February 15-17, 2023.

Please join us via Zoom: https://uni-frankfurt.zoom.us/j/63831837591?pwd=R3pmMjZhOUxtaFJLVVZldjFFRitOQT09

Venue: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Casino (Cas. 1.812), Nina-Rubinstein-Weg 1, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

Contact and information: Prof. Dr. Romana Radlwimmer (radlwimmer@em.uni-frankfurt.de)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2023

8.30 am Opening.
Rembert Hüser (Frankfurt), Dean of Faculty 10, Modern Languages
Sol Lago (Frankfurt), Deputy Director, Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
Romana Radlwimmer (Frankfurt), Conference Organizer

9.00 am Keynote. Carlos Jáuregui (Notre Dame): Colonial Biopolitics I: the Farming of Life.
Presider: Romana Radlwimmer (Frankfurt)

Coffee Break

11.00 am New World Remedies. Presider: Hendrik Schlieper (Paderborn)
Pablo García Loaeza (West Virginia): The Origin of Syphilization: Eighteenth Century Criollo Perspectives.
Martin Gabriel (Klagenfurt): Saints, Curanderos, and Protomédicos: Dealing with Epidemics in Bourbon New Spain.
Tamara Bartl (Vienna): The Power of Herbs: Colonized Bodies opposing Colonization in the Crónicas de Indias.

Lunch Break

2.15 pm Controlling the Other. Presider: Andreas Fahrmeir (Frankfurt)
Hans Peter Hahn (Frankfurt): Notes on the Colonial Normatization of Bodies.
Dirk Brunke (Bochum): Chronicles of the Indies and Conquista Movies. How to Control Bodies.
Jan-Henrik Witthaus (Kassel): Bodies and Extractivism in Spanish Natural History.

Coffee Break

4.30 pm Cocoliztli and Conquest. Presider: Marlen Bidwell-Steiner (Vienna)
Victoria Ríos Castaño (Coventry): Living in the Times of the Cocoliztli: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Experiences in the Florentine Codex.
Héctor Costilla (Puebla): Plagues and Remedies in “Relación de Texcoco” (1582), “Descripción de la ciudad y Provincia de Tlaxcala” (1584) and “Historia de Tlaxcala” (1592).
Richard Herzog (Marburg): Spanish and Nahua Views on Colonial Policies and their Effects on Cocoliztli Epidemics (16th-17th centuries).

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2023

9.00 am Covid-19 Politics and Cultures. Presider: Dirk Brunke (Bochum)
Jonas Wolff (Frankfurt): Restrictions and Resistance: The (limited) Impact of Covid-19 on Protest Dynamics in Latin America.
Dominic Angeloch (Frankfurt): The Personal is Public. On the Suspension of the Private.
Juliane Prade-Weiss (LMU): Beyond the Exception Tale: Pandemic and Ecological Grief.

Coffee Break

11.15 am Native Perspectives, Postcolonial Rewritings. Presider: Marília Jöhnk (Frankfurt)
Michael Sachs (Frankfurt): Yanomami Traditional Medicine in Venezuela: A Doctor’s Observations.
Mylena Lima de Queiroz (Paraíba): Decolonial Ecology and Brazilian Literature: Body-Territories in Kambeba and Potiguara Works.
Marina Ortrud Hertrampf (Passau): Postcolonial Ecocriticism in Response to the Ebola Epidemic: Véronique Tadjo’s “En compagnie des hommes” (2017). 

Lunch Break

2.30 pm Contagions and Constructions. Presider: Iwo Amelung (Frankfurt)
Hendrik Schlieper (Paderborn): Émile Zola’s Colonial Pathologies.
Andrea Gremels (Frankfurt): Colonialism, Enlightenment, and the Biopolitics of Vaccination in “A la expedición española para propagar la vacuna en América” (1806) by Manuel José Quintana.
Pia Herzan (Erfurt): Governed by Voluntariness: The Waves of Voluntariness during the Yellow Fever Crises in Philadelphia’s Early Republic (1793-1820).

Coffee Break

4.45 pm Early Modern Body Policies. Presider: Christine Ott (Frankfurt)
Frank Fürbeth (Frankfurt): Body Concepts in Early Modern Textbooks of Obstetrics.
Marlen Bidwell-Steiner (Vienna): Purity and Pollution – the Early Modern Discourse of Othering.
Stephanie Béréiziat-Lang (Heidelberg): Biopolitics and Discursive Resistance in the Early Brazilian Jesuit Mission.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2023

9.00 am Global Disease, Local Unease. Presider: Sofina Dembruk (Stuttgart)
Anne Brüske (Regensburg): Drawing the Pandemic. Graphic Narratives of Crisis in Latin America.
Paul Skäbe (Leipzig): Segregated and Quarantined: World War I, the Great Influenza Pandemic, and the Construction of Contagious Black Bodies.
Chechesh Kudachinova: (Mannheim): Russian Maladies vs. Indigenous Death: Mapping the Disease Landscapes of Late Imperial Siberia.

Coffee Break

11.15 am Keynote. Davíd Solodkow (Andes): Colonial Biopolitics II: the Hospital and other Remedies.
Presider: Romana Radlwimmer (Frankfurt)

12.45 pm Conclusion. Romana Radlwimmer (Frankfurt)