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.
Presentation of the book with Lukas Sparenborg (Research Associate at the Institute of Political Science at Goethe University) and Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf (Professor of International Political Theory and Philosophy at Goethe University, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, Member of the Research Centre Normative Orders)
International Workshop This two-day workshop examines multiple mobilities and diverse migratory patterns in African and Afro-Diasporic literature and media from a transcultural and transnational perspective. The main premise is that both literature and media unfold how Africans crisscross the globe, how some Africans have permanently embraced “mobile lives" (Elliott and Urry 2010) and how migration […]
Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Aboubakar Sanogo (Ottawa) West Indies is not only Med Hondo's most formally accomplished work, but it is also his most powerful manifesto and cinematic treatise on the Black Atlantic and its status as an archive, a repository and producer of multiple (beyond the DuBoisian double), contradictory, superimposed yet […]
Film screening of "Soleil Ô (Oh, Sun)" and "Dreaming Rivers" and lecture by Awa Konaté (Abu Dhabi / London)