Conveners: Stefanie Mueller (Frankfurt), Katja Sarkowsky (Augsburg)

Presentations:

Angela Benkhadda (Bonn): “A Greater Law”: Legal Discourses, Citizenship, and Temporal Sovereignty in Beth Piatote’s “Antíkoni”

Stefan Benz (Bonn): “We gon’ need that land back”: Indigenous Hip Hop (Re)Claims Detroit"

Simone Knewitz (Bonn): “River, River, River”: (Video-)Poetic Interventions in Indigenous Environmental Activism"

Kerstin Knopf (Bremen): "Land, Belonging, Stewardship, and Responsibility in Angeline Boulley's Firekeeper's Daughter"

Convener: Grit Grigoleit-Richter (Passau)

Presentations:

Andrew Wells (Kiel): “When Slavery Didn’t Pay: Compensation for Slave Rebellion in New York City, 1712-1742”

Moana Jean Packo (Erfurt): “On Time and Redress: ‘40 Acres and a mule’ in Memory and Legacy”

Anthony Obst (FU Berlin): “Slavery … 1939 Style”: Abolitionist Writing on the “Bronx Slave Market”

Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich (Kiel): “‘We welcome the proletarian monster’: On Whiteness and Abolition”

Felix Krämer (Erfurt): “Expropriated Freedom: Indebtedness after the Civil War”

Conveners: Juliane Borosch (Duisburg-Essen), Maria Sulimma (Freiburg)

Presentations:

James Peacock (Keele): “Bullet Holes and Cocktails: Authenticity, Gentrification, and the Case of Summerhill”

Julia Roth (Bielefeld): “’We built this shit’: Hip Hop as Critique of Gentrification”

Heike Steinhoff (Bochum): “Media and Gentrification Aesthetics”

Hannah V. Warren (Georgia / Freiburg): “Resisting Filiation and Reconfiguring Epic Boundaries: Rhizomatic Origins in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men”

Conveners: Silke Braselmann (Jena), Uwe Küchler (Tübingen), Ricardo Römhild (Münster)

Presentations:

Nicola Galloway (Glasgow): "Language Attitudes and Global Englishes: A Systematic Overview"

Gunter Süß (Mittweida): "You hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license”: Social Media Practices and Ownership"

Natalie Langensiepen (Wuppertal): “Anti-Indigenous Racism in EFL Textbooks in Germany”

Anja Keil (Jena): “Expanding the Canon: Multimodal Literacies and Anti-Racist Teaching with Graphic Novels”

Laurenz Volkmann (Jena): "Fremdverstehen Meets Cultural Appropriation: Do We Need to Jettison a Well-established German EFL-Tradition?"

Convener: Ilka Brasch (Hannover)

Presentations:

Abigail Fagan (Hannover): “The Settler Colonial University and the Perception of Land as Property“

Katerina Steffan (Hannover): “I ‘was so forced … to do that which was contrary to my mind’: Puritans Lost in Possession“

Lukas Etter (Siegen): “Enclosing a Group? Norden’s The Surveyor’s Dialogue (1618) and Mathematical Word Problems in Plymouth Colony“

Cameron Seglias (Frankfurt): “17th-Century Antislavery and the Crisis of Atlantic Enclosure“

Philip James Grider (Göttingen): “’Pro Pelle Cutem’: Animal Skin and Otherness in Settler Colonial America“    

Conveners: Jens Temmen (Düsseldorf), Nicole Waller (Potsdam)

Presentations:

René Dietrich (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): “Beyond Humanization: Decolonization, Relationality, and 21st Century Indigenous Poetry.”

Franziska Wolf (Düsseldorf): “Who owns the cold? Cool Empowerment and Frosty Hubris - (Indigenous) Female Reading and Writing of Snow and Ice.”

Lea Espinoza Garrido (Wuppertal): “Unsettling Art, Land, and Property: (Post)Human Entanglements in Rita Indiana’s Tentacle.”

Julia Gatermann (TU Dresden): “Breaking the Planet: Posthuman Embodiment and Material Agency as a Matter of Resistance in Postcolonial Speculative Fiction.”

Conveners: Alexander Dunst (Paderborn), Regina Schober (Düsseldorf)

Presentations:

Damien B. Schlarb (Mainz): "Videogames, Playboy, and the Futures of Work"

Marlon Lieber (Frankfurt): "The Algorithmic Road to Socialism and Its Discontents, or, Who Own the Data in a Free Association?"

Dennisch Mischke (FU Berlin): “Hyperscaling Scarcity - NFT Art and the Evaporation of Critique in and with Arch Hardes’ Arcadia”

Convener: Aleksandra Boss (HU Berlin), Martin Klepper (HU Berlin)

Presentations:

Bethany Jordan Webster-Parmentier (Flensburg): “‘Possession(s) and Dispossession in Morgan Talty’s Night of the Living Rez.”

Greta Kaisen (HU Berlin): "Southern Gothic Settings in Red Dead Redemption 2.“

Alexandra Hauke (Passau): "Prisoners, Predators, Proprietors: Black Bodies and Ownership in Jordan Peele’s Horror Trilogy.“

Annika Thiem (Tübingen): "Ownership and Possession of the Past: Haunting History, Racism, and White Ignorance in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing and LaTanya McQueen’s When the Reckoning Comes.“

Conveners: Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn), Antonia Purk (Erfurt)

Presentations:

James Deutsch (Smithsonian, Georgetown): "Mobility, Vagrancy, and Poverty in Early 20th-Century Los Angeles"

Stefanie Schäfer (Vienna): "Vanguard Wheel Estate: Property, Grief, and the American Road Myth in Chloe Zhao‘s Nomadland (2020)"

Bailey Moorhead (JGU Mainz): "Western Dominion and "Homelessness" in Anita Scott Coleman's "The Little Grey House"

Debarchana Baruah (Tübingen): "The House on the Other Side"

Conveners: Felix Kramer (Erfurt), Jan Logemann (Göttingen)

Moderator: Nina Mackert (Leipzig)

Discussants:

Jan Logemann (Göttingen)

Harvey Neptune (Temple)

Ronny Regev (Jerusalem)

Axel Schäfer (Mainz)

Conveners: Sebastian M. Herrmann (Leipzig), Stefan Schubert (Leipzig)

Presentations:

Pia Wiegmink (Bonn): “Beyond Slavery and Freedom? The Protocols of Dependency in Nineteenth Century American Literature”

Astrid Haas (Bergen/Norway): “From Property to Proprietors: Free Black Entrepreneurialism in Mid-19th-Century Slave Narratives”

Thomas Dikant (Independent Scholar): “Disowned: Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima and the Drama of Class”

Karin Hoepker (FU Berlin): “Fictitious Commodities and the Spectacle of the Entrepreneurial Individual in Hawthorne’s Seven Gables”

Conveners: Helen Gibson (Erfurt), Nadja Kloprogge (Gießen), Sebastian Jobs (FU Berlin)

Presentations:

Melina Morr de Pérez (Erfurt): “Encounters of Different Ideas - Audre Lorde’s Theory Formations Abroad”

Oluwatomisin Ogungbenle (Saint Louis): “I am Human Too: A Black Womanist’s Cry for Change”

Robel Afeworki Abay (HU Berlin): “Decolonizing Knowledge: How Can We Unpack Colonial Legacies and Methodological Nationalism in German Academia?"

Yanda Bango (Erfurt): “Blackness as an Accepted but Misunderstood and Devalued Existence"

Walter Quiller (U South Carolina): “Blackness as Irreducible and Hopefully Unusable”

Conveners: Fenja Heisig (FU Berlin), Samira Spatzek (FU Berlin)

Presentations:

Debora Stanca (Münster): “A U.S. Copyright? Negotiating Authorship and Literary Property between 1834 and 1909”

Carsten Junker (TU Dresden): “The recent upsurge of the Manifesto, or: Who Owns the Means of Disruption?”

Miaïna Razamanantsoa (Münster): “Copyright and the Circulation of Book Designs"

Felix Brinker (LU Hannover): “Unfree Symbolic Commons between Intellectual Property and Mass Appropriation”

Conveners: Aleksandra Boss (HU Berlin), Martin Klepper (HU Berlin)

Presentations:

Philipp Kneis (Oregon State): "The State of Nature and the Politics of the Repressed: Traces of Indigenous Civilization in American Literature and Culture.“

Mareike Spychala (Bamberg): “ Haunting Pictures: Negotiating Self-Ownership, Gender, and Class in Sarah Piatt’s Poetry.“

Lee A. Flamand (Bochum): "Accursed Dis/possessions & Propertied Lamentations: William Faulkner’s Gothic Indians.“

Simon Schleusener (FU Berlin): "Slavery, (Self-)Ownership, and the Gothic Imagination: A Reading of Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative.“

Conveners: Natalie Rauscher (Heidelberg), Kirsten Twelbeck (Augsburg), Welf Werner (Heidelberg)

Presentations:

Eli Jelly-Shapiro (U South Carolina): "Two Histories of Extraction"

Uwe Lübken (LMU, Munich): "Vanport: A City Lost, a City Rediscovered"

Mélanie Meunier (Science Po, Strasbourg): "The Dakota Access Pipeline controversy: A standoff between the fossil fuel industry and anti-pipeline activists"

Verena Wurth (University of Cologne): "Time, Territory, and Eco-TV: Extracting the Pasture in Outer Range"

Convener: Torsten Kathke (Mainz)

Presentations:

Julia Sattler (TU Dortmund): “Beauty is only the raw material of conquest”: Capitalism, Consumption and Categorization in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905)"

Ylva Kreye (Mainz): "Ow(n)ing Freedom from the Fear of Want: Isaac M. Rubinow and the Measuring of Need in American Consumer Society"

Anja-Maria Bassimir (Mainz): "Owning One’s Health: Measuring Up to State-Sponsored Nutrition Advice"