We envision the 2022 conference of the Afroeuropeans Network, “Intersectional Challenges in Afroeuropean Communities,” in Brussels as an academic, activist, and intellectual space centering Blackness in Europe—including, but not limited to, Black identity, Black art, Black politics and Black struggle. We wish to articulate a clear framework specifying our values and vision for this conference.

Paper Dzifa Peters: Places of Sanctuary in the Artistic Work of Liz Johnson Artur stream on Afroeuropean Literature and Arts: Aesthetics & Politics on behalf of the Organising Committee of Afroeuropeans Brussels 2022.

https://www.afroeuropeans2022.com/en/

When?
From 14 to 16 September 2022
Where?
Library of the Faculdade de Letras (Room B112.B), University of Lisbon (FLUL)
Alameda da Universidade (1600-214 Lisboa)

The death of George Floyd in May 2020 mobilized people around the world. The uncritical representation of colonial history in public space gained much attention, and mobilizations also gained strength in Ibero-America and Germany. Decolonial and anti-racist activists put political leaders under pressure. Something which the mobilizations have in common is that they criticize the dominant narrative of history, thus promoting a new culture of memory. Young researchers, activists, artists, and students from Portugal and Germany will meet in Lisbon from 14-16 September 2022 to jointly obtain a snapshot of this moment and its re-defining potential. Discussions will revolve around the following questions: Why are these monumental icons being acted upon today? What new voices and positions are emerging in and from that process? Whose memory is being negotiated, and how? What glocal implications are revealed in these movements, or connections between globalization and its current local/regional effects? How is participation in public space debated through art and activism? And finally, how can a joint fight against social inequality be carried out from a decolonial and anti-racist perspective?

https://blog.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de/dekolonialerikonoklasmus/?page_id=11&lang=de

Photo by Marcio Carvalho, Performance Black Square - Segundo Regicidio, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Project: Demythologize That History and Put it to Rest

Under current conditions, we live at a time of masks, tapping simultaneously into obfuscation, secrecy and protection. Masks suggest a reflection on cultural experience as a masquerade. The XII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture proposes to discuss, on the one hand, processes of masking and unmasking, the collective models of the masquerade as a cultural, literary and artistic genre, as well as a translational mode. On the other, the masquerade, following the inspiration of Joan de Riviere, reflects as well on the process of performative engendering. The Summer School shall equally discuss the masquerade as a strategy of gender performativity and gender as a performance, mirrored in new identities. Drawing from Judith Butler’s seminal theory of performativity (1988, 1990, 2011), and “playing” with the transformative character of masquerades, participants are invited to reflect on why and how bodies and language matter when subversive body formations are under threat, and on the very nature of the relation between subversion and the normal. Simultaneously, we invite intersectional work articulating cultural forms of the masquerade with modes of identity formation, including race, gender, age and class.

https://lisbonconsortium.com/2022/03/02/xii-lisbon-summer-school-for-the-study-of-culture-masquerades-deadline-extension/

Paper Dzifa Peters: Masquerades: Political Dimensions of Camouflage in AfroDiasporic Identities

NeMLA's 53rd Annual Convention 

The 2022 NeMLA conference theme is CARE. We understand CARE as the practice of interdependency, admitting our vulnerabilities as humans, animals, and other living organisms of the Anthropocene. The NeMLA theme of CARE will embrace but not be limited to questions of representation, migration, the environment, and identity.

March 10-13, 2022, Baltimore, Maryland
Thursday opening address: Valeria Luiselli.
Our Friday keynote event will be given by Judith Butler. 

Paper Dzifa Peters: Camouflage as a Principle of Coexistence and Agency Panel: Migration, Belonging, and Afro-Europeanness: Current Articulations and Future Perspectives (Part 2)

Local Host Institution Johns Hopkins University
Administrative home: The University at Buffalo

https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html

On the occasion of the Annual Conference of the MSA's Africa chapter, we would like to discuss these questions with a specific outlook on Africa, African memory discourses, contexts and practices, as well as highlight an African perspective on memory studies as a scholarly field. We welcome submissions from scholars and practitioners who engage with and torus their research on African memory dynamics, particularly with a focus on transnational, transregional and transcultural dynamics of these dynamics.

Paper Dzifa Peters: Excavating the Archive: The Artistic Work of Omar Victor Diop

https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/cfp-msa-africa-chapter-annual-conference-2021/

The XI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, under the topic “Convivial Cultures”, is the final public activity of the 4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture. The 4Cs is a European Cooperation Project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Paper Dzifa Peters: Convivial Friction: Ethics of Renegotiating Transcultural Relations in Contemporary Artistic Practices

https://www.4cs-conflict-conviviality.eu/post/convivial-cultures

Undisciplining Photography Symposium  invites photographers and researchers to  engage in debates on the potential of photography in contemporary visuality.

Paper Dzifa Peters: Spectral Identities and Photographic Tropes

Organized by MA Photography & Society, Research Center for Material Culture and  Nederlands Fotomuseum

https://undiscipliningphotography.org

We are pleased to announce the upcoming workshop "Photographic Reflections: Workshop in Academic Practices”. The workshop is expected to be a recurring event with the first edition taking place on May 20th and 21st, online via zoom.

Oranised by Ph.D. Candidates Dzifa Peters and Alfredo Brant

For further information please visit our website https://wphotographicreflections.wordpress.com/

The Summer School will take place at several cultural institutions in Lisbon and will gather outstanding doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers from around the world.

Paper Dzifa Peters: Notes on Mind and Body in Cultural Code Switching

https://lisbonconsortium.com/summer-school/ix-lisbon-summer-school-for-the-study-of-culture/

Exhibition Postgraduation at Studiofoyer Khm, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2017

https://en.khm.de/studentische_arbeiten/id.28595.perspicere-the-invention-of-self/

Exhibition featuring works from the project Being a guest.

https://case.khm.de

You and we, 2014 is a project that includes video projections, photographic works, photomontages, objects and sound. It is designed as a spatially organised installation and deals with questions of cultural identity, hybridity and memory.