Diversifying Perspectives: Dimensions of Postcolonial Memory

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Diversifying Perspectives: Dimensions of Postcolonial Memory

Veranstalter
Faculty of Cultural Sciences (TH Köln), Theodor Michael Wonja Bibliothek and Global South Studies Center (Universität zu Köln)
Veranstaltungsort
Room 11 (ground floor), Faculty of Cultural Sciences, TH Köln, Ubierring 40, 50678 Köln
Gefördert durch
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
PLZ
506748
Ort
Köln
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
Hybrid
Vom - Bis
09.12.2024 -
Website
https://www.th-koeln.de/hochschule/diversifying-perspectives-dimensions-of-postcolonial-memory_119859.php
Von
Alexander van Wickeren, Technische Hochschule Köln

The transdisciplinary symposium examines the anchoring of cultural memory in European publics by looking at the strategies and networks of marginalized actors to overcome continuities of postcolonial inequality. The symposium proposes a transdisciplinary approach taking cultural and social scientists, activists, and artists and designers equally serious as knowledge producers while bringing them together, thus diversifying research on cultural memory by creating new synergies between different epistemic practices.

Diversifying Perspectives: Dimensions of Postcolonial Memory

Europe’s public cultural memory makes it difficult for marginalized groups to anchor memory in public space. Public spaces, such as urban spaces, are not only comparatively poor in memories that do not correspond to those of the dominant society but also often exclude the memory of these groups. The symposium examines the reasons behind it – particularly with regard to race and racism – and looks for ways to reduce or abolish power asymmetries in the placement of memory in public. The symposium’s focus is on musicians, intellectual activists, and writers. The symposium will further investigate different fields and the surrounding infrastructures, such as the music industry, activist practices in urban space and academic contexts, or the art and literature scene. Analyzing these fields and their different actors, the symposium investigates various ways to transport memory through space and time to help groups and individuals to construct (their) past.

The symposium will be held in German and English.

It is possible to participate via Zoom:

https://tinyurl.com/wu4r983x
Meeting-ID: 673 9758 4627
Code: 983400

Programm

10.00-10.30
Resis Tanzen (Performance)
Dessa Ganda

10.30-10.45
Welcome and Introduction
Glenda Obermuller, Sonja Gaedicke and Alexander van Wickeren

Panel I: Music as Memory

10.45-11.15
Afropean Experience (Musical contribution)
Nely Daja

11.15-11.45
The Revitalization of the African Sound Archive Beyond Postcolonial Nationhood
Luis Gimenes Amoros

11.45-12.15
Commercial Music Heritage? The African-American Band Mombasa in West Germany in the 1970s
Alexander van Wickeren

12.15-13.15
Lunch Break

Panel II: Intellectual Activism

13.15-13.45
Intellectual Activism an Universitäten: Eine Schwarze feministische und dekoloniale Perspektive
Rahab Njeri

13.45-14.15
Intellectual Activism meets Memory Activism
Sonja Gaedicke

14.15-14.45
how to decolonizecologne? Intellektueller Aktivismus und Geschichtsvermittlung
Linda Jalloh and Merle Bode

14.45-15.10
Coffee Break

Panel III: Memory's Literature

15.10-15.40
Case for an Origin Story: Imaging Byways from “Out of the Depths”
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

15.40-16.10
Reclaiming Narratives: Words, Images, and the Subaltern in Postcolonial Graphic Novels
Elnathan John

16.10-16.40
Decolonial Spaces and Responsibility
Glenda Obermuller

16.40-17.00
Concluding Discussion

Kontakt

Glenda Obermuller (glenda.obermuller@scdgonline.org)
Sonja Gaedicke (sonja.gaedicke@th-koeln.de)
Alexander van Wickeren (alexander.van_wickeren@th-koeln.de)

https://www.th-koeln.de/hochschule/diversifying-perspectives-dimensions-of-postcolonial-memory_119859.php
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