International Conference
Anti-Asian Racism: History, Theory, Cultural Representations and Antiracist Movements
Venue: Fürstenzimmer of Schloss Hohentübingen, Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
Date: Friday, 07.07.2023 − Saturday, 08.07.2023
Conveners: Dr. Kien Nghi Ha and Prof. Dr. You Jae Lee
Registration required because of limited space via email to: koreanistik@uni-tuebingen.de
Participation: free of charge
Website: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/219396
Conference Program: Download as PDF (with abstracts and short biographies of the participants)
Link to OPEN CALL
The international conference, hosted by the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Tübingen, is divided into four sections. It explores how anti-Asian racism is related to modern history, theory, cultural representations and anti-racist movements. We cordially invite interested scholars, cultural workers and community activists to join the discussions of the first conference on anti-Asian racism in German academia.
P r o g r a m
Friday, 07.07.2023
14:30 – 14:45 Arrival, registration and coffee
14:45 – 15:00 Welcome and Introduction: Dr. Kien Nghi Ha and Prof. Dr. You Jae Lee
15:00 – 16:00 KEYNOTE: HISTORY
Making Asians Foreign: Methods of Exclusion and Contingent Belonging
Lok Siu, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California (Berkeley)
Chair: Bernd-Stefan Grewe, Professor of History, University of Tübingen
16:00 – 17:00 PANEL: HISTORY
Discrimination, Resistance, and Meritocracy. Korean Guest workers in Germany
You Jae Lee, Professor of Korean Studies, University of Tübingen
The Pogrom in Rostock-Lichtenhagen as Institutional Racism
Kien Nghi Ha, Postdoc Cultural Scientist, University of Tübingen
Chair: Jee-Un Kim, Managing Director of korientation. Network for Asian German Perspectives e.V.
17:30 – 18:30 KEYNOTE: THEORY
The Intersections between European Racial Constructions and Modern Colonialism: Theoretical Issues and the Place of Asia
Rotem Kowner, Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Haifa
Chair: Anthony Pattahu, Habilitation Candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen
18:30 – 19:30 PANEL: THEORY
Socialists and Anti-Asian Sentiment in the Era of Mass Migration (1880–1930)
Lucas Poy, Assistant Professor in Global Economic and Social History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Abolitionist Perspectives on Demands of Asian-German Formations
Cuso Ehrich, Graduate Student, Institute of Sociology, Justus Liebig University Gießen
Chair: Bani Gill, Junior Professor of Sociology, University of Tübingen
Saturday, 08.07.2023
09:00 – 10:00 KEYNOTE: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS
Racialized Screen in Early German Cinema: What Asian German Studies Can Address
Qinna Shen, Associate Professor of German Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Chair: Fei Huang, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen
10:00 – 11:00 PANEL: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS
Anti-Asian Racism and the Politics of Asian Self-Representation in Germany: the Asian Film Festival Berlin
Feng-Mei Heberer, Assistant Professor for Cinema Studies, New York University
Opportunity and Threat: Ambivalent Reporting on China in Der Spiegel, 1947–2023
Anno Dederichs, Postdoc Sociologist at China Center, University of Tübingen
Chair: Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (from fall 2023)
11:30 – 12:30 PANEL: ANTIRACIST MOVEMENTS
“Take Off Your Masks“: The Invisibility and Visibility of Anti-Asian Racism in Germany
Sara Djahim, Independent Researcher, Asian and International Development Studies,
Tae Jun Kim, Sociologist at German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin
Yellow is the new Black? Emergence and Development of Asian Antiracist Activism in France
Ya-han Chuang, Postdoc Sociologist at the Institut national d’études démographiques (Ined), Sciences Po Paris
Chair: Yewon Lee, Junior Professor of Korean Studies, University of Tübingen
12:30 – 13:00 Round Table: Challenging Anti-Asian Racism in Society and Academia
Panelists: Qinna Shen, Lok Siu, Rotem Kowner, You Jae Lee
Chair: Kien Nghi Ha
Supported by the Platform Global Encounters of the University of Tübingen.
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Ministry of Science Baden-Württemberg within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments.
Additional funding provided by the Academy of Korean Studies.
PHILOSOPHISCHE FAKULTÄT
Center for Korean Studies
