"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" is the motto of a diverse programme in English with workshops, films and lectures being offered by academics from the University of Oldenburg in co-operation with Cine K in October and November. The organisers are lecturers from 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 policy against homosexuals, the hostile, often violent attitude towards homosexuals that prevails in large parts of Africa, has meanwhile moved into the public consciousness of Western societies through media coverage. African and Western academics attribute the widespread homophobia to colonial and neo-colonial ideologies and political concepts, among other things.
In Western societies, queer theory and politics have emerged in social movements and academic debates as a critique of prevailing liberal-democratic concepts of subjectivity, identity and sexuality. They have articulated themselves in global demands for universal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people. However, these goals do not take into account the diversity of gender and sexuality concepts in different cultures.
African researchers are engaged in the global rights discourse and at the same time have developed differentiated theoretical approaches to come to grips with the historical and current realities of Africa. In this context, the public lectures, the workshop and the film series at Cine K aim to examine the extent to which the protests and campaigns against heteronormative politics in Africa reflect queer theory and politics and how they are reflected in visual, fictional and artistic representations.
Dates of the event series "Queer as ... Questioning Representations of 'African' Sexualities":
Contact
Dr Katharina Hoffmann
AG Migration - Gender - Politics
Tel. 0441/798-4157