Talks

Lecture at the 8th Conference on Environment and Law (ProKUR) for doctoral candidates in public law with an environmental focus in Cologne.

In this presentation, I engage with the African body that lands on European beaches via the Mediterranean sea, dead by exhaustion from crossing the ocean or dead as a consequence of boarding a vessel, which has capsized because it was not equipped to carry the embodied subject identities of Africans leaving the continent to seek refuge on the European continent: the continent of the European coloniser who had usurped African land and people, kidnapped African labour starting in the fifteenth century whilst simultaneously exploiting and extracting raw materials to develop its wealth in an ailing, starving, and disease infested Europe.

The accessibility to health insurance-funded gender-affirming hormone therapy in Germany is of central importance to many trans* people for their health, safety, and life trajectories. However, the decision about whether they can take hormones through the regular care-system is not in their hands but rather depends on various actors and institutions in the medical, psychotherapeutic, and political sectors.

The lecture will take place as part of the panel “Migration Debates in Central Europe” at the ASN World Convention.

As part of the block seminar “Afropolitanism and Afropean: belonging to Europe and The world”, the multifaceted, interdisciplinary, world-renowned Afrospanish artist Agnes Essonti Luque will participate in a discussion on her work and her understanding of the concepts of Afropolitan and Afropean. This talk is scheduled to bring students closer to the reality of multiple […]

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Lecture as part of the Colloquium Contradiction Studies

Presentation of the anthology on the topic “Knowledge, contradiction and academic freedom” and discussion on the question “how to write an anthology together”.

Presentation as part of the conference Die Vielfalt des Rechts of the sociology of law section of the University of Marburg

Philile Langa’s presentation will focus on gender-based violence against men during armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960-present). Her research is about challenging and shifting the understanding of what gender-based violence during armed conflict looks like, primarily through revolutionary Black African theories that focus on prioritizing the lived experiences of Black Africans […]