Current Events

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

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.

Award Ceremony: DAAD Prize for Helena Montalvo

On December 2, 2025, Francesca was invited to present our research project in the lecture series “What can Postcolonial Studies do? at the University of Potsdam.

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.