New Year Lecture 2025: Intersectionality as a Living Practice: Beyond Labels and Boundaries
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Each year, the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence starts its line of annual activities and events with the New Year Lecture open to the interested public, featuring prominent speakers who address questions and concepts central to the Cluster’s agenda. The sixth annual New Year lecture took place on 23 January 2025 on the campus of the University of Bayreuth.
It was held by Mirrianne Mahn, political activist, author, theatre person, city councilor in Frankfurt am Main and freelance consultant for diversity development and was entitled: Intersectionality as a Living Practice: Beyond Labels and Boundaries
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- Mahn, Mirrianne
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- New Year Lecture 2025: Intersectionality as a Living Practice: Beyond Labels and Boundaries
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- English
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- New Year Lecture
- Date
- February 17, 2025
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- he hello everyone good evening dear colleagues dear friends distinguished guests dear mirian man in my capacity as the dean of the Africa multiple cluster of Excellence I have the great privilege and pleasure to welcome you to the New Year lecture 2025 today's lecture is already the sixth edition of this annual event it was instituted in 2020 to Mark the beginning of the Clusters academic activities in each calendar year the New Year lecture brings together cluster members and writer publics to engage with questions and Concepts that are Central to the cluster's agenda our speakers so far were all recruited from within the cluster I delivered the first New Year lecture in January 2020 under the title you see it here on the screen figuring out how to reconfigure African studies for the 2021 Edition uh we had to move online due to the covid-19 pandemic and Professor UT fendler Deputy spokesperson of the cluster delivered um the uh lecture about poly rythmic gestures relational perspectives on from verbal Audio Visual and performative arts across the African continent in 2022 uh the event was once again held virtually and Professor Peter simate director of the African cluster Center at Mo University in Kenya um gave a lecture titled ways of knowing Africa African literature and shifting imaginaries and I'm sure many of you remember the first postco uh New Year lecture of 23 when Professor Sabo Jane linii the cluster Vice of research at the time presented his 10 challenges in reconfiguring African studies yet another highlight came in 20124 when we invited the chair of The clust Advisory Board Professor akosua adaku Ando from the University of Ghana to give the New Year lecture complimented by your response from another member of our advisory report Professor Grace musila from the University of the wit Waters run in Johannesburg the title of Professor adomako ovo's uh lecture was crazy things can we be true to an African agenda and survive in today's Academy and in… Read the full text about 12,600 words
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