Guest lectures
Upcoming guest lectures to be announced
The Invisible Histories of Woman-led Slave Revolutions
A lecture by Braedon Steven from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (Durban, South Africa).
SFG 2070
Thursday, the 19th of December, 10:15-11:45
Entanglement of Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A South African Indian Case Study
Lecture by Braedon Steven from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (Durban, South Africa).
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
10:15 - 11:45, GW1 A0010
The Black Diaspora in Western Andalusia from a Historical-Anthropological Perspective
By Andrea Rueda Herrera (Sevilla)
5.11.2024, SFG 1.020
Presentation in the public lecture series of Worlds of Contradiction (WOC).
Until the middle of the 20th century, there were small groups of people known as “negra” (black) or “morena” (brown) in several towns in Huelva (Andalusia, Spain). Both socially and academically, their existence has been linked to the trade of enslaved black Africans in the Early Modern period, which relates these populations to the Black Diaspora in the Iberian Peninsula. My doctoral research has been conducted in one of these towns, Gibraleón, where many of these “morenas” and “negras” families live today. Through archival and ethnographic work, I have been able to create a genealogy as well as delve into the social, economic and cultural dynamics of the town to understand the structures and strategies that help us to understand the existence and persistence of this very specific social phenomenon in Spain.
Andrea Rueda Herrera holds a bachelor in Humanities and Translation Studies, a Master in Religion Studies and a Master in Anthropology. She is currently working on her Doctoral dissertation, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Universities. In her research, Andrea focuses on the identity and sociability of the Black Diaspora in Southwestern Spain, combining historiographic and anthropological methodologies. In this regard, she is a member of the Research Project The Making of Blackness in Early Modern Spain: A Process of Cultural and Social Negotiation from the Bottom-Up, directed by Dr. Diana Berruezo-Sánchez.
The Legacy of Scientist Otto Tetens: German Samoa’s most important documentarian photographer
Lecture by Anthony Brunt (Samoa/New Zealand), Writer-in-Residence at the INPUTS (University of Bremen), in English
Points of View: The Legacy of Scientist Otto Tetens
May 15, 2024, Hafenmuseum Bremen
There were three commercial photographers operating in Samoa during the German colonial period and also a number of amateur photographers among the settler community. Arguably, none can match the body of work of Otto Tetens, the astronomer who came to Apia in 1902 and spent several years setting up the Samoa geophysical observatory at Mulinu'u. His collection, most of it unrelated to his scientific endeavours, reflects a bold, even adventurous intrusion into Samoan and settler life to get the shots he wanted, clearly driven by a wide-eyed curiosity and fascination with his exotic new home in the South Seas. Photo historian Tony Brunt examines Tetens' large collection - much of it still unseen and held privately in Germany - and mines it for its enduring historical and cultural insights.
In the context of the exhibition Pointsof View: Artistic and Scientific Perspectives on German Colonial History in the Western pacific (April 14 - August 18, 2024)
Tickets: 8 € / 6 €
HAFENMUSEUM BREMEN
Am Speicher XI 1 // 28217 Bremen
Guest Lecture by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel & Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré
„Guineoecuatorianas a principios del siglo XX en España“ 8.12. 2022
Instituto Cervantes Bremen
Organisation & Moderation: Dr. Julia Borst & Dr. Danae Gallo González (JLU Gießen)
A conversation about the newest publications of the Equatoguinean author and the Catalan anthropologist.
Guest lecture of the Equatoguinean writer Melibea Obono
Género y resiliencia – conversación con la escritora y artivista guineoecuatoriana Trifonia Melibea Obono“, 4. Juli 2022
Organisation: Dr. Julia Borst
Moderation: Dr. Julia Borst, Dr. Rebecca Kaewert & Dr. Danae Gallo González (JLU Gießen)
A conversation about violence against women and female resistance in Equatorial Guinea and Equatoguinean literature.
”The Representation of Boarding Schools in Older Than America / La représentation des pensionnats autochtones dans Older Than America”
Lecture by André Dudemaine
André Dudemaine is the Director of the Montreal International First Peoples Festival, Kanada
Thursday, 19 May 2022, 10.15-11.45 hours, MZH 1460
Presentation hosted by IBECQ and INPUTS.
“(Dis)connected Evolution: Toward a History of the ‘Longer African Novel Tradition’”
INPUTS Lecture I
Held by Prof. Senayon Olaoluwa, PhD (University of Ibadan, Nigeria; University of Bremen)
“Language, Mobility and Digital Diasporic Spaces”
INPUTS Lecture II
Prof. Adeiza Lasisi Isiaka, PhD (Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Nigeria; Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst)
Date: Thursday, 2 Dec. 2021
Time: 12:00 – 14:00
“When Black Consciousness and Critical Race Theory Meets Critical Whiteness”
INPUTS Lecture
Prof. Rozena Maart, Ph.D (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban, South Africa)
Date: Tuesday, 23 Nov. 2021
Time: 12.15 – 13.45
"Guineoecuatorianos en Madrid"
Gastvortrag von Prof. Dr. Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr (Basel)
Am 12.1.2021 um 14h (s.t.) hält Sandra Schlumpf-Turnherr (Basel) im Rahmen des Seminars "Guinea Ecuatorial: perspectivas lingüísticas y literarias" von Carolin Patzelt und Julia Borst (FB 10) einen Gastvortrag zum Thema "Guineoecuatorianos en Madrid". In der hispanistischen Varietäten- und Soziolinguistik spielen die in Äquatorialguinea gesprochenen Varietäten des Spanischen bislang nur eine sehr marginale Rolle. Ebenso stellen in Spanien lebende MigrantInnen aus Äquatorialguinea eine im Vergleich zu anderen hispanophonen Gruppen von der Forschung wenig berücksichtigte Bevölkerungsgruppe dar. Eine der ersten umfassenderen Arbeiten hierzu stammt von Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr, die in ihrem Vortrag die (sozio)linguistische Situation von MigrantInnen aus Äquatorialguinea in Madrid sowie den dortigen Kontakt verschiedener Varietäten des Spanischen und seine Auswirkungen auf sprachliche Identitätskonstruktionen beleuchtet. Die Veranstaltung findet online als Videokonferenz per Zoom statt. Interessierte können sich bei Carolin Patzelt per Mail (cpatzeltprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de) für den Vortrag anmelden.
Prof. Dr. Rozena, winter semester 17/18
of the University of Kwa Zulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
Mobile Lecture: Critical Race Theory - Intersectionality - Black Consciousness
Wednesday, 10 January 2018, Room GW 2 B3009
“From Wounded Knee 1973 to Standing Rock 2016”
Lecture by Karen White Butterfly, in 2018
from the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
Karen White Butterfly was part of the occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973. She was one of the very few community members present, and was part of a group that
declared the Independent Oglala Lakota Nation. From her unique perspective as female community member and descendant of a survivor of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, she will explain the underlying factors of the 1973 occupation and link them to the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in 2016, which she was part of.
Karen White Butterfly was interviewed for documentary portrait films that are screened in the newly curated permanent exhibition America in the Übersee-Museum Bremen. She is doing public lectures and workshops which are organized in cooperation with the Übersee-Museum, WoC and INPUTS.
The lecture is part of the of University seminar Indigenous Documentary Films (Prof. Kerstin Knopf).
“ABORIGINAL TITLE AND LAND-RIGHTS FACING INDUSTRIAL EXPLOITATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES: THE CASE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA/CANADA”
INPUTS FORUM: CHANGING ECOLOGIES
By Evelyn Camille
Elder, Secwepemc Nation, BC, Canada
Thursday 6 April 2017, 14.15-15.45 hours