Activism and the Activation of Research
Guest professor Amina Mama
Format: 
Compact course
Language: 
English
On-site event
5 July, 2018 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Goethe Uni, Campus Westend, Casino (Cas)

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Part II:

We critically use ‘The Witches of Gambaga’ (Fadoa Films 2010) to discuss challenges of using documentary film as activist strategy. The journey behind the film is discussed to highlight the dilemmas and challenges that arise when the interests of ”film production” and ”feminist strategy” embodied in two differently situated African feminist producers are brought together. What are the implications of this experience regarding the ethical questions of identity, organizing, and epistemology?

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
Concept: 
Amina Mama, Uta Ruppert, Esther Franke
Contact: 
Office

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.