Über die Veranstaltung
Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt. Englischsprachiger Ankündigungstext:
The Black German Heritage & Research Association in Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Camden, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and the Rutgers Camden Division of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement are pleased to invite you to attend their Ninth International Conference.
According to Silvia Posocco in Substance, Sign, and Trace: Performative Analogies and Technologies of Enfleshment in the Transnational Adoption archives in Guatemala, “through archival materials, the ‘mattering forth’ of carnality and enfleshment reaches into the present, frequently in the form of an absence.”
In his book Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human, Alexander Weheliye discusses how, through enfleshment, human beings who have otherwise been excluded from liberal category of “Man” would embody alternative and not-yet-fully-explored modes of being human that call into question our understanding of liberation, resistance, and agency.
For the 2026 conference—Black Archives, Black Futures: Enfleshment—the organizers will explore archival, pedagogical, and artistic practices that help to envision futures that also stem from different understandings of the past and present not beholden to the same logics that produced “Man.”
The rekinning of the Black German population across generational and geographical borders is a form of Enfleshment—a moving out of the holds of memory and the writings of history into the arms of our families. How do we account for this dramatic shift in our pedagogies and artwork? How do we continue this movement from the archives to the flesh?
This year’s three-day, virtual event, “Black Archives, Black Futures: Enfleshment,” will be held on February 26–28, 2026. As always, the online conference is free and open to the public.
In addition to the customary keynotes, films/filmmakers, and panel presentations, this year the organizers are pleased to announce that they have added three workshops to our program.
The Digital Archives Workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Sonya Donaldson. The pedagogy workshop entitled Teaching Ethical Black German and European Cultural Studies will be facilitated by Dr. Emily Frazier-Rath. The final workshop, Artistic Self Expressions facilitated by Zari Harat, will be open to all conference attendees. Any art supplies needed to participate fully in this event will be posted on the conference website by early February.
Fr, 27.02.2026
Sa, 28.02.2026
Fr, 27.02.2026
Sa, 28.02.2026
Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt. Englischsprachiger Ankündigungstext:
The Black German Heritage & Research Association in Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Camden, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and the Rutgers Camden Division of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement are pleased to invite you to attend their Ninth International Conference.
According to Silvia Posocco in Substance, Sign, and Trace: Performative Analogies and Technologies of Enfleshment in the Transnational Adoption archives in Guatemala, “through archival materials, the ‘mattering forth’ of carnality and enfleshment reaches into the present, frequently in the form of an absence.”
In his book Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human, Alexander Weheliye discusses how, through enfleshment, human beings who have otherwise been excluded from liberal category of “Man” would embody alternative and not-yet-fully-explored modes of being human that call into question our understanding of liberation, resistance, and agency.
For the 2026 conference—Black Archives, Black Futures: Enfleshment—the organizers will explore archival, pedagogical, and artistic practices that help to envision futures that also stem from different understandings of the past and present not beholden to the same logics that produced “Man.”
The rekinning of the Black German population across generational and geographical borders is a form of Enfleshment—a moving out of the holds of memory and the writings of history into the arms of our families. How do we account for this dramatic shift in our pedagogies and artwork? How do we continue this movement from the archives to the flesh?
This year’s three-day, virtual event, “Black Archives, Black Futures: Enfleshment,” will be held on February 26–28, 2026. As always, the online conference is free and open to the public.
In addition to the customary keynotes, films/filmmakers, and panel presentations, this year the organizers are pleased to announce that they have added three workshops to our program.
The Digital Archives Workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Sonya Donaldson. The pedagogy workshop entitled Teaching Ethical Black German and European Cultural Studies will be facilitated by Dr. Emily Frazier-Rath. The final workshop, Artistic Self Expressions facilitated by Zari Harat, will be open to all conference attendees. Any art supplies needed to participate fully in this event will be posted on the conference website by early February.
Fr, 27.02.2026
Sa, 28.02.2026
Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt. Englischsprachiger Ankündigungstext:
The Black German Heritage & Research Association in Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Camden, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and the Rutgers Camden Division of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement are pleased to invite you to attend their Ninth International Conference.
According to Silvia Posocco in Substance, Sign, and Trace: Performative Analogies and Technologies of Enfleshment in the Transnational Adoption archives in Guatemala, “through archival materials, the ‘mattering forth’ of carnality and enfleshment reaches into the present, frequently in the form of an absence.”
In his book Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human, Alexander Weheliye discusses how, through enfleshment, human beings who have otherwise been excluded from liberal category of “Man” would embody alternative and not-yet-fully-explored modes of being human that call into question our understanding of liberation, resistance, and agency.
For the 2026 conference—Black Archives, Black Futures: Enfleshment—the organizers will explore archival, pedagogical, and artistic practices that help to envision futures that also stem from different understandings of the past and present not beholden to the same logics that produced “Man.”
The rekinning of the Black German population across generational and geographical borders is a form of Enfleshment—a moving out of the holds of memory and the writings of history into the arms of our families. How do we account for this dramatic shift in our pedagogies and artwork? How do we continue this movement from the archives to the flesh?
This year’s three-day, virtual event, “Black Archives, Black Futures: Enfleshment,” will be held on February 26–28, 2026. As always, the online conference is free and open to the public.
In addition to the customary keynotes, films/filmmakers, and panel presentations, this year the organizers are pleased to announce that they have added three workshops to our program.
The Digital Archives Workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Sonya Donaldson. The pedagogy workshop entitled Teaching Ethical Black German and European Cultural Studies will be facilitated by Dr. Emily Frazier-Rath. The final workshop, Artistic Self Expressions facilitated by Zari Harat, will be open to all conference attendees. Any art supplies needed to participate fully in this event will be posted on the conference website by early February.
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