Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Femi Shaka (Port Harcourt) Paul Gilroy's seminal work, The Black Atlantic (1993), is cardinal to an understanding of the "ideas of the nation, nationality, national belonging, and nationalism" as experienced by blacks in the diaspora. But as Zeleza (2005) noted, "Gilroy's central concern was to deconstruct the idea […]
Impuls von Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff mit anschließender Podiumsdiskussion
Book presentation DUE TO THE EXPECTED HEAT AND THE SEVERE WEATHER WARNING FROM THE GERMAN WEATHER SERVICE, WE UNFORTUNATELY HAVE TO CANCEL THE EVENT. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FALL. Lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (spokesperson of the RISC Berlin site) followed by a discussion with Prof. Dr. Dr. Michel Friedman (lawyer and […]
Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Jessica Gordon-Burroughs (Edinburgh) Lecture: Diasporic Aesthetics, Intermedial Dialogues. The films of Nicolás Guillé Landrián Afro-Cuban filmmaker and artist Nicolás Guillén Landrián's final cinematic work in exile, Inside Downtown, co-directed with Jorge Egusquiza, has barely been discussed in the growing critical literature on his oeuvre. This omission points to […]
Lecture series: Racism in the police - empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies Leonie Fuchs (NaDiRa / DeZIM Institute) Reports from people affected by racism about unprovoked police checks, humiliation or problematic use of force by the police continue unabated. They occupy the public debate; numerous political initiatives have been fighting for clarification, in some […]
Workshop on the new book by Lea Ypi (LSE). With, among others: Andrea Sangiovanni and Ayelet Shachar.
Lecture as part of the series "Shaping the future - between climate change, technology and social responsibility" Lecture by Dr. des. Felix Kämper (Research associate at the Research Institute for Social Cohesion, Goethe University) As part of the exhibition "FIXING FUTURES: Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control", the MGGU - Museum Giersch of Goethe University, […]
Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Usha Iyer (Stanford) his program of two films from the Caribbean - a fiction feature and a documentary will extend the frame of the Black Atlantic by considering connected migrations across the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and histories of African enslavement and Asian indenture. The many connections and […]
The panel discussion with Rainer Langhans, Christa Ritter, who has been a member of Langhans' self-awareness group since 1978, and the social philosopher Martin Saar is dedicated to utopian ideas that emanated from the 1968 movement and sheds light on its ideals, impulses, individual and socio-political after-effects.