Category: Berlin

Radical Cross-Currents in Black Berlin

Social Text Collective


Tavia Nyong’o (New York University) and Eva Boesenberg (Humboldt Universität) will present a one-day symposium on the radical black presence in arts, music and literature in Berlin since the 1980.

Keynote Speaker:

Alex Weheliye (Northwestern University)

“White Brothers With No Soul?” The Racial Politics of Techno in Berlin

The event will also feature a free screening of the new documentary “Audre Lorde’s Legacy in Berlin.”

The event will be held Friday, July 27th, 2012, at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 24, Raum 1.501. It is free and open to the public.

Please visit http://radicalblackberlin.wordpress.com for more information.

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Performing the Future

Social Text Collective

Social Text collective member José Muñoz will be among the presenters at this state of the field conference on performance, to be held July 8th – 10th, 2010, at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. Click here for the full conference program.

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Desiring Just Economies / Just Economies of Desire

Social Text Collective

Social Text collective member Lisa Duggan is among the speakers at this conference to be held 24-26 June, 2010 at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. Desiring Just Economies / Just Economies of Desire, according to it’s organizers, will “explore how desire not only sustains current economies, but also carries the potential for inciting new forms of understanding and doing economy.” Read the full conference statement and get more details here.

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