The ICDL Lecture/ Workshop Series

As envisaged in its concept, the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence has established a Gender and Diversity Office (GDO). For the upcoming semesters, the GDO has launched a lecture and workshop series on “Intersectionality and Critical Diversity Literacy”.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES AND RELEVANCE OF THE ICDL LECTURE AND WORKSHOP SERIES

ICDL Lecture: Beyond the Tunes: Masculine Representations, Trends and Insights from Contemporary Ghanaian Afrobeats

The burgeoning literature on African masculinities, particularly within the Ghanaian literary arts landscape, has rarely focused on Afrobeats. Due to the explosive popularity and androcentric nature of Ghanaian Afrobeats, ...more

ICDL Round Table: Academic Freedom for All

Academic freedom has increasingly proven to be a major bone of contention in our current times. The conversation envisioned here is meant to instigate recognition of problems connected to academic freedom,, ...more

ICDL Round Table: Queer African Citizenship 

The questions of citizenship, belonging and rights are writ large in queer African lives, whereby Africanness and African values are sites of contestation and reflection as regards voice, ...more

ICDL Round Table: African Masculinities 

Very often an unmarked ‘universalist’ androcentric, masculinist lens is deployed as the generic, normative, ‘objective’, qualitatively superior knowledge production perspective and criteria of best practice in African Studies. Indeed a frequent ...more

“ICDL Keynote Event: Film Launch | MAKING LIFE SING IN PURSUIT OF UTU

The Gender & Diversity Office (GDO) of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence invites you to participate in an upcoming Film launch event on ...more

ICDL Lecture: Intersectional Complexities, Diversity Optics and Axes of Space

The Africa Multiple Cluster Gender and Diversity Office presents an ICDL Lecture by Dr. Nirmal Puwar (PhD), Goldsmith’s College, London, UK Intersectional Complexities, Diversity Optics and Axes of Space ...more

“The Afrokology of Media and Communication Studies”

The Gender & Diversity Office (GDO) of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence invites you to participate in an upcoming Workshop on ...more

ICDL Book Launch of African Women in Digital Spaces

The book launch and round table discussion will provide thought impulses towards continuing the conversations around ...more

Rethinking Queer Africa As A Dynamically Productive Locus of Knowledge Production

The Africa Multiple Cluster Gender and Diversity Office presents an ICDL Lecture by Stella Nyanzi (Phd) ...more

In Celebration of Utu/ Ubuntu-inspired leadership

The Africa Multiple Cluster Gender and Diversity Office presents an ICDL Lecture by Prof. Mῖcere Gῖthae Mũgo ...more

Roundtable: DECOLONIAL FEMINISMS: A Transdisciplinary African Feminist Conversation

The Roundtable "DECOLONIAL FEMINISMS: A Transdisciplinary African Feminist Conversation" will engage with decolonial feminism from francophone and anglophone African feminist perspectives with ...more

Reconfiguring Roundtable African Studies, Reconfiguring Economics: Recentering Intersectionality and Social Stratification

The Cluster's Knowledge Lab session on Thursday 02 December 2021, 4 PM to 6 PM will feature a collaborative ICDL event organised by the Gender and Diversity Office and the Chair of Economic Geography.

Decolonizing Methodology

A renowned decolonial scholar, researcher, author, thought leader and educator, is full Professor of Postgraduate Research and Evaluation at the University of Botswana. The recipient of numerous awards,

Intersectional Interrogations of the Impact of COVID-19 on Black Asian Minority and Ethnic Groups

Professor Iyiola Solanke has established the Consortium on Practices for Wellbeing and Resilience in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME Families and Communities (Co-POWeR). As of February 2021,

Intersectional Interrogations of Reproductive Health for Women from Africa and its Diasporas

The symposium intends to critically explore the different intersectional realities of sexual and reproductive health among women from Africa and its diasporas. Reproductive health raises questions of women’s rights with regard to

Second ACC GDO Round Table

The second GDO Round Table event continues the 3-D Dialogues series, which began last November 2020. It takes up the 2nd D i.e. the question of Democracy in

Borders, Occupations, and Bridges: On the Modalities of Radical Feminist Praxis

We are in the midst of an unprecedented global health pandemic that has laid bare all kinds of social inequities, an ongoing anti-racist revolution in the streets of US cities and around the world proclaiming Black Lives Matter following the

New Norms for a New Era: Critical Diversity Literacy

A Fulbright alumnus, Melissa Steyn holds the SARChI Chair in Critical Diversity Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She has been developing Diversity Studies as a field in Higher Education

An Afternoon with ADEFRA

GDO has invited ADEFRA Berlin e.V. for this first ICDL event for the winter semester 2019-2020 at the University of Bayreuth; the event is envisioned as a kick-off workshop as a means to address the timeliness of intersectionality and critical diversity literacy approaches as

Black Women Organising: Past Imperfect, Future Tense…

The second event of the Cluster GDO’s Intersectional and Critical Diversity Literacy (ICDL) lecture and workshop series will feature the Black British educator and feminist activist Stella Dadzie, based in London. Located at the critical interface of education and social justice activism, Stella’s work proffers