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BGCSNJ CONVENTION 2012
Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey (BGCSNJ) will be held at Barnard College - Columbia University in New York City on August 10-11, 2012. This year’s convention will focus on the theme of “What Is the Black German Experience?” -
SPEAKERS & PERFORMERS
The Keynote address will be delivered by DR. YARA COLLETTE LEMKE MUNIZ DE FARIA. Also, through the generosity of the Goethe Institut - NYC, this year our event will feature readings by Black German authors and poet-performers OLUMIDE POPOOLA and PHILIPP KHABO KÖPSELL. -
Film Screenings
Special events will include screenings of the films “Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story” and “Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984-1992,”
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Keynote Address
Dr. Yara Lemke Muniz de Faria
Operation Helping Hands. African Americans and the Albert-Schweitzer Children's Home for Mixed-Race Children
Featured Presentations
Our conference program includes:
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Academic Panels & Roundtables
Three panels and ten speakers.
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Oral Histories & Memoirs
Two panels and six presenters.
- Teaching the Black German Experience.
- Historical and Popular Cultures of Blacks in Germany.
- Visualizing German Blackness.
- Witnessing Our Histories – Reclaiming the Black German Experience.
- Telling Our Stories – Black German Life Writing.
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Film Screenings
- Hope In My Heart: The May Ayim Story
- Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years
- Performers
- Participants
Olumide Popoola
This is Not About Sadness
Philipp Khabo Köpsell
Die Akte James Knopf: Afrodeutsche Worte und Streitkunst
This year’s convention participants will focus on the theme of “What Is the Black German Experience?”
