Lecture Series

DIMAS organizes and collaborates on Lecture Series (Ringvorlesungen) at UR. Here you can find information on ongoing and past DIMAS lecture series.

Intersecionality from the Americas: Theories, Processes, Approaches, Practices

DIMAS Lecture Series im Winter Semester 2024/25 | Thursdays, 4pm in H25

Intersectionality is a key perspective for the understanding of contemporary cultural and social analyses/studies. However, since the first elaborations on intersectional discrimination by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1991), the term has generated a wide array of exceptions and approaches, depending on local and disciplinary perspectives. Intersectionality does not necessarily mean the same thing, nor include the same categories, in Kyiv as in Caracas.

Drawing on a broad spectrum of literary studies, humanities, social sciences, and gender studies, among others, our lecture series offers a comprehensive understanding of different perspectives on intersectionality in the Americas. By emphasizing the importance of different loci of enunciation, it seeks to foster a nuanced dialogue that respects and acknowledges different points of view.

Through a variety of presentations by international scholars, artists and activists, the lecture series aims to delve into different visions of intersectionality by embracing intercultural dialogue and shedding light on inequalities, forms of discrimination, and challenges facing the region today. The series invites participants to engage in conversations, discussions, and explorations of intersectionality within the lens of Area Studies, with a focus on Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, particularly Latin America.

Overall, the lecture series aims to raise awareness among students, scholars, and the public, in order to develop a critical understanding of identity constructions and historical inequalities. Committed to the critical analysis of intersectionality and Area Studies, the initiative continues to provide an open space for transcultural dialogue.

Supported by the ScienceCampus and organised by Anne Brüske with Minerva Peinador, Bárbara Aranda and Joanna Moszczyńska of DIMAS, this series will feature talks and an artistic performance.

Programme:

05.12.2024 - Room H25

Kaimé Guerrero (Universit?t Duisburg-Essen)
Embodied intersectionality and the politics of listening: Indigenous trans* and queer* interventions

16.01.2025? -? online only!
Claudia Zapata (Universidad de Chile, Santiago)
Estética y continuidad colonial: representaciones contemporáneas del sujeto indígena**

23 .01. 2025 - Room H25
Fernando Nina (Universit?t Heidelberg)
Imagin?res jenseits des Randes: Das Konzept der ?Escrevivência“ von Concei??o Evaristo als dekoloniale und interdisziplin?re Perspektive von Konvivialit?t

30.01. 2025 - Room H25
Susanne Schultz (Universit?t Frankfurt)
Ein reisendes intersektionales Konzept: Feministische Zug?nge zu reproduktiver Gerechtigkeit in Brasilien

06.02.2025 - Room H25
Carolina Meloni (Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid)
Feminismos ectópicos: insubordinaciones epistémicas desde las rajaduras del mundo**

13.02.2025, 6pm, Hinter der Grieb 8
Colectivo Ayllu (Madrid / Barcelona)
Performance: Where are the secret messages from our ancestors?**

14. 02. 2025, 10am, Hinter der Grieb 8
Colectivo Ayllu (Madrid / Barcelona)
Artist Talk: Los vientos y las aguas nos ense?an. Una conversación con Colectivo Ayllu**

** For talks in Spanish, there will be supplementary materials in English.

A flyer for the lecture series can be found here, as well as further details on the series under this link.

Colonialsm: Different Approaches and Different Areas

DIMAS Lecture Series Summer Semester 2024 | Wednesdays, 14:00 in H22?

Talks are in English and German

Rike Kr?mer-Hoppe, Professor of Public Law and Transregional Norm Development at DIMAS and the Faculty of Law at UR, is organizing a lecture series (Ringvorlesung) this summer semester. Colonialism: Different Approaches and Different Areas will take place on Wednesdays at 14:00 in Lecture Theatre H22.?

The event is open to the public and all interested colleagues and students. Students wishing to receive credits?sign up for the course via SPUR.?

Each week, a different researcher, including guest speakers, will give a talk addressing colonialism from across a variety of disciplinary and regional perspectives. Speakers include experts in law, history, literary studies and media studies, with insights on India, French colonial territories, relations with indigenous populations in Canada and elsewhere. ?

The Lecture Series is supported by the Hans-Vielberth University Foundation.

There will be a tour of postcolonial traces in Regensburg on 17 June at 19:00 (in German). More information about this from Prof. Kr?mer-Hoppe.

Programme:

17.04.2024 ? ?Rike Kr?mer-Hoppe | Einführung und ?berblick
24.04.2024 ? ?Marcus Hahn | Literatur und Kolonialismus
08.05.2024 ? ?Matthias Goldmann ?| Die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte in Namibia und das V?lkerrecht
15.05.2024 ? ?Nilanjana Mukherjee? Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason: Maps, Landscapes, Travelogues in Britain and India
22.05.2024 ? ?Astrid Ensslin | (De)koloniale Navigationsmechaniken in Videospielen
29.05.2024 ? ?William Nelson | The effects of Colonial history on the French Revolution
05.06.2024 ? ? Kwamou Eva Feukeu | The future as a public good: Decolonising the future through anticipatory participatory action research
12.06.2024 ? ?Dagmar Schmelzer | Diskurse zur Entkolonialisierung und Wiedergutmachung an den First Nations in Quebec
19.06.2024 ? ?David Schneidermann |? Investment Law's Alibis – Colonialism, Imperialism, Debt and Development.
26.06.2024 ? ?Sabrina Moura | Travelling Back: reframing a 19th-century expedition from Munich to Brazil?
03.07.2024 ? ?Christina Binder |? Die Rechte der Indigenen und (De)kolonialismus
10.07.2024 ? ?No session / Entf?llt
17.07.2024 ? ?Klausur ?/ Exam

Additional date:?There will be a tour of postcolonial traces in Regensburg on 17 June at 19:00 (in German).