Organizers: Anne Kraume and Miriam Lay Brander

Monday, September 30, 2024

13:00 Anne Kraume (Konstanz) and Miriam Lay Brander (Eichstätt): Welcome and Introduction

13:30 Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarbrücken): Jean-Baptiste Lislet-Geoffroy – the Subaltern Voice of a Former Slave in the Transoceanic Literary and Scientific Field. Colonial Issues and Postcolonial Imaginations

14:15 Julia Schlicher (Konstanz): Transoceanic Entanglements on the Carreira da Índia in Pour mourir, le monde (2023) by Yan Lespoux

Coffee Break

15:30 Jobst Welge (Leipzig): Indian Ocean Imaginaries: Fluid Boundaries and Intersecting Histories in Mozambican Literature

16:15 Gesine Brede (Frankfurt a. M.): Conquering the Free Sea. On the Simultaneity of Transoceanic and Circum-Caribbean Mobilities in 17th Century French Pirate Narratives

17:00 Rolando Carrasco (Berlin): Configuraciones transoceánicas y marítimas del destierro jesuita (1767) de las Indias

19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

09:00 Karen Poe (San José): El mar Caribe como espacio de resistencia contrahegemónica en la novela Limón blues de Anacristina Rossi

09:45 Gustavo Gutiérrez (Eichstätt): Of Gods and Seas: La mucama de Omicunlé and The Salt Roads

Coffee Break

11:00 Natalia Eduardo (Eichstätt): Oceanic Infrastructures in Two Caribbean Science Fiction Novels: Tentacle from Rita Indiana and Caja de fractales from Luis Othoniel Rosa

11:45 Rebecca Seewald (Köln): Floating in Time and Memory. Oceanic Imagery in El asedio animal (2021) by Vanessa Londoño

Lunch Break

13:30 Norah El Gammal (Saarbrücken): Hiatus and Haunting – The Ocean as the Site of Disaster

14:15 Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (Gießen): “Water Spirituality” and “Oceanic Modernity” – Interpreting Global Literatures

Coffee Break

15:30 Steffen Schneider (Graz): Mediterranean vs. Caribbean? Geophilosophical Constructions of Cultural and Natural Spaces

16:15 Marta Puxan Oliva (Palma de Mallorca): Narrating the Rise of Sea Levels: Narrative Voice in Núria Perpinyà’s Diatomea and Scientific Reports

19:30 Dinner

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

09:00 Laura Meltke (Chemnitz): The Other Returning across the Strait of Gibraltar: Cinematic Moments of Trans-Mediterranean Repatriation of Deceased Migrants

09:45 Markus Lenz (Saarbrücken): Spaces of Trauma, Spaces of New Beginning: (Trans)oceanic Imaginaries between Vietnam, France and Canada

10:30 Andreas Hartmann (Mainz): Un échange intra-océanique sur l’île et la terre dans la littérature de la Polynésie française chez Chantal T. Spitz et Titaua Peu

Coffee Break

11:45 Laura Torres-Rodríguez (Atlanta): Insular Borders: Centering the Pacific in Mexican and Latin American Studies

12:30 Bieke Willem (Köln): ‚En busca del mar‘. El imaginario oceánico en la narrativa de María Luisa Bombal

Lunch Break

14:15 Berit Callsen (Osnabrück): Imaginarios transpacíficos en el documental chileno: Guillermo Ribbeck y Patricio Guzmán

15:00 Kirsten Kramer (Bielefeld): The Pacific Ocean between Earth, Sky, and Water. A Planetary Genealogy of Aquatic Space in Chilean Film and Literature (Guzmán, Zurita, Zúñiga)

Coffee Break

16:15 Kaimé Guerrero (Berlin): Transatlanticidade as a World-Making Intervention

17:00 Eduardo Luersen (Konstanz): Ocean Machine: Imageries of Connectivity and Disruption Surrounding Submarine Cable Networks

19:30 Dinner