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In/Audible Sounds
Contemporary pop music from African countries continues to be labelled with stereotypical, exoticised attributes and is frequently reduced to pop-cultural genres like Afrobeat and Afrojazz. Very few people realise, however, that Africa has a diverse...
Believe Tank
The city of Tübingen is not only home to one of the oldest and most prestigious theological faculties, but also the headquarters of the Stiftung Weltethos (World Ethics Foundation), the Centre for Islamic Theology and numerous religious organisations...
Afropean Mimicry & Mockery in Theatre, Performance & Visual Arts
... in Theatre, Performance & Visual Arts Mimicry and mockery form a common thread which runs through centuries of African-European encounter. Appropriation and segregation, demonisation and exaggeration, affirmation and over-affirmation all have a...
Chasing Rainbows
South Africa is witnessing the largest wave of public protests since the end of Apartheid in 1994. In March 2015, a student from the University of Cape Town (UCT) smeared excrement onto a monument of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes which sparked...
Afro-Tech, and the Future of Re-Invention
Rwanda wants to become Africa’s Silicon Valley. The African Internet market is booming and promises lucrative returns. This development also means that conventions of Western technology are frequently imitated, thereby hindering alternative, radical...
TippingPoint 2008
The conference "Tipping Point 2008 - A Dialogue between Climate Science and the Arts" aimed to encourage artists and researchers to jointly address the issue of climate change. The conference, organized by the British Council, the Potsdam Institute...
The engineers of the "Final Solution"
Topf & Sons - Builders of the Auschwitz Ovens The company Topf & Söhne used to be a normal German business - that is, until it perfected the cremating ovens for Auschwitz. How was it possible that a civilian-owned company could support the SS in...
Of Gardens and Sad Elephants – The Poetry of the Border
Dževad Karahasan, the Bosnian writer and winner of the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding in 2004, comes from Sarajevo where Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox and Jewish life and culture overlap. In his works, he intensively investigates the...
Fight the Fatigue!
The philosopher Byung-Chul Han, a professor of Philosophy in Karlsruhe, characterizes Western societies as “fatigue societies”. This diagnosis prompted the Literaturhaus Cologne to initiate measures to combat social, political and intellectual...
