Upcoming

„Navigating Afro-Knowledges: Exploring Practices and Theories in Digital Diaspora Studies“

International Conference
17-19 June 2026, U Bremen
With Francesca Aiuti, Ximena Cervantes Englerth, Merveilles Mouloungui, Nelson Sindze Wembe (U Bremen)

More information coming soon.

Research Perspectives on the Black European Archive: Materialities, Medialities, Aesthetics

Scoping Workshop (funded by the VolkswagenStiftung)
18-20 Febr 2026, Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hannover
With Francesca Aiuti (U Bremen), Sandra Folie (Zfl Berlin) & Gianna Zocco (ZfL Berlin)

More information coming soon.

Past conferences:

„Writing Diaspora in the 21st Century: Medial Transitions in Postdigital Times / Escribir la diásora en el siglo XXI: transiciones mediales en la era postdigital.“

International Conference
30.-31. Mai 2024, Complutense University of Madrid
With Linda Maeding (UCM)

in copperation with the WoC Lab „Digital Diaspora“, the ERC Starting Grant AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE (101110473) and the UCM Research Group „Normativity, Emotions, Discourse and Society (GINEDIS).

PROGRAM

„Personas afrodescendientes en la Península Ibérica ayer y hoy – proyecciones y posicionamientos en la literatura, el arte y los medios.„

International Conference
29.-31.03.2023, U Bremen
With Danae Gallo González (JLU Giessen)

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

Keynote Speakers: Odome Angone (U Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal) & Antumi Toasijé (U de Nueva York en Madrid & CEDRE, Spanien).

Events organized in the context of this conference:
– Performace of the play „No es país para negras“ by and with Silvia Albert Sopale at the Theater am Leibnizplatz as well as presentation of the German translation of the play, „Das ist kein Land für schwarze Frauen“ (Moderation: Danae Gallo González, JLU Gießen, and Silebo Boturu, Malabo)
– Round Table on activismo afro in Spain with Debora Ekoka and Jeffrey Abé Pans (Moderation: Nelson Sindze Webme, U Bremen)
– „La Cordobayangue“ – Performance by Agnes Essonti Luque, followed by a conversation with the artist at the Instituto Cervantes Bremen (Moderation: Julia Borst, U Bremen, und Danae Gallo Gonzalez, JLU Gießen)

„Mundos plurales: perspectivas actuales sobre las culturas, lenguas y literaturas de Guinea Ecuatorial.“

International Conference (ZOOM), 18 May 2021.
With Max Doppelbauer (U Vienna / CAU Kiel) and´ Sandra Schlumpf-Thurn­herr (U Basel).

„Diaspora and (Post-)Digitality: Imagined Communities in Cyberspace.“

Inter­natio­nal Conference (ZOOM), 28.-29.8.2020.
With Shola Adenekan (AmsterdamU ) and Linda Maeding (U Bremen/UCM)
Conference report (J. Borst / L. Maeding)

„Crossing Thresholds: Decoloniality and Gender in Caribbean Knowledge.“

International Conference of Socare for Emerging Scholars, 23-25 Jan 2013, Leibniz U Hannover.
With Rebecca Fuchs (U Mannheim) and Martina Urioste-Buschmann (LU Hannover)
Conference report (M. Urioste-Buschmann).