{"id":56151,"date":"2018-04-20T02:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T02:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56151"},"modified":"2018-06-06T19:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:39:50","slug":"transnational-perspectives-on-black-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56151","title":{"rendered":"Transnational Perspectives on Black Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bghra.org\/ut-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Transnational Perspectives on Black Germany<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Toronto<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.innis.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innis Town Hall<\/a><br \/>\n2 Sussex Avenue<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, M5S 1J5 Canada<br \/>\n<strong>2018-05-23 through 2018-05-25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsors<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/german.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germanic Languages &amp; Literatures<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinema.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cinema Studies Institute<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgsi.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gender &amp; Women\u2019s Studies Institute<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cdts.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Transnational &amp; Diaspora Studies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/complit.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comparative Literature<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca\/home-accueil-eng.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SSHRC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/munkschool.utoronto.ca\/csus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for the United States<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiff.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TIFF<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daad.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DAAD<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boell.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bghra.org\/ut-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BGHRA-UOT-QR-1.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bghra.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black German Heritage and Research Association<\/a> (BGHRA) is collaborating with the <a href=\"http:\/\/german.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Germanic Languages &amp; Literatures<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinema.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cinema Studies Institute<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Toronto<\/a> in hosting the 3-day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca\/home-accueil-eng.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SSHRC<\/a>-funded conference, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/bghra.org\/ut-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transnational Perspectives on Black Germany<\/a>\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toronto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto, Ontario<\/a>, on May 23-25, 2018. The event will feature keynote addresses by <a href=\"http:\/\/literature.ucsd.edu\/people\/faculty\/feltayeb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fatima El-Tayeb<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noahsow.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noah Sow<\/a>, a screening of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/aufdenzweitenblick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Second Glance<\/a>\u201d (dir. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0353452\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheri Hagen<\/a>, 2012) at <a href=\"http:\/\/tiff.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TIFF\u2019s Bell Lightbox<\/a> with filmmaker in attendance, and a dance-music-word tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Germans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afro-German<\/a> poet and activist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/May_Ayim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May Ayim<\/a> by guest artists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laylazami.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Layla Zami<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxanachi.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxana Chi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL 4\/21\/2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/bghra.org\/ut-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA) is collaborating with the Department of Germanic Languages &#038; Literatures and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto in hosting the 3-day SSHRC-funded conference, \u201cTransnational Perspectives on Black Germany\u201d in Toronto, Ontario, on May 23-25, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28,459,13,8,26,394,25],"tags":[3228,28387,13529,28379,28373,28375,28377,28380,28385,2956,28376,28384,28374,2948,28381,28388,2946,28383,7000,28389,28386,28382,28378,24958,15677,2373],"class_list":["post-56151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-europe","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-women","tag-afro-germans","tag-bghra","tag-black-german-heritage-and-research-association","tag-centre-for-the-united-states","tag-centre-for-transnational-diaspora-studies","tag-cinema-studies-institute","tag-comparative-literature","tag-daad","tag-deutscher-akademischer-austauschdienst","tag-fatima-el-tayeb","tag-gender-womens-studies-institute","tag-german-academic-exchange-service","tag-germanic-languages-literatures","tag-germany","tag-heinrich-boll-stiftung","tag-layla-zami","tag-may-ayim","tag-munk-school-of-global-affairs","tag-noah-sow","tag-oxana-chi","tag-sheri-hagen","tag-social-sciences-and-humanities-research-council-of-canada","tag-sshrc","tag-tiff","tag-toronto-international-film-festival","tag-university-of-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56154,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56151\/revisions\/56154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}