
"In Their Best Interest" Afro-German Children in Postwar Children's Homes
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"In Their Best Interest" Afro-German Children in Postwar Children's Homes
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"In Their Best Interest" Afro-German Children in Postwar Children's Homes
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Joana Tischkau
Keynote address; title not supplied in program
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Zoe
Keynote address; title not supplied in program
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Amal Abass
Interview/conversation with Amal Abass
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BGHRA Founding Trustee Carmen Geschke
Interview/conversation with BGHRA Founding Trustee Carmen Geschke
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Brenda Akele Jorde
Interview/conversation with Brenda Akele Jorde
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Dana Day
Interview/conversation with Dana Day
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Deann Borshay Liem & Kori Graves
Interview/conversation with Deann Borshay Liem & Kori Graves
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Denise Ekale Kum
Interview/conversation with Denise Ekale Kum
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Dr. Heidi Renee Lewis
Interview/conversation with Dr. Heidi Renee Lewis
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Dr. Jamele Watkins
Interview/conversation with Dr. Jamele Watkins
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Dr. Layla Zami & Oxana Chi
Interview/conversation with Dr. Layla Zami & Oxana Chi
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Dr. Michael McEachrane
Interview/conversation with Dr. Michael McEachrane
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Dr. Michelle Moyd
Interview/conversation with Dr. Michelle Moyd
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Dr. Natasha Kelly
Interview/conversation with Dr. Natasha Kelly
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Dr. Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana MEP: On Africans in Ukraine
Interview/conversation with Dr. Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana MEP: On Africans in Ukraine
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Dr. Robbie Aitken
Interview/conversation with Dr. Robbie Aitken
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Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters
Interview/conversation with Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters
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Film Director Ines Johnson-Spain
Interview/conversation with Film Director Ines Johnson-Spain
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Gabriella Ghermandi
Interview/conversation with Gabriella Ghermandi
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Goitseone Montsho
Interview/conversation with Goitseone Montsho
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Imani Jones-Pugh
Interview/conversation with Imani Jones-Pugh
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John Kantara
Interview/conversation with John Kantara
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Josephine Apraku
Interview/conversation with Josephine Apraku
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Joshua Kantara
Facilitator: Dr. Emily Frazier-Rath May 29, 2006 BGHRA http://www.bghra.org @blackgermans Please Like, Subscribe , and turn on the Notifications!
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Katharina Warda
Interview/conversation with Katharina Warda
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Lara Sophie-Milagro
Interview/conversation with Lara Sophie-Milagro
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Lauren & Beatrice Cox
Interview/conversation with Lauren & Beatrice Cox
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Malick Bauer
Interview/conversation with Malick Bauer
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Mekonnen Meshghena
Interview/conversation with Mekonnen Meshghena
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Michelle Moyd & Robbie Aitken
Interview/conversation with Michelle Moyd & Robbie Aitken
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Miriam Ibrahim
Interview/conversation with Miriam Ibrahim
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Mrs. Sarah Collins Rudolph, the "Fifth Little Girl"
Interview/conversation with Mrs. Sarah Collins Rudolph, the "Fifth Little Girl"
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Ngozi Okwuosa
Interview/conversation with Ngozi Okwuosa
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Olivia Wenzel
Interview/conversation with Olivia Wenzel
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Paula Essam
Interview/conversation with Paula Essam
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Sharon Dodua Otoo
Interview/conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo
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Sophie Yukiko & Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters
Interview/conversation with Sophie Yukiko & Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters
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Tupoka Ogette & Stephen Lawson
Interview/conversation with Tupoka Ogette & Stephen Lawson
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Two Black German Adoptees: Doris Walker-Mayberry & Denese Walters Henderson
Interview/conversation with Two Black German Adoptees: Doris Walker-Mayberry & Denese Walters Henderson
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Visual Artist Zari Harat
Interview/conversation with Visual Artist Zari Harat
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ZOE
Interview/conversation with ZOE
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Alice Hasters
Alice Hasters: Unpacking Racism in Germany and the US (May 6, 2021)
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Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters
Art & Resistance with Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters
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BGHRA and University of Toronto conference hosts
Welcoming remarks
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BGHRA leadership and conference hosts
Conference closing reflections
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Brenda Akele Jorde
Keynote address; title not supplied in program
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Brenda Dixon-Gottschild
Reclaiming Black Joy!
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Dana Winston-Day
Keynote and performance
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Darrel Toulon
Keynote address; title not supplied in program
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Kassaye MacDonald; Maureen McCauley; Leyla Angelidis
Lions Roaring Far from Home: A Global Anthology by Ethiopian Adoptees
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Bolajun Balogun; Joanna Ohia-Nowak; Jasmijn Janssen
Polishness and Blackness; complexity of liberty
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Gabriella Ghermandi
Keynote and performance
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Laura Hasters; Alice Hasters; Sophie Hasters; Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters
The Hasters Family
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Zari Harat; Venuse Samesova; Safaa Farid; Eliane Kesrouani
Zari’s Artists
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Davidson College students
Student roundtable
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Rhea Ramjohn; Goitseone Montsho; Jordan Rita Seruya Awori
Live Chile!; Black Women in Poetry Film; The Colonies and the Queen
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Athena Myers-Hastings; Yanda Bango; Natasha A. Kelly
Black women’s communities; Blackness and belonging; Black German Arts & Culture Institute
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Cherita Harrell; Jacob Camacho
Quilting Water Project
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Lena Whooo
Create to feel and write to heal: how creative processes help overcome pain with joy
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Malick Bauer
Keynote address; title not supplied in program
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Oliver Hardt
Black Deutschland and The Black Museum
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Mariama Diagne
White Shadows: Poetic Steps of Healing in Afro Diasporic Performance and Thought
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Jennifer Musial; Patrick Craig
NJCU partnership
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BGHRA leadership and conference hosts
Conference closing reflections
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Emily Frazier-Rath and students
Student presentations and discussion
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Priya Kumari; Asha Wayah; Ajibade Joy; Ajibola Fabusuyi
Panel discussion on joy, pain, and Black diasporic experience
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Cherita Harrell; Reginald A. Bess; Asia Cureton
Panel presentations on Black German history, memory, and community
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Zari Harat; Cherine Yazbeck; Elena Victoria Pastor; Ruchika Wason Singh
Artists’ presentations and discussion
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BGHRA leadership and conference hosts
Conference closing reflections
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Malik Nagorsen
Keynote address; title not supplied in program
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Salima Faye
Rekinning and Mental Health
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Zari Harat; Safy Farid; Eliane Kesrouani
On Art, Reckoning, and Justice
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Malick Bauer
On Rekinning
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Swami Dhyānānanda
Justice vs. Spirituality: The Cost of Comfort in Trying Times
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Evan Torner; Reginald A. Bess; Albrecht Classen
Black film actors in East and West Germany; Samuel Meffire; crime, revenge, and justice
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Sophie Holzberger; Siegbert Ozim Ott; Jordan Awori
The Snake in My Bed; Mkokoteni
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Melina Morr de Pérez; Silke Hackenesch; Mariela Georg; Kasturi Chatterjee
Audre Lorde; adoption of Black German children; diaspora, identity, healing; Afropessimism and Afrosurrealism
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BGHRA leadership and conference hosts
Conference opening and welcome
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Peggy Piesche
Keynote address; title not supplied in program
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BGHRA leadership and conference hosts
Conference opening and welcome
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Asia Cureton; Pat Kielb; Olivia Howard; Makayla Thornton; Alessandra Daniels
BGHRA Institute & Academy
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BGHRA Presents SAM -A Saxon
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Noah Sow
Visions and Challenges for Black German Studies 2.0
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Fatima El-Tayeb
Beyond the Black Paradigm? Afro-Diasporic Strategies in the Age of Neo-Nationalism
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BGHRA-UT 2018 Panel 2: Intersectional Canadian Life Narratives
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Multiple presenters — verify against program/video
BGHRA-UT 2018 Panel 3: Belonging and Resistance
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BGHRA-UT 2018 Panel 5: Life Lines: Transatlantic Adoption
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BGHRA-UT 2018 Panel 6: Intertextuality, Mobility, and Global Blackness
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BGHRA-UT 2018: Panel 1: Framing Oral Histories in Scholarship, Arts, and Activism
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BGHRA-UT 2018: Panel 4: Cinema, Archives, Authorship
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Multiple conference presenters
Conference proceedings, May 24 — Part One
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Multiple conference presenters
Conference proceedings, May 24 — Part Two
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Vera Seyra; Marisa Pickett; Asia Cureton
Black Activism and Intraracial Solidarities
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Black Germans During the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
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Jeanette Footman & Jeannine Kantara
Black Girlhood in the Former GDR/DDR:
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Vanessa Plumly; Andrea Bryant; Rita Maricocchi
Black Literary Authorship in Germany
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Cassandra Ellerbe, Trina Roach, and Love NewKirk
Black US Expats in Germany:
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Blackness in Germany and the AfroEuropean Diaspora
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Bassirou Maxim Camara
BLM in Berlin and Abroad:
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William Daniels; Maureen Gallagher
Celebrating Monumental Challenges / Challenging Celebratory Monuments
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BGHRA leadership and conference hosts
Conference opening and welcome
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BGHRA leadership and conference hosts
Conference closing reflections
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Araba Johnston-Arthur
Unokanma Okonjo and Black Austrian history
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Lara-Sophie Milagro
Emmett, Deep in My Heart
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Michael McEachrane
African Diasporas in Europe: Beyond Culture and Identity
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Natasha A. Kelly
Past Future of Black German Feminism
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Priscilla Layne
New (Black German) Subjectivity
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Vanessa Spanbauer
Black Austrian Resistance and Protest
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BGHRA leadership and conference hosts
Conference opening and welcome
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Noah Sow
Visions and Challenges for Black German Studies 2.0
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Heidi R. Lewis
Dr. Heidi R. Lewis at Davidson College
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Dr. Maisha Eggers
Dr. Maisha Eggers,
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Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters
Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters:
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Enacting Multiplicities
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Dr. Natasha A. Kelly
Film Screening and Conversation with Dr. Natasha A. Kelly
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Ines Johnson-Spain
Film Screening with Director Ines Johnson-Spain in Attendance: "Becoming Black"
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Branwen Okpako
Filmmaker spotlight
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Sarah Blaßkiewitz
Filmmaker spotlight
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Gabriella Ghermandi
Gabriella Ghermandi at Davidson College
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Helmut Berghoff
Helmut Berghoff: GHI-DC
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Multiple presenters — verify against program/video
Historical & Popular Cultures of Blacks in Germany
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Multiple presenters — verify against program/video
Historical and Popular Cultures of Blacks in Germany
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Ayasha Guerin; Noaquia Callahan Banks; Jessica Varela
Intersectional Black Poetics
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Jeanette Footman and Jeannine Kantara
Jeanette Footman and Jeannine Kantara
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John Amoatang Kantara at Davidson College
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Lena Whooo
Keynote address; title not supplied in program
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Alice Hasters
Keynote address; title not supplied in program
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Silke Hackenesch
Racial Solidarity in the Aftermath of War: The Transnational Adoption of Afro-German Children to Black American Families
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Constance Jones Simmons
Bridging Cultures: A German-American Journalist’s Efforts to Showcase German Heritage in the United States
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Lara Sophie-Milagro
Keynote address; title not supplied in program
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Malick Bauer
Keynote address; title not supplied in program
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Amal Abass
Keynote address — topic requires description/program review
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Not named in title — review required
Lena Whooo at Davidson College
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Multiple presenters — verify against program/video
Life Histories
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Multiple presenters — verify against program/video
Life Histories II
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Doris Mayberry; Janae Smith; Crystal Smith; Yvonne Derricote; Ilona Britton-Smith
After the Search: Postwar Adoption & Family Reunification
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James Thompson; Catherine Thompson; Denese Walters-Henderson
Black, German & Black German Families in Postwar America
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Not named in title — review required
Maseho: Black German Art & Resistance
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Mischa Thompson
Mischa Thompson, PhD.
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Not named in title — review required
MOVE by Raphael Oetti
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Noah Sow
Geteilte Geschichte: The Black Experience in Germany and the US
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Olivia Howard: Black is Art
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Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters
Building Community in the Arts
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Sabrina Thomas; Jakub Gałęziowski
Adoption, Kinship, and (Un)Belonging; Black Amerasians after the Vietnam War; Polish Black children
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Evangelista Sie; Fleuri La Belle; Oluwafemi Oladeji
From Archives to Flesh: Journalistic Research, Rekinning, and the Black Diaspora in Europe
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Käthe Erichsen; Temilade Adegoke; Rashayla Marie Brown
Racialized bodies, Black German belonging, and transforming narratives through time-based media
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Priscilla Layne; Kasturi Chatterjee; Araba Johnston-Arthur
Queer Black German identity, Afrosurrealism, national belonging, archives, and mattering
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Reginald A. Bess; Rachel Afi Quinn; Amanda Sousa Barbosa
Louis Brody; mixed-race identity; translation in diaspora
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Naomi Lwanyaga; Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago
Black women’s movement beyond Germany; Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Audio Archive
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Jessica Nogueira Varela; Ouassima Laabich; Elisa Crabeil
The Digital Black European Archive
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Kavena Hambira; Cecilia Schaaf; Daphne Brunet
BGHRA 2026 Moderator: Sonya Donaldson Kavena Hambira, Filmmaker, Oakland, California Nuhmibeeuhn (pre-circulated film, 2024) Returning to Ancestral Ground: Restitution and the Archive of the Body Cecilia Schaaf MAPUTO///OSTBERLIN: Reframing Repetition Daphne Brunet Discussion about Performance It's not a rat's nest. It is my Crown. My Inheritance (pre-circulated) http://www.bghra.org @blackgermans Please Like, Subscribe , and turn on the Notifications!
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Multiple presenters — verify against program/video
Performing Black German Identities
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Aika Swai; Judy Billingsley; Heidi Lewis; Jordan Awori
Political Activism Through Cultural Production
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Postwar Black German History
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Not named in title — review required
Presentation and Discussion: Black GI Children in Post-World War II Europe
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Angelica Fenner
Q & A with Angelica Fenner
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Tawreak Gamble-Eddington; Sara Pugach; Robbie Aitken
Remembering and Forgetting: Colonial Echoes in Black German History
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Rosemarie Pena
Rosemarie Pena, Founding President of BGHRA
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RUC Africana-Fifth Little Girl.
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Sharon Dodua Otoo & Sandrine Micossé-Aikins
Sharon Dodua Otoo & Sandrine Micossé-Aikins
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Sharon Dodua Otoo
Sharon Dodua Otoo at Davidson College
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Not named in title — review required
Singing the Nation into Being: The Many Lives of “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
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Steffi Coates
Student research/creative project — topic requires review
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Will Holden-Wingate, Kenny Eheman, Owen Drometer
Student research/creative project — topic requires review
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Not named in title — review required
Students' Final project
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Not named in title — review required
Teaching the Black German Experience
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Not named in title — review required
Telling Our Stories – Black German Life Writing
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Not named in title — review required
Telling Our Stories: Black German Life Writing
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Multiple presenters — verify against program/video
The Language of Intraracial Politics
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Multiple presenters — verify against program/video
Theory/Methodology/Approaches to Black German Studies
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Bassirou Camara; Ngozi Okwuosa
Transmigration & Transnationalism
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Silke Hackenesch; Martina Koegeler-Abdi; Kori Graves
Transnational Black Adoption
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Not named in title — review required
Visualizing German Blackness: An Artist in Contact
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Not named in title — review required
Visualizing German Blackness: An Artist in Context
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Rosemarie Peña; Keith Green
Welcome remarks
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Multiple presenters — verify against program/video
Witnessing Our Histories – Reclaiming the Black German Experience
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Multiple presenters — verify against program/video
Witnessing Our Histories: Claiming the Black German Experience
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Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria
Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria (GHI-Berlin)
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Zari Harat
Zari Harat at Davidson College
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Zari Harat
Zari Harat at Davidson College:
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