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International conference of the research network Migreval, University of Strasbourg, University of Poitiers, Goethe University Frankfurt, funded by Université Franco-Allemande – Deutsch Französische Hochschule (UFA – DFH)

Artist talk between Grada Kilomba, Aaliyah Lauterkranz and Lidia Ghirmai. The talk is open to everyone interested without prior registration and free of charge.

“What stories are told? How are they told? Where are they told? And told by whom?”

In an informal lunch setting, we aim to open a space for Grada Kilomba to talk about her experiences and insights into knowledge production within and without academia and the praxis of performing knowledge.

“What is knowledge? What is acknowledged as knowledge? And whose knowledge is this?”

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.

Johnson writes about breaking (popularly known as breakdancing) and the foundational aesthetic elements that fuel it as a global phenomenon.

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.