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BIGSAS Festival African and African-diasporic Literatures 2018: “Space, Feminism and Resistance”
24.06.2018
25 – 27 Juni 2018
Venue: Iwalewahaus
Wölfelstr.2
95444 Bayreuth
Germany
The 7th edition of the BIGSAS Festival of African and African-diasporic literatures will be dedicated to the concept of space. In terms of geopolitics, it will feature Nigeria, Kenya, Southern Africa and African diasporas in Europe. Moreover, it will address the MENA region as cultural memory of a longstanding Mediterranean identity that transgresses the Europe-Africa-divide. Interconnecting these geopolitical spaces with the notion of space as a social category, the festival will engage with resistance in general, feminism and anti-Apartheid, paying particular tribute to the 100th Nelson Mandela’s birthday anniversary on the 18th of July. Featuring Esther Dischereit’s poEthic subversion of the racist NSU murder series (2000-2006), the festival, moreover, will celebrate street art as edutainment which empowers rethinking of the already appropriated public spaces.
Monday, 25 June 2018 RESISTANCE AND SPACE
13:00 – 13:30 Sweet Peanuts
13:30 – 14:30 Opening Welcoming and Introduction
Dr. Elisabeth Donoughue (Bavarian Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts) (requested)
Prof. Dr. Martin Huber (Vice President of University of Bayreuth) (requested)
Prof. Dr. Dymitr Ibriszimow (Dean of BIGSAS)
Dr. Thomas Ebersberger (City of Bayreuth)
Shirin Assa (Co-Speaker, Future Migration, Network for Cultural Diversity)
Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt (Director of BIGSAS-Festival of African and African-diasporic literatures)
Dr. Ulrich Schreiber (Guest of Honor, Founder and Director, International Literature Festival Berlin)
Najem Wali (Godfather, Writer and Public Intellectual)
14:30 Reception by City of Bayreuth featuring Aras Hesso (Kurdistan)
Dr. Elisabeth Donoughue (Bavarian Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts) (requested)
Prof. Dr. Martin Huber (Vice President of University of Bayreuth) (requested)
Prof. Dr. Dymitr Ibriszimow (Dean of BIGSAS)
Dr. Thomas Ebersberger (City of Bayreuth)
Shirin Assa (Co-Speaker, Future Migration, Network for Cultural Diversity)
Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt (Director of BIGSAS-Festival of African and African-diasporic literatures)
Dr. Ulrich Schreiber (Guest of Honor, Founder and Director, International Literature Festival Berlin)
Najem Wali (Godfather, Writer and Public Intellectual)
14:30 Reception by City of Bayreuth featuring Aras Hesso (Kurdistan)
15:00 – 20:30 Street Art
15:30 – 16:30 Double Key Note Resistance and Space
Prof. Dr. Raimi Gbadamosi (UK/South Africa)
Dr. Henriette Gunkel (UK/Germany)
Chair: Dr. Nadine Siegert (Germany)
16:30 – 17:30 Panel Discussion Resistance and Space. MENA, Street Art & Activism
Raimi Gbadamosi (South Africa), Billy Kahora (Kenya), Najem Wali (Germany/Iraq), Mr. Reed (USA), Manal Mahamid (Palestine) & Henriette Gunkel (UK/Germany)
Chair: Susan Arndt (Germany) & Shirin Assa (Germany/Iran)
17:45 – 18:30 Installation & Vernissage
Video Installation Fine Dust
Manal Mahamid (Palestine)
Theo Eshetu: Till Death
Introduced by Lukas Heger
Curation & Chair: Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany)
18:45 – 20:00 Reading Space & Resistance
Najem Wali (Germany/Iraq) Saras Stunde
Billy Kahora (Kenya)
Ives S. Loukson (Cameroon/ Germany) Le Fruit défendu
Chair: Shirin Assa (Germany, Iran), Alena Rettova (Tchech Republic, UK) & Mingqing Yuan (Germany/China)
20:00 Dinner
20:30 Spoken Word Performance
Blesz (Netherlands), Toni Stuart (South Africa) & Batsirai Chigama (Zimbabwe)
Open Mic: Brady Blackburn (USA) & Tamás Jules Fütty (Germany)
Chair: Sifa Jihad (Marocco) & Tomupeishe Maphosa (Germany/Zimbabwe)
Music: Sweet Peanuts (International Music Cooperation)
22:00 DJ Blesz (Netherlands)
15:30 – 16:30 Double Key Note Resistance and Space
Prof. Dr. Raimi Gbadamosi (UK/South Africa)
Dr. Henriette Gunkel (UK/Germany)
Chair: Dr. Nadine Siegert (Germany)
16:30 – 17:30 Panel Discussion Resistance and Space. MENA, Street Art & Activism
Raimi Gbadamosi (South Africa), Billy Kahora (Kenya), Najem Wali (Germany/Iraq), Mr. Reed (USA), Manal Mahamid (Palestine) & Henriette Gunkel (UK/Germany)
Chair: Susan Arndt (Germany) & Shirin Assa (Germany/Iran)
17:45 – 18:30 Installation & Vernissage
Video Installation Fine Dust
Manal Mahamid (Palestine)
Theo Eshetu: Till Death
Introduced by Lukas Heger
Curation & Chair: Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany)
18:45 – 20:00 Reading Space & Resistance
Najem Wali (Germany/Iraq) Saras Stunde
Billy Kahora (Kenya)
Ives S. Loukson (Cameroon/ Germany) Le Fruit défendu
Chair: Shirin Assa (Germany, Iran), Alena Rettova (Tchech Republic, UK) & Mingqing Yuan (Germany/China)
20:00 Dinner
20:30 Spoken Word Performance
Blesz (Netherlands), Toni Stuart (South Africa) & Batsirai Chigama (Zimbabwe)
Open Mic: Brady Blackburn (USA) & Tamás Jules Fütty (Germany)
Chair: Sifa Jihad (Marocco) & Tomupeishe Maphosa (Germany/Zimbabwe)
Music: Sweet Peanuts (International Music Cooperation)
22:00 DJ Blesz (Netherlands)
Tuesday, 26. June 2018 RESISTANCE, SPACE AND FEMINISM
Opening Samira Paraschiv (Coordinator, BIGSAS Festival of African and African-diasporic Literature
Greeting Johanna Sarre (Academic coordinator, GeQuInDi)
11:00 – 12:30 Keynote Resistance and Transnational Feminism
In Cooperation with BIGSAS Diversity Program
Obioma Nnaemeka (USA/Nigeria)
Chair: Xin Li (Germany /China)
12:30 Lunch
12:45 Film Screening Leaf in the Wind
Chair: Onookome Okome (Canada/Nigeria)
13:45 – 15:15 Academic Word Slam Feminism
In Cooperation with BIGSAS Diversity Program
Obioma Nnaemeka (USA/Nigeria), Roshni Mooneram (Mauritius), Adlah Adai (Oman) & Tamás Jules Fütty (Germany) & Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria)
Chair: Susanne Mühleisen & Valentina Serelli
12:45 Film Screening Leaf in the Wind
Chair: Onookome Okome (Canada/Nigeria)
13:45 – 15:15 Academic Word Slam Feminism
In Cooperation with BIGSAS Diversity Program
Obioma Nnaemeka (USA/Nigeria), Roshni Mooneram (Mauritius), Adlah Adai (Oman) & Tamás Jules Fütty (Germany) & Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria)
Chair: Susanne Mühleisen & Valentina Serelli
15:00 – 19:30 Street Art
15:30 – 17:00 Reading & Performance Feminism
Adlah Adai (Oman):
Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria): Onions Make Us Cry
Elleke Boehmer (UK/SA): The Shouting in the Dark
In Conversation with Sheila Ruiz (UK)
Chair: Clarissa Vierke (Germany), Gaby Ulrich (Germany) & Ifeoluwa Aboluwade (Germany/Nigeria)
17:00 Vernissage Hypnopompia: The Interstitial Self
Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria)
Chair: Ifeoluwe Aboluwade (Germany/Nigeria)
17:30 – 18:30 Panel Discussion #torevolutionarytypelove. Talking about Queer & Politics
In Cooperation with Iwalewahaus
Kawira Mwirichia (Kenya), Malcolm Muga (Kenya), Awuor Onyango (Kenya)
Chair: Samanea Karfalt (Germany/USA)
17:30 – 18:30 Panel Discussion presenting Results of Workshop: Rethinking Gender & Feminism for the 21st Century
Adlah Adal (Oman) & Toni Stuart (South Africa) in Conversation with Ifeoluwa Aboluwade (Germany/Nigeria), Shirin Assa (Germany/Iran), Tomupeishe Maphosa (Germany/Zimbabwe), Xin Li (Germany /China), Samira Paraschiv (Germany/Romania) (Nigeria/South Africa) & Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany)
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Reading Blumen für Otello. Über die Verbrechen von Jena
In German, English and Turkish
Author and Reader: Esther Dischereit (Germany)
Music and Reader: İpek İpekçoğlu (Germany)
In conversation with Susan Arndt (Germany)
Chair: Ifeoluwa Aboluwade (Nigeria)
In Cooperation with the Universitätsverein of Bayreuth University.
21:15 Party Night with DJ Ipek (Germany)
15:30 – 17:00 Reading & Performance Feminism
Adlah Adai (Oman):
Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria): Onions Make Us Cry
Elleke Boehmer (UK/SA): The Shouting in the Dark
In Conversation with Sheila Ruiz (UK)
Chair: Clarissa Vierke (Germany), Gaby Ulrich (Germany) & Ifeoluwa Aboluwade (Germany/Nigeria)
17:00 Vernissage Hypnopompia: The Interstitial Self
Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria)
Chair: Ifeoluwe Aboluwade (Germany/Nigeria)
17:30 – 18:30 Panel Discussion #torevolutionarytypelove. Talking about Queer & Politics
In Cooperation with Iwalewahaus
Kawira Mwirichia (Kenya), Malcolm Muga (Kenya), Awuor Onyango (Kenya)
Chair: Samanea Karfalt (Germany/USA)
17:30 – 18:30 Panel Discussion presenting Results of Workshop: Rethinking Gender & Feminism for the 21st Century
Adlah Adal (Oman) & Toni Stuart (South Africa) in Conversation with Ifeoluwa Aboluwade (Germany/Nigeria), Shirin Assa (Germany/Iran), Tomupeishe Maphosa (Germany/Zimbabwe), Xin Li (Germany /China), Samira Paraschiv (Germany/Romania) (Nigeria/South Africa) & Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany)
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Reading Blumen für Otello. Über die Verbrechen von Jena
In German, English and Turkish
Author and Reader: Esther Dischereit (Germany)
Music and Reader: İpek İpekçoğlu (Germany)
In conversation with Susan Arndt (Germany)
Chair: Ifeoluwa Aboluwade (Nigeria)
In Cooperation with the Universitätsverein of Bayreuth University.
21:15 Party Night with DJ Ipek (Germany)
Wednesday, 27. June 2018 A TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA
Opening Dr. Nadine Siegert (Deputy Director, Iwalewahaus)
Welcome Dr. Sheila Ruiz (Guest of Honor, Deputy Director at Royal African Society)
11:00 – 14:00 Lectures ‘n Discussion A Tribute to Nelson Mandela in Context
Elleke Boehmer (UK/South Africa)
Onookome Okome (Nigeria/Canada)
Katharina Fink (Germany)
Najem Wali (D/Irak)
Yewande Omotoso (Nigeria/Südafrika)
Chair: Billy Kahora (Kenya) & Henriette Gunkel (Germany/UK)
14:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Book Launch Future and Fiction in Africa and Beyond. Visions in Transition (Publications of Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies)
In Cooperation with Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Susan Arndt, Dilan Zoe Smida & Henriette Gunkel in Conversation with Yewande Omotoso
Chair: Shirin Assa & Renzo Baas
15:45 – 17:15 Reading Resistance and Space
Yewande Omotoso (Nigeria/South Africa)
Onookome Okome (Canada/Nigeria)
Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria)
Chair: Sifa Jihad (Marocco), Mingqing Yuan (China/ Germany) & Ute Fendler (Germany)
13:30 – 18:00 Street Art Corner with Workshop for Kids
Curation and Chair: Katharina Fink (Germany) & Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany)
Jazz’n
Sweet Peanuts (International Music Cooperation)
Saz
Aras Hesso (Kurdistan)
Children’s Workshop’n Tape Art
Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany) & Katharina Fink (Germany)
Griotage*Imbongi
Zena Edwards (UK)
Batsirai Chigama (Zimbabwe)
Najem Wali (Germany/Iraq)
18:00 – 22:00 Open Air Concert
Sweet Peanuts
Mr Reed (USA) feat. Emmanuel Afriyie, Elvis Ediagbonya, Gabeyre Farah, Danny Maaskamp, Daniel van der Molen & n.n.
In Cooperation with Bayreuth Event & Festival e.V.
Stadtparkett
Sweet Peanuts (International Music Cooperation)
Saz
Aras Hesso (Kurdistan)
Children’s Workshop’n Tape Art
Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany) & Katharina Fink (Germany)
Griotage*Imbongi
Zena Edwards (UK)
Batsirai Chigama (Zimbabwe)
Najem Wali (Germany/Iraq)
18:00 – 22:00 Open Air Concert
Sweet Peanuts
Mr Reed (USA) feat. Emmanuel Afriyie, Elvis Ediagbonya, Gabeyre Farah, Danny Maaskamp, Daniel van der Molen & n.n.
In Cooperation with Bayreuth Event & Festival e.V.
Stadtparkett
Partners & Sponsors:
Bayreuth Event und Festival e.V.
GeQuInDi. Netzwerk für Gender-, Queer, Intersectionality and Diversity Studies
Goethe-Zentrum, Harare
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Institut für Afrikastudien
Stadt Bayreuth
Iwalewahaus
Future Migration, Network for Cultural Diversity
Universitätsverein
Oberfrankenstiftung (requested)
Accompanying Seminars:
Postcolonial Language Competition: Anglophone/Francophone Africa in a Globalized Context (Prof. Dr. Martina Drescher & Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen)
African and African-diasporic Feminist Literature (Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt)
Theorising Literature ‘n Transcultural English Studies (Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt)
Cultural Theories and Research Methods (Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt)
Rassismuskritische Pädagogik und Didaktik (Nina Simon)
Fördereinrichtungen/Sponsors:
Director:
Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt
Coordinator:
Samira Paraschiv
Curation:
Shirin Assa
Dilan Zoe Smida
Website & Photography:
Maximilian Arndt
Artwork, Flyer & Poster:
Johannes Roßkamm
Dilan Zoe Smida
Technical Department:
Max Arndt
Sifa Jihad
Steffen Riess
Ives Loukson Sangouing
Bookstore:
Tomupeishe Maphosa
Further Team Members:
Amélie Arndt
Joshua Arndt
Camillo Arndt
Ifeoluwa Aboluwade
Joyce Anchimbe
Taghrid Elhanafy
Dr. Katharina Fink
Albert Legrand Kamga
Prof. Dr. Onookome Okome
James Wachira
Mingqing Yuan
Xin Li