Dr. Mariam Popal
Associate Research Fellow
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Profile
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Mariam Popal is currently working on her habilitation in Comparative Literature (Chair: Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler). In her work she focuses on the concept of ‘touching' and humor as a multilayered affect in postmodern English (UK/USA) and Francophone (Canada) novels. Her PhD was awarded summa cum laude. It is a work on the meanings of ‘law’/‘sharia’ within methodological approaches of Comparative Law and from the perspective of Feminist Postcolonial Studies (Department of Middle East Studies/University of Hamburg/Germany). Transnational and transatlantic, modernist and postmodernist literatures (English, French, German, Dari and Arabic), Literary Theory, Critical Narratology, (Feminist&Queer) De-/Postcolonial Studies, Ethics, (Postcolonial) Shakespeare Studies, Critical Affect Studies, especially humor, Film Theory & Photography Studies, Critical Race Studies and ‘Representation’ Theory, InterArt Studies within different critical movements. BeDeutungen dekolonisieren - Spuren von (antimuslimischem) Rassismus, Münster: Unrast-Verlag 2018 (Ed. with Iman Attia; with contributions from Moustafa Bayoumi, Jin Haritaworn, Markus Schmitz, Ella Shohat, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) Concepts on the Move – In-between Pasts, Presences, Absences – and the future. A documentary film (56 min., Bayreuth, 2018; Team: Natalie Patterer, Alice Mingqing Yuan, Zoe Dilan Smida, Oladapo Ayayi, Shirin Assa, Weeraya Donsomsakulkij, Elias Poya - Kevin Weiß & Matthias Meeh).
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CV
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Current Position: |
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Habilitation in Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Languages and Literatures/University of Bayreuth, Chair: Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler. |
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Since Nov 2018 |
Associate Research Fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies |
| Since 10/2014 - 10/2018 | Research Staff of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies & habilitation candidate (second theses) at the Department of English & American Studies/University of Bayreuth. |
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Academic Positions: |
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| Aug-Sep 2014 | DFG-Research Fellow at the Department of Islamic-Religious Studies (DIRS) at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg with a project on Gayatri Spivak and Kimberle Crenshaw and ethics_rights_law in a globalized world. |
| May-July 2014 | Research Fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies |
| Nov 2013- Jan 2014 | Research Fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies |
| Since Oct 2011 | Research and Teaching Fellow at the Department of English&American Studies - University of Bayreuth/Germany. |
| Mar 2011 – Sep 2011 | Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor i. s.) at the Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Department of Middle East Studies. Courses in Islamic Studies and Postcolonial and Critical Theory (graduate classes), language & meaning construction and classes in Persian (undergraduate course). |
| Oct 2008 – Mar 2009 | Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor i. s.) at the Department of Middle East Studies, Albert Ludwig University Freiburg with focus on Postcolonial Studies and Cultural Studies: Islamic Law and Cultural Studies, Diaspora Theory/Afghan-Persian Literatures (graduate classes) and Persian (undergraduate course). |
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Education: |
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Ph.D. (summa cum laude). |
| 1998 | M.A. (magna cum laude) at the University of Hamburg. Major Field of Study: Middle East Studies. Minor Fields of Study: German Literature/Film Studies/ Political Science. |
Publications and Presentations
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Articles |
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GeisterSpuren – Ein Dialog (with Iman Attia), in: I. Attia/M. Popal (Eds.), BeDeutungen dekolonisieren – Spuren von (antimuslimischem) Rassismus, Münster, Unrast, Oct 2018, S. 11-47. |
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Disjointed Time – Dis/Possessing Ressentiment for a Feminist Imagery to Come - (23 pp. forthcoming). |
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Chronotopes - Space-time in/and the ‘Visual’ - (internal) sights and (future) horizons - towards a critical de-chronotopic anaylsis, in: Katharina Fink & Peggy Piesche (Eds.), Radical Futures, transcript-international, (forthcoming). |
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Interview – Beyond the Master’s Tools in (Comparative) Literary Studies, in: Daniel Bendix, Aram Ziai (Eds.), Publication of the Conference – Beyond the Master’s Tools, Rowman and Littlefield (forthcoming). |
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Woandering - What Matters in Time - Re-mapping imagined Geo-Graphies”, In: Ute Fendler, Doris Löhr, Achim v. Oppen (Eds.), Future Africa and Beyond - Visions in Time - Conceptual Reflections, 2019. |
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Anti-muslimischer Rassismus – dekolonial, in: Iman Attia & Mariam Popal, (Guested.), Zur Kritik westlicher Islamdiskurse – Kehrt der Faschismus wieder? - Das Argument Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften – 319/ 58. Jahrgang, Heft 5, pp. 651-661. |
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“Photo-graphs – Moving Mo(ve)ments of Things to Come”, in: Katharina Fink, Susanne Gerhard, Nadine Siegert, Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies - FAVT – Future Africa Visons in Time, 2017, pp. 175-180. |
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“Mattering Matters - (in) Photography”, in: Katharina Fink, Susanne Gerhard, Nadine Siegert, Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies - FAVT – Future Africa Visons in Time, 2017, pp.183-189. |
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Postcolonial (Theory in/and) Europe? – Flows and Flinders, in: Susan Arndt/Nadja Ofutey-Alazard (Eds.), Afrofictional In[ter]ventions – Revisiting the BIGSAS Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures, Bayreuth 2011-13, Münster: edition assemblage 2014, pp. 67-74. |
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| Panel Discussion – African Diasporas and/in Europe (Cristina Ali Farah, Biyi Bandele, Sabrina Brancato, Phillipa Ebéné, Jean-Luc Raharimanana and Rinaldo Walcott – Chair: Mariam Popal), in: Susan Arndt/Nadja Ofutey-Alazard (Eds.), Afrofictional In[ter]ventions – Revisiting the BIGSAS Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures, Bayreuth 2011-13, Münster: edition assemblage 2014, pp. 105-118. | ||||||
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‚Gender‘. Mythen – Masken – Subjektpositionen – und beyond [‚Gender‘. Myths – Masks – Subjectpositions – and beyond], in: Freiburger Geschlechterstudien, Ausgabe 25/2011, S. 47-64. |
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| Zivilisiert/wild [Civilized/wild], in: Susan Arndt / Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (Ed.), Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache. Ein kritisches Nachschlagewerk, Unrast Verlag 2011, S. 278-78. | ||||||
| Objektivität – Desiring Subjects [Objectivity – Desiring Subjects], in: Susan Arndt / Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (Ed.),Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache. Ein kritisches Nachschlagewerk, Unrast Verlag 2011, S.463-483. | ||||||
| Kopftuch [Headscarf], in: Susan Arndt / Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (Ed.), Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache. Ein kritisches Nachschlagewerk, Unrast Verlag 2011, S. 389-402. | ||||||
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Gaze – Jenseits vom Orient und von Zivilisierungsmissionen [The Gaze – Beyond the Orient and Beyond Civilizing Missions], in: Abbas Poya/Maurus Reinkowski (eds.), Das Unbehagen in der Islamwissenschaft. Ein klassisches Fach im Scheinwerferlicht der Politik und der Medien, transcript 2008, S. 283-300. |
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| Kopftücher HipHop - Körper sprechen schweigend (andere) Geschichten [Head Scarf Hip Hop – Bodies Narrating (Other) Stories], in: Kien Nghi Ha, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, Sheila Myrosekar (eds.), Re/visionen – Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People auf Color auf Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und auf Widerstand in Deutschland, Unrast Verlag 2007, S. 87-109. | ||||||
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Heine und der Orient ? – Zwischen Subjektivität und Veranderung oder Wie das Andere nach Deutschland kam – sah – und ? [Heine and the Orient? – Between Subjectivity and Othering or How the Other came to Germany – saw and – ?], in: Lawrence I. Conrad/Benjamin Jokisch/Ulrich Rebstock (eds.), Fremde, Feinde und Kurioses. Innen- und Außenansichten unseres muslimischen Nachbarn. Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Gernot Rotter, de Gruyter 2009, S. 67-114. |
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Editorships |
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BeDeutungen dekolonisieren – Spuren von (antimuslimischem) Rassismus, Unrast Verlag (with Iman Attia). |
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„Das Argument - Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften ”– 319 - Zur Kritik westlicher Islamdiskurse – Kehrt der Faschismus wieder? 58. Jahrgang - 2016, Heft 5., (Guesteds. with I. Attia). |
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Thoughts in Time - Concepts on the Move – interviews with Guests of the Bayreuth Academy, (working-title) ( with Aminata Mbaye; forthcoming 2020). |
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| Talks_Paper Presentations |
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“Popkultur und das Andere – Signifikationen und Re-Situierungen“, lecture on racism, gender, class, orientalism & queering in the framework of the joint-seminar of the Friedrich-Ebert and the Avicenna-Foundation, Osnabruck University, 8 March 2019. |
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“Seeking Refugen - Being Displaced – Introductory Remarks” , “Choreographies of ‘Dance’ Across Borders? SUCHBEWEGUNGEN”, BA-Lunch-Workshop and Performance mit Publikumsgespräch in cooperation with fimt and the Iwalewahaus, 8 Jan 2018. |
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“Chronosophy and Context – Some Introductory Notes”, Workshop II der Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies “Visiones Of Future And Temporal Orders – Linearity And Cyclicity”, 12 -13. January, 2017. |
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„Planetarian Citizenship - Die Rhetorik von ‘Krise’ als Chance von Kritik und pädagogisches (Hochschul-) Handeln durch und in (Diasporische(n)) Erzählungen“, at the Symposium "Flucht und gesellschaftlicher Frieden", W3 - Werkstatt für internationale Kultur und Politik e. V. , Hamburg, 21. January 2017. |
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“Planetary Futurity within Aporias in Toni Morrison’s Home”, at the International Conference "Global Morrison", University of Greenwich, London, 27th and 28th June 2017. |
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“Humanism in the Trajectory of De-/ and Postcolonial Studies”, The Making of the Humanities VI - University of Oxford, 27-30 Sep 2017. |
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“Digital Poiesis in/and Diasporic Futurity - In-between Erasing Borderlines and Creating Homes" at the International Conference "Digital Resistance", Johns Hopkins University/Baltimore/USA, 18-21 Oct 2017. |
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| “Wo/andering - What Matters in Time - Re-mapping imagined Geo-Graphies”, BA Publication Workshop I “Visions of Future reflect a variety of different temporal contexts”, University of Bayreuth, 15-16 Dec 2016. | ||||||
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“Shakespeare’s Hauntology - Revenge and Response-ability - in Times out of joint”, Shakespearean Transformations: Death, Life, and Afterlives, 7th Biennial British Shakespeare Association Conference, University of Hull, 8-11 Sep 2016 (accepted paper). |
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“Green Poetics in Reflecting the Future of Geopolitics – Shakespeare and the Green Thread of ‘Islam’ in the Bard’s Poetic Bridging Texts”, Panel: Shades of Green Shakespeare’s Green Wor(l)ds,, Shakespeare-Seminar, Shakespeare’ s Green Worlds, Bochum 22-24 Apr 2016 (accepted paper). |
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“Stereo-Type - A Repertoire of Passed Images as Mirrors of Present Futures of Self & Other and Humor as an Affect of Futurity”, Disrespected Neighbo(u)rs – Cultural Stereotypes in Literature and Film, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, 21-23 Apr 2016 (accepted paper). |
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“Contrapunctual Reading and Improvising Futures”, at the seminar "Intertwining Muses? A Comparative Approach to Literature and Music", ACLA Annual Conference, Harvard University, March 2016. |
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| “How You See: Invading Questionaries ’n the Image, its music and text”, presentation as part of the FAVT-Exhibition and a following public talk (via skype) with Abdi Osman, Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth, 11th February 2016. | ||||||
| “Specters of Ethics in the Trails of Knowledgeing - Arresting Times in the Pauses for Touching Ethics”, in: Beyond the Master’s Tools - Post- and Decolonial Approaches to Research Methodology and Methods in the Social Sciences, University of Kassel, 14-15 January 2016. | ||||||
| “The (Con-) Textual Aesthetics of Philosophical Imagining in Feminist Postcoloniality”, panel-paper in the annual meeting „Feminisms Reloaded: Umkämpftes Terrains in Zeiten von Antifeminismus, Rassismus und Austerität“, Justus-Liebig University, 3-5 December 2015. | ||||||
| “Re-Orientier-ungen - Die Ordnung und Verknüpfungen rassistischer (Feind-) Bilder und Epistemologien neuen Denkens„ lecture in the framework of the Lecture Series Anti-Muslim Racism organized by the PoC-University-Group University of Mainz, 15th July 2015. | ||||||
| “Ideology and Metonym – Beyond Post-Humanism and Towards a De-Humanization Epistemology”, International Workshop “Stuart Hall’s Legacy for Thinking Tomorrows Planetarily - Representation, Language and Postcoloniality in Posthumanism and Beyond”, in Honor of Stuart Hall, 3th – 4th July, Department of English & American Studies/Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies - University of Bayreuth. | ||||||
| “Aporia and Futurtiy – Limits as beginning and the Ability to Imagine Alternatives”, as chair and organizer of the panel and roundtable - Arrays of Futurity – Narrations ‘n Africa” at ALA 2015 6th June 2015 and BIGSAS Festival of African and African Diasporic Literatures from 2th to 6th June at the University of Bayreuth. | ||||||
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“Future as Commodity and In(ter)vention: Narration, Knowledge and Technology” A Making of - Working Group E - at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies Summer Term 2015. |
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| “A Trajectory of Arjun Appadurai’s Works and Concepts”, presentation within the frame of - Working Group E Future as Commodity and In(ter)vention: Narration, Knowledge and Technology” - Plenary Session May 2015 at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies. | ||||||
| „About Narration“ presentation in Plenary Session Panel of the Workging Group E of the Academy of Advanced African Studies, Future as Commodity and In(ter)vention – Narration, Knowledge and Technology, 24th April 2015, University of Bayreuth. | ||||||
| “Space-time in/and the ‘Visual’ in Narration - (internal) sights and (future) horizons”, presentation at the Post-Doc Workshop of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, 5th February 2015 in Thurnau. | ||||||
| “Laili wa Majnun & Romeo and Juliet” – Panel - intertextuality/textual origins of Shakespeare’s works” at the Symposium “Knowing Shakespeare. Manuscripts, Intertextuality & Translation”, University of Bayreuth - Department of English & American Studies, 28th-29th January 2015. | ||||||
| „Islamische Religionspädagogik als kritische Lehre?“, Ringvorlesung WiSe2014/2015 - Islamische Religionspädagogik in Theorie und Praxis, Fachbereich 04 Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, 18th Dec 2014. | ||||||
| “Signs and Transcultural Signifying Practices of the Ethical? Performances of Heterotopic ‘Belonging’ in Hegemonic Con-Texts”, International Conference - Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism: Transnational Feminist and Decolonial Approaches // Materialität im Krisen-Kapitalismus: Transnational-Feministische und Dekoloniale Perspektiven // Cuestiones Materiales en tiempos del capitalismo de crisis: enfoques transnacionales feministas y decoloniales,: Institute of Sociology, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen. 13th – 15th November, 2014. | ||||||
| “Book Launch and Presentation ‘Afrofictional In(ter-)ventions’” - Round Table Moderation at BIGSAS Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures, University of Bayreuth, 26th June 2014. |
Supervision
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Mentor – PhD Projects Heinrich Boell Foundation Supervisor - BA, MA & PhD Works - Department of English&American Studies/University of Bayreuth
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Podcasts
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You can find here a Video-Interview in the framework of the Conference Beyond the Master’s Tools, University of Kassel Jan 2016. |
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This Interview with Radio Dryeckland, the oldest free radio station of Germany/Freiburg im Breisgau is a short introduction on occasion of a talk and debate on Critical Whitenesse Studies in German contexts. The interview is in German language. More about the context here |
| ‘I believe yeh’ – film gallery of creeds - A theater project of the Theater Freiburg (Germany) (“Ich glaub schon…” eine Filmgalerie der Glaubensbekenntnisse – Theater Freiburg) In my statement regarding the term, concept and idea of ‘believing’ I take the Jewish German poet H. Heine as a starting point for future hopes to come. The Interview is in German language. More about the context here |