Current Events

This scoping workshop, funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, explores the intersections of archival practices and the expanding field of Afroeuropean/African European Studies. It will take place from February 18 to 20, 2026, at Xplanatorium Herrenhausen in Hannover.

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

At the III Congreso Internacional de Estudios Literarios y Culturales Afrodescendientes at the University of Alcalá de Henares, Julia moderated a round table discussion with Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio and Helen Digala

At the III Congreso Internacional de Estudios Literarios y Culturales Afrodescendientes in Alcalá de Henares, Ximena gave a talk on antiracist feminist activism and digital narratives.

At the XX. Socare Congress “Women in the Caribbean Fragmentations – Crossroads – Interconnections” at the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, Julia and Merveilles gave a talk on “La participation politique de Fania Noël : entre essais et plateformes numériques”.

Emergence of Afrocyberactivism in France and Spain, focusing on the production of knowledge, self-narratives, and decolonial strategies in the digital age.

At the workshop “Multiple Mobilities and Migration” at Goethe University Frankfurt, 17-18 July 2025, Julia gave an invited talk on “Travelling between Spaces and Media: Migration, Transmediality and Postdigitality in Afro-Spanish Poetry and Video Art”

“Black faces in white? space” is a documentary by …thabo thindi that explores the complexities of Black people living in Germany. The film screening will be followed by a discussion between …thabo thindo and Virginie Kamche.

WOC Research Center Digital Diaspora lecture series, 8 July 2025, U Bremen

On July 3, 2025, doctoral candidate Jenaba Samura (ZfL Berlin) gave a guest talk on “Adventures in Afropea: Black Travelogues as Counter Narratives to Colonial-Ethnograpic Travel Writing.

Our roundtable addressed the digital space as an archive of African and Afrodescendant knowledge. It explored how the digital serves as a space where (new) knowledge is produced, stored and disseminated and asks for the potentials and the hindrances of the digital archive in the 21st century.

Ximena Cervantes Englerth gave a talk on “Oralidad, humor y activismo digital antirracista en el podcast “No nay negros en el Tibet” in a panel hosted by the Luso/Hispanophone Caucus at the 2025 Conference of the African Literature Association in Nairobi, Kenya.

Francesca Aiuti gave a talk on “Afro-Futurist Visual Ecologies in France and Italy: A Journey Between Words, Sounds, and Images” at the 2025 Conference of the African Literature Association in Nairobi, Kenya.

On June 13, 2025, Julia was invited to give a talk at the 1° Colóquio Hanseático-Internacional de Literatura e Cultura em Língua Portuguesa at the University of Hamburg