Black feminist ancestors like Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Wanda Coleman, and Toni Morrison have taught us that centering rage and anger is an important part of understanding and analyzing epistemic and hermeneutic injustice. Focusing on the role of negative affect in public spaces and the ways in which it is institutionally controlled, elucidates how the regulation of emotion is fundamental in upholding liberal humanist definitions of subjectivity. Emotional control thus functions as an important strategy to reify supposed human difference and structures of discrimination.
Following up on thoughts from her book Why Are You So Angry? Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature (Peter Lang, 2024) Anne Potjans will be in conversation with Malika Stuerznickel and Rebecca Racine Ramershoven about anger and rage, and the role of negative affect in creating and navigating Black feminist live worlds.
Hopscotch Reading Room will be present with a book table. We invite you to stick around after the event for some chatting, mingling and book browsing.
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June 27, 6-8PM
Unter den Linden 6, Room 3059.
Join us for an evening talk on:
‘Managed Mobility and the Documentary Tradition’
Against the backdrop of salt mining in Niger and at the meeting point between French colonialism and contemporary policies around ‘managed migration,’ this paper is interested in the work that documentation performs in perpetuating racial logics around right and proper movement. Building on recent work on early non-fiction film I read the work of poet and filmmaker Ladan Osman, whose travelogue Alien Citizen Field Notes and poetry collection Exiles of Eden both recover the history of anthropological depictions of nomadic communities and link that history to the contemporary policing of movement during the so-called ‘migrant crisis.’ The paper concludes on a reading of a scene in Idrissou Mora-Kpai’s documentary Arlit, deuxième Paris (2005), where the Nigerien town that was once the centre of the French uranium boom has been transformed into a last stop for persons who have been intercepted on their way to Europe.
Christine Okoth is Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic in the Department of English at King’s College London. Prior to coming to King’s, Christine was Research Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick where she worked on Mike Niblett and Chris Campbell’s Leverhulme-funded project ‘World Literature and Commodity Frontiers.’ She is currently writing a book entitled Race and the Raw Material and her work has been published in Feminist Theory, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Modern Fiction Studies, Cambridge Quarterly, and Textual Practice.
Guest lecture by Anne Potjans at IZfG, Universität Greifswald. Read more here.
Speculative Biographies, Sophiensaele, 5pm
On June 7, the Agora Hysteria will be dedicated to transnational adoption. Under the title Speculative Biographies, the power relationship between the global South and North will be highlighted. Amongst others, kimura byol lemoine, Canadian artist and activist, will show video works and objects; researcher and author Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen will provide insights into their own research. The day will also feature visual artist Rae (Mee-Jin) Tilly. In the evening, Olivia Hyunsin Kim invites you to her legendary dance karaoke Everybody Danceoke.
Writing the Archive #2: BIPoC und jüdische Koalitionen in den 1990er Jahren
Gemeinsam lesen wir über lesbisch-feministische Koalitionen zwischen “Immigrantinnen, Schwarzen deutschen, jüdischen und im Exil lebende Frauen,” die in den 1990er Jahren in Deutschland stattgefunden haben. Ausgangspunkt sind zwei Kongresse in Bremen und Köln, die als Reaktion auf die Zunahme rassistisch motivierter Gewalt, aber auch vor dem Hintergrund gemeinsamer Ausgrenzungserfahrungen in der weißen Frauenbewegung organisiert wurden. Unter Anleitung von Wassan Ali und Farzada Farkhooi.
Culture jamming against the war, traumatic amnesia and notes on despair: attendees read passages from the Anti-War Zine by Bianca Ortiz and others on the U.S. invasion on Iraq in 2003. We end the session by reflecting in writing on queer love and human rights in times of warfare. Facilitated by Wassan Ali and Farzada Farkhooi.
Salongespräch: Archivieren aus feministischer Sicht mit Dr. Celine Barry (EOTO e.V.), Dr. Layla Zami (FU, Intervenierende Künste), Wassan Ali ( Spinnboden e.V ), Eva Kietzmann (Cinemathek, ZLB), Oxana Chi.
Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen will give a talk about „Anachrony and Migrant Memory“.
More information can be found here.
Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen will give a talk about „An Archive of Empty Spaces“.
More information can be found here.
Episode 8 (dts. & engl.):Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives
mit Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Fenja Akinde-Hummel, Thao Ho und Yumin Li. Listen here.
