BIGSAS Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures

The annual BIGSAS-Festival of African and African Diasporic Literatures is a political festival that celebrates the power of fictional in(ter)vention. Each June, writers from African countries and its diasporas meet other arts, while conversing with activist academia about memories and visions that feature African and African diasporic perspectives on global encounters as dedicated to, for example, justice, feminism, LGBTIQism, colonialism, racism, migration und environmentalism.

Former Festivals:

• 2011 African Conceptionalisations of Europe

• 2012 Remembering Flash Forward. African Literatures as Poetics in Motion

• 2013 Intertextuality. Dialogues in Motion

• 2014 Literatures of/and Memory. 1884, 1904, 1914.

• 2015 African Futures and Beyond. Visions in Transition
  In Cooperation with the Annual Conference of the African Literature Association: http://www.ala2015.com/phone.html 
  Special Issue Journal of the African Literature Association: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rala20/11/1

• 2016 Remix. Africa in Translation

• 2017 We(l)come to Europe. AfroFictonal In[ter]ventions and the Future of Migration​ 

• 2018 Space, Feminism and Resistance

• 2019 Crises and Responsibilities. kNOWledges in Academia, Arts and Activism

• 2020 Care, Responsibility and Solidarity: Narrating Resistance in Arts, Academia and Activism

​Kontakt:
Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt, Direktorin
 susan.arndt@uni-bayreuth.de