21st Century Solutions from No Man's Land: A Framework for a More Sustainable Planet from Ancient Africa - Tsitsi Dangarembga in Augsburg
Die Internationale Gastdozentur am Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum bietet Studierenden und Lehrenden der Universit?t Augsburg sowie interessierten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern die Gelegenheit, international ausgewiesene Pers?nlichkeiten aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Kunst in Augsburg zu erleben. Die Internationale Gastdozentur ist eine gemeinsame Initiative der geistes-, kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakult?ten und des Jakob-Fugger-Zentrums der Universit?t Augsburg. Mit der Schriftstellerin, Dramatikerin und Filmemacherin Tsitsti Dangarembga aus Simbabwe ist es im Sommersemester 2025 gelungen, eine bedeutende Autorin und Regisseurin des jüngeren afrikanischen Kinos für die internationale Gastdozentur zu gewinnen. Ihre Vortr?ge in Augsburg sind dem Thema “21st Century Solutions from No Man's Land: A Framework for a More Sustainable Planet from Ancient Africa” gewidmet.? Die Vortr?ge finden in englischer Sprache statt. This lecture series proposes utility in for finding solutions to contemporary challenges in Africa's development trajectory.? It traces some key features of Africa's encounter with global Europe in the age of modernity and manifestation of these into the now where the notions of "meta-colonisation" is invoked to account for crises in government in politically independent African countries.? It considers the notion of social independence and reflects on the extent to which this may be said to exist in a context where moving images narrative increasingly exerts hegemonic socialising pressure. It explores an ancient existential framework of African Bantu-language speaking cultures to suggest a socio-cognitive framework for more sustainable human behaviour in a global context of "meta-colonisation".?????? ? 27. Mai 2025, 18.30 Uhr, Vortrag Counting the Cost: How the Age of Discovery Delivered Human Society to the Now. Universit?t Augsburg, Geb?ude H (Jura), H?rsaal 1009 This lecture considers the questions "What is colonialism? Has it ended? Where if anywhere might it still be practised? How?" by situating the ideological impulse for southward expansion of Europe in the Doctrine of Discover which emerged in western Europe at the end of its middle ages.? It characterises this Doctrine of Discovery as a shared rationalisation by the Western European Christian Church and the region's political leadership of the economic policy of the time, a project continued by the philosophy of the Enlightenment.? It proposes the notion of "meta-colonisation" in answer to the questions posed.?? ?
Klicken Sie hier um zum Anmeldeformular zu gelangen ? 5. Juni 2025, 18.30 Uhr, Vortrag Decolonise the Rest of Us: An Example from Mainstream Cinema Rokokosaal der Regierung von Schwaben, Fronhof 10, 86152 Augsburg This lecture considers cinema and other moving images narrative as a potent force for constructing subjectivities and thereby identities.? It explores how this powerful medium was deployed in support of western European expansionism in modernity, and how, given the global slide to the right of recent years, Europe is left vulnerable by an ongoing expansionist logic of the moving images industry. The lecture reflects on the question: "What can be done to fulfil cinema's, and other moving images narrative's potential as a medium of democratic construction and consolidation? ?
Klicken Sie hier um zum Anmeldeformular zu gelangen ? 6. Juni 2025, 10.00 Uhr Workshop für Master- und Promotionsstudierende:?Ubuntu 2.0 and the Text: An Extra-Late-Capitalist Methodology for Textual Analysis Universit?t Augsburg, Geb?ude D, Raum 4056 Textual analysis seeks to understand deeper meanings, themes and patterns, language structure as well as historical, cultural and social contexts of texts, and to rate or rank texts according to the understandings obtained. Textual analysis and its resultant understandings are discursive cognitive practices, which are contingent on the ways in which meanings are produced and normalised within a given context. Texts accessed by large numbers of the global public, including those analysed by those whose work it is to do so, are increasingly formed and made available within the discursive and concomitant industrial systems of late capitalism. Another objective of textual analysis is to understand the function of texts with respect to the prevailing concerns of human societies at a given historical moment. Discourse typically generates meanings that serve its own growth and perpetuity. This seminar examines the possibilities and limitations of textual analysis methodologies and tools originated within late capitalism’s infinite growth models of human development to discern and respond to the human condition. ? Suggested Reading ?
Klicken Sie hier um zum Anmeldeformular zu gelangen ? 24. Juni 2025, 18.30 Uhr, Vortrag Ubuntu 2.0: Five Ways of Being for a More Sustainable Future Rokokosaal der Regierung von Schwaben, Fronhof 10, 86152 Augsburg
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Tsitsi Dangarembga in Augsburg
Vortragsreihe: 21st Century Solutions from No Man's Land: A Framework for a More Sustainable Planet from Ancient Africa
Veranstaltungen: 21st Century Solutions from No Man's Land: A Framework for a More Sustainable Planet from Ancient Africa
Possibilities are investigated in the context of methodologies used in participants’ current academic work. To interrogate limitations, this seminar introduces the concept of Ubuntu 2.0 as an extra-late-capitalist methodology for textual analysis. Ubuntu 2.0 is a worldview derived from the ancient ubuntu ontology of Bantu language-speaking cultures of Africa, which has also been referred to as a normative communitarian philosophy. Ubuntu has been studied by African scholars since the last century. With Ubuntu 2.0, I build on past scholarship to reformulate ubuntu for the contemporary era.
This is a practical seminar. We will discuss your textual analysis methodologies. I will give a brief overview of Ubuntu, its derivative, Ubuntu 2.0. and the use of the framework in textual analysis. I will provide you with two texts for textual analysis in breakaway groups. Results will be discussed and compared in the plenary. Seminar texts will be provided on the day of the seminar as no preparation for this task is required.
Mda, Zakes. 2017. Justify the Enemy: Becoming Human in South Africa.? 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Kwazulu-Natal Press. Pietermaritzburg.
Mugo, Micere. 2021. The Imperative of Utu/Ubuntu in Africana Scholarship. Daraja Press. Quebec.
?Udah, H., Tusasiirwe, S., Mugumbate, R., & Gatwiri, K. (2025). Ubuntu philosophy, values, and principles: An opportunity to do social work differently. Journal of Social Work, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173241312749
Zulu, Louis. 1991. Ubuntu – Ein afrikanisches Konzept des guten Lebens. http://learn2change-network.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Essay-DE-Louis.pdf
This lecture presents the Bantu language speaking culture's philosophy of being human, "Ubuntu", which arose over several millennia as a result of the social cohesion needs of societies in flux on the African continent. It identifies five foundational elements of the ubuntu philosophy and considers how these elements may possess utility in contributing to building a foundation for meeting some of human society's named contemporary existential challenges.??
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