Thao Ho will present her paper “Entangled Remembrance: Gramsci’s Southern Question in (Diasporic) Southeast Asian Queer and Postcolonial Art: From Maithu Bui’s Mathuật – MMRBX to Young Birds from Strange Mountains” as part of the panel “Asian as Method for Cultural Production” (organised & with Selma Bidlingmaier, HU Berlin, and Chanika Svetvilas, VisitingScholarAsian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU) at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2025 – Geo-Social Connection: The Continuing Journey of Critical Inquiry in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand.
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On Wednesday 23rd July, at 15:00-16:30 Elahe Haschemi Yekani will take part in a roundtable discussion as part of the ‘Queer Survival, Organizing, and Worldmaking’ Summer School of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group.
The event will take place at HU Berlin, Georgenstr. 46, Atrium. For more information click here.
On Thursday, July 17th at 6:30 author Dr. Anne Potjans will be in conversation with Wassan Ali at the Pop-up Saal at Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek (Blücherplatz 1, 10961 Berlin). This event is a cooperation between the Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv Berlin and the Zentral-und Landesbibliothek as part of Pride Weeks.
“In May 2024, Dr. Anne Potjans published her dissertation, Why Are You So Angry? Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature with Peter Lang publishing. Since then, the world has seen many disconcerting developments which have brought anger and rage felt by communities of color center stage. Most of the writing was informed by discourses around the heightened publicity of anti-Black state sanctioned violence in the summer of 2020.
After reading from the 4th chapter, “Tensed from Being Gentle, or Why You Always Fit the Description,” which mainly consists of a reading of Claudia Rankine’s lyrical essay Citizen (2014), Dr. Anne Potjans would like to explore in conversation with Wassan Ali, how the framework of Black feminist anger can be useful in this time of political upheaval, fear, and anxiety for the future. Part of their conversation will focus on the relationship between queerness and the specific gender norms around Black women, and how this feeds into the question of anger.”
