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ICDL Round Table on Queer African CitizenshipHide
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The Africa Multiple Cluster Gender and Diversity Office
presents
an ICDL Round Table
Queer African Citizenship: Working through Unbelonging and Unhoming
Thursday, 1 February 2024
2 – 4 PM, CET
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ICDL Round table on African MasculinitiesHide
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The Africa Multiple Cluster Gender and Diversity Office
presents
an ICDL Round Table
African Masculinities
Thursday, 21 December 2023
2 – 4 PM, CET
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The Afrokology of Media and Communication StudiesHide
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The Gender & Diversity Office (GDO) of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence invites you to participate in an upcoming Workshop on
“The Afrokology of Media and Communication Studies”
facilitated by renowned African media studies scholar Dr. Winston Mano. Please register for the workshop with the GDO at africamultiple-gdo@uni-bayreuth.de by 15 November 2022.
Time/Dates:
10:00 – 17:00
Monday, 21 Nov 2022
Tuesday, 22 Nov 2022
Thursday, 24 Nov 2022
Venue:
International Meeting Centre (IBZ)
Alexander von Humboldt-Haus
Guest House of the University of Bayreuth
Eichendorffring 5
95447 Bayreuth
The Workshop is especially tailored to the needs of junior scholars at the M.A and Ph.D. level, however, you are all welcome to join in this hybrid format. Zoom details will be provided on registration.
Don’t miss out on the One-to-one Mentoring Sessions with Dr. Mano on Friday, 25 November 2022. Dr. Mano can provide guidance on topics such as using Afrokology and other decolonial frameworks to support the theoretical/methodological approaches of graduate students, journal and book publication, effective academic communication strategies, and other concerns.
For more information please see enclosed flyer and programme. Please share in your networks and encourage emerging scholars to join in the conversations.
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ICDL Keynote Event: Film Launch | MAKING LIFE SING IN PURSUIT OF UTUHide
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The GDO presents the ICDL Keynote Event:
Film Launch:
MAKING LIFE SING IN PURSUIT OF UTU:
The Micere Githae Mugo Story
A documentary film by Prof. Ndirangu Wachanga,
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Madison
Venue: S58, RW I, University of Bayreuth Campus, Germany | Zoom (Please click here for the link)
Date: Thursday, 11 May 2023
Time: 2- 4:30 pm
**This event is the companion to Prof. Micere Mugo’s ICDL Lecture last year on 9th June 2022 in the Cluster’s Knowledge Lab.
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ICDL lecture by Dr. Stella NyanziHide
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The Africa Multiple Cluster Gender and Diversity Office presents an ICDL Lecture by
Stella Nyanzi (Phd)
Writer-in-Exile, PEN Zentrum Deutschland
- When: Thursday, 21 July 2022 14:00 - 16:00
- Where: Cluster Knowledge Lab Room S 135, NW III, University of Bayreuth Campus, Germany and Online
To access this event via Zoom, please click here.
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ICDL Book Launch of African Women in Digital SpacesHide
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The Africa Multiple Cluster Gender and Diversity Office Presents the ICDL Book Launch of
African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora. (2022)
The book launch and round table discussion will provide thought impulses towards continuing the conversations around decolonizing African Media Studies, begun at the Cluster’s Medialities Conference in July 2022. At the same time, this conversation charts intersections and overlaps between geophysical, geopolitical and digital spatialities, ICDL concepts, citizenship and belonging between the continent and the diasporas. Among relevant foci are digital literacy and power relations, potentials of decolonisation of knowledge and knowledge production practices in digital spaces, and more conscious critical engagements with African women’s scholarship in digital humanities.
Venue: RW I, Room S58 University of Bayreuth Campus, Germany | Zoom (Meeting ID: 683 9613 0569, Passcode: 897688)
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ICDL Lecture: Intersectional Complexities, Diversity Optics and Axes of SpaceHide
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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
Thursday 1st June 2023; 4 – 6 PM
Zoom (Meeting ID: 683 9613 0569, Passcode: 897688) || Room S 58, RW I, Uni-Bayreuth
Layers of space help us to understand the multiple axes of privilege and power involved in boundary making. This lecture will offer an outline of space invaders, with a view to complicating analysis of intersectionality and marginalities. Diversity as presence and optics continues to generate hard line borders and barriers. Naïve and pure notions of racialized or gendered bodies, don’t enable us to appreciate the complex web of outsiders on the inside. Moving through different conceptions of space and place, this presentation will delve into the processes of both space invaders and space invading. A wide range of examples will be shared, from the worlds of politics, museums and artistic interventions.
Chaired by Dr. Christine Vogt-William
Director of the Gender and Diversity Office
Africa Multiple Cluster of
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Round Table Event: Framing the Other and An Uneasy EmbraceHide
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Framing the Other and An Uneasy Embrace.
A Cluster Conversation with Farish Noor and Shobana Shankar
22 June 2023, 2 pm - 4 pm,
Zoom (Meeting ID: 668 1584 8399; Passcode: 897688) || Room S 58, RW I, Uni-Bayreuth
This round table brings two books into conversation with each other: Farish Noor’s Framing the Other (2019) and Shobana Shankar’s An Uneasy Embrace (2021). Please find attached a detailed description of the event and the preparatory readings.
Organization & Moderation:
Britta Frede (University of Bayreuth)
Christine Vogt-William (University of Bayreuth)
Roundtable Participants:
Shobana Shankar (Stony Brook University, USA)
Farish Noor (University Malaya, Malaysia)
Rüdiger Seesemann, (University of Bayreuth)
Jochen Linglbach, (University of Bayreuth)
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ICDL lecture by Prof. Mῖcere Gῖthae MũgoHide
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The Africa Multiple Cluster Gender and Diversity Office presents and ICDL Lecture by
Prof. Mῖcere Gῖthae Mũgo
Emerita Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence Department of African American Studies (Syracuse University, New York)
When: Thursday, 9 June 2022 14:00 - 16:00
Where: Cluster Knowledge Lab S58, RW I, University of Bayreuth Campus, Germany and Online
To access this event via Zoom, please click here.
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Acknowledgement for the contributions to the round table "Decolonial Feminisms"Hide
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Thank you for your contribution / Wir danken Ihnen für Ihre Teilnahme / Merci encore pour votre participation!
Decolonial Feminisms: A Transdisciplinary African Feminist Conversation on Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10 AM to 12 noon
We would like to extend our thanks to everyone for being a part of the community of learning and exchange with the feminist pioneers, Dr. Fatou Sow, Prof. Ousseina Alidou, Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Prof. Françoise Vergès.
Our special thanks go to the BIGSAS Management and administrative team, as well as to everybody over at WR Events GmbH for the smooth cooperation on making this event happen.
If you could not attend via livestreaming on that day, please click the link below to watch or download the recording of the Roundtable. Do share it widely in your communities.
English: https://vimeo.com/708726032/f8a195519d
French: https://vimeo.com/708726513/b7ea12e721
We look forward to seeing you at our next event.
Gender and Diversity Office
Africa Multiple Cluster
Vielen Dank, dass Sie an der Veranstaltung Roundtable on Decolonial Feminisms am 18. Mai 2022 teilgenommen haben. Wir hoffen, dass Ihnen die Diskussion mit den vier Pionierinnen Dr. Fatou Sow, Prof. Osseina Alidou, Prof. Akosua Ampofo und Françoise Vergès gefallen hat.
Wenn Sie den Livestream verpasst haben oder nicht dabei sein konnten, klicken Sie bitte auf den untenstehenden Link, um das aufgezeichnete Video des Podiumsgesprächs zu sehen.
English: https://vimeo.com/708726032/f8a195519d
French: https://vimeo.com/708726513/b7ea12e721
Wir freuen uns darauf, Sie bei unserer nächsten Veranstaltung wiederzusehen.
Merci d'avoir participé à notre Roundtable on Decolonial Feminisms le 18 mai 2022. Nous espérons que vous avez apprécié la discussion avec les quatre pionnières, Dr. Fatou Sow, Prof. Osseina Alidou, Prof. Akosua Ampofo et Prof. Françoise Vergès.
Si vous avez manqué ou n'avez pas pu assister au livestreaming, veuillez cliquer sur le lien ci-dessous pour voir la vidéo enregistrée de la table ronde.
English: https://vimeo.com/708726032/f8a195519d
French: https://vimeo.com/708726513/b7ea12e721
Nous nous réjouissons de vous voir à notre prochain événement.
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Roundtable: DECOLONIAL FEMINISMS: A Transdisciplinary African Feminist ConversationHide
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The Roundtable "DECOLONIAL FEMINISMS: A Transdisciplinary African Feminist Conversation" will engage with decolonial feminism from francophone and anglophone African feminist perspectives with a view to generating valuable insights in intersectional and decolonial epistemic frames pertinent to the Cluster’s agenda of reconfiguring African Studies. This intergenerational, transdisciplinary conversation has been envisioned as a sharing of thought impulses from the speakers‘ diverse situated standpoints which encompass both continental and diasporic contexts.
When: May 18, 2022, 10:00 -12:00
Roundtable participants:
- Dr. Fatou Sow (sociologist and education scientist; Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal and Centre National de Recherches Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France)
- Prof. Ousseina Alidou (African Literatures and Languages; Rutgers University, USA)
- Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo (sociologist, African and Gender Studies scholar; University of Legon, Accra, Ghana)
- Prof. Francoise Verges (political scientist and historian; Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, France)
Chair:
- Dr. Christine Vogt-William, Director GDO, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth
The roundtable is designed as a pre-event for the award ceremony of the honorary doctorate for Dr. Fatou Sow later the same evening. It will be streamed online and may be attended via Zoom.