We are pleased to welcome Prof Fatima El-Tayeb at the ZfI in early summer who will research here until October 2019 as guest scientist. Since 2004, the Black German historian is professor for literature and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She works interdisciplinary on afro-diasporic, postcolonial, and anti-racist questions in the European context while focussing on strategies of resistance of racialized communities, especially those that mobilise an intersectional, queer art practice. Her first book was published in 2001: “Schwarze Deutsche. Der Diskurs um ›Rasse‹ und nationale Identität 1890-1933” (“Black Germans. The discourse about ›race‹ and national identity 1890-1933”), Campus. Further publications: “European Others. Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe”, University of Minnesota Press 2011, and “Undeutsch. Die Konstruktion des Anderen in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft“ (“Not German. The construction of the other in post-migrant society”), Transcript 2016. As graduated historian with a dissertation on German colonial policy and national identity, she has excellent knowledge about the German and European colonial history. As professor of the cultural studies, she furthermore deals with current debates and social negotiations of European societies in the context of migration, diaspora and flight. Her projects were funded, inter alia, by the Volkswagen Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. Her texts, books, and lectures are important contributions to the understanding of the postcolonial conditions in the German and European context. Besides her academic work, she is active in anti-racist, migrant, and queer of colour contexts. During her stay, she will research on dimensions of migration policy and post colonialism of a national culture of memory, which includes a heterogeneous society only partially, and which faces the challenge to answer diversity, plural narration and heterogeneous representation in the context of European postcolonial debates. Together with Dr Noa Ha, she will organise a workshop, present her book “Undeutsch” (“Not German”), and she will participate in the activities of the Centre for Integration Studies.