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SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE MEDIA: FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. For additional information visit german.utk.edu A GERMAN STUDIES LECTURE SERIES The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, or covered veteran status. A project for the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures with assistance from the Office of Communications in the UT College of Arts and Sciences. R01-1046-039 JOB 17-135 Monday, September 18 4:00 to 5:30 PM McCLUNG TOWER, Room 1210 Connecting and Community: BLACK GERMANS IN THEIR OWN WORDS In her lecture, Jamele will discuss the various bands of Black German autobiography over the years including Farbe bekennen, Spiegelblicke, and the YouTube channel “Schwarz Rot Gold.” These collections provide examples of community building and knowledge building in a mainstream white society. By adding missing narratives, these stories complicate popular notions of German identity and belonging. Jamele Watkins is a postdoctoral fellow in German Studies at Stanford University. This semester, she is teaching a class on pop feminism. Before joining Stanford, she taught at Gettysburg College. Her dissertation, “The Drama of Race,” (2017) examines contemporary Afro-German theater using performance and diasporic theories. FIFTH LECTURE
