Prof. Dr. Wilfried Raussert - Conferences

2nd October-5th October 2023
VII Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS), Santiago and Valparaíso: "Criticism and Crisis in the Americas: Society, Nature, Exclusions and Resistance."

30. Jun.-1. Jul. 2023
Narrating, Representing, Reflecting ‘Disability:’ 21st Century ‘American’ Perspectives: CIAS Conference of the DFG-funded project: “Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Contemporary Literature from the Contact Zones between the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean.Wilfried Raussert & Sarah-Lena Essifi. Program

22 al 24 de marzo 2023 (9.30 a.m., Guadalajara time)
CALAS. „Plataforma para el diálogo: Canción con todos: Culturas populares, subalternidades y de-colonialidad en América Latina“. Biblioteca Iberoamericana Octavio Paz y CUCSH Belenes. 

24-25 Jun. 2022
Life Writing, Creativity, and the Social. With Susana Rocha Teixeira, Heidelberg University. For the program, pls see here.

14-16 Feb. 2022
CALAS, Universidad de Guadalajara: “Afros al frente: experiencias de lucha en contextos de crisis(América Latina y el Caribe).” Conveners: Nicolas Rey & Wilfried Raussert.

11-13 Nov. 2021
6th Biennial Conference Walls-Bridges-Borders; Internationa Association of Inter-American Studies,
For the program, pls see here

May 2021
(Re-)Thinking Home: 21st-Century Caribbean Diaspora Cultures & Geopolitical Imaginaries in North America.
International conference of the DFG-funded project: “(Re-) Thinking Home: 21st-Century Caribbean Diaspora Writing and Geopolitical Imaginaries in North America”. Organizers: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Raussert & Miriam Brandel, MA. Conference Program

Oct 2018
Black Power Conference
International Conference: Movements, Cultures, and Resistance in the Black Americas, Bielefeld. Organised by Matti Steinitz, Wilfried Raussert, and Afua Cooper.

Oct. 2018 - Feb. 2019
Black Matters, Black Matters - Urban Photography "Art begins in the streets art lives." Kulturamt Bielefeld.

Oct. 2018
"In Her Own Words: Nuyorican Poet and Activist". A Film by Alina Munoz and Wilfried Raussert. Kulturamt Bielefeld.

Sept. 2018 CALAS Photo Exposition

1 Sept-31 Oct. 2018 Photo Exhibit "Black Matters - Fotografía Urbana." Jalisco, Mexico.

30 Oct. 2017. Cultural Heritage: Politics and Practices,

30 Oct. 2017. International Symposium,Universidad de Guadalajara.

Oct. 2017. PosterWalking EthniCity. Photo Exhibit Seattle by Wilfried Raussert, Washington (USA).

19-20 Jan. 2017. Entangled Black Americas 2017 International Conference. Abstracts.

Nov. 2016. Belonging/Not Belonging in the Americas Talkshop II, Colorado Convention Centre.

Oct. 2016. Art, Science and the Public in Dialogue, Workshop, Universidad de Guadalajara. With Carlos Correa, and Hector Raúl Solís.

Feb.2015. "Fandango sin Fronteras: Music Flows and Diaspora," Communication and Media in the Americas Seminar Series. Community Building, Texas A&M International University. Department of Psychology and Communication.

6-8 August 2014 IAS-Conference
Third Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies: De/Colonization in the Americas: Continuity and Change. (Lima/Peru)

LASA Congress 2014
BMBF-Project, Bielefeld session: Entangled Americas: Collective Identities, Social Movements, and the Decolonization of History into the Track: Transnationalism and Globalization. (Chicago/IL, 21-24 May 2014.)

Caribbean Association Congress 2014
PANELS A and B : The Entangled Americas: Transnational Movement, Language, and Identity . (Chairs: Giselle Anatol, Kansas University; Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University, Merida, Mx, 26-30 May 2014)

"The Americas as Space of Entanglements" 2013
Inaugural Conference of the BMBF-Project "The Americas as Space of Entanglements": (Trans)Cultural Mobility: Traveling Ideas, Images, Sounds, Texts in the Americas (ZiF, Bielefeld University, 6-8 May 2013, with Maryemma Graham, Kansas University)
Conference Statement s.here

Conference of the International Postgraduate Forum (IPF) 2013
Exploring the Periphery: Perspectives from Applied Linguistics,Language Teaching, Literary and Cultural Studies (8-9 November 2013, Bielefeld University), Photos:vergrößern/enlarge

IAS Conference 2012
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 -Cruzando Fronteras en las Américas: las dinámicas del cambio en la política, la cultura y los medios. (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. Joint-Project: Universidad de Guadalajara/CISAN-UNAM - September 2012).

Global Flows: Literature, Media, Ethnicity - Summer School 2012

Ethnicity, Media, and Transnationalization, International Conference 2011. Cooperation between the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the University of Southern California, and the DFG Special Research Group 584 "The Political as a Communicative Space." Location: Campus USC. Mit John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California, Sebastian Thies (Bielefeld)

Human rights in the Americas: Literature and Film. 2011. Sponsored by the New Bielefeld University Visiting Scholar Program, Location: Bielefeld University. Mit Sophia Mclennen, Penn State University.

"Trans/Inter/Intra": Ways of Exploring the Americas/Maneras de explorar las Américas. International Conference 2010.
Location: University of Bielefeld, Germany- ZiF/Center for Interdisciplinary Research

Juni 2010
International Conference in Conjunction with the International Postgraduate Forum Bielefeld: Simultaneity, Multiplicity and Chaos in Cityscapes in the Americas and Beyond: Representations of Urban Complexity in Literature, Film and Media Representaciones de complejidad urbana en literatura, cine y media
Location:University of Bielefeld, Germany, Room D3-121
mit Jens Gurr, Duisburg-Essen

Juni 2009
Organisation der 3. internationalen Konferenz des International Postgraduate Forum an der Universität Bielefeld: Multiculturalism in the Americas/Multiculturalism in Great Britain: A Comparative Perspective.

Mai 2009
Organisation der internationalen Konferenz: Cornbread and Cuchifritos: Ethnicity, Transculturation and Urban Popular Music Popular Music am ZiF Bielefeld (mit Michelle Hablan, Washington Seattle) (Landesmittel)

September 2008
Workshop zum Thema Space, Power and Visualization at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico (mit Thies/Kaltmeier)

Juni 2008
Organisation und Leitung der 2. internationalen Konferenz des IPF Remembering and Forgetting: Memory in Images and Texts (IPF International Postgraduate Forum) Sondermittel des Rektorats der Universität Bielefeld

November 2007
Organisation und Leitung der 1. internationalen Konferenz "Identity Politics in the Americas and Beyond", Universität Bielefeld, im Rahmen der Etablierung des International Postgraduate Forum (University College Dublin, University College Cork, Universität Siegen, Universität Duisburg-Essen) gefördert durch Sondermittel des Rektorats der Universität Bielefeld

November 2007
Teilprojektleiter des Nachfolgeantrags "Ethnisierung und De-Ethnisierung des Politischen. Medien, Akteure und Semantiken des Ethnischen im transnationalen Kommunikationsraum", für Förderphase 2008 - 2011 des SFB 584 "Das Politische als Kommunikationsraum in der Geschichte" (mit C. Büschges, J. Pfaff-Czarnecka und S. Thies)

Oktober 2007
Organisation und Leitung des Workshops "Inter-American Studies and Space", Clinton Institute for American Studies, Dublin

Juli 2007
Organisation und Leitung des Workshops "Hybridity and Identity Politics" im Rahmen der Konferenz "Transatlantic Studies Association Conference", University College Cork

Mai 2007
Organisation und Leitung des Workshops "The Spatial and Cultural Turn in Contemporary American Studies", Universität Bielefeld

Seit April 2006
Aufbau eines regionalen und internationalen Netzwerks von DoktorandInnen im Bereich der InterAmerican und British/ American Studies mit Schwerpunkt auf Identitätspolitiken, gefördert durch Sondermittel des Rektorats der Universität Bielefeld

April 2005
Annual Conference of the Irish Association of American Studies, "Inventing America", University College Cork, gefördert durch Drittmittel der amerikanischen Botschaft in Dublin und des Clinton-Instituts für Amerikastudien
Veranstalter: W. Raussert, G. Young and Lee Jenkins

Februar 2005
Fachkonferenz "Transatlantic American Studies: Trancultural Visions in Images and Texts", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, gefördert durch Drittmittel der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
Veranstalter: W. Raussert, R. Isensee

Mai 2004
International Conference for Doctoral Students "Cultural Identity and Memory", Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Universität Potsdam
Veranstalter: W. Raussert, R. Kunow

2003/ 2004
Moderator der Canada Lecture Series, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (mit Reinhard Isensee)

Mai 2003
Workshop "Ethnicities in the US" Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien Jahrestagung, München
Veranstalter: W. Raussert, C. Birkle