Our Next Event:
Berlin Black History Month: Writing and Difference
7 February, 2012
19:30
Dialogue Books
Schönleinstraße 31
10967 Berlin, Germany
Writing and Difference: Exploring Black Women Writers and The Other in Berlin.
Join Sharmaine Lovegrove, founder of Dialogue Books, in conversation with author Rose-Anne Clermont ("Busch Girl") and Berlin-based scholar Rochelle Rowe for an evening of readings and discussion.
Taking a cue from Derrida's challenge to the way we read and write in his celebrated 'Writing and Difference', the evening will focus on the experience of Black Women Writers within Berlin. Rose-Anne Clermont and Rochelle Rowe will read from recent work and discuss the personal and contextual challenges and issues surrounding gender and race in the city.
The event is the first in a series of English language events celebrating Black History Month in Berlin.
Entry: €5
RSVP: events@dialoguebooks.org
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Black History Month:
Throughout February, join us in our Black History Month weekly series for a compelling English-language readings, performances, discussions, music and film celebrating Berlin's diverse community, and particularly focusing on the experience of black artists and authors in Europe.
more information: www.blackhistorymonthberli
Rose-Anne Clermont:
Clermont first came to Berlin as a Fulbright Fellow in 1988, and has since written widely on her experience of being a black American of Haitian descent in the city, and in Germany at large, her articles being published in Die Zeit, Spiegel Online, and elsewhere. She is the author of 'Busch Girl' and the blog Currents Between Shores.
www.currentsbetweenshores.blogspot.com
Rochelle Rowe:
Rochelle is a Barbadian-British writer and teacher from London, now living and working in Berlin. She is the author of‘Glorifying the Jamaican Girl’: The "Ten Types - One People" Beauty Contest, Racialized Femininities, and Jamaican Nationalism which appeared in leading journal, the Radical History Review in 2009 and a forthcoming monograph Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions 1929-1970, to be published shortly with Manchester University Press, as well as shorter pieces in various scholarly journals. Rochelle has a PhD in History from the University of Essex and also taught there in various departments.
