activism\, in t he criti- cal and artistic writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Claudia Rankine \, by the Oscar nominated lm “I am not your Negro”\, and not least wi thin Baldwin studies themselves\, as the collected works\, anthologies and journals of recent years show. They jointly refer to the pertinence of hi s analysis of race as a persistent structuring category in neoliberal time s\, to the aesthetics and eloquence of his writings\, as well as to its re verberations for queer-intersectional political activisms and academic app roaches. \\r\\nBaldwin has long been regarded as an African American in ex ile\, whose primary concern with race was about the US. However\, a growin g scholarly body of critical race\, queer and intersectionality studies ha ve questioned the idea of Europe’s white innocence\, and asked for the o ngoing e ects of its colonial legacy\, especially for Europeans of Color. In the context of these new developments\, the focus on Baldwin’s work h as shifted to the question how Baldwin’s writing about Europe and his ar tistic vision in general\, “formed and informed by a black queer imagina tive capacity”\, can also be used for insight into racial relations in E urope. Moreover\, the circulation of lms\, interviews and texts from and of Baldwin on social media\, have given James Baldwin a new topicality wit hin intersectionally formed movements of People of Color\, who ght deadly racist structures\, racial and sexual pro ling\, mass-incarcerations with in the asylum industrial complex\, exclusion from residential rights\, cit izenship\, and the reverberations of everyday racism. \\r\\nThe conference brings together scholars\, artists and activists drawing on James Baldwin to engage with and question racial relations in the spatio-temporal forma tions condensed in\, but not limited to the geographical space of Europe. We explore this renewed interest in Baldwin’s work\, the trajectory of t his reception as well as the theoretical and political resonance his wri- ting has had for and within these spatio-temporal formations. We will do s o from a decolonial queer- feminist perspective\, asking about the points of connection\, but also the boundedness of his vision\, and the delimitat ions this brings about\, especially the theoretical and representa- tional absences in Baldwin’ work with regard to the positionality of Black wom en and lesbians\, and for things unseen or overseen by Baldwin himself. \\ r\\nTo participate at the conference\, please register by email until Febr uary 15: vanessa.naef@izfg.unibe.ch  X-ALT-DESC:

Organization: Tina Büchler\, Noémi Michel\, Patricia Purts chert\, Jovita dos Santos Pinto\, Vanessa Näf

\nJames Baldwin’s wor k is preeminent in discussions around race in the US. Baldwin’s writing\ , his persona as well as his public speeches\, interviews and discussions have been rediscovered\, redi used and revived with the formation of the B lack Lives Matter Movement\, through Queer of Color Theory and activism\, in the criti- cal and artistic writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Claudia Ran kine\, by the Oscar nominated lm “I am not your Negro”\, and not leas t within Baldwin studies themselves\, as the collected works\, anthologies and journals of recent years show. They jointly refer to the pertinence o f his analysis of race as a persistent structuring category in neoliberal times\, to the aesthetics and eloquence of his writings\, as well as to it s reverberations for queer-intersectional political activisms and academic approaches. \nBaldwin has long been regarded as an African American in ex ile\, whose primary concern with race was about the US. However\, a growin g scholarly body of critical race\, queer and intersectionality studies ha ve questioned the idea of Europe’s white innocence\, and asked for the o ngoing e ects of its colonial legacy\, especially for Europeans of Color. In the context of these new developments\, the focus on Baldwin’s work h as shifted to the question how Baldwin’s writing about Europe and his ar tistic vision in general\, “formed and informed by a black queer imagina tive capacity”\, can also be used for insight into racial relations in E urope. Moreover\, the circulation of lms\, interviews and texts from and of Baldwin on social media\, have given James Baldwin a new topicality wit hin intersectionally formed movements of People of Color\, who ght deadly racist structures\, racial and sexual pro ling\, mass-incarcerations with in the asylum industrial complex\, exclusion from residential rights\, cit izenship\, and the reverberations of everyday racism. \nThe conference bri ngs together scholars\, artists and activists drawing on James Baldwin to engage with and question racial relations in the spatio-temporal formation s condensed in\, but not limited to the geographical space of Europe. We e xplore this renewed interest in Baldwin’s work\, the trajectory of this reception as well as the theoretical and political resonance his wri- ting has had for and within these spatio-temporal formations. We will do so fr om a decolonial queer- feminist perspective\, asking about the points of c onnection\, but also the boundedness of his vision\, and the delimitations this brings about\, especially the theoretical and representa- tional abs ences in Baldwin’ work with regard to the positionality of Black women a nd lesbians\, and for things unseen or overseen by Baldwin himself. \nTo p articipate at the conference\, please register by email until February 15: vanessa.naef@izfg.unibe.ch \; DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180223 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR