DECOLONIAL FEMINISMS: A Transdisciplinary African Feminist Conversation
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This Afro-Feminist Round Table will engage with decolonial feminism from francophone and anglophone African perspectives with a view to generating valuable insights in intersectional and decolonial epistemic frames pertinent to the Cluster’s agenda of reconfiguring African Studies. This intergenerational, transdisciplinary conversation has been is a sharing of thoughts and teachings from the speakers‘ diverse situated standpoints.
Decolonial feminisms are epistemic frames to name and address all modes of systemic oppression. The conceptual tools implemented mobilize the knowledges produced by racialised women in the Global South throughout history, whereby transformative justice informs decolonial feminist visions.
Knowledge production by racialised women has for the most part been about articulating life worlds and situated knowledges which have otherwise been consigned to the margins, dehumanised and/or erased. These knowledges form the bases of knowledge currently produced by Global South women scholars and activists working for much-needed transformative justice and life-affirming visions of futures.
Moreover, decolonial feminism generate modes of care and hope as viable frams for envisioning African Futures for both established and early career scholars.
Roundtable participants:
Dr. Fatou Sow (sociologist and education scientist; Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal and Centre National de Recherches Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France)
Prof. Ousseina Alidou (African Literatures and Languages; Rutgers University, USA)
Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo (sociologist, African and Gender Studies scholar; University of Legon, Accra, Ghana)
Prof. Francoise Verges (political scientist and historian; Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, France)
Chair:
Dr. Christine Vogt-William, Director GDO, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth
The roundtable is designed as a pre-event for the award ceremony of the honorary doctorate for Dr. Fatou Sow later the same evening. It will be streamed online and may be attended via Zoom.
For more info please download the flyer.
If you would like to join the event via zoom please register with africamultiple-gdo@uni-bayreuth.de
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- Title
- DECOLONIAL FEMINISMS: A Transdisciplinary African Feminist Conversation
- Language
- English
- YouTube playlist
- ICDL - Events by the GDO of the Cluster
- Date
- June 1, 2022
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- [Music] so good morning again bonjour to le monde i was asked to say a few words to open this event today my name is rudiger zeisermann i'm the spokesperson of the africa multiple cluster of excellence and under the umbrella of the cluster dr christine ford william convened this event today and yeah what can i say i think it is a really exceptional event [Music] i was expecting our invitees to be already on the podium so that you can see them but you will see them in a moment and if you see them i think you will realize that their presence speaks for itself i cannot claim to have attended so many um afro-feminist or decolonial feminist events but i still dare to say that this group has never come together we have four actually scholarly giants whom you will see in a moment and here in a moment and i really don't want to take away a lot of time but i want to say this the most senior of them dr fartuso will officially receive the honorary doctorate from the university of byroid tonight the big sus honorary doctorate and this is the occasion um on which doctor william convened this round table and when fatouzou was a student at the university of dakar i was an infant in the 1960s in germany and one of my sons recently one of my young young sons recently pulled out a very old photo album with pictures in black and white and he said dad i'm really glad that i'm not born in the 60s because the world was still black and white and this is for me more than an anecdote because it also highlights how we see the world and what i find particularly inspiring about the scholarship that our distinguished guests are doing as well as the scholarship dr ford william is doing that it opens up new perspectives on how we see the world i sometimes feel what i see is 2d in through my uh how should i say conventional lenses that i use in my work and um you cannot actually see clearly a 3d movie unless you wear 3d viewing glasses and i believe that these feminist women studies… Read the full text about 15,090 words
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