Tiffany N. Florvil will be in conversation with Veronika Schuchter (OeAD-Lektorin, University of Oxford) and Miriam Schwarz (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge) to talk about her exciting new book “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement” (2020).
This event is part of the Decolonial Discourses & German Studies project and is kindly supported by TORCH.
Tiffany N. Florvil is an Associate Professor of 20th-century European Women’s and Gender History at the University of New Mexico. She specializes in the histories of post-1945 Europe, the African/Black diaspora, social movements, Black internationalism, as well as gender and sexuality. She has published pieces in the Journal of Civil and Human Rights and The German Quarterly. Florvil has also coedited the volume, Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories, as well as published chapters in Gendering Post-1945 German History, To Turn this Whole World Over, and Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora. Her recent manuscript, Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement, with the University of Illinois Press, offers the first full-length study of the history of the Black German movement of the 1980s to the 2000s. She is a Board Member of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) as well as on the Advisory Board for the Black German Heritage and Research Association, the Editorial Board for Central European History, and the Executive Board for the Journal of Civil and Human Rights. She is also an editor of the “Imagining Black Europe” book series at Peter Lang Press.
This event will be held online as a Zoom webinar. The event is free but registration is required.
Please register via Eventbrite and you will be emailed a link to join the online event on Zoom
