Mecila
07 Apr

[2022] The Body as Knowledge, the Body as Quilombo: Learning with Anticolonial Feminist Thinkers

Diversity/Medialities | Public Lectures Mecila-IAI

Online

About the event

Inclusion and diversity have marked the demands of social movements in the 21st century. With the concept intersectionality, inspired by feminist movements in the US, the academic field aims to understand how various interdependent conditions of oppression and inequality–class, gender, religion, ethnicity, skin colour, citizenship, migration, geography, and language–are reflected in exclusion, but also in the articulation of differentiated demands and struggles. Much less visible have been the voices of academics and activists from Latin America, who have both made perceivable and conceptualized social and political exclusion from the peripheries.

This series of public lectures «Diversity/Medialities» organized by the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut and Mecila, focuses on these voices from the margins, their long-term conceptual and epistemological frameworks, and their forms and media of circulation and entanglements. With the first focus on feminist and LGTBIQ movements and ideas we invite experts and activists analysing South-North interconnections in the struggles for the rights of women and LGTBIQ groups in Latin America.

Flyer Lecture Series «Diversity/Medialities»

© Beatriz Nascimento by David Sa; Lélia Gonzalez by Cézar Loureiro [CC], via Wikimedia Commons

Programme

07, April 2022 – Virtual via Webex

The hegemonic way of conceiving knowledge has been mostly based on written documents, books, and reports. Historically, Black and Indigenous women in Brazil have been contesting such a colonial and Eurocentric tradition, within academia and beyond. By perceiving the body as a living site of knowledge, the dichotomous thinking in which the body has been perceived as opposed to the mind, and oral histories as inferior and opposed to written documents can be put into question

Joining a long legacy of antiracist, feminist and anticolonial theories and practices, Dr. Juliana Streva (RePLITO / Freie Universität Berlin) introduces the interplay of knowledge, body, territory and memory revisited by Afro-Brazilian thinkers, especially by the work of Beatriz Nascimento, Leda Maria Martins and Lélia Gonzalez.

Moderation: Dr. Clara Ruvituso (IAI; Mecila – Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-­Inequality in Latin America)

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