We are delighted to invite you to the “Gender Studies in Europe Forum” online event, co-organized by Prof. Karolina Krasuska (University of Warsaw) and Prof. Andrea Petö (Central European University) as part of the “Gender Studies Now!” webinar series, presented by the European Journal of Women’s Studies in collaboration with the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies.
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Die Ringvorlesung „Zeitdimensionen imperialer Gewalt“ untersucht verschiedene Formen imperialer Gewalt – von unmittelbarer bis zu schleichender – und deren langfristige Wirkungen. Sie verbindet historische, literarische und aktuelle Perspektiven der Imperienforschung. Die Veranstaltung findet 14-tägig, meist auf Englisch, in wechselnden Hörsälen und Zeiten statt.
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Anne Potjans contributed to the farewell symposium for her PhD-supervisor with a paper “‘There Is a Sense of Being in Anger’- Toni Morrison, Black Feminism, and the Uses of Anger.”
Wir freuen uns auf eine Lesung mit Ann Cotten (9. Oktober) und auf Vorträge von: Timothy Attanucci, Rebecca Comay, Diedrich Diederichsen, Liliana Ruth Feierstein, Nadine Hartmann, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Hauke Lehmann, Juliane Prade-Weiß, Juliane Rebentisch, Anne Röhl, Antje Schmidt und Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf.
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GeschlechterDemokratie im Fokus
Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und Antidiskriminierung stehen an Hochschulen zunehmend unter Druck. Die bukof-Jahrestagung „GeschlechterDemokratie“ diskutiert, wie Hochschulen Räume für Vielfalt und Gleichstellung sichern können – mit klaren Haltungen und neuen Allianzen. Bei der Roundtable-Diskussion wirkt Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani mit.
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In this workshop organized in the context of the DFG project “Common Grounds: Social Justice and Cultural Practice in Shared Places,” the conveners Dr. Nathalie Aghoro (LMU) and Prof. Dr. Tsitsi Jaji (Duke University) asked questions regarding Black feminist intellectual and communal practice in times when being in the same place together is not always and no longer and option. Anne Potjans contributed to this workshop with a position paper titled “Tales of being in Communion,” touching on Audre Lorde’s presence in Germany and her impact on the modern Black German movement. She asked questions such as how can we contextualize this presence within our current political moment, and what is the function of those stories and memories for how to continue from here.
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.”
In a paper titled “Cruising by Night, Cruising by Day: Queer Black knowledge production in Guy St. Louis’s Poetry,” Anne Potjans spoke about “cruising” as a queer of color reading and research practice. The stream “Cruising as Critical Methodology: Practices and Imaginaries from the Shadows,” organized by Emmanuel Guillaud and Ezequiel González Camaño, participants responded to a call that places cruising as a method and structure in the larger context of queer academic and artistic practice. See here for more information on the conference.
