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Thursday, 2 December 2021
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Myths Around Brazilian
Racism: a View Through the Lens of Black Feminist Theory
3rd Berlin
Southern Theory Lecture
with Djamila Ribeiro (Pontifical Catholic University of
Sao Paolo - Brazil)
9 December
2021, 5 pm, online
This lecture examines how Black
intellectuals opposed founding myths of Brazilian society. Our interest
will be to identify how Brazilian Black feminists, such as Lélia González, Sueli
Carneiro, as well as other thinkers such as Abdias do Nascimento and Kabengele Munanga dismantle
in their productions the constructions of scientific racism and the
subsequent theory of racial democracy, exported by Brazil to several
international academic centers. Racial
democracy is a belief that in this country there was a transcendence of
racial conflicts, with a harmonious coexistence between whites, blacks
and indigenous people. One of the classic scenes that represents what
would be the imaginary of racial democracy brings white and black men
sitting and partying at the table, while the Black woman, naked,
cheerfully dances samba. Our concern will be to understand how González,
Carneiro and other Black feminists conceive the mulata
in critical perspective, in defiance of the myth of racial democracy. In
the Brazilian Black feminist tradition, there are several refutations to
the places imposed on this social group. We will also highlight the
theoretical and critical developments about the figure of the Black
Mother, so rooted in colonial history and translated into
post-colonialism in the figure of the domestic servant, the position of
more than 6 million women in Brazil, with a large Black majority. Based
on the confrontation with myths, we will make a reflection on the
historical tradition of struggle and critical production by Brazilian
Black feminists.
Moderation: Kristina Mashimi (FU Berlin) and Kai Kresse
(ZMO & FU Berlin)
Discussant: Juliana Streva
(FU Berlin)
For more info
and to access the Webex link, please klick HERE.
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8 December 2021, 4
pm, virtual event
Care and Suspicion: Afghan Foreign
Fighters in Iran and the Dark Side of Political Belonging
Lecture by Ahmad Moradi (Freie Universität Berlin) as part of the Berlin
Anthropology Seminar
This seminar series
constitutes a joint
initiative by anthropologists
from Freie Universität Berlin, Leibniz-Zentrum
Moderner Orient and Ethnologisches Museum. It intends to shape and cultivate an inclusive
platform and open regular meeting point for exchange and discussion on
current research by Berlin based anthropologists.
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13 December 2021, 4
pm, virtual event
Communal representation, imperial
deliberation and the question of democracy within the Late-Ottoman
Parliament
Lecture by Elke Hartmann (Freie Universität Berlin) as part of The
Historicity of Democracy Seminar.
When in December 1876 the Ottoman
constitution was promulgated, the first elections in Ottoman history had
to be organised in early 1877. This was the occasion, when Ottoman
reformist elites and intellectuals had to debate and decide, how the
Ottoman population was to be represented in the first parliament. Finally
the parliament was constituted with deputies from all provinces, but also
with members of various population groups living in the empire. In her
talk, Elke Hartmann examines the example of the Armenian deputies in the
first Ottoman parliament. Who were they? How were the deputies chosen and
elected? Whom did they represent? What did representation mean to them
and/or their communities? Were these topics debated?
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CESS Book Award for
"Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish
and Turkish Memory" by David Leupold
The Central Eurasian Studies
Society awarded its 2021 Book Award to our associated research fellow
David Leupold for his monograph "Embattled Dreamlands"
(Routledge 2020). "Based on five years of ethnographic and
historical research, Leupold’s rich tapestry of
Ottoman and Soviet history, imagined geographies, and national narratives
makes unique theoretical contributions to studies of collective memory
and provides an insightful and impartial assessment of sectarian and
national identities. The book invites us to evaluate critically and
carefully our past and its impact on our contemporary imagined
Worlds", writes the CESS.
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Fritz-Steppat-Prize
for promoting young researchers
The Steppat
Prize 2022 was awarded to Leigh-Ann McSweeney for her master thesis
"Youth Participation in Political and Social Movements in Post-lndependence Senegal. An Analysis of the lnfluence of Hip-Hop Culture in the Context of the
Presidential Elections in 2012" and Hanna Nieber
for her PhD dissertation "Drinking the written Koran: healing with kombe in Zanzibar Town". The
prize is awarded by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung des ZMO e.V.
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