BLACK GERMAN HERITAGE & RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

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The Black German Heritage and Research Association

(BGHRA)

Documents and supports the activities of Black Germans internationally and promotes scholarship relating to the historic and contemporary presence of Black people in Germany , Black Germans in the United States, and beyond. In partnership with interested scholars, institutions, and organizations, BGHRA advocates for the interdisciplinary inclusion of Black German history, life experience, and contemporary culture in education, and encourages bilateral exchange opportunities.

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT!

It’s happening!!

A two-part, two-hour-each workshop designed to help scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences plan a summer full of writing, research, and…everything else that needs to get done. 

Here’s all the info: CLICK HERE!  

Get your writing and research done AND enjoy your summer.

(Pay-what-you-can pricing option available as always)

Frazier-Rath Editing 

www.emilyfrazierrath.com

The Summer Research & Writing Kickoff

REGISTER HERE

This interactive workshop, designed specifically for writers and researchers working in the humanities and social sciences, will help you get your research and writing organized, avoid or embrace the (sometimes inevitable) summer crash, and establish a clear, concrete plan of action for completing what you want and need to get done over the next few months.

When I was a graduate student and, later, a professor, I remember always feeling a sense of excitement and relief when the summer came, because I thought I’d have more time for research and writing. And then, about mid-June, I’d start feeling a sense of guilt and dread because I hadn’t accounted for the fact that I was exhausted from the semester, nor that I had a billion other things I wanted and needed to do. READ MORE

Virtual Book Discussion 

Please join Emily on Saturday, April 26 from 12-2pm EDT to discuss Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang. She will be organizing a fun and thought-provoking session that’s a bit more intensive than a book club, and accessible and welcoming to all. Come as you are—there’s no pressure here: you don’t have to be a literary person, or a bookworm; you don’t have to have a college degree or have excelled in high school English; you don’t have to be a native English speaker; you don’t have to be extroverted, nor will you have to say anything if you don’t want to. This space is truly for everyone. There is no judgment here.

There are no prerequisites. The only expectation is that you read or listen to the book.

The book is available at many libraries for free. If you purchase the book, consider supporting your local bookstore! (Emily also HIGHLY recommends the audiobook, if that’s your thing.)

Please register here.

This book is about a lot of things: how history is written and read, and how academia perpetuates power and maintains the status quo; it’s about access to and gatekeeping of knowledge, the value and devaluing of the humanities, the relationship between academia and capitalism and imperialism, and what we can (and ultimately must) do to change the course of history. We will discuss the meaning behind the adoption of the main character—a boy named Robin who must choose this English name because his given Chinese name, he is told, will not be comprehensible in British society—by a British professor after his mother dies of cholera in 1838 in Canton. On the precipice of British colonization of parts of China in the early 1940s, this piece of historical fiction meets fantasy asks the question, what would it take to stop the grinding machinery, grueling pace, and grisly consequences of Western imperialism.

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