Lecture
The end of the West – What’s next?
57th Römerberg Talks Die globale politische Landschaft hat sich verändert. Ist es zu früh, das „Ende des Westens“ zu verkünden? Die Wertegemeinschaft, die ihn einst ausmachte, scheint jedenfalls gespalten und […]
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LA PERMISSION (FR 1967. D: Melvin van Peebles)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Greg de Cuir Jr Lecture: A Black American in Paris Melvin van Peebles left the United States to live and work in Europe […]
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Law in the Anthropocene
Lecture as part of the event series “Climate in court/Climate Contested“ with Dr. Johan Horst (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) and Prof’in. Dr. Doris Schweitzer (Goethe […]
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Key Works of Afro-Brazilian Short Film
Lecture & Film: Black Atlantic Cinema Lecture: Janaína Oliveira (Rio de Janeiro) Lecture: Key Works of Afro-Brazilian Short Film Janaína Oliveira has a Ph.D. in History and is a professor […]
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SAMBIZANGA (1972. D: Sarah Maldoror)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Jennifer Blaylock (Rowan University) Lecture: The Thin Green Line Between Canons and Revolutions. On Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga (1972) What happens to the revolutionary […]
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MANDABI The Postal Money Order (SN 1968. D: Ousmane Sembene)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Daniel Fairfax (Frankfurt) Lecture: Symbolic Capital: Mandabi (1968) by Ousmane Sembene An adaptation of his own novella Le Mandat, Ousmane Sembene’s Mandabi (1968) […]
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Legal battles in the Anthropocene. A legal-theoretical discussion of legal procedures for climate protection
Lecture as part of the event series “Climate in court/Climate Contested“ with Prof. Dr. Dr. Maximilian Pichl (RheinMain University of Applied Sciences) The event series “Klima vor Gericht/Climate Contested. Interdisciplinary […]
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THE TERROR AND THE TIME (GY 1979. D: Victor Jara Collective)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Iyabo Kwayana (New Hampshire) Lecture: Terror and the Time: A Reflection on Poetic Resistance This talk will explore the poetry of Martin Carter […]
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CONFUSION NA WA (NG 2013. D: Kenneth Gyang)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Didi Cheeka, Vinzenz Hediger Lecture: Nollywood and the Black Atlantic. On Kenneth Gyang’s “Confusion Na Wa” (2013) Rather than wait for government support […]
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LITTLE SENEGAL (DZ/FR/DE 2001. D: Rachid Bouchareb)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Lecture: Boukary Sawadogo (New York) Lecture: Blackness: Politics and Affect of Kinship in Little Senegal Little Senegal (2001) by the Algerian French director Rachid […]
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A DEUSA NEGRA (Black Goddess. BR/NG 1979. D: Ola Balogun)
Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema” Introduction: Didi Cheeka (Lagos) and Vinzenz Hediger (Frankfurt, ConTrust) Lecture: Crossing the Black Atlantic: Ola Balogun and A Deusa Negra (1978) Reversing the course […]
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Latency – On the genesis of the aesthetic as a historical category
Latency is a tentative concept: that which is conceived in it imposes itself before it is conceived. It is obvious that aesthetics plays a role in this: its historical source […]
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