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.
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.
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.
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.