Workshops and conference panels
2022
Current Trends, Uncommon Paths: Decolonising the Academia through Feminism
13 – 14 January 2022
With Lisa Tackie, who was project assistant in 2021, we convened an international online workshop on Current Trends, Uncommon Paths: Decolonising the Academia through Feminism. Feminist scholars and students from universities in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, the US and Europe debated two days long strategies, experiences and approaches to make academic research and teaching a more just and inclusive space.
See the full programme here.
The proceedings will be published 2024 as special issue of Stichproben – Vienna Journal of African Studies, edited by Tomi Adeaga, Martina Kopf and Lisa Tackie.
Kenyans Abroad – or, the World as a Place
17 – 18 March 2022
In March 2022, Daniela Waldburger and Martina Kopf participated in a workshop exploring local and global references in literary and cultural productions by and on “Kenyans abroad.” The idea of this workshop came out of an ongoing research dialogue within a faculty agreement between Moi University and University of Vienna, initiated by Univ. Prof. Michael T. Mboya and Dr. Daniela Waldburger.
See the full programme here.
2019
18th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS)
University of Auckland, New Zealand.
15 – 19 July 2019
Panel on “Fictions of Development”
Convenors: Martina Kopf (University of Vienna), Veronica Barnsley (University of Sheffield)
Participants and papers:
- Veronica Barnsley (University of Sheffield) “Midwifery and development in Ghanaian women’s writing”
- Esther Mbithi (Kenyatta University, Nairobi) “Encountering development in postcolonial fiction: a reading of Blossoms of the Savannah”
- Martina Kopf (University of Vienna) “African literature and (post-)development thought”
- Sneharika Roy (The American University of Paris) “Marx, subaltern studies and Amitav Ghosh: the enterprising subaltern in Amitav Ghosh’s economic sagas"
2018
Workshop: Encountering development in postcolonial fiction
17 – 18 May 2018
In collaboration with: Department of African Studies and Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna
As part of the project, I convened an interdisciplinary workshop on “Encountering development in postcolonial fiction” jointly with Univ. Prof. Dr. Margarete Grandner and Univ. Prof. Dr. Petra Dannecker from the Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna.
The workshop assembled scholars from African Studies, Political Science, English Studies, History and Development Studies from Africa and Europe on the grounds of a shared interest into crossing conventional boundaries between literary studies and social sciences.
Read the detailed program here.
