"Queer As..."
22.10.13, 9 am - 1 pm and 25.10.13, 2 pm - 6 pm
Building A1, Room 0-005
Workshop: "Same-Sex Desire and the Defiant Pursuit for Justice and Recognition in the African Continent" with Dr Thabo Msibi (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
23.10.13 14.00
Building A1, Room 0-005
Public lecture: ",My God is a Loving God': Religious and Cultural Struggles Among Black South African Men who Engage in Same-Sex Relations" with Dr Thabo Msibi.
6.11.13, 4 pm,
Building A1, Room 0-004
Public lecture: "Re-membering Mwanga: Same-sex Memory and Belonging in Postcolonial Uganda" with Dr Rahul Rao (SOAS, University of London, Great Britain)
Film series of "Queer as ... Questioning Representations of 'African' Sexualities", unless otherwise stated
Wednesdays, 6.00 pm, Cine K Oldenburg (Bahnhofstraße 11)
6.11.13, 8 pm:
"Getting Out" - Documentary (Uganda 2011, Director: Refugee Law Project)
13.11.13
"Call me Kuchu" - documentary (USA 2012, directed by Malika Zohall-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright)
20.11.13
"Breaking Out of the Box" - documentary (South Africa 2011, directed by Busi Kheswa and Zethu Matebeni) and "Black Beulahs" - documentary (South Africa 2006, directed by Fanney Tsimong)
27.11.13
"Dakan" - Drama (Guinea/France 1997, Director: Mohamed Camara)
"Queer As..."
"Queer as...": Workshop, films and lectures on sexual forms of expression in Africa
Oldenburg. ‘Queer as … Questioning Representations of “African” Sexualities’ – under this theme, academics from the University of Oldenburg, in co-operation with Cine K, are offering a varied programme in English throughout October and November, featuring workshops, films and lectures. The organisers are lecturers from the Department of Gender Studies, the ‘European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR)’ degree programme, the Institute of English and American Studies, and the Institute of Art and Visual Culture.
The policies targeting homosexuals and the hostile, often violent attitudes towards them that prevail in large parts of Africa have now entered the public consciousness of Western societies through media coverage. African and Western scholars attribute the widespread homophobia, amongst other things, to colonial and neocolonial ideologies and political concepts.
In Western societies, queer theory and politics have emerged within social movements and academic debates as a critique of prevailing liberal-democratic concepts of subjectivity, identity and sexuality. They have found expression in global calls for universal rights for lesbian, gay and bisexual, as well as trans and intersex, people. However, these objectives do not take into account the diversity of concepts of gender and sexuality across different cultures.
African researchers are engaged in the global discourse on rights and have, at the same time, developed nuanced theoretical approaches to come to terms with Africa’s historical and current realities. In this context, the public lectures, the workshop and the film series at Cine K aim to examine the extent to which protests and campaigns against heteronormative policies in Africa reflect queer theory and politics, and how these are reflected in visual, fictional and artistic representations.
Dates for the event series ‘Queer as … Questioning Representations of “African” Sexualities’:
contact
Dr Katharina Hoffmann
AG Migration – Gender – Politics
Tel. 0441/798-4157