Tsitsi Dangarembga (Scholar/ Artist in residence at HIAS) and Eva Heidbreder (Scholar in residence at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg) in conversation
The city of Hamburg’s two scholars in residence discuss some of the most pressing questions of our time: How decolonized is the world we live in—and in which ways does the empire persist? What does this mean for Africa and Europe—and where do individuals find themselves in these global structures? What are alternative dynamics—and what role do women play in this? Tsitsi Dangarembga’s recent essays «Black and Female» (2022) and Eva Heidbreder’s academic take on Europe and beyond serve as starting points for a dialogue that invites us to change perspective, in order to challenge entrenched legacies of European thinking and to open the view for what the other sees.
Programme
5.30 pm
Doors open
6.00 pm
Words of welcome by Hauke Heekeren, President of Universität Hamburg, and Anna Hofmann, Head of Science and Research of ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS
6.10 pm
Introduction of the two scholars by Dorothea Rüland, HIAS Secretary-General, Markus Kotzur, President of Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, and Julia Strasheim, deputy managing director of Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt Foundation
6.20 pm
Readings of excerpts from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s “Black and Female” by Bisrat Negassi, designer, author and curator, co-founder of M.Bassy
6.30 pm
Conversation and exchange between Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and film maker, Peace Price of the German Book Trade 2021, and Eva Heidbreder, professor for Multilevel Governance in Europe and Jean Monnet Chair at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, scholar in residence at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg
7.15 pm
Reception at “Café Okzident”, continued exchange over food & drinks
The exchange will be held in English, the readings in German.
The event will take place on 11 December 2023, 6pm at MARKK’s Auditorium.
Please register here.
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s HIAS fellowship is funded by ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS as well as by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the federal and state funds acquired by Universität Hamburg in the framework of its Excellence Strategy.
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