Nou tout se moun! Challenging the Simplistic Narratives around Haiti
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WOC Research Center Digital Diaspora lecture series, 8 July 2025, U Bremen
Current Events
Adventures in Afropea: Black Travelogues as Counter Narratives to Colonial-Ethnographic Travel Writing
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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.
The Digital as Archives of African and Afrodiasporic Knowledge
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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.
Oralidad, humor y activismo digital antirracista en el podcast "No Hay Negros en el Tibet"
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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.
Afro-Futurist Visual Ecologies in France and Italy: A Journey Between Words, Sounds, and Images
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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
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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
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
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Decolonial Summer University SIRA 2, 20-23 May 2025, Dakar, Senegal
Conversation with Tola Ositelu (The Afropean)
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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
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
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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
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
Exploring digital self-positionings of Afro-Spaniards through online media
Contradictory Realms: Patriarchal Materiality and Feminist Metaphysics in Digital Dimensions
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Exploring the intersection of patriarchal materiality and feminist metaphysics in digital spaces
The Black Diaspora in Western Andalusia from a Historical-Anthropological Perspective
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.