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Conference programme

Overview 1

Programme 2

Name index 16

Participants 18

Useful information 23

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time Thursday, 21.5.09 Friday, 22.5.09 Saturday, 23.5.09 Sunday, 24.5.09 time

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Registration (until 13:15)

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Parallel sessions 5

0945 1000

Keynote address

Ien Ang

1000 1015

Coffee & tea 1015

1030 Coffee & tea

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Keynote address

Diana Brydon

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Lunch break

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Lunch break

Reading Sridhar Rajeswaran (12:00-12:30)

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Conference closes 1330

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Registration (until 17:00) Coffee & tea

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Conference opening

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Coffee & tea Coffee & tea 1515

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Keynote address Edward W. Soja

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The institu-tionalisation of Postcolonial Studies (round table)

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Plenary session 20 years on: GNEL/ASNEL and its institutional locations (round table)

1645 1700

Coffee & tea

Walk from Schloss to Fürstenberghaus

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Coffee & tea Poster session 2

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1845 Spons. pre-theatre refreshments 1845

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GNEL Mitglieder-versammlung (ASNEL AGM) 1730-1930 Non-members are invited to a guided tour of Münster 1915

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Wasafiri round table 'Clearing new spaces' Wasafiri special issues 1930

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Readings Bernardine Evaristo Tomáš Zmeškal Samir El-youssef 2015

2030 2030 2045

Spons. drinks reception 2045

2100 2100 2115

Theatre performance

s/w remix

Seats are limited – free tickets at registration desk

2115 2130 2130 2145

Conference dinner Booking essential – please pick up tickets early at registration desk

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Wednesday/Thursday

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Wednesday 20 May

19:00 Conference warming Brauhaus Pinkus Kreuzstr. 4 www.pinkus-mueller.de

Thursday 21 May

13:15 – 17:00 Registration [Senatssaal, Schloss/Universität] [Coffee: 13:30 – 15:00 Entrance hall, Schloss/Universität]

14:30 Conference opening [Aula, Schloss/Universität]

Marianne Ravenstein (Vice-Rector for Teaching, Reform of Studies and Student Affairs) Christian Pietsch (Dean of Faculty of Humanities) Frank Schulze-Engler (ASNEL President) Mark Stein (Convener)

15:00 Keynote address

Edward W. Soja (UCLA) Postcolonial spaces and the struggle over geography [Aula, Schloss/Universität]

Chair: Lars Eckstein (U Tübingen)

16:15 Coffee break [Entrance hall, Schloss/Universität – until 17:00]

Walk from Schloss to Fürstenberghaus (15 min.)

17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 [Fürstenberghaus]

1A Travel narratives [F6, ground floor (EG)]

Chair: Peter H. Marsden (RWTH Aachen)

Sonja Fielitz (U Marburg) Trans-locating libraries: Ingenious pre- and post-colonial travel narratives

Therese-M. Meyer (U Halle-Wittenberg) 'Out of the fucking jungle': Two river journeys of imperialist disintegration

1B Postcolonial film cultures [F2, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Markus Heide (HU Berlin)

Lars Eckstein (U Tübingen) Filming illegals: Clandestine translocation and the representation of bare life

Wumi Raji (U Ile-Ife) Cosmopolitanism and a Nigerian postcolonial video-film

1C Transmigration [F4, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Kathy-Ann Tan (U Tübingen)

Silke Stroh (U Münster) Theories and practices of transmigration: Translocation and colonial British diasporas

Sharmila Nisha Harry (U St. Augustine) Being and becoming? Re-negotiating self in Beryl Gilroy's Boy Sandwich and Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy

Thursday/Friday

3

Beate Eisner (U Potsdam) Saris & suitcases: Transnational imaginaries in contemporary South Asian American narratives

1D Translocating cosmopolitanism [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chairs: Virginia Richter (U Bern) Frank Schulze-Engler (U Frankfurt/M)

Richard Rong-bin Chen (FJU Taiwan) Practicing literary cosmopolitanism: Wang Dahong and his translation of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Gesa Mackenthun (U Rostock) American antebellum cosmopolitanism: Herman Melville's 'postcolonial' translocations

Sissy Helff (U Frankfurt/M) 'Naked men' in translocations: Representations of refugees and translocations in Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore

1E Translation and translocation [Ü108, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Gisela Feurle (Oberstufen-Kolleg Bielefeld)

Marta Cariello (U Naples) Translation as a critical re-naming of narration: Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love

Serena Guarracino (U Naples) Transcreation in the (m)other language: Suniti Namjoshi's Poems of Govindagraj

J. Coplen Rose (BU Quebec) Al Purdy's cultural translation of Athol Fugard's Sizwe Bansi is Dead

19:00 Wasafiri evening [F1, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Round table Clearing new spaces Chair: Susheila Nasta (Open U)

Bryan Cheyette (U Reading) Bernardine Evaristo (London) Suman Gupta (Open U)

Wasafiri authors: Readings Samir El-youssef (Palestine) Bernardine Evaristo (UK) Tomáš Zmeškal (Czech Republic)

20:30-21:00 Reception [Foyer, 1st floor (1.OG)] (Kindly sponsored by Möbelspedition Laarmann)

Friday 22 May [Fürstenberghaus]

8:30 Registration (until 13:15) [Foyer, 1st floor (1. OG)]


Ien Ang (U Western Sydney) Intercultural dialogue without guarantees [F1, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Ursula Kluwick (U Bern)

10:15 Coffee break / Opening of ASNEL Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Ursula Kluwick, Claudia Perner, and Frank Schulze-Engler [Foyer, ground floor (EG)]

Friday

4

10:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS 2

2A School teaching forum 1 Panel discussion: Theory & methods of teaching postcolonial literatures in secondary schools [F2, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Susanne Reichl (U Vienna)

Frank Schulze-Engler (U Frankfurt/M) Silke Stroh (U Münster) Laurenz Volkmann (U Jena) Jörg Heinke (Lessinggymnasium & Studien-seminar für Gymnasien, Brunswick) Gisela Feurle (Oberstufen-Kolleg Bielefeld) Roy Sommer (U Wuppertal)

2B Under construction [Ü108, 1st floor (1. OG)]


Jenny Diederich (Frankfurt/M) Indigenous literatures in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand: A comparative study

Nora Escherle (U Bern) Staging alterity: Religious othering and the cosmopolitan gaze in postcolonial Indian English novels

Lyam Ortmeier (FU Berlin) Resistance textualised: On the limits of postcolonial scholarship

2C Transcultural cityscapes [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Jens Frederic Elze (FU Berlin)

Sara Duana Meyer (U Osnabrück) 'Bombay, meri jaan': Relocating subjectivity in a maximum city's literature

Kathy-Ann Tan (U Tübingen) Curio(us) translocations: Site-specific interventions in Banglatown, London

Alicia Menéndez Tarrazo (U Oviedo) Writing the city as translocal space: Hyphenated narratives of Vancouver

2D African re-visions [F6, ground floor (EG)]

Chair: Ksenia Robbe (U Giessen)

Oyeniyi Okunoye (U Bayreuth) Postcolonial renaming and the Nigerian tradition of short fiction

Ina Wester (U Eichstätt) Beverley Naidoo's The Other Side of Truth: A modern fairy tale of loss?

Roland Walter (U Recife) Transcultural crossroads: Diaspora memory and identity in contemporary new world African fiction

Friday

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2E Theorizing post-colonial translocations [F1, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Gesa Mackenthun (U Rostock)

Lynda Ng (U New South Wales, Sydney)

Translocal temporalities in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria

Caio Simões de Araújo (U Coimbra) Tales of international madness: Is there a post-colonialist theory for international relations?

Chukwuma Okoye (U Ibadan) Of 'space' and 'place': Wole Soyinka and the (dis)location of postcolonial theory

2F Forced and voluntary relocations [F9, basement (UG)]

Chair: Sissy Helff (U Frankfurt/M)

Ebenezer A. Omoteso (U Ile-Ife) Contratado: Forced relations in Lusophone African poetry

Gregor Pudzich (U Duisburg-Essen) Crossing the great water: Representations of forced and voluntary relocations in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes

Peter H. Marsden (RWTH Aachen) Euro-Kiwis or deracinated emigrés? New Zealand writers in European residence

2G Postcolonial film cultures [F2, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Markus Heide (HU Berlin)

Sharon Wang (USC, Los Angeles) Parting with the father who knows best: Ang Lee's Lust, Caution

Ellen Dengel-Janic (U Stuttgart) Bringing the slum to your doorstep: New modernity in Slumdog Millionaire

Nicole Schröder (U Paderborn) A pirate's life for me: Empire, otherness and spatial boundaries in Pirates of the Caribbean

12:15 Lunch

Poster session 1 [Foyer, 1st floor (1. OG)]


3A School teaching forum 2 Postcolonial literatures in secondary schools: Teaching practices [F2, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Laurenz Volkmann (U Jena)

Jörg Heinke (Lessinggymnasium & Studienseminar für Gymnasien, Brunswick) Postcolonial Studies in school books, official curricula and the German Zentralabitur

Annemarie Baldinger (Wetzikon) Slumdog Millionaire – and beyond?

Friday

6

3B Spaces and communities of the Internet [Ü108, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Katharina Rennhak (LMU Munich)

Rainer Hillrichs (U Bonn) Daily photo blogs: Translocal representation and post-coloniality

Anne Haeming (U Konstanz) Do not delete: How Nigerian spams end up between the folders

Eric A. Anchimbe (U Bayreuth) Discursive construction of the Other online

3C Narrative translocations: Strategies and techniques [F6, ground floor (EG)]

Chair: Daria Tunca (U Liège)

Jessica Voges (U Münster) Laughter movens

David Callahan (U Aveiro) Creative mixtures and destructive interfaces in the work of Janette Turner Hospital

Jens Frederic Elze (FU Berlin) Translocation and deixis in postcolonial literatures

3D Gender and the postcolonial [Ü5, ground floor (EG)]

Chair: Therese-M. Meyer (U Halle-Wittenberg)

Petra Tournay-Theodotou (European U Cyprus) 'I love Cyprus but England is my home': Eve Makis's Eat Drink and Be Married

Christine Vogt-William (Emory U Atlanta) Of cane and the Kala Pani: Addressing indentureship in contemporary Indo-Caribbean diasporic women's novels

Maria Lidola (FU Berlin) Being/Becoming a Brazilian woman in Berlin: Almost … but not quite(?)

3E Audio/visual representations [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Norbert Platz (U Trier)

Verena Rodatus (U Oldenburg) The biennial DAK'ART as translocal exhibition of contemporary African art

Jessica Hemmings (Edinburgh College of Art) Constructions of dress in African visual art and fiction

Max C. Oestersötebier (U Münster) Can you hear the translocations? The 'New Congo square'

3F Formations of belonging [F9, basement (UG)]

Chair: Ann Spangenberg (U Kiel)

Kylie Crane (U Tübingen) Go forth and perish? Explorer myths and national natures

Klaus Stuckert (Zurich) Swiss-Caribbean Authors?!

Friday

7

3G Translocation as topos in literatures and films from/on Southern Africa [F4, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Monika Reif-Hülser (U Konstanz)

Daniel Benjamin Williams (U Heidelberg) No fixed abode: Movement and consent in J. M. Coetzee

Ksenia Robbe (U Giessen) Transpositionings: Chronotopes of decolonization in Zoë Wicomb's You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town and Njabulo S. Ndebele's Fools and Other Stories

Monika Reif-Hülser (U Konstanz) Love, gender, and identity: South Asian-South African intersections

15:00 Coffee break [Foyer, ground floor (EG)]

15:30 A) Round table

The institutionalisation of postcolonial studies [F1, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Frank Schulze-Engler (U Frankfurt/M)

Ien Ang (U Western Sydney) Nilufer Bharucha (U Mumbai/U Münster) Pilar Cuder-Dominguez (U Huelva) Geoffrey V. Davis (RWTH Aachen) Abioseh M. Porter (Drexel U) Wumi Raji (U Ile Ife) Janet Wilson (U Northampton)

B) School teaching forum 3 Postcolonial literatures in secondary schools: Teaching practices [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Dirk Janke (U Münster)

Anja-Therese Knittel (Studienseminar Arnsberg/Hannah Arendt Comprehensive School, Soest) East is East and West is West?

Ulrike Erichsen (Musterschule Frankfurt/TU Darmstadt) (Un)arranged marriage in the EFL classroom

Michael Mitchell (U Warwick & Gymnasium der Mariannhiller Missionare in Maria Veen, Reken/U Warwick) Ethnic Diversity in the UK


Poster session 2 [Foyer, 1st floor (1.OG)]


4A School teaching forum 4 Postcolonial literatures in secondary schools: Teaching practices [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Silja Fehn (U Münster)

Jörg Heinke (Lessinggymnasium & Studienseminar für Gymnasien, Brunswick) Translocation and the re-invention of the post-colonial subject: Anurag Mathur's 'Inscrutable Americans'

Friday

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Laurenz Volkmann (U Jena) Teaching English in the global village

4B Transmigration [F6, ground floor (EG)]

Chair: Jessica Voges (U Münster)

Melanie Mettler (U Bern) Dislocated family – Translocated home

Markus Schmitz (U Münster) Cultural articulations of Arab American crossovers

4C Translocal foods and travelling goods [F4, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Cosima Wittmann (U Frankfurt/M)

Jonathan Highfield (U Rhode Island) Translocation and foodways in the narrative of Sundiata

Catherine Kroll (UC Berkeley) A place at the table: South African indigenous foods and translocal appetites

4D The power to narrate: Authority and authenticity [F2, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Gerhard Stilz (U Tübingen)

Kazuhiro Masui (U Osaka) Underground Tokyo and post-colonial Japan in Murakami Ryu's In the Miso Soup (1997)

Sandra Vacca (Preservation Trust Museum, St. Andrews) Representing immigration: The example of the Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, Paris, France

4E Imagining translocal space [F9, basement (UG)]

Chair: Sara Duana Meyer (U Osnabrück)

Lucia Krämer (U Hanover) Far away, so close: Translocation in Hari Kunzru's Transmission

Ellen Grünkemeier (U Hanover) Translocation: Representing HIV/AIDS as an epidemic or as a pandemic?

4F Translation and translocation [Ü106/107, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Nadia Butt (U Münster)

Birte Wiemann (U Hull) 'Here is unfenced existence': Geographical and cultural translocation in the work of Philip Larkin

Sarah Knor (LMU Munich) Translocation as translation: Reconstructing dead voices in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost

Friday/Saturday

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4G Formations of belonging [Ü108, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: David Callahan (U Aveiro)

James Tar Tsaaior (U Ibadan) The Exilic as elixir? The Ambiguity of exile in the poetic imagination of Tanure Ojaide

Silvia Schultermandl (U Graz) Imaginary homelands and imagined communities: Origin and return in Vineeta Vijayaraghavan's Motherland

18:30 Pre-theatre refreshments

[Studiobühne, foyer / entrance hall of the theatre]

Seats are limited: Free tickets at registration desk

19:00 Theatre performance s/w remix

[Studiobühne]

Foll. by discussion with actors & director Barbara Kemmler Chair: Marga Munkelt (U Münster)

Saturday 23 May [Fürstenberghaus]


5A Translocal foods and travelling goods [F4, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Geoffrey V. Davis (RWTH Aachen)

Cosima Wittmann (U Frankfurt/M) Of love cakes and Christmas turkeys: Translocal food in Sri Lankan literature

Astrid Feldbrügge (U Bayreuth) Nostalgic distaste: The representation of culinary conservatism in Ivan Vladislaviċ's The Restless Supermarket

5B Translation and translocation [Ü210/S229, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Janet Wilson (U Northampton)

Abioseh M. Porter (Drexel U) More than mere 'dislocation': Translocation in the poetry of J.P. Clark and Syl Cheney-Coker

Daria Tunca (U Liège) 'We die only once, and for such a long time': Translocation as paradigm in Chris Abani's Song for Night

5C Migrancy and carnival [F6, ground floor (EG)]

Chair: Gordon Collier (U Giessen)

Yvette Smalle (U Leeds) Carnival as a social pedagogy

Erika Laredo (U Leeds) Carnival: The migrant's story

5D Diasporas [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Paul Spickard (UC Santa Barbara / U Münster)

Ayse Tuba Demirel Sucu (U Istanbul) Construction of diasporic identity: Survival and ambivalence in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground

Saturday

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Susanne Pichler (U Innsbruck) Binding and framing experience in trans-local spaces: Aamer Hussein's Mirror to the Sun (1993) and Sunetra Gupta's The Glassblower's Breath (1993)

5E Gender and the postcolonial

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5F Narrative translocations: Strategies and techniques [F2, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Reinhardt Küsgen (U Göttingen)

Kim Sasser (U Edinburgh) Rushdie's universalist turn in The Enchantress of Florence

Bidisha Banerjee (U Hong Kong) Capturing impermanence, finding the self: The trope of photography and diasporic identity formation in Jhumpa Lahiri's story 'Hema and Kaushik'



6A Panel discussion: Translocating Postcolonial Studies – Recent interdisciplinary developments [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chairs: Silke Stroh (U Münster) Christine Vogt-William (Emory U Atlanta)

Eva Bischoff (U Cologne) On History and German Studies Diana Brydon (U Manitoba) On interdisciplinary studies Jessica Hemmings (Edinburgh College of Art) On Art History/Visual Studies Ananya Jahanara Kabir (U Leeds) On Medieval and Postcolonial English Studies Michiko Mae (U Düsseldorf) On Japanese Studies Markus Schmitz (U Münster) On Middle Eastern Studies Alfred Sproede (U Münster) On Slavonic/Baltic Studies

6B Theorizing post-colonial translocations [F2, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Kerstin Knopf (U Greifswald)

Melanie Otto (Trinity College Dublin) Mutant children and divine infants: Hybridity and alterity in Keri Hulme's short fiction

Sanjoy Saksena (U Allahabad) Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi in an age of globalization

Roy Sommer (U Wuppertal) No size fits all: Postcolonial ways of seeing in the 21st century

Saturday

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6C Narrative translocations: Strategies and techniques [F6, ground floor (EG)]

Chair: Nilufer Bharucha (U Münster/U Mumbai)

Katja Sarkowsky (U Augsburg) No returns: Narrative constructions of translocal space in James Welch's Heartsong (2000) and Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes/Someone Knows My Name (2007)

Francesco Cattani (U Bologna) The boat as a travelling culture: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

Sandra Meyer (U Duisburg-Essen) 'The Story that gave this Land its Life': The translocation of Rilke's Duino Elegies in Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

6D Transcultural cityscapes [F4, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Sridhar Rajeswaran (U Kachchh / U Münster)

Elisabeth Damböck (FU Berlin) Bombay: Translocal city

Rachael Gilmour (Queen Mary, U London) Translation and translocation: Writing contemporary London

Carla Rodríguez González (U Oviedo) Leila Aboulela's urban cartographies

6E Forced and voluntary relocations [F10, basement (UG)]

Chair: Katrin Berndth (U Bremen)

Francesca Giommi (U Padua) Fighting for the mother country, fighting to belong:WW2 African and Caribbean soldiers in the British army

Miriam Richter (U Kiel) Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness vs. peace, order, and good government: The exodus of the United Empire Loyalists

6F Imagining translocal space [F9, basement (UG)]

Chair: Susanne Pichler (U Innsbruck)

Vera Alexander (U Aarhus) Reading (weeding?) translocal gardenscapes

Fatim Boutros (U Erlangen) Afro-Caribbean diasporic literature: Self-articulation of a translocal nation

Claudia Perner (U Duisburg-Essen) Dislocating imagology, and: How much of it can (or should) be retrieved?

12:00 Reading Sridhar Rajeswaran (India) [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Dieter Riemenschneider (U Frankfurt/M)

Saturday

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12:30 Lunch

12:30 Postcolonial studies northwest: Meet & greet [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG); snacks provided]


7A The power to narrate: Authority and authenticity [Ü108, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Claudia Perner (U Duisburg-Essen)

Katharina Luise Nambula (U Bayreuth) Identity transformations in conflict situations

Philipp Kneis (U Potsdam) The exiled native: Questions of cultural removal and translocal American-Indian identity in novels by Sherman Alexie and James Welch

Geoffrey V. Davis (RWTH Aachen) Postcolonial transformations: The Bhasha Adivasi project

7B Diasporas [F4, 2nd floor (2.OG)]

Chair: Ellen Dengel-Janic (U Stuttgart)

Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (U Malaya, Kuala Lumpur) Diasporic translocations: Difference, multiculturalism, and national identity in Malaysia

Delphine Munos (U Liège) Giving up the ghosts: Diaspora and its hereafter in Once in a Lifetime by Jhumpa Lahiri

7C Contact varieties translocated: Language and identity in diaspora communities [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Anne Schröder (U Halle-Wittenberg)

Susanne Mühleisen (U Bayreuth) '... allyuh know how to parteeeeeeeeeeee. lawd!' Linguistic choices and community construction among Trinidadians in California

Rajend Mesthrie (U Cape Town) Language in the Indian diaspora: Some new directions with respect to naming traditions

7D Formations of belonging [Ü210/S229, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Dirk Wiemann (U Potsdam)

Ann Spangenberg (U Kiel) Translocation in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl

Nadia Butt (U Münster) The location of transcultural memory in Indu Sundaresan's The Splendor of Silence (2006)

Till Kinzel (TU Brunswick) Segun Afolabi, transnational identity, and the politics of belonging

Saturday

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7E Black British (trans-)locations [F2, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Jana Gohrisch (U Hanover)

Susanne Reichl (U Vienna) Races, faces, colours: Translocating racism in Black British literature for young readers

Katharina Rennhak (LMU Munich) Daljit Nagra's Look We have Coming to Dover! and the limits of the translocal

7F Narrative translocations: Strategies and techniques [Ü106/107, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Vera Alexander (U Aarhus)

Annemarie Baldinger (Wetzikon) The chameleon or changing attitudes to location

Maggie Ann Bowers (U Portsmouth) Translocal narrative strategies: The threads that string us along

Julia Kuehn (U Hong Kong) Narrating transnationalism: How to write a grounded dispersion

7G Under construction [F6, ground floor (EG)]


Irmtraud Huber (U Bern) Ethical magic: The ethical potential of magic realism

Karin Orantes (U Vienna) South African memoirs

Esther Georg (U Münster) The borderland of colour: Afro-Germans in a moving metropolis


15:30 Plenary session Round table 20 years on: GNEL/ASNEL and its institutional locations [F1, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Tobias Döring (LMU Munich)

Chris Balme (LMU Munich) Kerstin Knopf (U Greifswald) Claudia Perner (U Duisburg-Essen) Dieter Riemenschneider (U Frankfurt/M) Peter Schneck (U Osnabrück) Klaus Stierstorfer (U Münster) Gerhard Stilz (U Tübingen)


17:30 ASNEL AGM / GNEL-Mitgliederversammlung [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Non-members are invited to a guided tour of Münster Early booking at registration desk is essential For non-members unable to obtain places on the guided tour: 30-minute film on Münster's international modern sculpture projects (room F2), followed by opportunities for self-guided tours (brochures available at conference desk)

20:00 Conference dinner Please pick up your dinner ticket at registration as soon as possible

Sunday

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Sunday 24 May [Fürstenberghaus]


Diana Brydon (U Manitoba) 'Difficult forms of knowing': Enquiry, injury and translocated relations of postcolonial responsibility [F1, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Katja Sarkowsky (U Augsburg)



8A Translocating cosmopolitanism [F1, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chairs: Virginia Richter (U Bern) Frank Schulze-Engler (U Frankfurt/M)

Annie Cottier (U Bern) A poetics of cosmopolitanism: History and identity in The Assassin's Song

Anca-Raluca Radu (U Göttingen) Michael Ondaatje and the cosmopolitan novel Divisadero

Dirk Wiemann (U Potsdam) Cosmopolitanism: (On) whose term(s)?

8B Transcultural cityscapes [F4, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chair: Maria Lidola (FU Berlin)

Ingrid von Rosenberg (U Dresden) Representations of the (British) city in contemporary Black and Asian British visual art

Mark Campbell (U Glasgow) Dis-locating Kolkata

David Stoop (U Cologne) Intercultural transformations of the city: Mosque-projects in Germany and the symbolic space

8C Narrative translocations: Strategies and techniques [F2, 1st floor (1. OG)]

Chair: Delphine Munos (U Liège)

Kirsten Sandrock (U Göttingen) Postcolonial piecework: Aspects of self-location in Madeleine Thien's Certainty (2007) and Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth (2008)

Thomas Martinek (U Vienna) Writing (in) the migrant space: Discursive nervousness in postcolonial Nigerian short stories

Sunday

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8D Contact varieties translocated: Language and identity in diaspora communities [F5, 2nd floor (2. OG)]

Chairs: Susanne Mühleisen (U Bayreuth) Anne Schröder (U Halle-Wittenberg)

Rotimi Taiwo (U Freiburg) Language and cultural identity in the Nigerian online diaspora community: A case study of Nigerian Village Square

Andrea Moll (U Freiburg) The globalization of Jamaican Creole: A web-based analysis of short-term historical trends and the current dynamics of language contact

8E Formations of belonging [F6, ground floor (EG)]

Chair: Henning Schäfer (U Hanover)

Gundo Rial y Costas (FU Berlin) Translating the American dream? A Brazilian vision of the promised land

Marga Munkelt (U Münster) Myths of rebellion: Translocation and (cultural) innovation

Paloma Fresno-Calleja (U Palma) (Trans)Locating Pacific identities: From the small island to the largest Polynesian city in the world

13:15 Conference closes

Venues

Schloss Schlossplatz 2 D-48149 Münster Bus stop: 'Landsgericht'

Fürstenberghaus Domplatz 20–22 D-48143 Münster Bus stop: 'Domplatz'

Studiobühne Domplatz 23 D-48143 Münster Bus stop: 'Domplatz'

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Name index

Alexander 11, 13 Anchimbe 6 Ang 3, 7 Baldinger 5, 13 Balme 13 Banerjee 10 Berndth 11 Bharucha 7, 11 Bischoff 10 Boutros 11 Bowers 10, 13 Brydon 10, 14 Butt 8, 12 Callahan 6, 9 Campbell 14 Cariello 3 Cattani 11 Cheyette 3 Collier 9 Coplen Rose 3 Cottier 14 Crane 6 Cuder-Dominguez 7 Damböck 11 Davis 7, 9, 12 Dengel-Janic 5, 12 Diederich 4 Döring 13 Eckstein 2 Eisner 3 El-youssef 3 Elze 4, 6 Erichsen 7 Escherle 4 Evaristo 3 Fehn 7 Feldbrügge 9 Feurle 3, 4 Fielitz 2 Fresno-Calleja 15 Gabriel 12 Georg 13 Gilmour 11 Giommi 11 Gohrisch 13 Grünkemeier 8 Guarracino 3 Gupta 3

Haeming 6 Heide 2, 5 Heinke 4, 5, 7 Helff 3, 4, 5 Hemmings 6, 10 Highfield 8 Hillrichs 6 Hrzán 10 Huber 13 Im 10 Janke 7 Kabir 10 Kinzel 12 Kluwick 3, 4, 13 Kneis 12 Knittel 7 Knopf 10, 13 Knor 8 Krämer 8 Kroll 8 Kuehn 13 Küsgen 10 Laredo 9 Lidola 6, 14 Mackenthun 3, 5 Mae 10 Marsden 2, 5 Martinek 14 Masui 8 Menéndez Tarrazo 4 Mesthrie 12 Mettler 8 Meyer, S. D. 4, 8 Meyer, S. 11 Meyer, Th.-M. 2, 6 Mitchell 7 Moll 15 Mühleisen 12, 15 Munkelt 9, 15 Munos 12, 14 Nambula 12 Nasta 3 Ng 5 Nisha Harry 2 Oestersötebier 6 Okoye 5 Okunoye 4 Omoteso 5 Orantes 13 Ortmeier 4

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Otto 10 Perner 11, 12, 13 Pichler 10, 11 Pietsch 2 Platz 6 Porter 7, 9 Pudzich 5 Radu 14 Rajeswaran 11 Raji 2, 7 Ravenstein 2 Reichl 4, 13 Reif-Hülser 7 Rennhak 6, 13 Rial y Costas 15 Richter, M. 11 Richter, V. 3, 14 Riemenschneider 11, 13 Robbe 4, 7 Rodatus 6 Rodríguez González 11 Rong-bin Chen 3 Rosenberg, von 14 Saksena 10 Sandrock 14 Sarkowsky 11, 14 Sasser 10 Schäfer 15 Schmitz 8, 10 Schneck 13 Schröder, A. 12, 15 Schröder, N. 5 Schultermandl 9

Schulze-Engler 2, 3, 4, 7, 14 Simões de Araújo 5 Smalle 9 Soja 2 Sommer 4, 10 Spangenberg 6, 12 Spickard 9 Sproede 10 Stein 2 Stierstorfer 13 Stilz 8, 13 Stoop 14 Stroh 2, 4, 10 Stuckert 6 Sucu 9 Taiwo 15 Tan 2, 4 Tournay-Theodotou 6 Tsaaior 9 Tunca 6, 9 Voges 6, 8 Vogt-William 6, 10 Volkmann 4, 5, 8 Walter 4 Wang 5 Wester 4 Wiemann, B. 8 Wiemann, D. 12, 14 Williams 7 Wilson 7, 9 Wittmann 8, 9 Zmeškal 3

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Participants (16.5.09)

Alexander, Vera Århus Universitet Althans, Katrin Universität Bonn Anchimbe, Eric A. University of Bayreuth Ang, Ein University of Western Sydney Bader, Rudolf Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich Baldinger, Annemarie Wetzikon Banerjee, Bidisha Hong Kong Institute of Education Berndt, Katrin Bremen University Bharucha, Nilufer University of Mumbai Biber, Eleonore Breitenfurt, Austria Bischoff, Eva Universität Köln Blenke, Daniel Münster University Blume, Antje Studienseminar Arnsberg Borner, Dominik Bamberg Boutros, Fatim University of Erlangen/ Nuremberg Bowers, Maggie University of Portsmouth Brydon, Diana University of Manitoba Butt, Nadia University of Münster Callahan, David University of Aveiro Campbell, Mark University of Strathclyde Cariello, Marta Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli Cattani, Francesco University of Bologna Chen, Richard Rong-bin Catholic Fu Jen University Cheyette, Bryan University of Reading Collier, Gordon JLU Giessen Cottier, Annie University of Bern, Switzerland Craig, Terrence Mount Allison University Crane, Kylie University of Tübingen Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar University of Huelva, Spain Dahlheim, Mayannah Universität Regensburg Damböck, Elisabeth Freie Universität Berlin Davis, Geoffrey RWTH Aachen Demirel Sucu, Ayse Tuba Fatih University Dengel-Janic, Ellen University of Stuttgart Diederich, Jenny Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Dinter, Sandra Leibniz Universität Hannover Döring, Tobias LMU München Duppé, Claudia University of Freiburg Dzudzek, Iris WWU Münster Eckstein, Lars University of Tübingen Ehrenwirth, Rebecca München Eisner, Beate University of Potsdam El-Youssef , Samir London, UK Elze, Jens Freie Universität Berlin Escherle, Nora Anna University of Bern Evaristo, Bernardine London, UK Fahrak, Ines Braunschweig Feddeck, Chiara RWTH Aachen Feldbrügge, Astrid Universität Bayreuth Fernandez Bohn, Carina University of Santiago de Compostela Fetzer, Margret LMU München Feurle, Gisela Oberstufen-Kolleg Bielefeld Fielitz, Sonja University or Marburg, Germany Florowski, Claudia Münster Fresno-Calleja, Paloma University of the Balearic Islands Funk, Wolfgang Leibniz University Hanover Gabriel, Sharmani P. University of Malaya Gafner, Barbara University of Berne

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Georg, Esther WWU Münster Gilmour, Rachael Queen Mary, University of London Giommi, Francesca University of Padua, Italy Gohrisch, Jana Leibniz Universität Hannover Gregory, Michael Ecole Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel Grünkemeier, Ellen Leibniz Universität Hannover Guarracino, Serena University of Naples "L'Orientale" Gupta, Suman Open University Gürsoy, Dilek Bergische Universität Wuppertal Haeming, Anne Universität Konstanz Harprecht, Franziska Universität Bayreuth Harry, Sharmila Nisha University of the West Indies Heide, Markus Humboldt University Berlin Heinke, Jörg Lessinggymnasium & Studienseminar für Gymnasien,

Braunschweig Helff, Sissy University of Frankfurt Hemmings, Jessica Edinburgh College of Art Highfield, Jonathan Rhode Island School of Design Hillrichs, Rainer Universität Bonn Höschele, Andreas Hannover Hrzán, Daniela University of Konstanz/ HU Berlin Huber, Irmtraud University of Berne Iheanacho, George Chidiebere Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta Jones, Nisha Wasafiri/ The Open University Kähler, Marijke University of Bern Kassim, Babajide Debiase Contracts Limited Kavtaradze, Giorgi Tbilisi State University Kazeem, Taiwo Olaniyi Youth Network on HIV/ AIDS, Population & Development in

Nigeria Kerner, Ina HU Berlin Kern-Stähler, Annette Universität Duisburg-Essen Kinzel, Till Technische Universität Braunschweig Kläger, Florian WWU Münster Kluwick, Ursula University of Bern Kneis, Philipp Universität Potsdam; HU Berlin Knopf, Kerstin University of Greifswald Knor, Sarah LMU München Krämer, Lucia Leibniz Universität Hannover Kroll, Catherine Sonoma State University Krueger, Nora RWTH Aachen Kuehn, Julia The University of Hong Kong Küsgen, Reinhardt Universität Göttingen Lahr, Karen Universität Landau Langwald, Sylvia Philipps-Universität Marburg Laredo, Erika Leeds Metropolitan University Lidola, Maria Lateinamerika-Institut FU Berlin Lindner, Oliver Universität Bayreuth Mackenthun, Gesa Universität Rostock Mae, Michiko University of Düsseldorf Mahamied, Mahsa University of Augsburg Marsden, Peter RWTH Aachen Martinek, Thomas University of Vienna Masui, Kazuhiro Osaka City Univeristy McIntosh-Schneider, Julia Universität Regensburg McPherson, Annika Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg Menéndez Tarrazo, Alicia University of Oviedo Mesthrie, Rajend University of Cape Town, RSA Mettler, Melanie University of Bern Meyer, Tania University of Oldenburg Meyer, Sandra University of Duisburg-Essen

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Meyer, Therese-Marie MLU Halle-Wittenberg Mitchell, Michael University of Warwick &

Gymnasium Maria Veen Moll, Andrea Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Mortazavi, Mehdi Univ. of Sistan and Baluchestan Mose, Jörg WWU Münster Mueller-Schulzke, Carla J. Goethe Universität Frankfurt Mühleisen, Susanne University of Bayreuth Müller, Sandra HU Berlin Munjal, Savi University of Leeds, U.K. Munkelt, Marga University of Muenster Munos, Delphine University of Liège, Belgium Muritala, Tayo Lagos State University Nambula, Katharina Universität Bayreuth Nasta, Susheila Wasafiri/ The Open University Ng, Lynda University of New South Wales, Sydney Niedlich, Florian University of Würzburg Nur, Souodi Ali Ethopian Student Organistion Oestersoetebier, Max University of North Dakota Okoye, Chukwuma University of Ibadan Okunoye, Oyeniyi University of Bayreuth Omoteso, Ebenezer A. University of Ile-Ife Oni, Deborah Universität Muenster Orantes, Karin University of Vienna Orao, James WWU-Münster Ortmeier, Lyam Berlin Otto, Melanie Trinity College Dublin Palitzsch, Francesca Universität Regensburg Perner, Claudia Universität Duisburg-Essen Peters, Susanne WWU Münster Pichler, Susanne Innsbruck University Pietsch, Christian WWU Münster Platz, Norbert Trier University Porter, Abioseh Michael Drexel University Pudzich, Gregor University-Duisburg Essen Radu, Anca-Raluca Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Rajeswaran, Sridhar Kachchh University, India Raji, Wumi Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife Rau, Albert Universität Köln Reichl, Susanne University of Vienna Reif-huelser, Monika University of Konstanz Rennhak, Katharina Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Richter, Virginia University of Berne Richter, Miriam Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel Richter, Merle WWU Münster Riemenschneider, Dieter Frankfurt University Robbe, Ksenia JLU Giessen Rodatus, Verena Universität Oldenburg Rodríguez González, Carla Universidad de Oviedo Rose, J. Coplen Lakehead University Roth, Julia Universität Potsdam Saksena, Sanjoy University of Allahabad Sandrock, Kirsten University of Göttingen Sarkowsky, Katja University of Augsburg Sasser, Kim University of Edinburgh Schäfer, Henning Universtät Hannover Schmidt, Lena Hannover Schmidt-Haberkamp, B. University of Bonn Schmitz, Markus Muenster University Schneck, Peter Universität Osnabrück

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Schröder, Nicole University of Paderborn Schultermandl, Silvia University of Graz Schulz, Regina University of Cologne Schulze-Engler, Frank Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Schwarz, Anja Universität Konstanz Sidhu, Guramar Singh GGS Institute of Information Communication Technology,

India Smalle, Yvette Leeds Metropolitan University Snethkamp, Hendrik Gymnasium Aspel, Rees Soja, Edward W. UCLA Sommer, Roy Wuppertal University Spangenberg, Ann Christian-Albrechts-Univ. zu Kiel Spickard, Paul UCSB Sproede, Alfred WWU Münster Stein, Mark WWU Münster Stierstorfer, Klaus WWU Münster Stilz, Gerhard Universität Tübingen Stoop, David Universität zu Köln Straß, Hanna Universität Bayreuth Stroh, Silke WWU Muenster Stummer, Peter LMU München Susanka, Thomas Universtität Tübingen Taiwo, Rotimi University of Freiburg Tan, Kathy-Ann University of Tübingen Thiara, Nicole Manchester Tournay-Theodotou, Petra European University Cyprus Tsaaior, James University of Ibadan Tschorn, Lisa WWU Muenster Tunca, Daria University of Liège Unger, Kristin Hannover Vacca, Sandra The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum, Scotland Victor, Adimula Ogun State Goverment Office Voges, Jessica University of Münster Vogt-William, Christine Emery University Atlanta Volkmann, Laurenz Universität Jena von Rosenberg, Ingrid TU Dresden Walter, Roland UFPE Recife Wanagas, Janna Hannover Weingarten, Jutta Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Wester, Ina Kath. Univ. Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Wiemann, Dirk University of Potsdam Wiemann, Birte University of Hull Williams, Daniel University of Heidelberg Wilson, Janet Mary University of Nortjampton Wittmann, Cosima Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Zips, Yvonne München Zmeskal, Tomas Prague

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Usefu l in f or mat ion Conference office Fürstenberghaus, F3 0251-8330517 0170-4557976

English Department Johannisstr. 12-20 (library, photocopies) opening hours Thursday closed Friday 08:00-20:00 Saturday 08:00-13:00 Sunday: closed

Opening hours of many shops Thursday closed Friday 09:00-20:00 Saturday 09:00-14:00 Sunday closed

Train tickets entrance hall, Fürstenberghaus Use the bright red DB-ticket machine for purchasing train tickets (by credit card) and for printing out train connections (free)

Public transport hotline (Stadtwerke) 01803-504030

Taxi there's a taxi stand at Domplatz 0251-60011

Taxi & FMO airport transfer 0251-717193 pre-book for set price of €32

Bicycle rental Radstation Münster Arkaden Königsstr. 7 0251-7036790 near the Arkaden shopping center

Radstation am Hauptbahnhof Berliner Platz 27a 0251-4840170 www.muenster.de/stadt/radstation in front of the main train station

Car rental Avis Georgskommende 10 0251-43143

Avis Weseler Str. 316D 0251-77006

Avis FMO Airport 02571-91198

Sixt Weseler Str. 539 0180-5252525

H o t e l s

Stadthotel Aegidistr. 21 0251-4812-0

Überwasserhof Überwasserstr. 3 0251-4177-0

Hotel Agora am Aasee Bismarckallee 5 0251-484260

Hotel Agora Seehotel Bismarckallee 47 0251-48426888

Hotel International am Theater Neubrückenstr. 12-14 0251-899780

Martinihof Hörsterstr. 25-26 0251-418620

Hotel Mauritzhof Eisenbahnstr. 17 0251-41720

Hotel Mercure Engelstr. 39 0251-4171660

Rest aur ants Reservation advisable

Lunch Street market Fri. 12:00-18:00 (S: eco food) Sat. 07:00-14:30 (XL: v. busy) «food market on Domplatz; with stalls for coffee, sandwiches, sausage, fried fish»

Café Weltbühne «student cafeteria» Breul 43 0251-483220

Marktcafé «opposite cathedral; spacious» Domplatz 6-7 0251-57585

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Lazaretti: Pizza, pasta, ice cream «big outside area» Spiekerhof 26 (nr. Überwasserkirche) 0251-4842333

Frauenstrasse 24 «Turkish specialties» Frauenstrasse 24 0251-4828739

Ça Va Aegidimarkt 1 0251-2655374

Pinkus im Stadthaus 1 «near the shops» Klemensstr. 10 0251-98294

Café Milagro Frauenstraße 3 – 6 0251-41300

Café Couleur Wilmergasse 2 0251-8322229

Rick's Café «lunch oasis in the city» Aegidiistr. 56 0251-4882336

Café Extrablatt 1 Salzstr. 7 0251-44445

Café Extrablatt 2 Königsstr. 31 0251-43306

Ca fés Floyd Coffee-Lounge «grab a sandwich» Domplatz 6-7

Café Kleimann «twee» Prinzipalmarkt 48 0251-43064

Café Liebigs am Drubbel «chic: watch & be seen» Drubbel 19 0251-43513

Eiscafé Firenze «super ice cream» Bogenstr. 15 0251-55670

Roestbar «they roast their own» Nordstr. 2 0251-28437

Café Konditorei Grotemeyer «twee too» Salzstr. 24 0251-42477

La Californie (café & lunch) «in the Picasso Museum» Königsstraße 5 0251-4902869

café arte Königsstr. 43 0251-4909771

Schlossgarten «castle & botanical garden» Schloßgarten 4 0251-9879696

Lo ca l fa re Altes Gasthaus Leve Alter Steinweg 37 0251-45595

Bistro 'Butter Holstein' «fine food & wine selection» Am Horsteberg 0251-4882288

Kleiner & Großer Kiepenkerl «traditional» Spiekerhof 45-47 0251-43416

Stuhlmacher «scenic» Prinzipalmarkt 6-7 0251-44877

Alter Pulverturm «nice beer garden» Breul 9 0251-45830

In tern at ion a l A2 restaurant & bar «right on the waterfront» Annette-Allee 3 0251-2846840

Kleines Restaurant im Oerschen Hof Königsstr. 42 0251-4841083

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Monegro «Mongolian barbecue buffet» Frauenstr. 51-52 0251-4145561

Takanoha «Sushi & Japanese food» Königsstr. 45 0251-5105329

Not on ly f i sh Restaurant am Aasee «v. high standards» Annette-Allee 1 0251-41441550

Afrisa African pub «fish & beer» Scharnhorststr. 59A 0251-5304921

Café Fiu «freshly grilled fish & meat» Rothenburg 14-16 0251-4828591

I ta l i an Dell'Isola «good food; lunch special» Aegidiistr. 59 0251-42235

La Vecchia Casa Wilhelmstraße 26 0251-25962

Pizzeria Piccolo Frauenstr. 26 0251-58940

La Locanda Frauenstr. 32 0251-55577

Osteria Tiziano «most bizarre place listed!» Spiekerhof 12 Tel. 0251-9816328

Mocca d'Or «v. popular; pizza & pasta» Rothenburg 14-16 0251-4828591

Va Piano «pasta, pizza & bar» Königsstr. 41 0251-1625193

Bee r & w ine Pinkus Müller «brewery with local food» lots more pubs next door! Kreuzstr. 4-10 0251-45151

Toeddenhoek pub «beer & regional specialties» Rothenburg 41 0251-43156

Sansibar café & bar Geisbergweg 8 (near the post office) 0251-4828700

Villa Vinum «feine Weine, kleine Sünden» Rosenstr. 2 (11:00-19:00h) 0251-48449700

A round the har bou r Pier House Hafenweg 22 0251-8997979

Heaven-Lounge (restaurant & club) Hafenweg 31 0163-8913298

Cafe Med «Mediterranean food; terrace» Hafenweg 26a 0251-6749595

To tak e a l ong Aux Chocolats «finest French chocolates» Königsstr. 46 0251-48820800

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