Programme

	Tuesday, 22nd  February 19.00 Conference Warming Greek Restaurant Meandros, Pfingstweidstr. 7 (two minutes from “Hotel am Zoo”) Wednesday, 23rd February 8.00 - 9.00 Registration 9.00 - 9.30 Conference Opening Welcome Address by Prof. Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Deputy Vice Chancellor, Goethe University) Welcome Address by Prof. Susanne Opfermann (Dean, Faculty of Modern Philologies, Goethe University) Welcome Address by Symposium Organizers Frank Schulze-Engler (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Lutz Diegner (Hum­boldt University Berlin) 9.30 - 10.30 Plenary Keynote Lecture Abdulrazak Gurnah (University of Kent, UK) “Learning to Read“ 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 - 13.00 Panel I Border Crossings: Transnational and Transcultural Dimensions Aldin Mutembei (University of Dar es Salaam) “Conceptualizing HIV/AIDS in Swahili and English Literary Works” Sissy Helff (Goethe University, Frankfurt) “Measuring Silence: Dialogical Contact Zone(s) in the Work of Abdulrazak Gurnah” Rayya Timammy (University of Nairobi) “Gender Perspectives in English and Kiswahili Short Stories” Susanne Gehrmann (Humboldt University Berlin) “Negotiating Self and Community in a Post-National Context: Nuruddin Farah’s Yesterday, Tomorrow – Voices from the Somali Diaspora” 13.00 - 14.30 Lunch Break 14.30 - 17.15 Panel II The City as Contact Zone: Urban Varieties, Bilingualism and Literary Cityscapes Alina Rinkanya (University of Nairobi) “Code Switching in Kenyan Women’s Literature After the Year 2000” Uta Reuster-Jahn (University of Mainz) “Literary Bilingualism in Contemporary Swahili Popular Fiction in Tanzania” Lilian Kaviti (University of Nairobi) “The Evolution of Popular Literary Discourse in Kenya: A Case Study of Sheng and Engsh Discourse” 15 Minute Coffee Break Doreen Strauhs (Goethe University, Frankfurt) “Democratizing Literature: Blogging, Email and SMS as Modes of Literary Expression in Kwani?” Marie Krüger (University of Iowa) “The Politics of Dirt in Yvonne Owuor’s “Weight of Whispers“ 18.30 Dinner Italian Restaurant Pizzeria Leon D’Oro, Waldschmidtstr. 30 (five minutes from “Hotel am Zoo”, three minutes from Mouson-Turm) 20.00 Special Event East African Literary Encounters: Reading and Discussion with Abdulrazak Gurnah, Euphrase Kezilahabi and Yvonne Owuor (English/Swahili/German) Hessisches Literaturforum, Mouson-Turm, Waldschmidtstr. 4 Thursday, 24th February 9.00 - 10.00 Plenary Keynote Lecture Euphrase Kezilahabi (University of Botswana, Gaborone) “Dialogic Swahili Literature: Key to Harmonization in Diversity” 10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break 10.30 - 13.00 Panel III Worlds Apart? Difference, Interdependence and Recognition Susan Arndt (University of Bayreuth) “Worlds Apart? Violence and Gender in Kenyan and Ugandan Short Stories:  Pat Ngurukie’s “Mother of Daughters” and Monica Arac de Nyeko’s “Jambula Tree” Lillian Temu-Osaki (University of Dar es Salaam) “A Critical Approach to Tanzanian Women’s Writing: Elieshi Lema’s Parched Earth and Penina Mlama Muhando’s Nguzo Mama” Rémi Tchokothe (University of Bayreuth) “’Who reads these kinds of texts?’ The Reception of Swahili Literature in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi" Clara Momanyi (Catholic University of East Africa, Nairobi) “Changing Representations of Women across the Border in Swa­hili and English Poetry” Clarissa Vierke (University of Bayreuth) “Comparing the Incomparable? Kenyan Rap Lyrics and ‘Clas­sical’ Swahili Poetry” 13.00 - 14.30 Lunch Break 14.30 - 16.00 Roundtable with East African Writers: U hali gani, Fasihi ya East Africa? Writing (in) the New Millen­nium Chair: Mikhail Gromov Kingwa Kamencu Aldin Mutembei  Yvonne Owuor Rayya Timammy Kyallo W. Wamitila 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break 16.30 - 17.30 Plenary Keynote Lecture  Said Ahmed Mohamed Khamis (University of Bayreuth) “‘Nguvu’ vs. ‘Power’: The Resilience of Swahili as Shown in Literature and Translation” 18.45 Guided Tour through Old Town of Höchst (Participants are collected from “Hotel am Zoo”; 15 minute underground/train journey to Frankfurt-Höchst; 30 minute walk through old town of Höchst) 20.00 Conference Dinner Gasthof “Zum Bären” – Traditional German Cuisine (Höchster Schlossplatz 8, Frankfurt-Höchst) Friday, 25th February 9.00 - 11.00 Panel IV – Theorizing the Contact Zone Gabriel Ruhumbika (University of Georgia, USA) “Translations in Swahili Language and Literature in the 21st Century” Mikhail Gromov (United States International University, Nairobi) “Regional or Local? On ‘Literary Standard’ in Recent Swahili Writing” Kyallo W. Wamitila (University of Nairobi) “Writing and Reading in the Contact Zone: Mapping Hybridity, Intercultural Negotiation and Selection in Kenyan Literature” Rose Marie Beck (University of Leipzig) “Urban Trickster Transformations Across Media, Genres and Languages: Sungura, Kazibure and Kajogoo in Nairobi” 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 - 13.00 Reading with East African Authors (Swahili/English) Chair: N.N. Gabriel Ruhumbika Said Ahmed Mohamed Clara Momanyi Kingwa Kamencu 13.00 - 14.30 Lunch Break 14.30 - 15.30 Plenary Keynote Lecture Yvonne A. Owuor (Nairobi) “O-Swahili: Language and Liminality” 15.30 End of Conference Coffee and Farewell

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