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Join us on Februa ry 24 at 4:00 pm for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series\, featuring Tiffany Florvil of the University of New Mexico.
Register here via Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5EtceGrrD8vE9GRRzlclPVVFVprxIpC jZOA
Title: “Spatial Politics with Berlin Black History Month Celebrations”
Abstract: From France to the United States\, Black diasporic subjects have long engendered spaces f or themselves in order to assert their agency\, signal their presence\, and promote their cultures and histories in nations that have ignored\, silenc ed\, and oppressed them. In Germany\, Black Germans and others of the Black diaspora have also practiced these acts of emplacement. Through the effort s of the Initiative of Black Germans (Initiative Schwarze Deutsche\, ISD)\, a political and cultural organization\, Black German activist-intellectual s established Black History Month (BHM). Started in 1990 and modeled after the annual observances in the United States\, the BHMs also involved other local ISD activist-intellectuals across the country\, members from another Black German organization\, Afro-German Women (Afrodeutsche Frauen\, ADEFRA )\, and other Black organizations. Organized lectures\, film screenings\, p oetry readings\, and other events had manifold functions that combined the affective\, cultural\, intellectual\, and political. Dr. Florvil argues tha t Black Germans produced a “Black sense of place” with their BHMs that enab led them to forge bonds with one another\, to engender new cultural and pol itical practices\, and to construct alternative sites for knowledge product ion and dissemination\, contributing to a Black public sphere. These annual events also shaped Black German efforts at identity making\, claim making\ , and belonging. Moreover\, Black Germans’ planning of and activism in the BHMs also persuaded them to make broader socio-political connections and to identify issues across the transnational Black diaspora that paralleled de velopments in Germany. For Black Germans\, the BHMs demonstrated how imbric ated local\, national\, and international politics remained while also advo cating for justice and implementing reform.
Bio: Dr. Tiffany Florvil is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico and is a historian of the modern and late modern period in Europe\, especially social movements\, gender and sexuality\, emotions\, and the Af rican diaspora. Her forthcoming book\, “Both Black and German: Women and th e Making of a Movement\,” is a cultural history of the interplay of emotion s\, social activism\, transnational feminism\, and the African/Black diaspo ra in Germany\, in which she explores the emergence of the Black German mov ement of the 1980s and 1990s and traces the evolution of a Black German int ellectual and activist tradition inspired by Caribbean-American feminist po et Audre Lorde.
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