Thao Ho will present a paper on her dissertation research at the annual German Studies Association in Atlanta (GA). More information TBA.
https://www.thegsa.org/conference/current-conference
Workshop hosted by Goethe-Institute Hanoi and A Queer Museum on archives in collaboration with TODO (Thao Ho), and Schwules Museum Berlin. More information TBA.
Thao Ho will participate and give a workshop at Nổ Cái Bùm Festival (Đà Nẵng-Hội An) with cultural practitioner Bich Ngoc Luu. Festival publication and more information tba.
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AN(8)X Festival 15-17.08.2024: shards, shards, whisper and flare. Roundtable with AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research), DECOLONIZE, and DAMN* on research, artistic, and (political) organising practices. More information tba.
Screening & round table: “Tatort – Am Tag der wandernden Seelen” on affect, memory, city politics, representation in film with Lichtenberg district mayor Martin Schaefer (CDU), city councilman Kevin Hönicke (SPD), and Thao Ho (Tales of Diasporic Ordinary, HU Berlin), organised and moderated by Max Müller (Affective Societies, FU Berlin). 08.05.2024, UCI Marzahn
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.
