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International Forum 2023
Un/thinking the "Crisis": Knowledge, Art, Politics
6-17 November 2023 (online)
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Summerschool "North-South Encounters“
Towards Pluriversal Thinking: Creating Inter-Knowledges – Negotiating Proximities
Tübingen, July 10-14, 2023
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The multiple crises created by the current dynamics of globalization have called the concepts such as development, progress, and modernization into question. In the face of such a scenario, pluriversal thinking offers ways for imagining alternative social designs. Towards this aim, the 2023 Summer School "North-South Encounters" encourages to engage in the ongoing debates in academia, activism, and cultural production that focus on the Pluriverse as a methodological and theoretical framework that has emerged in the context of post-developmentalist thought and epistemologies of the South. Looking for “a world into which many worlds fit”, we follow Arturo Escobar’s invitation to develop a capacity to design alternative worlds that challenge globalization’s drive to homogenize what is diverse in principle. Thus, we take up the provoking impetus of new political ontologies, indigenous notions of the good living and calls for cognitive justice. In accordance with the way which Global South studies address issues of globalization in a comparative and transdisciplinary perspective, the ICGSS Summer School will combine theoretical and methodological debates with scholars from the CIVIS network (from Europe and Africa), alongside colleagues from AsiaPacific and Latin America, with a dialogue between academia, art, and political activism
Figurations of the Precarious New Directions in Global South Studies International Research Symposium
Tübingen, 3-4 May
III Jornadas de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Discourse, Power and (De)coloniality
III Jornadas de Estudios Latinoamericanos: Discourse, Power and (De)coloniality
16 - 18 November 2022
Brechtbau: SR 027, SR 327 (Hybrid Conference)
WilhelmStr. 50, Tübingen
Access link: https://zoom.us/j/94734721242
Abstract
The third edition of the Jornada de Estudios Latinoamericanos of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies focuses on the role of discourse in colonial processes: who are the subjects of discourse, who can and cannot speak, what can and cannot be said, how the invention and hierarchization of the other is discursively perpetuated. To discuss these and other questions, we have invited renowned researchers of Discourse Studies in Latin America, such as Viviane Resende, president of the Latin American Association of Discourse Studies, but also Europeans, such as Teun van Dijk, University Pompeu Fabra, to join us in Tübingen. In addition, and in presence of Prof. Margarete Jäger, we pay a well-deserved tribute to the Duisburg Institute for Social and Linguistic Research (DISS) that celebrates 35 years of independent and socially committed research in the field of Discourse Studies. Throughout these decades, DISS has constituted itself as a place of resistance, a place of confrontation against the construction of the other and racism, a South within the North.
Organizing Committee:
Glauco Vaz Feijó, Sebastian Thies (ICGSS), Esteban Morera Aparicio (Brasilien und Lateinamerika Zentrum)
Contact: glauco.vaz-feijo@uni-tuebingen.de
esteban.morera-aparicio@uni-tuebingen.de
El periodismo como corresponsal extranjero en Brasil y el conflicto por la destrucción de la Amazonía
Diálogos en portuñol con Anne Herrberg
Corresponsal de ARD en Rio de Jaineiro
Diálogo virtual en español y portugués:
Jueves 10 de noviembre
Hora: 18:15 (Alemania)
14:15 (Rio de Janeiro)
12:15 (Bogotá)
11:15 (México)
Link de acceso:
International Forum 2022:
Decolonial Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality, and Patriarchy:
Art, Activism, and Academia
4-14 October 2022 (Online)
For registration, contact: decolonialperspectives@gmail.com
CIVIS School "North-South Encounters": Pluriverse: Challenges of Post-Developmentalist Thought for Global South Studies
Tübingen, 26-30 September 2022
Link for all hybrid events: https://zoom.us/j/92061481998
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Dr. Susanne Goumegou
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thies
Prof. Dr. Riccarda Flemmer
Esteban Morera Aparicio
Contact:
Ana Clara Alves
civissummerschoolgs@romanistik.uni-tuebingen.de
China and/in the Global South: Cultures, Aesthetics and Politics Research Symposium
Friday 1st July 2022, 08:30-15:30 GMT
University of Nottingham, Dearing Building B40, Jubilee Campus
Registration on Eventbrite
Funded by the Tübingen-Nottingham Networking Fund, this symposium is co-organised by Dr Hongwei Bao and Prof. Dr. Dr. Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen).
Two of the most prominent geopolitical developments in the twenty-first century are the rises of China and the Global South. Together, they shape the world geopolitical map significantly. What is less clear is the complex and often entangled relationship between China and the Global South: is China part of the Global South; if so, in what sense?
On the one hand, China and some Global South countries are actively enacting transnational and transcultural exchanges to contest the hegemony of the Global North, and this is sometimes seen as part of the continued efforts to create alternative imaginations of the world in the spirit of the historic Bandung conference. On the other, China has been exerting a powerful influence on the Global South through its increasing political and economic power, most notably represented by the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, which resembles some of the imperial ambitions and neo-colonial structures from the Global North. What are the complex relationships between China and the Global South and how are they manifested in the cultural fields? How have these political and economic developments impacted on the production, circulation and consumption of literary and visual cultures? What kinds of dominant, emerging and residual aesthetics and politics can be found in these media and cultural texts? This one-day symposium answers these questions from global and interdisciplinary perspectives. It brings together scholars from different disciplines and academic fields to explore transnational connections, aesthetic innovations and cultural politics between China and the Global South in historical and contemporary contexts.
II Jornadas de Estudios Latinoamericanos:
“Temporalidades de lo político, (re)construyendo futuros”
26 de enero 2022, 16:00 (Alemania); 9:00 (CDMX); 10:00 (Colombia); 12:00 (Buenos Aires)
La pregunta del tiempo es uno de los principales retos en los estudios sobre las culturas políticas en América Latina. Ya el pensamiento decolonial nos lleva a entender cómo los fenómenos sociopolíticos, culturales y económicos del continente han sido históricamente marcados por la imposición de distintos regímenes temporales y las largas luchas para resistirla desde lo subalterno. Existen semánticas temporales que parecen regir invisiblemente la construcción de discursos políticos sobre modernidades, desarrollos, hegemonías, etc. Es sobre todo en las últimas dos décadas que hemos podido presenciar una desarticulación del discurso hegemónico sobre el tiempo, en la medida que otros saberes sobre lo temporal fueron integrándose en los discursos y las prácticas políticas, contribuyendo a que se convirtiera en una categoría de la lucha política. Hay un pluriverso de fuerzas sociales que han contribuido a este proceso: desde los movimientos sociales indígenas y afrodescendientes, los feminismos, las nuevas articulaciones de la izquierda.
Es por esto que el grupo de investigación “Entangled Temporalities in the Global South" del Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios del Sur Global (ICGSS) de la Universidad de Tübingen en conjunto con el Seminario de Estudios sobre el Tiempo de la Universidad Autónoma del México y el ZILAS (Zentralinstitut für Lateinamerikastudien) de la Universidad Católica de Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, decidieron conjugar esfuerzos para organizar este seminario “Temporalidades de lo político, (re)construyendo futuros” en el marco de las II Jornadas de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Poniendo en discusión tres visiones distintas para comprender lo temporal en el campo de lo político en América Latina, por un lado, Yuderkys Espinosa, enfocada en la apropiación del futuro por parte de un feminismo no eurocentrado, René Ramírez con el estudio del uso del tiempo para la construcción de nuevos horizontes políticos que den cabida al buen vivir y Esteban Morera con el estudio de las temporalidades dentro de la comunicación política de los sectores subalternos en Colombia.
Workshop "ZONA - Positions and Protest in an Age of Depredations"
John Kinsella
Russ West-Pavlov
Online Workshop | University of Tübingen | Wednesday 12 January 2022, 09:00-12:00
2021
Workshop "Rethinking Well-Being in the Global South: Politics, Imaginaries and Subjectivities"
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 4-8pm
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Toxic Temporalities in the Global South
Digital Conference June 21 – 25, 2021
International Closing Event of the Doctoral Studies Programme "Entangled Temporalities in the Global South"
International Forum on Global South Studies 2021
Online - June 28 to July 9, 2021
CFP in English / Appel en Français / Convocatoria en Español / Chamada em Português
CIVIS Virtual Summer School North-South Encounters
Entangled Temporalities of the Black (South) Atlantic
From the Legacy of Slavery to BLM in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
12-16 July 2021
Indigenous Awareness Month
Endangered Nawat Culture and Language
organized by the students of the "Cultures of the Global South" MA programme at the University of Tübingen
8-29 July
2020
Virtual Transatlantic Dialogue:
The Contested Heritage of Slavery and the Historic Slave Trade Sites
with: Milton Guran (UFF – Brazil); Ibrahima Seck (UCAD – Senegal /Whitney Plantation Museum, USA); Simone Vassallo (UFF – Brazil); María Elisa Velásquez (INAH – Mexico); Roberto Zaugg (UZH – Switzerland)
09 November 2020 / detailed information (english/french/spanish) / event poster
International Forum 2020:
“Wellbeing and Subjectivity across the Global South” / Futures under Construction
Workshop
Per Se - Work in Progress
John Kinsella (Curtin University) and Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen)
Monday, 13 January 2020, Flyer
2019
International Workshop:
Literatures and Cultures of Homes in the Making
12 - 14 December, University of Tübingen
Organized by The Center for Gender and Diversity Research (ZGD) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies (ICGSS) at the University of Tübingen and the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University. programme
The Edge of Democracy (Petra Costa, Brazil, 2019)
Debate with Dr. Roberto Robalinho (Universidade Federal Fluminense & Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
December, 11th, 2019, Brasilien-Zentrum, Flyer
Gastvortrag
Prof. Dr. Jessé de Souza: Wissenschaft als verdeckter Rassismus
Montag, 11.11.19, 18 Uhr c.t., Brechtbau Raum 215 / Flyer
« Subjectivités urbaines en Afrique subsaharienne »
06-08 November 2019: Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal.
Co-organised by the University of Tübingen and Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar.
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers (french) / Programme
International Conference
"Cinemas of the Global South: towards a southern aesthetics"
05-06 November 2019: Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg.
Funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
Conference coordination by Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Amir Taha.
Autumn School
“Trauma, Conflito e Memória na Literatura e Cultura Brasileira e Hispano-americana”
14-16 October 2019: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Cleusa Rios Pinheiro Passos (USP, Catedrática JGR), Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thies, Dr. Nadja Lobensteiner (UT)
In cooperation with project DAAD / CAPES Probral “Disconforting Territories: images, narratives, and objects of the Global South“ (Dir.: Fernando Resende UFF)
PROBRAL Conference: “Discomforting Territories: images, narratives and objects of the Global South”
02 - 03 October 2019: Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) Niterói - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Organized by project DAAD / CAPES Probral “Discomforting Territories: images, narratives, and objects of the Global South“ (Dir.: Fernando Resende UFF)
Panel: "Homophobia in the Global South"
Jean Wyllys, Agustina Comedi, Danai Mupotsa, R. Raj Rao
Moderation: Ingrid Hotz-Davies
18.07.2019 / Brechbau 027 Tübingen
Autorentreffen: Véronique Tadjo
16 Juli 2019
Institut Culturel Franco-Allemand, Doblerstraße 25, 72074 Tübingen
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Susanne Goumegou
Summer School Tübingen
15-19 July 2019
"Futures under Construction: Contested Subjectivities in the Global South"
International Workshop
"Decolonizing Academia? Opportunities, Perspectives and Academic Responsibility"
13 July 2019
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Coloquio Internacional
"Cine urbano: Estrategias para comprender la megaurbe"
11 y 12 de julio, 2019
International Workshop
"Mediascapes of Ruined Geographies in the Global South"
21-22 February 2019
Organizers: Diego Amaral, Anthony Obute, Andrée Gerland (EKUT)
2018
Guest Lecture
«Mémoire, tradition, archive, héritage, patri/matrimoine»
with Éric Méchoulan (Université de Montreal)
Organizers: Louis Nana and Carina Stickel
Monday, 17 December 2018, 10:30-12 pm, Neuphilologicum, room 215
Interactive Workshop
Nature, Activism, and the Academy
with Markus Mauthe (Greenpeace photographer) and John Kinsella (poet activist)
Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 12-4 pm, Neue Aula, room 225
Theatrical Performance
Mike van Graan - Theatre for Peacebuilding
"When Swallows Cry"
12 November 2018, 8 p.m., Brechtbau Theatre
Workshop
"After the posts, before the cataclysm: Global South literary humanities in an era of
global multi-crises"
30-31 October 2018, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (CFP)
One-day Symposium: "tɛmp(ə)rərɪnəs"
9 March 2018, 10-16, room 215
Convened by John Kinsella (Churchill College Cambridge/Curtin University) and Russ West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen)
Keynote speakers: Stephen Muecke (University of Adelaide, Australia), Nicholas Birns (New York University, USA)
Conference
"Planetary Futures and the Global South"
16-18 January 2018, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India (Brochure)
Guest Lecture
Catherine Mazauric: "Identités liminales et identités processives en migration"
10 January 2018, room 010 Neuphilologicum
2017
Film / Diskussion
"Schreiben und Leben zwischen Frankreich und Afrika"
5 December 2017, Institut Français
Lecture
Robert Muponde: Shifting the 'We' in African Children's Literature
17 November 2017, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Stuttgart, WeltRaum (Flyer)
Workshop
"Les Picaros d'Afrique francophone"
Prof. Dr. Susanne Goumegou (Universität Tübingen) and Carina Stickel (Universität Tübingen)
6 October 2017, Tübingen (poster)
Conference
"Modes of Being South: Territorialities, Affects, Powers"
3-5 October 2017, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, Rio de Janiero, Brazil (CFP)
Inaugural conference / congreso inaugural
"Explorando os entremeios: cultura e comunicação na literatura de João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967)"
6-7 July 2017 (flyer)
Summer school / escola de verão
"Estudos culturais e comunição: filme e música no Brazil contemporáneo"
3-5 July 2017 (flyer)
Panel Discussion
"What Do Human Rights Do?"
14 June 2017, d.a.i. (Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut), Tübingen (flyer)
Spring School
"Participatory Cultures and New Ethical Paradigms in the Global South"
5-8 April 2017, Tübingen (Program)
Conference
"Diálogos sobre la megaurbe: Cultura, comunicación y participación ciudadana en la ciudad de México"
12-13 January 2017 (Program) / (Conference Videos)
2016
Workshop: "Doing Literary Studies in a Time of Crisis"
with Simon During (University of Queensland)
30 November 2016
International Conference
“Rethinking Gender from the Global South(s)”
26-29 September 2016, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico-City
Summer School 2016
"Truth Commissions and the Culture of Dissenting Memory in the Global South"
25-29 July 2016 (programme)
Mini-Symposium
"Literary Humanities in the Global South: The Question of University Pedagogies"
27-28 June 2016
PhD Students’ Workshop
"Fights and Flights: Repression, Resistance and Human Displacement in the Global South"
4-6 April 2016
2015
Workshop
“Interpacifics and Indian Oceans: Comparative Global South Literary Worlds“
20 July 2015
Summer School 2015:
“What is the Global South?”
29 June 2015
Literary Cultures of the Global South / Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair of Global Literary Studies Conference:
“Heading South? Routes beyond the Impasse of Postcolonial Studies”
26 June 2015