Current Events

Alfonso Bartolomé (Virginia State University) and Margherita Dore (Sapienza University) explore how black humour functions as a powerful tool for resistance, pedagogy, and decolonial critique in contemporary Europe.

Decolonial Summer University SIRA 2, 20-23 May 2025, Dakar, Senegal

As part of a Master’s seminar on “African diaspora studies and Afroeuropean literatures” at the University of Bremen, we had the opportunity to speak with Tola Ositelu, editor of the online magazine “The Afropean” (https://afropean.com/).

Polo Moji (HU Berlin / University of Cape Town), WOC Research Center lecture series #2 on Cecile Emeke’s work in creating a digital space for Afroeuropean community

In this talk, Ximena analyzed various digital formats created and/or coordinated by members of the Afrofeminist community in Spain and Latin America (e. g., Afroféminas, Afrocolectiva, Afrochingonas).

On January 21, 2024, Claudia Sackl gave the first guest lecture of the WOC Research Center lecture series at U Bremen. In her talk she explored Black German poetry as transmedial net_works.

Exploring digital self-positionings of Afro-Spaniards through online media

Exploring the intersection of patriarchal materiality and feminist metaphysics in digital spaces

The doctoral fellow of the ERC project, Andrea Rueda Herrera (U Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla) presented her current research on Afrodescendant communities in Gibraleón, Spain, in the context of the WOC Agora series at U Bremen.

Photo Exhibition, 15 October – 15 December 2024, U Bremen

Jornadas Afroeurop@s, 2 October 2024, U León (Spain)

In July 2024, Julia presented the ERC project AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE as an invited speaker in the context of the Research Seminar of the ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research) of U Bremen.

This conference was organized by Julia Borst and Linda Maeding (UCM) in the context of the WoC research lab “Digital Diaspora” of U Bremen in collaboration with the ERC Starting Grant project AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE and the UCM Research Group “Normativity, Emotions, Discourse and Society”.

This talk by Odome Angone (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar) and María Ignacia Schulz (International University of La Rioja), both specialists in literature and activismo afro in the Spanish-speaking world, revolved around the issue of the growing visibility of African and Afrodescendant writers, artists and activists from Spain on the internet.