Current Events

Afro-Futurist Visual Ecologies in France and Italy: A Journey Between Words, Sounds, and Images

26 June 2025·1 min

Talk

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.

Descolonizar o discurso acadêmico sobre as comunidades afrodiaspóricas na Europa

13 June 2025·1 min

Talk

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

Exploring Multimodal Humour: Decolonial and Intercultural Perspectives

12 June 2025·2 mins

WOC Research Center Digital Diaspora Afroeuropean Community Guest Lecture

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.

SIRA 2: Decolonial Routes, Knowledge, Spaces and Memories

20 May 2025·2 mins

Decoloniality Knowledge Spaces Memories Senegal Dakar University Cheikh Anta Diop Decolonization Conference

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

Conversation with Tola Ositelu (The Afropean)

16 May 2025·1 min

Talk

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/).

Cecile Emeke's Strolling a Digital Space of Afroeuropean Community

22 April 2025·2 mins

Talk WOC Research Center Digital Diaspora Afroeuropean Community

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

Símbolos y discursos en la comunidad digital afrofeminista – un homeplace digital para la resistencia antirracista

26 March 2025·2 mins

Talk

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).

Schwarze deutsche Lyrik als transmediale Netz_Werke lesen. Überlegungen zu Poetiken und Politiken der (Im)Mobilität und Relationalität

21 January 2025·2 mins

Round Table Black German Poetry Transmedial Net_Works Mobility Relationality Guest Lecture

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.

Transmedial Articulations of Blackness and Afrocyberactivism in Spain

9 January 2025·1 min

MLA Convention Afrocyberactivism Transmedial Articulations Blackness in Spain Panel Workshop

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

Contradictory Realms: Patriarchal Materiality and Feminist Metaphysics in Digital Dimensions

10 December 2024·2 mins

WOC Research Center Digital Diaspora Digital Dimensions Patriarchal Materiality Feminist Metaphysics Minna Salami The New Institute

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

The Black Diaspora in Western Andalusia from a Historical-Anthropological Perspective

5 November 2024·2 mins

WOC Lecture Series Black Diaspora Andalusia Historical Anthropology Guest Lecture

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.

Afromayores

15 October 2024·2 mins

Photo Exhibition Afrodescendants Cultural Event Spain African Diaspora Genealogy Memory Artistic Initiatives Conciencia Afro Espacio Afro Madrid Bremen

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

Afrociberactivismos – Round Table with Ngoy R. Ngoma (AfroDiccionario), Odome Agone (U Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar), Julia Borst (U Bremen)

1 October 2024·1 min

Round Table Digital Activism Afroeurope African Diaspora Digital Diaspora Decolonization of Knowledge Spain Senegal Video Panel Talk

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

How and Why Do Literary Scholars Study Websites? Insights into a Research Project on Afroeuropean Activism in the Digital Space

3 July 2024·1 min

Talk ZeMKI Research Seminar Afroeuropean Activism Digital Diaspora ERC-Funded Research

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.

Writing Diaspora in the 21st Century: Medial Transitions in Postdigital Times

30 May 2024·5 mins

Conference Worlds of Contradiction Writting Diaspora

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”.