As speaker of the GRADE Center Gender, Prof. Sarah Speck cordially invites you to a welcome meeting for new members and a networking meeting for all GRADE Gender members.
In this first part, titled Heroines, Birds and Monsters, Kilomba explores the concepts of post-coloniality, violence and erasure, memory and forgetting, ritual and knowledge production as well as the concepts of amnesia and repetition.
The reading sessions are held in preparation for the seminar "The Art of Performing Knowledge" by this year's Angela Davis guest professor Grada Kilomba.
Gender and school education using the example of a textbook page
The dominant understanding of knowledge and education is that they are something good and desirable. Post- and decolonial perspectives show that education is not good per se. It is a product of powerful production processes that are part of a continuity of coloniality.
The reading sessions are held in preparation for the seminar "The Art of Performing Knowledge" by this year's Angela Davis guest professor Grada Kilomba.
The TALKING OBJECTS LAB is a research project dedicated to the decolonization of memory and knowledge. Since 2021, it has been unfolding in workshops, think tanks, symposia, artistic interventions and exhibitions in Germany, Senegal, Kenya, Nigeria and on the internet.
Colonialism, the theft of identities, reparation and cultural restitution
The lecture addresses the urgent question of reshaping the present in the context of German colonial history. Mirrianne Mahn, of German-Cameroonian origin, has a split role - as a German woman who emphasizes the responsibility to come to terms with the colonial past, and as a descendant of victims of colonialism in Cameroon.
In der Biologie ist schon länger klar, dass es nicht nur zwei Ausprägungsformen des Genitaltrakts gibt, sondern dass sich Genitalien individuell unterschiedlich entwickeln.
Insights into research on Fasia Jansen and Contemporary And (C&)
What does it mean to work with an archive about Fasia Jansen, a Black German Holocaust survivor, singer and activist? What are the consequences of the fact that this archive was created mainly from white feminist perspectives?
Whether in German rap or in code noir: bastard children are everywhere. They occupy us with questions of origin, contamination and desire. Because every bastard child has a mother who gave birth to it. With the fathers, the situation is sometimes less clear.
The talk is organized by Prof. Bettina Kleiner and Prof. Christiane Thompson in the context of the international conference "On the (de)legitimization of epistemic authority”. The conference is not open to the public but you are cordially invited to attend this public keynote.
Cultural Specificity and the (In)visibility of Old Age across Film Cultures
It is often said that women become invisible in society after a certain age. However, ageing women have certainly become more visible in European cinema over the last two decades. But how do filmmakers from different parts of Europe negotiate the visibility of ageing women on screen?
