[Kunst Afrikas] WG: Announcement: Launch of the Affect and Colonialism Web Lab

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Dear colleagues, dear students, and list members,

In the name of the editorial team, I am excited to announce the launch of the Affect and Colonialism Web Lab:

http://affect-and-colonialism.net/

The Web Lab brings together researchers, journalists, activists, and artists all over the world interested in the affective lives and afterlives of colonialism. Together, we want to explore new ways of communicating knowledge online and build partnerships between people in the Global North and the Global South. It is a joint initiative of FU Berlin and HU Berlin, administered by the CRC Affective Societies and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Videos
We launch the Web Lab with 15 videos that already show a great variety of content and format: From ethnographic accounts (Laibor Kalanga Moko "Feeling Colonialism Through Maasai Objects"), to art performances (Mala Badi "Collective Healing from Colonial Memory"), from philosophical discussions (Jan Slaby and Henrike Kohpeiß "Affect and Blackness") to poetic explorations (Tanja-Bianca Schmidt „Gorée"), to name just a few.

Fellows
Our digital fellowship program has already started in May. Check out the intro-videos by our current fellows Jaider Esbell ("Amplifying Affect in Research and Artistic-Cultural Practices“) and Luiza Prado ("Reproduction, Herbal Medicine and Coloniality").

Podcast
We also just launched the first episode of the Affect and Colonialism Podcast. Listen to Débora Medeiros who talks with Jonas Bens about the affective politics of media in Bolsonaro Brazil. You can listen to it on Spotify<https://open.spotify.com/show/7HTCbIFWynJtSpr67Mljya> and Apple Podcasts<https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-affect-and-colonialism-podcast/id1580904318?l=en>.

We cordially invite everyone interested to share their work on the Web Lab and to spread the word! Feel free to contact me (verena.straub@fu-berlin.de<mailto:verena.straub@fu-berlin.de>) or the whole editorial team (info@aac-weblab.net<mailto:info@aac-weblab.net>) with any suggestions, comments, or questions that you might have.

And last but not least: Please follow us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/aac.weblabnet> and Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/aac.weblabnet/>!

Looking forward to many collaborations,
Verena Straub, Jonas Bens, Fabian Bernhardt, Débora Medeiros and Rosa Cordillera Castillo (the AaC editorial team).

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Verena Straub
Art and Image Historian
CRC 1171 Affective Societies
Affect and Colonialism Web Lab
www.aac-weblab.net<http://www.aac-weblab.net>

Freie Universität Berlin | Habelschwerdter Allee 45 | D-14195 Berlin
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