Julia Roth
Universität Bielefeld
CIAS - Center for InterAmerican Studies
desiguALdades.net: Postdoctoral Researcher (01/09/2011 - 28/02/2013)
D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Academic Career
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2012 |
Conception, planning and curating of the series »bpb metro: Asiatisch-deutsche Diaspora« for the bpb |
| Since September 2011 | Postdoc for Coordination at desiguALdades.net |
| August 2011 | Defence of the PhD-thesis ”Practicing Decoloniality: Hemispheric Readings of Gender and Genre in Essay, Diary, Testimonio“ |
| 2011 | Conception, planning and curating of the symposium »Rethinking Humboldt« September 23, 2011 at .HBC Berlin on the discourse on the Berlin Humboldt-Forum for the bpb |
| 2010 | Consultant to the organizational team of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb, Federal center for Civic Education) for the conference »Das flexible Geschlecht. Gender, Glück und Krisenzeiten in der globalen Ökonomie« October 28-30, 2011 in Berlin |
| October 2010 | Curator and organizer of the theatre festival/ symposium “Grenzgängerinnen. Frauen/Bilder der Amerikas in Bewegung”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (with Carolina Balbi) |
| October 2010 | Co-curator and organizer of the symposium “Lateinamerikas koloniales Gedächtnis. Vom Ende der Ressourcen, so wie wir sie kennen“ (HAU Berlin) (with Gabriela Massuh) |
| April 2010 | Research in New York City |
| 2009 | Co-organizational of the conference "Das Geschlecht der Anderen. Classifications of Gender in Psychiatry, Ethnology, Criminology, and Zoology", HU Berlin, |
| July - August 2009 | Research in Mexico |
| December 2008 | Research in Buenos Aires |
| 2008 - 2010 | Fellow of the interdisciplinary DFG graduate program “Gender as a Category of Knowledge”, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2007- 2010 | PhD studies at Humboldt University Berlin and Potsdam University |
| Oct. 2007 - Oct. 2010 | Scholarship of the interdisciplinary doctoral program ”Cultures in/of Mobility”, Potsdam Graduate School |
| 2007 | Lecturer at Humboldt University |
| Since 2006 | Projects for the Goethe- Institute and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (publications and events) |
| 2006 | Goethe-Institute Buenos Aires, assistance at the Cultural Program, co-organization of the symposium „El trabajo por venir. Autogestión y emancipación social“ |
| 2004 | Magister thesis |
| Winter term 2002/03 | Studies at Universidad Complutense, Madrid (HU stipendiary) |
| Since 2002 | Board member of the network polarkreis e. V. / redactor and editor of polar magazine, organization of regular events |
| 2000-2004 | Journalist for the students’ newspaper ”UnAufgefordert” |
| Sept. 1999 - July 2000 | Studies at the University of East London (ERASMUS stipendiary) |
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1996-2005 |
Study of English/American Studies, Hispanic Studies, Political Science at the University of Kassel and Humboldt University Berlin |
| 1996-99 | Freelance journalist for the daily newspaper Hessische Allgemeine |
Teaching Experience
| 2011/12 | “Cyborgs on Facebook? Decoloniality, Gender and New Media” Humboldt University (HU) Berlin, Gender Studies |
| 2008/09 | “Borderlands: Grenzen, Grenz-Gänge, Transgressionen" (with Susann Neuenfeldt), HU Berlin, Gender Studies |
| 2008/09 | "'Telling Li(v)es': Staging Experience, Authorizing Memory in Autobiographical Writings", University of Potsdam, American Studies |
| 2007 | "Warum Männer nie Schuhe kaufen. Zur Renaissance biologistischer Geschlechterstereotypen in aktuellen Diskursen" (with Julie Miess) HU Berlin, Anglistik/ Amerikanistik and Gender Studies |
'A legible Face on Facebook?' New Frames of Knowledge, Persistent Inequalities in Cyberspace“
Feminist and Gender issues, hegemony critical approaches (Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, Critical Whiteness, Critical Occidentalism), Interdependencies of inequalities, „'A legible Face on Facebook?' Decolonization of Knowledge, Race and Gender in cyberspace“
(planned): Decolonial Practices. Gender, Genre and De/Colonilaity in Victoria Ocampo’s Essays, Frida Kahlo’s ‚painted Diary’ and Rigoberta Menchú’s Testimonio, (Dissertation)
(planned): Lateinamerikas koloniales Gedächtnis: Vom Ende der Ressourcen, so wie wir sie kennen. (with Gabriela Massuh), publication of the contributions to the 2010 symposium at Hebbel-am-Ufer, Berlin
(in print) »‘A legible Face on Facebook?’ De/Colonizing Gender and Race in Cyberspace«, in: Sophia (Belgian Network for Gender Studies) (Hg.), Akten van het colloquium - Actes du Colloque 2011: From Cyborg to Facebook: Technological Dreams and Feminist Critiques, Brussels, 2012
(in print) „Diálogo decolonial, Slave Narratives y Eurocentrismo“, in: Marta Luz Machado (ed.). Resistencia, autonomía y creatividad en la Diaspora Africana. Amsterdam: Ninsee Institute, 2012
Review: Helma Lutz / Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar / Linda Supik (eds.): Framing Intersectionality. Debates on a Multi-Facetted Concept in Gender Studies. Farnham: Ashgate 2011, 241 pps, in: CROLAR – Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, No. 1: “Inequalities”, April 2012
"'Ein Volk von roten Unterröcken'". Doing Gypsy, Doing Gender in Spielfilmen und der Krimiserie Tatort seit 1989. in: Claudia Bruns, Asal Dardan, Anette Dietrich (eds.) Welchen der Steine Du hebst. Filmische Erinnerungen an den Holocaust. Bertz + Fischer, 2012, 232-44.
"Latein/amerika" in: Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (ed.) Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht. (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache. Unrast Verlag 2011, 424-37.
"Weltkarte" in: Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (ed.) Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht. (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache. Unrast Verlag 2011, 553-63.
„Hacia un occidentalismo (Auto)Crítico decolonial“, in: Norma Giarraca (ed. con colaboración de Gabriela Massuh et.al.). Bincentenarios (otros). Tradiciones y resistencias. Buenos Aires: Una ventana, 2011, 233-40.
"Fantasías sobre Flamenco: Getanzte Carmenbilder zwischen Körperwissen, Punk und Porno." in Kirsten Möller, Alexandra Atcke, Inge Stephan (ed.). Carmen. Ein Mythos in Film, Literatur und Kunst. Böhlau, 167-86.
Weiß sehen. Dekoloniale Blickwechsel mit Zora Neale Hurston und Toni Morrison (with Carsten Junker) Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2010
"Kein Geschlecht oder viele , Rezension XXY von Lucía Puenzo in polar 6, March, 2009.
Review: „Ina Kerner. Differenzen und Macht. Zur Anatomie von Rassimus und Sexismus.“ In: Missy Magazin 02/2009, 76.
"Tango Argentino. Ein Streifzug durch Buenos Aires", in polar Nr. 2, March 2007.
"Was, wenn Bartleby eine Frau wäre?", in Gabriele Dietze and Sabine Hark (eds.) Gender Kontrovers. Genealogien und Grenzen einer Kategorie. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2006.
"Sie wollen uns erzählen. Über Texte, die gerne 'wir' sagen" in polar Nr. 1, September 2006.
"'Stumm, bedeutungslos, gefrorenes Weiss'. Zum Umgang mit Toni Morrisons Essays im weißen deutschen Kontext", in Maisha Eggers, Grada Kilomba Ferreira, Peggy Piesche, Susan Arndt (eds.) Mythen, Masken und Subjekte. Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland. Unrast Verlag 2005, 491-505.
Regular contributions for polar magazine, taz, the newspaper UnAufgefordert, Studierendenzeitung der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2000-2005).
Books
(editor with Gabriela Massuh). Publication of the contributions to the symposium “Lateinamerikas koloniales Gedächtnis. Vom Ende der Ressourcen, so wie wir sie kennen“ (HAU Berlin, October 2010) (planned).
(with Carsten Junker). Weiß sehen. Dekoloniale Blickwechsel mit Zora Neale Hurston und Toni Morrison. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2010.
(collaboration / editing). Gabriele Dietze and Sabine Hark (eds.) Gender kontrovers. Genealogien und Grenzen einer Kategorie. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2006.
(translation). Riki Wilchins. Gender Theory. Eine Einführung. Querverlag 2005.
Presentations
Panel (with Manuela Boatcá) »TransAmericas: Colonial Legacies, Persistent Inequalities, Methodological Implications« for the Second Bi-Annual Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies »Crossing Boundaries in the Americas. Dynamics of Change in Politics, Culture, and Media.« Own Paper: »After America? Toward a Decolonial Hemispheric Transamerican Perspective« Guadalajara, Mexico, September, 25-27, 2012 (accepted)
»Decolonizing Critical Theory«, London Conference on Critical Thought, Birbeck College, London, June 29-30, 2012 (accepted)
»A ‚legible Face’ in Cyberspace?’: Dis-Identifikationen und Widerstand im Netz«, international conference »Kollektivitäten nach der Subjektkritik / Collectivity beyond Identity«, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, June 27-28, 2012 (accepted)
»'Feminisms on Facebook?’: Mobilizations of Gender and Decoloniality in the Internet«, 8th European Feminist Research Conference, „Location Revisited: Gender@201«“ns Ps zur Chancengelichheit der Universität Potsdamnstechnologien ht di‚sen Kontexten zugehörige´The Politics of Location Revisited’: Gender@2012“, Budapest, Hungary, May 17-20 2012
»‘Nuevos medios, desigualdades persistentes’? Politícas interseccionales de género y de‘raza’ en el ciberespacio«, »Espacios de género«, ADLAF-Tagung, Friedrich-Eberst-Stiftung, Berlin, May 11-12, 2012
»Neue Medien, welche Ungleichheiten? Gender- und Racepolitken im Cyberspace«, conference »screen strike! Gender, Medien, Kritik,« Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria, May 10-11 2012
»New media, persistent inequalites? Politics of gender and race in cyber space«, conference »FEMIGRA. Feminismo y migración: intervención social y acción política«, Universidad Autónoma, Barcelona, Spain, February 9-11, 2012
“A 'legible Face' on Facebook? Dekolonialität und Geschlecht im Netz“ Ringvorlesung „Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie: Perspektiven des Graduiertenkollegs auf Vergeschlechtlichungen von Wissensproduktionen und Wissensobjekten”, Humboldt-University Berlin, November 23, 2011
„'A legible Face on Facebook?': Gender and Decoloniality in the Internet” Sophia Conference “'Cyborgs on facebook?' Technological dreams and feminist critiques, Belgian Network for Gender Studies, Brussels, October 21, 2011 (confirmed)rom cyborgs to facebook.
"'Ustedes son los indicados de pensar porqué pasa esto'. El testimonio de Rigoberta Menchú como género autoetnográfico en la tradición de los slave narratives“. Symposium “African Diaspora: Challenges to Establish a Material and Immaterial Heritage", Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Mexico City, July 19- 24, 2009.
"'Whiteness, alone' - The Colonial Reception of a De-Colonial Writer's Texts: Examining Toni Morrison's Essays in a White German Framework,” International Symposium "Trajectories of Emancipation", Ninsee Institute Amsterdam, June 29-30, 2009.
"Hacia un Occidentalismo (Auto) Crítico Decolonial", paper for the international symposium "De algo diferente de lo que arriba ocurre ...", Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires and Universidad de Buenos Aires, December 18-19, 2009.
"Spiele mit Ritus, Exzess & Tod: Zur Funktion von Festen als Begegnungs- und Konfrontationsräume in zeitgenössischen Filmen", Workshop "Fest als Mobilisierungsfaktor kultureller Austauschprozesse" University of Potsdam, December 6, 2008.
"'Neither White Nor Male' The Staging of Black Female Experiences in Toni Morrison's Novels and Essays" Fifth Biennial Conference of the Toni Morrison Society, "Toni Morrison and Modernism" July 27, 2008 Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
"'(Re)Constructing Frida' The Politics of Memory and Identity in two Biopics on Frida Kahlo", International Conference "Remembering and Forgetting Memory in Images and Texts", University of Bielefeld June 13th-14th 2008.
"American Women: Talking Back from Third Epistemological Spaces", 3rd conference on migration linguistics (Migrationslinguistik) of the graduate program "Cultures in/of Mobility" ("Zur Dynamik mobilisierter Kulturen"), University of Potsdam, November 30, 2007.
"The UN and New Wars", 2nd Transatlantic Students' Symposium "From the National to the Global and back? The Role of the United Nations as a Supranational Institution", Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, March 5-14, 2004.
“'A Written Form that Resembles the Speech': Toni Morrison's Essays as Forms of African-American Self-Representation", 4th Annual Students' Conference, Humboldt-University Berlin, May 6-8, 2004.
