Holding Space for Critical Hope
Conveners
- Dr. Serawit Bekele Debele,
- Dr. Eylem Camoruglu Cig
- Dr. Katharina Fink
Contact Person
- Dr. Katharina Fink
frl.fink@uni-bayreuth.de
Guests
- Dr Kudzai Vanyoro
- Dr Leigh-Anne Naidoo
- Dr Yavini Naidoo
- Dr Unsal Cig
- Dr Hakan Altun
- Wanelisa Xaba
- Dr. Hakan Mertcan
Summary
The proposed working group will focus on sites of aesthetic resistance and their challenges against despair in Turkey and South Africa, as well as the diasporas; not omitting the complicated role that the Erdogan empire plays in African countries. The aim of this comparison of different spaces and their tactics of holding on, and holding together of often temporary collectives is to analyze tactics of social movements in ongoing crisis; in countries that are connected by a number of factors, let alone business cooperation.
Date |
Activity / Event |
|---|---|
| November 2023 |
An introduction to the concept of critical hope and the working group’s topic - a lecture & plenum discussion based on works in the Iwalewahaus collection and a collection of voices from Turkey Plenum - Discussion forum Dr. Eylem Camuroglu Cig, Dr. Katharina Fink, Dr. Serawit Bekele, Gloria Igabe |
| November 2023 |
Enwezor Lecture 2023 |
| 25/26th January 2024 - Workshop |
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| January 2024 |
Visiting Artists/Aesthetic Scholars: Asher Gamedze, Thandi Ntuli and Malcolm Jiyane - two week residency to compose a Hope Suite |
| Nov 23 - Feb 2024 |
Reading Group weaving through the semester, we work with GEW (the German union for teachers and university lecturers) and UBT on bell hook’s seminal book Teaching To Transgress. |
| February 2024 |
Teachers’ Workshop - hope in the classroom, against stereotyping Africa |
| February 2024 |
Final presentation |