[JFKI-News] GSA Distinguished Lecture by Damani J. Partridge on June 26, 2024, 15:30-17:00 h I Reception 17:00-18:00

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Dear Friends of the Berlin Program,

 

It is a great pleasure to invite you to this year's GSA Distinguished Lecture

 

Damani J. Partridge, University of Michigan

 

In his talk, Professor Partridge will examine the possibilities and limits of a universalized Black politics. Young people in Germany of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and other institutions accountable for their everyday struggle. Partridge tracks how these youth invoke the expressions of Black Power, acting out the medal-podium salute from the 1968 Olympics, proclaiming "I am Malcolm X,"

expressing mutual struggle with Muhammad Ali and Spike Lee, and standing with raised and clenched fists next to Angela Davis. Partridge also documents the demands by public-school teachers, federal-program leaders, and politicians that young immigrants take responsibility for countering the global persistence of anti-Semitism as part of the German state's commitment to anti-genocidal education. He uses these stories to interrogate relationships among European Enlightenment, Holocaust memory, and Black futures, showing how noncitizens work to reshape their everyday lives. This interdisciplinary lecture will discuss how the concept of Blackness energizes, inspires, and makes democratic participation possible beyond prevailing precepts of national belonging.

 

Damani J. Partridge is a Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He is also an affiliate with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, GSA Vice President and GSA President-Elect.

Please find the details in the attached flyer.

If you wish to attend this in-person event, register via email by June 17, 2024.

Looking forward to welcoming you on June 26, 2024.

Karin Goihl & Lea Kröner

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