Friday, 6 December, 2019 Atrium, Medical Faculty Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 7 1081 BT Amsterdam
Free of charge, but please register before 3 December by sending an e-mail to b.boter@vu.nl.
09.30 – 10.00 Welcome with coffee and tea
10.00 – 11.00 Opening Keynote Address + discussion
Prof. dr. Sonja Boon, author of What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (2019), Department of Gender Studies, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada
Speculative Lives: Haunted Yearnings for Impossible Pasts
10.45 – 11.30 Dr. Esther Captain (KITLV) and Dr. Guno Jones (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Postcolonial Transnational (Family) Histories
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 12.30 Dr. Karin Willemse, Department of History, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Re-membering Those Who Left: Abandoned Houses as Archives of (In)Tangible Nubian Heritage
12.30 – 13.00 Interview with Dr. Lizzy van Leeuwen, independent scholar, biographer
13.00 – 13.15 Discussion
13.15 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.15 Research pitches Unhinging the National Framework
14.15 – 15.15 Keynote Address + discussion
Prof. dr. Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, England, biographer and author of fiction
Unhinging the National Framework through Curricular Change
15.15 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 16.30 Dik van der Meulen, biographer
King William III. A Boundless Royal
Dr. Monica Soeting, European Journal of Life Writing
Queen Emma, the Sweetest Grandmother of Europe
16.30 – 17.00 Interview with Dr. Frank Dragtenstein, historian and Surinamist
