The 15th annual
Germanic Graduate Student Association
Conference
at Ohio State
Who are We?
Questions of Germanic Identities
THE CONCEPTS OF NATIONAL OR LINGUISTIC IDENTITY HAVE NEVER BEEN STABLE. TODAY, MANY ENGLISH MONOLINGUALS IN THE US CLAIM GERMAN IDENTITY WHILE NATIVE GERMAN-SPEAKING CITIZENS QUESTION THEIR PLACE IN GERMAN, AUSTRIAN, OR SWISS SOCIETY. THE NAME "GERMANIC STUDIES" SEEMS TO PRESUPPOSE A SHARED CONCEPT OF THE "GERMANIC."
YET, IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD, WHAT DOES "GERMAN" OR "GERMANIC" IDENTITY MEAN?
HOW DO WE REFLECT THE DIVERSITY OF THE GERMAN-SPEAKING WORLD IN
OUR RESEARCH AND TEACHING?
WE INVITE YOU TO EXPLORE THESE QUESTIONS AT THE 15TH ANNUAL GGSA CONFERENCE.
For CfP & Program, click here: org.osu.edu/ggsa/
Dr. Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni (University of Arizona) will give the Keynote Address!
Dr. Oduro-Opuni received her Ph.D. in Comparative Culture and Language and an African Studies Certificate from Arizona State University. She earned her M.A. in German from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and her B.A. in Media and Communication Sciences from the Universität Hamburg in Germany, where she was born and raised. In addition to German and English, she also speaks Twi. She is affiliated faculty with the Department of Africana Studies. Her research focuses on Black German studies and includes intersectional discussions on transnationalism, colonialism, migration, minoritized cultures, and multiculturalism. She engages German contexts by drawing on approaches rooted in Black thought and theories as well as postcolonial studies. In her current project, she explores 18th and early 19th century German-language discourses that articulate a nuanced critique of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade and are indicative of abolitionist currents. Dr. Oduro-Opuni serves as a co-chair for the German Studies Association (GSA) Black Diaspora Studies Network.