Artist talk between Grada Kilomba, Aaliyah Lauterkranz and Lidia Ghirmai. The talk is open to everyone interested without prior registration and free of charge.
“What stories are told? How are they told? Where are they told? And told by whom?”
In an informal lunch setting, we aim to open a space for Grada Kilomba to talk about her experiences and insights into knowledge production within and without academia and the praxis of performing knowledge.
As speaker of the GRADE Center Gender, Prof. Sarah Speck cordially invites you to a welcome meeting for new members and a networking meeting for all GRADE Gender members.
In this first part, titled Heroines, Birds and Monsters, Kilomba explores the concepts of post-coloniality, violence and erasure, memory and forgetting, ritual and knowledge production as well as the concepts of amnesia and repetition.
The reading sessions are held in preparation for the seminar "The Art of Performing Knowledge" by this year's Angela Davis guest professor Grada Kilomba.
Gender and school education using the example of a textbook page
The dominant understanding of knowledge and education is that they are something good and desirable. Post- and decolonial perspectives show that education is not good per se. It is a product of powerful production processes that are part of a continuity of coloniality.
The reading sessions are held in preparation for the seminar "The Art of Performing Knowledge" by this year's Angela Davis guest professor Grada Kilomba.
Wie lassen sich klassische (philosophische) Theorien feministisch (um)nutzen?
Die Texte vieler Philosophen, von Aristoteles über Hegel bis zu Heidegger und der zeitgenössischen Philosophie, sind geprägt von androzentrischen und sexistischen Implikationen. Das ‚Männliche‘ wird zum Ideal- oder Normalzustand erhoben, die ‚Frau‘ befindet sich in diesen Texten immer zwischen Inklusion und Exklusion.
The TALKING OBJECTS LAB is a research project dedicated to the decolonization of memory and knowledge. Since 2021, it has been unfolding in workshops, think tanks, symposia, artistic interventions and exhibitions in Germany, Senegal, Kenya, Nigeria and on the internet.
Colonialism, the theft of identities, reparation and cultural restitution
The lecture addresses the urgent question of reshaping the present in the context of German colonial history. Mirrianne Mahn, of German-Cameroonian origin, has a split role - as a German woman who emphasizes the responsibility to come to terms with the colonial past, and as a descendant of victims of colonialism in Cameroon.
Perspektiven auf Geschlecht in der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
Die Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie beschäftigt sich mit gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Phänomenen, die das Zusammenleben in verschiedenen Gesellschaften prägen. Dabei interessieren sich Sozial- und Kulturanthropolog*innen auch dafür, wie Geschlechterordnungen entstehen und wie diese wiederum auf menschliche Handlungsweisen wirken.
In der Biologie ist schon länger klar, dass es nicht nur zwei Ausprägungsformen des Genitaltrakts gibt, sondern dass sich Genitalien individuell unterschiedlich entwickeln.
Insights into research on Fasia Jansen and Contemporary And (C&)
What does it mean to work with an archive about Fasia Jansen, a Black German Holocaust survivor, singer and activist? What are the consequences of the fact that this archive was created mainly from white feminist perspectives?
Whether in German rap or in code noir: bastard children are everywhere. They occupy us with questions of origin, contamination and desire. Because every bastard child has a mother who gave birth to it. With the fathers, the situation is sometimes less clear.
Welche (Körper-)Bilder ‚des Jüdischen‘ werden in Kunst und Medien (re-)produziert und verhandelt? Als Orte der kulturellen Bedeutungsproduktion haben künstlerisch-mediale Repräsentationen und die Bilder, die sie hervorringen, einen entscheidenden Anteil an Vorstellungen von Judentum und ‚Jüdischsein‘.
