BE.BOP 2014-Black Europe Body Politics

Jeannette Ehlers from her "Whip It" performance
This Blackgirl is in heaven right now. I am so looking forward to this event: Not only because of the subject & content, but due to the fact that I will also be participating. Big up the organisers for making this happen here in DK. 

SPIRITUAL REVOLUTIONS & “THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA” BE.BOP 2014. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS
MAY 02-31 BERLIN
Ballhaus Naunynstraße. With the friendly support of Heinrich Böll Stiftung

MAY 15-18 COPENHAGEN

SPIRITUAL REVOLUTIONS & “THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA” BE.BOP 2014. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS

Thursday May 15

Keynote by Walter Mignolo:

Say it Loud!: Re-Existences, Re-Surgences and 

Re-Emergences 

University of Copenhagen, 

Amager Auditorium 22.0.1 

16:00-18:00

Say it Loud! Nikolaj Kunsthal

Reception at Jeannette Ehlers’ exhibition 

19:00-21:00

Performance by Charo OquetEngungu in White - A Celebration of our Ancestors and a Community Spiritual Cleaning Nikolaj Kunsthal


20:00

Friday May 16

Welcome

10:00-10:30


PANEL 1

Sister Womanist: On Decoloniality and Black Theology of Liberation

Anika Gibbons, Alanna Lockward, Rolando VázquezModerator: Walter Mignolo
10:30-12:30

PANEL 2

Spiritual Revolutions and Pan-Africanism: Black Bullets, Blakaman and the Ethiopian Crisis of 1940

Jeannette Ehlers, Gillion Grantsaan, Adler Guerrier, Robbie ShilliamModerator: Quinsy Gario
13:00-14:15

PANEL 3


A Journey Without Distance: Situating Diasporic Meanings

Anne Ring Petersen, Lesley-Anne BrownModerator: Patricia Kaersenhout
14:00-15:30


                                      The Stuart Hall Project
      Cinemateque
16:30-18:00

                                            Sunday May 18

PANEL 4

Migrating Spirits. Re-existence in Havana, London and everywhere in between.

Jane Thorburn, Yoel Díaz Vázquez, Temi OdumosuModerator: Robbie Shilliam
11:00-12:30


PANEL 5

Healing the Dual Wound: Saint Domingue Sibyls in the Art Plantations of Modernity

Sasha Huber, Charo Oquet, Teresa María Díaz NerioModerator: Alanna Lockward
12:30-13:30

PANEL 6

Amazones Shooting Back: Revisiting Dutch Colonial Amnesia

Patricia Kaersenhout, Artwell Cain, Quinsy GarioModerator: Sasha Huber
14:30-15:30

Panel 7

Is Neo-Afrophobia a Scandinavian Syndrome? Re-visiting Nordic Exceptionalism.

Mathias Danbolt, Mette Moestrup, Kuratorisk AktionModerator: Gillion Grantsaan
15:30- 16:30

Open MicModerators: Alanna Lockward & Quinsy Gario
16:30-17:30

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