On the 23rd of August 2020, on the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, the seventh M-Street Renaming Festival took place on Hausvogteiplatz in Berlin. M-Street is set to be renamed to honour the philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo, Germany’s first Black university scholar.
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We are delighted to announce a call for submissions! As a part of our Green Library series, we will publish some original, previously unpublished pieces on nature and the environment.
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Postcolonial Potsdam has developed a web app. It introduces users to German colonial history through images and sound.
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This month we share our favorite podcast episodes with you again. The selected episodes are about racism on different continents, racism in relation to the literary market and language, the current Black Lives Matter protests and diversity as a trend.
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Poco. lit. recommends literature podcast episodes and others that are thematically related to poco. lit. Find a great mix of English and German-language podcasts.
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Emilia Roig, founder of the Centre for Intersectional Justice, discusses with Poco. Lit. what it means to do intersectionality work in Europe and particularly in Germany.
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Poco.Lit. is delighted to announce our event series GREEN LIBRARY.
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Die Schriftstellerin Andrea Levy, die in ihren Büchern über die Lebenswelt von jamaikanisch-britischen Menschen schrieb, verstarb im Februar 2019 mit 62 Jahren an Krebs.
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Jedes Jahr werden die herausragendsten Werke der afrikanischen Literatur mit den Brittle Paper Awards geehrt.
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