Mercator Fellow Rozena Maart will be visiting the RTG from June 18-30, 2023.

We are looking forward to an intensive cooperation with Rozena Maart (U KwaZulu-Natal), who has planned the following events during her time in Bremen:


19.06.2023
13 – 15.00 | Open Office Hours at Grazer Straße 2
18 – 20.30 | INPUTS panel discussion:
Lewis Gordon “Black Existentialism and Decolonial Thinking”


20.06.2023
10 – 13.00 | Workshop with Lewis Gordon
“Unpacking Coloniality”
14 – 16.00 | Open Office Hours in Grazer Straße 2
ab 18.00 | Damani Patridge (University of Michigan), Book Launch.
Blackness as
Universal Claim
(University of California Press, 2022)


21.06.2023
16 – 18 | Café International – Book Launch:
66 Women who build a better future for
South Africa


22.06.2023
16.15 – 19.30 | GRK Toolbox Lecture:
Black Bodies on South African beaches: Lus en Smaak jou lekkerding


23.06.2023
14:00 | Opening Event of Open Campus


24.06.2023
12:00 | Open Campus

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