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Archives of Colonial Dis/Possession: Centering Non-European Perspectives on Wealth (15th-18th Centuries)

Gefördert durch die VolkswagenStiftung (2024-25)

Archives of Colonial Dis/Possession: Centering Non-European Perspectives on Wealth (15^th-18^th Centuries) traces marginalized, displaced, and racialized agencies and knowledges on imperial fortune and regards them through the lens of the archive. The archive, as form of assembly and access to the past, encompasses alternative literacies and modes of storage during Romance expansionism. This project investigates the legacies of Inca and Aztec metallurgic technologies, African refining wisdom, or Asian mineral notions, informing and transforming early modern comprehensions of wealth.

Pandemics and Coloniality: Biopolitical Entanglements in Early Modern Chronicles and COVID-19 Narratives

Gefördert durch die VolkswagenStiftung (2021-2023)

This project's key question asks how structures of coloniality are inherent to Covid-19 narratives, and how their biopolitical mechanisms relate to early colonial accounts of disease. As a key result, the project provides a set of qualitative scientific data on biopolitical entanglements between early modern and contemporary language of pandemics. The key impact is a historic understanding on Covid-19's globalized, unequal knowledge-power, which further stimulates a transformation of the research field of early colonial illness.

Conference Participation

Cuerpos, remedios, políticas. Las cartas jesuitas del siglo XVI, Romanistentag, Universität Leipzig, 2023.

Entornos virales: Biopolítica, colonialidad y medición durante el expansionismo del siglo XVI y Covid-19. Hispanistentag, Universität Graz, 2023.

Biopolitics and the Narrative of Colonial Illness, Crisis Narratives and the Pandemic, Universität Regensburg, 2022.

Coyolxauhqui / Coloniality: On Biopolitics and Covid-19 Fiction, EMZ, University of San Antonio Texas, 2022.

Biopolitische Interventionen in Chroniken und Bildern der Romania. Romanistentag, Universität Augsburg, 2021.

Koloniale Geschichte und Krankheit in frühneuzeitlichen indianischen Chroniken und COVID-19 Erzählungen. Lusitanistentag, Universität Leipzig, 2021.

Pandemics and Coloniality: From Chronicles of the Indies to Covid-19 Narratives. Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of Covid-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives, Universität Bochum, 2021.

2023. La 'vie nue'. Appropriations textuelles et résistances à l'écriture dans les littératures de langues romanes du Moyen Age tardif au XVIIe siècle / 'Vida desnuda'. Apropiaciones textuales y resistencias contra la escritura en las literaturas románicas de la Edad Media tardía al siglo XVII (mit Stephanie Béréziat-Lang), Sektion 17, Romanistentag Leipzig

2023. Crises do império: Utopia, distopia, reescrita (mit Danae Gallo González, Susanne Grimaldi, Mylena Lima de Queiroz), Sektion 2, Lusitanistentag Zwickau

2023. Bodies, Remedies, Policies: From Chronicles of the Indies to Covid-19 Narratives, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, gefördert durch VW-Stiftung

2023. Entornos colonials y de colonialidad: rentabilidad, distanciamiento, medición (mit Susanne Grimaldi), Sektion 4, Hispanistentag Graz

2021. Kolonialität und Global Encounters in der Kulturgeschichte der Romania (mit Adrian Masters), gefördert durch Plattform 4 Global Encounters, Exzellenzinitiative Universität Tübingen

2018. El Mundo Zurdo: Borderlands (Mitglied Organisationskommitee), Trinity University

2017. idea: identidad. Hispanophone und lusophone Realitäten, Fiktionen, De/Konstruktionen, Forschungsgruppe Junges ISLA, Universität Augsburg

2017. Beyond Borders. Literaturas y culturas transfronterizas mexicanas y chicanas (mit Hanno Ehrlicher), Universität Augsburg, gefördert durch Baylat, Fugger-Stiftung

2016. El Mundo Zurdo: Nepantla (Mitglied Organisationskommittee), University of San Antonio