Language: 
German and English
June 30 2018 (all day) to July 4 2018 (all day)

Following Professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2015), Amina Mama has been appointed as a visiting professor for the 2018 summer semester.

Her inaugural lecture on the topic "Africa Unpacified: From Freedom Fighters to Feminists" was held by Amina Mama on 30 June 2018 on the Westend Campus.  Another public lecture entitled „In the Pursuit of Freedom: Feminist Intellectuals in African Contexts” took place as part of the Cornelia Goethe Colloquia on 4 July 2018. During her stay, Amina Mama also offered a block seminar for students on "Democratising research? Activism and the Activation of Research".

Amina Mama

Amina Mama is an author, activist and one of the world's leading scholars in the field of African feminisms - the theory and practice of African feminisms.

Host: 
Cornelia Goethe Centrum
Contact: 
Office

Further informations

Mama, Amina, Ruppert, Uta and Scheiterbauer, Tanja. "»Der transnationale Feminismus stammt aus dem Süden«" Feministische Studien 37, no. 1 (2019): 155-160. https://doi.org/10.1515/fs-2019-0010

The Angela Davis Guest Professorship for International Gender and Diversity Studies serves to promote international and interdisciplinary cooperation in the field of gender and diversity.

Prof Angela Davis is regarded as a pioneer in the global race-class-gender debate and as a pioneer of critical discourse within gender and diversity studies. Her perspective on overlapping forms of inequality based on gender, ethnicity and class has become part of social science theorising as triple oppression - or currently as the intersectionality approach.

Angela Davis was the first holder of the visiting professorship at the Cornelia Goethe Centre in 2013. Following its successful launch, the visiting professorship is filled at regular intervals by an internationally renowned researcher.