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“Knowledges in Motion” Conference, Humboldt University Berlin, 20.-22.03.2025

On March 20-22, 2025, the Fourteenth Biannual Conference of CAAR, the Collegium for African American Research, titled “Knowledges in Motion: Black Travels, Belonging, and Transformations,” will be hosted at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

The conference, by the Department of English and American Studies, investigates African American and African diasporic literary and cultural production, critiques, and contributions to emergent scholarly discourses and epistemologies.

Workshop features a presentation on McKay by Laura Ryan. McKay scholar Rich Cole (University of Leuven) will present on the African American writer William Gardner Smith, who worked as a journalist in Paris during the Algerian War.

Friday, March 21, 3 -5 pm
Workshop 23: Émigrés, Exiles, and Worldmaking

Chair: Pieter Vermeulen (University of Leuven)

Rich Cole (University of Leuven)
“So-Called Peace: William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face and the Language of Peacemaking after the Algerian War”

Michael J. Collins (King’s College London)
“‘All of that was swamp…when I came to the Isthmus’: Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death and the Dimensions of the Diasporic Short Story”

Link to the list of workshops at the CAAR 2025 Conference.


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Anne Reynes-Delobel (18 février 2025). “Knowledges in Motion” Conference, Humboldt University Berlin, 20.-22.03.2025. The Banjo Society-Claude McKay. Consulté le 12 juin 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13c6z


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