Workshop
Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2025, bis Freitag, 23. Mai 2025
Ort:
Käte Hamburger Kolleg (Iduna-Hochhaus)
Raum 7011 (7. OG)
Servatiiplatz 9
48143 Münster
Organisation:
Dr. Raquel Gil Montero
CONICET
raquelgilmontero@conicet.gov.ar
Prof. Dr. Sarah Albiez-Wieck
Universität Münster
sarah.albiez-wieck@uni-muenster.de
The project Mestiz*in als Travelling Concept financed by the "Ideenlabor" of Münster University will host an international workshop on „Mestiz@ as a Transimperial Category“ on 12 February 2025 (Fürstenberghaus, room F234).
The Workshop enquires about the colonial categorization of the mestizo (métis, mesties, meticcio, mestiço) in imperial figurations worldwide. The Workshop will both discuss a project in progress in Münster and feature talks by invited scholars from France, Italy, and Germany. Fellow scholars and students are invited to join.
Please have a look at the program.
It is our pleasure to announce our conference titled "Recent Perspectives on Southeast Asian Colonial Photography", which is going to take place on 7 and 8 November 2024. The conference is organized by Prof. Dr. Sarah Albiez-Wieck.
Photography has been an important tool among the Western imperialists colonizing Asia. Having been invented in the mid-nineteenth century, the images that it captured were quiet but effective mediums of categorization, racialization and epitomization and were also used for missionary aims.
This workshop, therefore, will delve further into this topic discussing the most recent trends and perspectives on colonial photography with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. Featuring researchers from Germany, the Netherlands, the Philippines, and the United States, this event will discuss the logics behind the photographs, their relationship with religion, modes of resistance against them as well as approaches as to how to deal with them in the present.
The Workshop is being organized by the Subproject A3-39 Visual Stereotyping of Religious Groups in the Colonial Philippines of the Cluster of Excellence. This project deals with the visual (stereo-) typification of people of different religions in the Philippines. It asks how religion is represented as a marker of social difference, othering, and belonging in visual representations. In doing so, the changing role of religion in a web of intersectional difference is also taken into account, i.e. its interaction with categorizations such as gender, status/class, ethnicity, occupation, and age.
Please have a look at our program.
The recently founded Centre for Empire Studies at Münster University celebrated its opening conference from 10 to 11 October 2024. The event was a genuine success. If you wish to find out more about its program, please click here or refer to the CES homepage: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Geschichte/histsem/ces/aktuelles/2024-10-16-Tagung.html
The workshop took place on 5 May 2023 in Mendoza, Argentinien, and was organized by Raquel Gil Montero and Sarah Albiez-Wieck.
