Natasha A. Kelly & Guests | THE COMET – 150 years W.E.B. Du Bois

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To mark the 150th birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois HAU Hebbel am Ufer is putting on a three-day programme, curated by Natasha A. Kelly, in honour of the Black intellectual and cosmopolitan. Not many people in Germany know that starting in 1892 Du Bois was a research fellow at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, today’s Humboldt-University, and that many of his ideas arose during this period. The sociologist and activist dedicated his life to the political struggle against racism. His first science fiction short story “The Comet” (1920), which portrays a Black man as the last survivor of humanity, makes clear which role Du Bois played in the emergence of “Afrofuturism”. International activists, artists and academics, including Molefi Kete Asante, Reynaldo Anderson and Sheree Renée Thomas, will illuminate the visions of W.E.B. Du Bois. In lectures, conversations, films, a concert, and an exhibition both his influence on and his critique of German society, which remain valid to this day, will be put in focus.

Dates
01.11.2018 17:00-21:30 / HAU1
Soul R System
Visual Conversations on Afrofuturism 2.0
Part of "THE COMET – 150 years W.E.B. Du Bois"

01.11.2018 ab 18:00 / HAU1
Before Dawn: W.E.B. Du Bois, a Pioneer and Advocate of Afrofuturism
With Molefi Kete Asante, Sheree Renée Thomas and Peggy Piesche
Part of "THE COMET – 150 years W.E.B. Du Bois"

02.11.2018 17:00-21:30 / HAU1
Soul R System
Visual Conversations on Afrofuturism 2.0
Part of "THE COMET – 150 years W.E.B. Du Bois"

02.11.2018 ab 18:00 / HAU1
After the Apocalypse: Afrofuturism 2.0 and the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM)
With Reynaldo Anderson, Quentin VerCetty, Florence Ifeoma Okoye, David Kirkmann
Part of "THE COMET – 150 years W.E.B. Du Bois"

03.11.2018 17:00-21:30 / HAU1
Soul R System
Visual Conversations on Afrofuturism 2.0
Part of "THE COMET – 150 years W.E.B. Du Bois"

03.11.2018 ab 18:00 / HAU1
Afro-Sonic Modernity: The Souls of Black Folk
With Alexander Weheliye, Frederik “Torch” Hahn, Priscilla Layne, Onyx Ashanti
Part of "THE COMET – 150 years W.E.B. Du Bois