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 What Is the Black German Experience?
August 11,
10:00AM
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9:00PM
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Dr. Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria
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The conference will feature a keynote address by Dr. Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria, historian and curator at the German Historical Museum in Berlin and author of Between Solicitude and Exclusion: Afro-German "Occupation Babies" in Postwar Germany. The conference committee includes Tina Campt, Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College, and author of Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich.
The conference will highlight the everyday experiences of Black Germans on two panels, "Witnessing Our Histories—Reclaiming the Black German Experience" and "Telling Our Stories—Black German Life Writing." Scholarly panels will focus on "Teaching the Black German Experience," "Historical and Popular Cultures of Blacks in Germany," and "Visualizing German Blackness."
The conference will also feature screenings of two films focusing on the lives of two central figures in the Black German movement. The recently released Audre Lorde—The Berlin Years 1984-1992 tells the story of the African American feminist poet whose creative writing course at Freie Universität Berlin in 1984 was the catalyst that launched the Black German movement. Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story recounts the life of the late Black German poet and activist.
Price: $Free; registration required
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