Projects

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• Coordinates the implementation of the Black Studies module; 

• Houses three innovation groups, on epistemic innovation, intersectional diversity policies, and intersectional anti-discrimination work within academia; 

• Co-organizes the lecture series Lack of Inclusion in Higher Education? Structural Racism and its Intersections in German Universities with the Free University Berlin and Humboldt University (winter 2022/23)

• Offers visiting positions in “Black, African, and Afro-Diasporic Presence in the GDR and Post-Socialist East Germany” (fall 2022) and “Transnational Perspectives on the Institutionalization of Intersectional Black Studies” (spring 2023). The final visiting position in Intersectional Black Studies (fall 2023) will be converted into a permanent position.

• Coordinates collaboration with De-Zentralbild (project digitizing private image collections of migrants in the German Democratic Republic)

The digital archive project addresses the challenges posed by the transnational and multilingual formation of the African diaspora in Europe (and elsewhere) on the one hand and by the marginalizing of Black knowledge production in European societies, including institutions like museums and universities, on the other. The archive will both facilitate the digitization of physical documents and allow for a mapping of sites of knowledge production and archiving across Europe. 

Digitization has revolutionized archival research by making resources in local archives globally accessible, allowing for new levels of engagement that are both broader, granting access to those who cannot physically visit the archives, and deeper, since digital copies are far less fragile than the originals. Digitization can also revolutionize what gets archived and by whom. 

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