Friday, June 26

9:00     

Opening 

9:15-11:00

Session 1 - Chair: Esther Adeyemo

Laura Bieger (RUB): Genre as Infrastructure and the Specter of Race.
Tomaz Amorim (RUB): Names of Peoples, Names of Places: Extractivism and Race in Euclides da Cunha and Oswald de Andrade.

11:00-11:30

Coffee

11:30-1:00

Session 2 - Chair: Natalie Erkel

Susan Zieger (UC Riverside): Suspense, Explosivity, and the Logistical Labor of Racial Capitalism in Sorcerer (1977).

Claas Oberstadt (HU Berlin): Infrastructures of Slavery: Credit, Information, and Insurance.

1:00-2:00 

Lunch

2:00-3:30

Session 3 - Chair: Laura Bieger 

Mark Jerng (UC Davis): Incorporating Race: Cyberpunk, Multinational Corporations, and Legal Infrastructures of Personhood.

Esther Adeyemo (RUB): The Aesthetics of Racial Legibility in Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929).

3:30-4:00

Coffee 

4:00-5:30

Session 4  - Chair: Lee Flamand

Henry Ivry (University of Glasgow): Listening to Infrastructure: Black Musics, Contrapuntal Genres.

Kerstin Schmidt (LMU): Shipping Blackness: World-Making on the Stage.

7:30

Conference Dinner

Saturday, June 27

9:00-10:45

Session 5 - Chair: Tomaz Amorim

Lee Flamand (RUB): After-the-End-of-the-Worlding: Trans-genetic Infrastructures, Genre Hybridity, and Afrofuturist Post-humanism in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis novels.

Farai Chipato (University of Glasgow): Black Geographies and the Infrastructure Humanities.

10:45-11:15

Coffee

11:15-12:45

Session 6 - Chair: Esther Adeyemo

Natalie Erkel (RUB): Martin Delaney and the Republic of New Afrika: Infrastructuring a Black Nation-State.

Dom Davies (City St George’s, University of London): Plumbing the Nation: Hotels, Drains, Borders, Britain, and the Racialised Politics of Blockage and Flow.

12:45-1:45

Lunch & Wrap-Up

Afternoon

Infrastructure Tour: Bochum Westpark & Jahrhunderthalle and Essen Zeche Zollverein

Meeting Point: 2:30 p.m. at Entrance to Westpark next to IG Metall Building, Alleestr. 80, 44793 Bochum

Friday, June 26

9:00     

Opening 

9:15-11:00

Session 1 - Chair: Esther Adeyemo

Laura Bieger (RUB): Genre as Infrastructure and the Specter of Race.
Tomaz Amorim (RUB): Names of Peoples, Names of Places: Extractivism and Race in Euclides da Cunha and Oswald de Andrade.

11:00-11:30

Coffee

11:30-1:00

Session 2 - Chair: Natalie Erkel

Susan Zieger (UC Riverside): Suspense, Explosivity, and the Logistical Labor of Racial Capitalism in Sorcerer (1977).

Claas Oberstadt (HU Berlin): Infrastructures of Slavery: Credit, Information, and Insurance.

1:00-2:00 

Lunch

2:00-3:30

Session 3 - Chair: Laura Bieger 

Mark Jerng (UC Davis): Incorporating Race: Cyberpunk, Multinational Corporations, and Legal Infrastructures of Personhood.

Esther Adeyemo (RUB): The Aesthetics of Racial Legibility in Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929).

3:30-4:00

Coffee 

4:00-5:30

Session 4  - Chair: Lee Flamand

Henry Ivry (University of Glasgow): Listening to Infrastructure: Black Musics, Contrapuntal Genres.

Kerstin Schmidt (LMU): Shipping Blackness: World-Making on the Stage.

7:30

Conference Dinner

Saturday, June 27

9:00-10:45

Session 5 - Chair: Tomaz Amorim

Lee Flamand (RUB): After-the-End-of-the-Worlding: Trans-genetic Infrastructures, Genre Hybridity, and Afrofuturist Post-humanism in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis novels.

Farai Chipato (University of Glasgow): Black Geographies and the Infrastructure Humanities.

10:45-11:15

Coffee

11:15-12:45

Session 6 - Chair: Esther Adeyemo

Natalie Erkel (RUB): Martin Delaney and the Republic of New Afrika: Infrastructuring a Black Nation-State.

Dom Davies (City St George’s, University of London): Plumbing the Nation: Hotels, Drains, Borders, Britain, and the Racialised Politics of Blockage and Flow.

12:45-1:45

Lunch & Wrap-Up

Afternoon

Infrastructure Tour: Bochum Westpark & Jahrhunderthalle and Essen Zeche Zollverein

Meeting Point: 2:30 p.m. at Entrance to Westpark next to IG Metall Building, Alleestr. 80, 44793 Bochum