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A studio; Adolphus Taylor (Cinematographer); Presley Wegee (Sound designer); Julius Brent (Production personnel); Thomas Gilbert (Technical director); Sam Mensah (Studio engineer).

In June 2023 the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence presented a concert featuring the musician Alexandre Vieira from Brazil visiting Bayreuth for an artist fellowship and Mozambiquan musician Luka Mukhavele. Luka Mukhavele Luka Mukhavele is a music/Culture scholar, artist, instrument builder, and language teacher, from Mozambique. He engaged with music from early age, influenced by family members and community, which were very musical. Since buying toys for children was no a common practice, Luka and his friends taught themselves to build their own, and this included musical instruments. In 2005, Luka founded Mukhambira-musical, to research on the construction and performance of African musical. Adding to Mukhambira, Luka's PhD thesis “African Musical Instruments from a Contemporary Global Perspective —Mbira and Xizambi”, competed at Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, emerged as his artistic-academic approach to the reinvigoration African music and instruments and their integration in the global body of artistic and scientific knowledge in musicology, a discipline which he finds to have many ideological, conceptual, and paradigmatic detriments. Currently, Luka is the Editor/Designer of the course “Living Heritage in Africa: Music and the Performing Arts”, a freelancer consultant, artist, and lecturer. Both his artistic and his academic work are grounded on his “African Contemporary self-built instruments, from which he draws otherwise lost concepts and paradigms, aiming to address the shortfalls and inherent detriments of musicology in a global perspective. Alexandre Vieira Alexandre Vieira is a Brazilian musician based in Salvador - Bahia - Brasil. Master in music performance - Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), plays upright bass, electric bass, guitar, percussion and sing, performing as a frontman and sideman. Born in a musical family, started playing in his early childhood with his father, sister and brother, became professional at 17 years old. Played and recorded alongside great artists from Brazil and abroad. His most recent and representative participations include the series of concerts Isso Ainda Dá Repercussão based on the work of the Brazilian composer Itamar Assumpção, the project Chulas na Feira at Santo Amaro da Purificação with Roberto Mendes, the recording of the album Fogueira Doce by MateusAleluia (Os Tincoãs), the recording of the album Afrodiaspórico by Luan Sodré Trio, the recording of the EP Grito by Manuela Rodrigues, collaborating as a musician for the Whale Whispering project by Michaela Harrison, and most recently the recording of the album Dança do Tempo by Ubiratan Marques and Asé Ensemble which will be fully released in 2023. Self-taught on most instruments, started playing upright bass at the university playing both classical and jazz, from where he aroused his interest to delve into Afrodiasporic arts, exploring the creative processes that involve oralities and corporeities connected with musical instruments.

On 30 October 2019, four musicians came together at the festive Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth to perform as part of the kick-off event of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence. Tomas Childo, Tao Ravao, EunKyung Kim, Jae-Hyo Chang and Matchume Chango had rehearsed for only one week to present that spectacular and once in a lifetime concert.

This is the Bibliography of the book Petit manuel d’autodéfense à l’usage des volontaires Les humanités humanitaires. To cite: Glasman, Joël. Petit manuel d'autodéfense à l'usage des volontaires: Les humanités humanitaires. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023.

Conference session including launch of documentary video Convenors: Valerie V. V. Gruber & Gilbert Shang Ndi Discussants: Dandara Maia Schellenberg & Hamissou Rhissa Achaffert In the backdrop of the historical uprooting and the forced deportation of Africans to the Americas, territoriality has become key in analysing practices of Afro-descendant resistance and (re-)existence in the Latin-American diaspora. It is in the re-making and re-imagining of (post)colonial territories that insurgent knowledges are produced, especially in contexts where the legacies of enslavement, marginalisation and invisibilisation are rife. Inspired by the ways in which young artists from Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) and Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) re-invent territoriality through artistic creativity, we developed a Participatory Action Research project that harnesses community mapping, self-writing and performance in an online and on-site exchange programme. In this panel conducted at the annual Cluster conference 2023 on Spatialities, Valerie Gruber and Gilbert Ndi Shang launch and discuss the documentary video "MemoriAmefricana – Cartagena de Indias/Salvador da Bahia" on this collective process realised in collaboration with the socio-cultural groups Candilé (Colombia) and REPROTAI (Brazil). In a self-reflexive mode that casts a critical glance at our transdisciplinary co-creation of knowledges, we focus on the challenges, shortcomings as well as opportunities of doing Participatory Action Research in actual and virtual spaces for more than three years. Thereby, we bring into dialogue the perspectives of two project coordinators and two discussants who followed the process with interest, though not actively involved. The team considers the participatory exploration of territories and territorialities as a pertinent heuristic prism in examining Afro-diasporic lifeworlds and the practical/symbolic attempts at memorialisation and collective becoming. Through creative media, youth and young adults re-map possibilities of existence that envision more inclusive spaces, using traces of African heritage as building blocks for individual and collective self-actualisation. This session is the outcome of research conducted within the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2052/1 – 390713894. It was recorded during the International Conference "Reconfiguring African Studies through Spatialities" at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) on October 12, 2023.

Here you can find the videos from the first international conference hosted by the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence in October 2019. The conference was designed as a venue to start conversations between representatives from the various institutions that form part of the Cluster’s network. The themes selected for the conversations are high on the Cluster’s agenda and also at the heart of debates in African Studies today: the premises of knowledge production, African Studies and the question of diasporas, gender and diversity in African Studies, and African Studies in the digital age.

The third annual conference of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence took place in Bayreuth and Makhanda (ACC Rhodes) in July 2022. It was dedicated to the annual theme of Medialities and completes the thematic work of the previous academic year. As one of the four "heuristics" around which the cluster organises its collective theoretical and conceptual work, the topic Medialities serves as a guide for exploring the Cluster's core concepts. This playlist collects some of the talks and lectures given at the conference.

The second Cluster Conference took place in July 2021. It provided a platform for the global African Studies community to present and debate the latest developments in the field. Focusing on the topic of “Modalities” this was the first in a series of conferences devoted to the Cluster’s annual themes. As one of the four heuristic angles around which the Cluster organizes its joint theoretical and conceptual work, modalities or modes of relating serve as a guide to the study of multiplicity, relationality and reflexivity, the Cluster’s core concepts. The angle of modalities is designed to support the systematization of research findings, but also to connect to a variety of theoretical concepts derived from the modes of relations the Cluster members encounter in their research. This playlist collects some of the talks and lectures given at the conference.

In this playlist you can find recordings of the keynotes and some of the panels from the Cluster's international conference on "Spatialities" in 2023. The conference focused on spatial phenomena and their diverse expressions in cross- and interdisciplinary ways. The contributions addressed the reconfiguration of African Studies through the lens of the spatial turn, which offers innovative perspectives on the nexus of place, space, human relations, society, and culture. Highlighting the processual and performative nature of lifeworlds as well as their entanglements with space, the theme of Spatialities will help us take the discussion beyond the categories of 'North' and 'South'.

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