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Internationally renowned critic of globalization and colonialism to visit Cologne from 17 to 22 July / five events on de-globalization at the University, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum and the africologneFESTIVAL
This year, the Albertus Magnus Professorship offers an extended programme at different locations across Cologne: the renowned historian and political scientist Achille Mbembe will hold two public lectures and a graduate seminar at the University. Moreover, he will speak on questions of civilizational responsibility and the restitution of cultural artefacts in the framework of a museum talk at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. To round off his visit, Mbembe will meet and discuss with artists and theatre producers from Germany and various African countries at the africologneFESTIVAL.
Events
Monday, 17 June 2019, 7.30 p.m.
‘Bodies and Borders’ (first public lecture)
Auditorium (Aula), UoC Main Building, Albertus Magnus Platz, 50923 Cologne
Tuesday, 18 June 2019, 7 p.m.
‘Memory and Restitution’ (museum talk)
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cäcilienstrasse 29-33, 50667 Cologne
Wednesday, 19 June 2019, 7:30 p.m.
‘Concerning the Right to Mobility’ (second public lecture)
Lecture Hall I, Building of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo-Gebäude), Universitätsstrasse 24, 50931 Cologne
Saturday, 22 June 2019, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
‘Macht.Wechsel.Kooperationen’ (event of the africologneFESTIVAL)
Depot 1 Schauspiel Köln, Carlswerk, Schanzenstrasse 6-20, 51063 Cologne)
The public lectures are in English. Please register in advance for the museum talk at www.amp.uni-koeln.de. Achille Mbembe will also hold a public graduate seminar at 11 a.m. on Friday, 21 June 2019 at the a.r.t.e.s Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne (Aachener Strasse 217, 50931 Cologne). Please register in advance at www.amp.uni-koeln.de.
Achille Mbembe was born in Cameroon in 1957. Today, the internationally leading postcolonial scholar teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (South Africa). He is considered one of the most important African intellectuals, dealing with questions such as the implications of notions of a global world without borders, or the difficulties and opportunities of decolonizing knowledge. Only on the basis of respect for historical truthfulness, he believes, can a new relationship between Europe and Africa be forged.
After scholars such as Douglas R. Hofstadter, Georges Didi-Huberman, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Bruno Latour, John Searle and Martha Nussbaum, the University of Cologne is proud to again welcome a scholar of international renown as Albertus Magnus Professor. The professorship was created in 2005 in honour of the medieval polymath Albertus Magnus (ca. 1200 to 1280), who served as provincial of the Dominican Order in Cologne. Albertus Magnus is also considered one of the spiritual fathers of the old University, which was founded in 1388.
Media Enquiries:
Professor Andreas Speer
Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne
+49 221 470 2309
andreas.speer@uni-koeln.de
Press and Communications Team:
Eva Schissler
+49 221 470-1704
e.schissler@verw.uni-koeln.de
Further information:
www.amp.uni-koeln.de
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