Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Lecture 2023 - Tiffany N. Florvil: Black Radical Histories

Die Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden und die American Academy Berlin laden Sie herzlich zur vierten Veranstaltung der gemeinsamen Vortragsreihe „Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Lecture" ein:

Black Radical Histories

Englischsprachiger Vortrag von Tiffany Florvil
(Associate Professor, University of New Mexico)

Mit einer Einführung von Doreen Mende,
Forschungsdepartment, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
In Kooperation mit der American Academy Berlin.

Throughout modern history, Black thinkers in Central Europe — from the Trinidadian George Padmore to African Americans Shirley Graham Du Bois and Ollie Harrington to Black German May Ayim — have pursued radical projects pointing out the lack of basic human rights of marginalized communities. In this talk, Tiffany N. Florvil argues that these individuals and others have drawn upon their cross-cultural experiences to highlight how the intersecting oppressions of racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism have persisted throughout the twentieth century. Traversing geographical and aesthetic boundaries, these activists, cartoonists, and intellectuals advocated for civil, social, and political change in their respective countries and beyond, advancing a cosmopolitan ethos that allowed them to offer new forms of knowledge and instigate change. Florvil contends that these Black radical actors advanced politics on their own terms while at the same time showing that Germany was a key site for the transnational Black diaspora.

Tiffany N. Florvil is an associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico. Co-editor of the volume Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories (Peter Lang, 2022, 2018), she is the author of Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (University of Illinois, 2020), which received the 2021 Waterloo Centre for German Studies First Book Prize. The German translation will be published in April 2023 by Ch. Links Verlag with the title Black Germany: Schwarz, deutsch, feministisch - die Geschichte einer Bewegung. Florvil is the founding editor of the book series “Imagining Black Europe” at Peter Lang Press and currently working on an intellectual biography of Black German author and activist May Ayim. She is the spring 2023 Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.