Gigi Adair, Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Universität Bielefeld:
Technologies of Race and Identity and the Social in the Globalized Caribbean
Panel 3.1 – Narratives of Science, Narratives of Race
Andrew Ash, Department of English, University of Alabama:
How the Present Is Translated Into the Future: Bhabha, Achebe and Latour
Panel 2.1 – Imperial Knowledges
Anna Auguscik, Institute for English and American Studies, Department of University of Oldenburg:
Encountering Strangers in Lily King’s Euphoria
Panel 1.3 – Narratives of Anthropology
Roman Bartosch, English Department II, University of Cologne:
‘Distance Learning’: Scaling (Digital) Narrative
Panel 1.1 – Digital Narratives and Global Crises: New Perspectives on Literacy and Agency
Daniel Becker, English Department, University of Münster:
#mystory: Hashtags, Narrative and Global Education
Panel 1.1 – Digital Narratives and Global Crises: New Perspectives on Literacy and Agency
Arunima Bhattacharya, School of History, University of Leeds:
Anthropology, Ecology and the Indian Nation State: Andaman Islands in The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali and Glorious Boy.
Panel 1.3 – Narratives of Anthropology
Alessandra Boller, English Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Siegen:
“I’m a patented new fucking life form”- Material Practices of Knowing and Becoming in Larissa Lai’s Speculative Fiction
Panel 2.2 – Science in Speculative Fiction II: SF and Indigenous Epistemologies
Lara Choksey, College of Humanities, University of Exeter:
Interiority after Genealogy: States of Somnambulance in Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille
Panel 6.2 – Bodies in Crisis/Environments in Crisis
Alena Cicholewski, Institute for English and American Studies, University of Oldenburg:
Science as an Empowering/Exploiting Force in Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black (2018)
Panel 6.3 – Science and Fiction in Postcolonial Counterfactuals
Hasan Serkan Demir, English Literatures, TU Chemnitz:
Post-Human Other: Kazu Ishiguro’s Science Fiction Novel Never Let Me Go
Panel 3.2 – Science in Speculative Fiction III: Postcolonial Posthumanisms
Wolfgang Funk, Department of English and Linguistics, University of Mainz:
“They were all blondes”: Intersections of Racism, Feminism and Eugenics in Mary Bradley Lane’s Mizora
Panel 3.1 – Narratives of Science, Narratives of Race
Lucy Gasser, Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam:
Reaching for the Stars: Postcolonial ‘Science’, Progress and Irony
Panel 2.3 – Science, Technology, and Postcolonial Nationalism
Julia Gatermann, Department of English and American Studies, University of Hamburg:
Bodies of Knowledge – Discredited Sciences and Technologies of Resistance in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu
Panel 2.2 – Science in Speculative Fiction II: SF and Indigenous Epistemologies
Indrani Das Gupta, Department of English, Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi
Worlding of Worlds: History of Assemblages in Select Postcolonial Indian Science Fiction Texts
Panel 1.2 – Science in Speculative Fiction I
Paul Hamann-Rose, Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt:
A New Poetics of Postcolonial Relations: Global Genetic Kinship in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Panel 3.2 – Science in Speculative Fiction III: Postcolonial Posthumanisms
Fabian Hempel, University of Bremen/Bundeswehr University Munich & Krutika Patri, Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Bremen:
Manu Joseph’s Serious Men as a Subaltern Prism on Modern Science and Indian Society
Panel 2.3 – Science, Technology, and Postcolonial Nationalism
Victoria Herche, & David Kern, Department of English I, University of Cologne:
Scientists and their Discoveries: A Postcolonial Reading of Ted Chiang’s Speculative Short Fiction
Panel 1.2 – Science in Speculative Fiction I
Christin Höne, Literary Studies, Maastricht University:
Jagadish Chandra Bose and the Anticolonial Politics of Science Fiction
Panel 1.2 – Science in Speculative Fiction I
Julia Hoydis, Institute of English Studies, University of Graz:
Climate Change, Literacy, and Serious Games
Panel 1.1 – Digital Narratives and Global Crises: New Perspectives on Literacy and Agency
Haydar Jabr Koban, Department of English, Al-Ma’moun University College, Baghdad:
Representations of Science: Questions of Postcolonial Biotechnology and Dehumanization in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Panel 3.2 – Science in Speculative Fiction III: Postcolonial Posthumanisms
Souvik Kar, English Literature, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad:
The Empire Bombs Back: The Indian Nuclear Tests of 1998 and the curious case of Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018)
Panel 2.3 – Science, Technology, and Postcolonial Nationalism
Anton Kirchhofer, Institute for English and American Studies, University of Oldenburg:
From the “danger of truth” to the “long truthful dance”?: On Cosmopolitan Science and Cultures of Violence in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
Panel 3.3 – Science, Power, Knowledge, and the State
Jennifer Leetsch, English and American Studies Department, University of Würzburg:
“I trust England will not forget one who nursed her sick”: Nursing the Empire in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
Panel 6.1 – Forgotten Histories of Science
Rebecca Macklin, Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds/ Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia:
“Seeing through the end of the world”: Storytelling and Environmental Crisis in the Fiction of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Panel 6.2 – Bodies in Crisis/Environments in Crisis
Sandra Neugärtner, Media and Communication Studies Department, University of Erfurt:
Lena Meyer-Bergner’s Teaching of Weaving Technology in Mexico: Attempts to Abolish Post-Colonial Rule
Panel 4.2 – Negotiating Indigenous Knowledge
Dominic O’Key, Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds:
‘From the Other Side of Millions of Years’: Narrating the Sixth Extinction
Panel 4.1 – Science and Postcolonial Environments I
Harshana Rambukwella, Postgraduate Institute of English, Open University, Sri Lanka:
‘Patriotic’ Science: The COVID 19 Pandemic and the Politics of Indigeneity
Panel 3.3 – Science, Power, Knowledge, and the State
Virginia Richter, Department of English, University of Berne:
A Theatre of Decay: The Aesthetics of Zoology in Jim Crace’s Being Dead
Panel 5.1 Science and Postcolonial Environments II
Rovel Sequeira, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania:
Scandals of the State: Prison Architecture and the Sciences of Pederasty in Late Colonial India
Panel 2.1 – Imperial Knowledges
Christina Slopek, Anglophone Literatures, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf:
Specious Species Taxonomies: Porosity and Interspecies Constellations in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber
Panel 2.2 – Science in Speculative Fiction II: SF and Indigenous Epistemologies
Rajani Sudan, Department of English, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Southern Methodist University:
Mines, Minerals, Mimesis, and Memory
Panel 2.1 – Imperial Knowledges
Jens Temmen, American Studies, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf:
“My Battery is Low and It’s Getting Dark”: Posthuman Imaginaries of Life on Mars and the NASA Rover Missions
Panel 5.2 – Postcolonial Narratives of/and Space Exploration
Ana Carolina Torquato, Literary Studies, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazil:
Scientific and Popular Healing Practices: Complementary and Antagonistic Relationships in Works by J. Guimarães Rosa, Jorge Amado, and Pepetela”
Panel 4.2 – Negotiating Indigenous Knowledges
Hayley G. Toth, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds:
The Limits of Postcolonial Counterfactual Histories: Responses to Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses (2001) and the BBC television adaptation Noughts + Crosses (2020)
Panel 6.3 – Science and Fiction in Postcolonial Counterfactuals
Hedley Twidle, Department of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town:
From the Edge of Representation: Radio Astronomy, Postcolonial Memory and South Africa’s Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
Panel 5.2 – Postcolonial Narratives of/and Space Exploration
Paula von Gleich, English-Speaking Cultures, University of Bremen:
Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the Genealogy of “black is black is black”
Panel 3.1 – Narratives of Science, Narratives of Race
Alexa Weik von Mossner, American Studies, University of Klagenfurt:
(Neo)colonial Histories and Scientific Futures in Fernando A. Flores’s Tears of the Trufflepig
Panel 4.1 – Science and Postcolonial Environments I
Kanak Yadav, Centre for English Studies, JNU New Delhi:
Writing the Space of Postcolonial Environment: Latitudes of Longing (2018) and the Quest for the Non-Human
Panel 5.1 Science and Postcolonial Environments II
Laura Zander, Research Centre Law and Literature, University of Münster:
Blank Spaces and Hidden Figures – Rewriting the Gendered History of Science
Panel 6.1 – Forgotten Histories of Science
Emerging Scholars (“Under construction”)
Vahid Aghaei, Centrum Sprache und Interaktion (CESI), University of Münster:
Moral Indeterminacies and Discernments pertaining to Colonialism in Africa: From Joseph Conrad to J. G. Ballard
Panel 5.3 – Under Construction V
Sára Bagdi, Kassák Museum Budapest:
Primitivism and Class Consciousness, the Representation of the “Other” in the Hungarian Workers’ Movement
Panel 3.4 – Under Construction III
Fabienne Blaser, Research Project The Beach in the Long Twentieth Century, University of Berne:
Trouble in Paradise: The Beach as the Site of Disaster. Coastal Disaster Representations in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
Panel 2.4 – Under Construction II
Francesco Costantini, Department of Literary Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków:
An Anti-Colonial and Inter-Imperial Literary Criticism of Scientism as a Post-Enlightenment Façade of Colonial Modernity
Panel 4.3 – Under Construction IV
Mahtab Dadkhah, British Literary Studies/Communication and Media Studies, University of Erfurt:
Power of Media in Forming Cultural Identities of Immigrants from India and Africa to Germany
Panel 5.3 – Under Construction V
Beatrice Falcucci, History of Science, University of Florence & Gianmarco Mancosu, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick:
Exploring the Former Colonies: Safari (Visual) Cultures in Post-colonial Italy
Panel 3.4 – Under Construction III
Sebastian Jablonski, American Studies, University of Potsdam:
From Manifest Destiny to “Seagoing Manifest Destiny” – Pitcairn Island as a Case Study
Panel 1.4 – Under Construction I
Guðrun í Jákupsstovu, Research Project The Beach in the Long Twentieth Century, University of Berne:
Encountering Time: Understanding Deep Time Through Encounters and Interactions on the Beach
Panel 1.4 – Under Construction I
Indrani Karmakar, Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, TU Chemnitz:
Mother in the Making: Commercial Surrogacy and the Politics of Motherhood in the Fictions of Two Indian Women Writers
Panel 2.4 – Under Construction II
Stefanie Kemmerer, MA Moving Cultures Transcultural Encounters, Goethe University Frankfurt:
Yogascapes – The Visual Politics of Transcultural Yoga as seen on Instagram
Panel 3.4 – Under Construction III
Rita Maricocchi, MA Postcolonial Transnational and Transcultural Studies, University of Münster:
Intermedial Manifestations of (white) German Identity via Transnational and Postcolonial Contexts in Birgit Weyhe’s Madgermanes and Ich Weiß
Panel 4.3 – Under Construction IV
Narges Mirzapour, Semnan University, Iran:
Homogenization from Post-Apartheid to Post-Covid19 South Africa (1994-2024): The Infinite Past in Future
Panel 1.4 – Under Construction I