Selected Publications
- Hammerstein, Katharina von. Women Writing War: From German Colonialism through World War I (ed. w/Barbara Kosta and Julie Shoults). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2018.
- Hammerstein, Katharina von. “Hochverräterisches oder sonst Despektierliches“: Bettina von Arnim und Sophie Mereau zu Politik und Menschenrechten.” Acta Germanica 47.1 (2019): 106-119.
- Hammerstein, Katharina von. “‘Grüßt mein Kind, wenn’s noch lebt.’ Kinder des Deutsch-Herero Kolonialkriegs.” Mission Afrika: Geschichtsschreibung über Grenzen hinweg. Ed. Michael Eckardt. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2019. 219-232.
- Hammerstein, Katharina von. “The Herero. Germany’s ‘Other Genocide.’ Diverse Testimonies.” SITES: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 20.2 (March 2016): 267-286.
- Hammerstein, Katharina von. “Europe’s Loss of What is Most Precious.” German Artist Käthe Kollwitz’sCross-European Antiwar Activism.” European Culture. Eds. Nicolae Păun and Enrique Banús. Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Presa Universitară Clujeană: Editura Funţiei pentru Studii Europene, 2016. 97-107.
- Hammerstein, Katharina von. “Subalterne konnten sprechen. (Dis-)Positionen von AfrikanerInnen und Afro-Amerikanernim und zum Deutschland und Österreich des 19. Jahrhunderts.” Acta Germanica 41 (2013): 23-41.
- Hammerstein, Katharina von. Sich MitSprache erschreiben: Selbstzeugnisse als politische Praxis schreibender Frauen, Deutschland 1840-1919. Heidelberg/Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013.
FRIAS Project
Textual Representations of the German-Ovaherero Colonial War and Ovaherero Genocide 1904-1908 in the Former Colony of German Southwest Africa, today’s Namibia | Developing the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium
This project investigates testimonies on the first genocide of the twentieth century committed during the German-Ovaherero-Nama Colonial War in the former colony of German Southwest Africa. Among the interdisciplinary theoretical approaches applied are the bottom-up definition of war as “experience of ordinary people” (Christine Sylvester), “forensis” of human rights violations (Eyal Weizman), definitions of “witness” (Didier Fassin), definitions of “direct, structural and cultural violence” (Johan Galtung), and attributions of “precariousness” in war (Judith Butler).
The outcomes of this short-term fellowship include my contribution to a volume on fictional and nonfictional textual representations of “Landnahme” (land grabbing; ed. Holdenried /Post, U Freiburg) as well as networking with the Freiburger Afrika-Zentrum, MIASA, PH Freiburg and possibly “Junge Universität” or “United World College.”
As Co-Director of the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC) I will furthermore enhance interdisciplinary, interinstitutional and inter-state/international research collaborations on human-rights-related topics by co-organizing the HRRC’s Inaugural Conference “Human Rights Research in the 2020s,” May 20-22, 2020 at the FRIAS.