Program
Monday, 25. June 2018 RESISTANCE AND SPACE 

13: 00 – 13:30 Sweet Peanuts (International Music Collective)


13:30 – 14:30 Opening: Welcoming and Introduction
Dr. Elisabeth Donoughue (Bavarian Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts)
Prof. Dr. Dymitr Ibriszimow (Dean of BIGSAS)
Dr. Thomas Ebersberger, City of Bayreuth
Shirin Assa (Co-Speaker, Future Migration, Network for Cultural Diversity)
Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt (Director of BIGSAS-Festival of African and African-diasporic literatures)
Dr. Ulrich Schreiber (Guest of Honor, Founder and Director, International Literature Festival Berlin)
Najem Wali (Godfather, Writer and Public Intellectual)


14:30 Reception by City of Bayreuth featuring Aras Hesso (Kurdistan)


15:00 - 20:30 Street Art


15:30 – 16:30 Double Key Note Resistance and Space
Prof. Raimi Gbadamosi (UK/South Africa)
Dr. Henriette Gunkel (UK/Germany)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Onookome Okome (Canada)


16:45 – 18:00 Panel Discussion Resistance and Space. MENA, Street Art & Activism
Prof. Dr. Raimi Gbadamosi (South Africa), Billy Kahora (Kenya), Najem Wali (Germanyy/Iraq), 
Mr. Reed (USA), Manal Mahamid (Palestine) & Dr. Henriette Gunkel (UK/Germany)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt (Germany) & Shirin Assa (Germany/Iran)


18:15 - 18:40 Video Installations & Vernissage
Fine Dust
Manal Mahamid (Palestina)
Till Death Do Us Part
Theo Eshetu
Introduced by Lukas Heger (Germany)
Chair: Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany)


18:45 – 20:00 Reading Space & Resistance
Najem Wali (Germany/Iraq) Saras Stunde
Billy Kahora (Kenya) The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories
Prof. Dr. Onookome Okome (Canada/Nigeria)
Chair: Shirin Assa (Germany/Iran), Dr. Alena Rettova (Czech Republic, UK) & Mingqing Yuan (Germany / China)


20:15 Dinner


21:00 Spoken Word Performance 
Blesz (Netherlands), Toni Stuart (South Africa) & Batsirai Chigama (Zimbabwe) 
Open Mic: Brady Blackburn (USA) & Dr. Tamás Jules Fütty (Germany)
Chair: Sifa Jihad (Marocco) & Tomupeishe Maphosa (Germany/Zimbabwe)
Music: Sweet Peanuts (International Music Collective)


22:30 DJ Blesz (Netherlands)
Tuesday, 26. June 2018 RESISTANCE, SPACE AND FEMINISM

10:45 Opening and Greeting
Samira Paraschiv (Coordinator, BIGSAS Festival of African and African-diasporic Literature
Johanna Sarre (academic coordinator, GeQuInDi)


11:00 – 12:30 Keynote Resistance and Transnational Feminism
In Cooperation with BIGSAS Diversity Program
Prof. Dr. Roshni Mooneeram (Mauritius)
Chair: Xin Li (Germany /China)


12:30 Lunch
 
 
12:45 Film Screening Leaf in the Wind
Chair: Prof. Dr. Onookome Okome (Canada/Nigeria)
 
 
13:45 – 15:15 Academic Word Slam Feminism 
In Cooperation with BIGSAS Diversity Program
Prof. Dr. Roshni Mooneram (Mauritius), Toni Stuart (South Africa),
Dr. Tamás Jules Fütty (Germany) & Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen & Prof. Dr. Valentina Serelli 


15:00 – 19:30 Street Art


15:30 – 16:45 Reading & Performance Feminism
Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria): Onions Make Us Cry
Prof. Dr. Elleke Boehmer (UK/South Africa): The Shouting in the Dark
Chair: Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke (Germany) & Ifeoluwa Aboluwade (Germany/Nigeria)


17:00 Vernissage Hypnopompia: The Interstitial Self
Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria)
Chair: Ifeoluwe Aboluwade (Germany/Nigeria)


17:15 – 18:00 Panel Discussion #torevolutionarytypelove. Talking about Queer & Politics
In Cooperation with Iwalewahaus
Kawira Mwirichia (Kenya), Malcolm Muga (Kenya), Faith Wanjala (Kenya)
Chair: Samanea Karfalt (Germany/USA)


18:15 – 19:00 Panel Discussion presenting Results of Workshop: Rethinking Gender & Feminism for the 21st Century 
Toni Stuart (South Africa) 

in Conversation with Ifeoluwa Aboluwade (Germany/Nigeria), Shirin Assa (Germany /Iran),
Tomupeishe Maphosa (Germany /Zimbabwe), Xin Li (Germany /China), 
Samira Paraschiv (Germany/Romania)  & Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany)


19:00 Dinner


19:30 Reading Blumen für Otello. Über die Verbrechen von Jena
In German, English and Turkish
Author and Reader: Esther Dischereit (Germany)
Music and Reader: İpek İpekçoğlu (Germany)
Reader: Prof. Dr. Onokoome Okome (Canada)
In conversation with Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt (Germany)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Martin Huber (Germany) 
In Cooperation with the Universitätsverein of Bayreuth University.


21:30 Party Night with DJ Ipek (Germany)

Wednesday, 27 June 2018 A TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA

Opening and Greeting
Dr. Nadine Siegert (Deputy Director, Iwalewahaus)


11:00 – 14:00 Lectures ‘n Discussion A Tribute to Nelson Mandela in Context
Prof. Dr. Elleke Boehmer (UK/South Africa)
Prof. Dr. Raimi Gbadamosi (South Africa)
Dr. Katharina Fink (Germany)
Najem Wali (Germany/Iraq)
Yewande Omotoso (Nigeria/South Africa)
Chair: Billy Kahora (Kenya) & Dr. Henriette Gunkel (Germany/UK)


14:00 – 14:30 Lunch


14:30 – 15:30 BookLaunch Future and Fiction in Africa and Beyond. Visions in Transition (Publications of Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies)
In Cooperation with Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt (Germany), Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany) & Dr. Henriette Gunkel (Germany)
In Conversation with Yewande Omotoso (South Africa)
Chair: Shirin Assa (Germany/Iran) & Dr. Renzo Baas (UK/Namibia)


15:45 – 17:15 Reading Resistance and Space
Yewande Omotoso (Nigeria/South Africa) The Woman Next Door
Zena Edwards (UK)
Ives Loukson Sangouing (Germany/Cameroon) Le Fruit défendu 
Chair: Mingqing Yuan (China/ Germany), Joyce Anchimbe (Germany/Cameroon) & Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler (Germany)


13:30 – 18:00 Street Art Corner together with Workshop for Kids
Curation and Chair: Dr. Katharina Fink (Germany) & Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany)

Jazz ‘n (International Music Cooperation)
Sweet Peanuts & Friends (International Music Collective)

Saz
Aras Hesso (Kurdistan)

Children's Workshop und Tape Art
Dilan Zoe Smida (Germany) & Dr. Katharina Fink (Germany)


17:15 - 17:45 Griotage *Imbongi
Batsirai Chigama (Zimbabwe)
Najem Wali (Germany/Iraq)


18:00 - 22:30 Open Air Concert: 
In Cooperation with Bayreuth Event & Festival e.V.
Stadtparkett

Sweet Peanuts

Mr Reed (USA) feat. Emmanuel Afriyie (Netherlands) feat. Elvis Ediagbonya (Netherlands), Gabeyre Farah (Germany), Danny Maaskamp (Netherlands), Daniel van der Molen (Netherlands) & Lukas Sauer (Germany)


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