Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Eva Boesenberg

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Name
Prof. Dr. Eva Boesenberg
Email

Institution
Humboldt-Universität → Präsidium → Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik → Nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
Visiting address
Dorotheenstraße 28 , Room 1.02
Phone number
(030) 2093-70936
Mailing address
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin


Sprechzeiten in der Semesterpause (WiSe 2023/24):

Montag, 19.2. 16:30-18:30 Uhr
Dienstag, 5.3. 16:00-18:00 Uhr
Montag, 25.3. 16:00-18:00 Uhr
Dienstag, 9.4. 16:00-18:00 Uhr

Anmeldung bei Frau Sánchez: xelha.sanchez@hu-berlin.de

 


 

Secretary: Xelhá Sánchez Chavarría

Student assistant: Sara Dakka

 


 

Aus aktuellem Anlass

Wir betreiben Wissenschaft nicht in einem gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Vakuum. In Zusammenhang mit den Protesten gegen Rassismus in den USA, in Deutschland und anderen Ländern stelle ich mich hinter den folgenden Text des Diversity Roundtable unserer Fachgesellschaft, der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA):


Position Statement

[04/06/2020]

We, the speakers of the Diversity Roundtable of the German Association for American Studies, want to take this moment to publicly condemn the recent wave of white supremacist violence in the United States as well as in Germany. We want to express our condolences to the victims’ loved ones, and to affirm our support for liberation movements such as Black Lives Matter, at home and abroad.

Scholars like Patricia Hill Collins remind us of the necessity to always speak out against racist violence. Its pervasiveness can be overwhelming and produce silence by which such violence, in turn, can become neglected, invisible, and implicitly legitimated over time in hegemonic discourse (Hill Collins, “It’s All in the Family: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Nation” 66).

At the same time, we heed Sara Ahmed’s warning that mere declarations of anti-racist commitment and solidarity are not necessarily performative speech acts that translate into concrete actions or effects in and beyond our research and institutional lives (Ahmed, “Declarations of Whiteness”).

What opportunities for individual and collective anti-racist action does this moment of global protest present? We urge you to consider actions such as donating to organizations that are actively combatting anti-Black violence in the United States and in Germany. We are also grateful to receive your ideas on further modes of support and public intervention that we can undertake as members of the Diversity Roundtable and the larger German Association for American Studies.

As academics from a wide range of scholarly traditions within American Studies, we have versatile capacities to unearth intersecting oppressive structures such as sexism, racism, ableism, cissexism, and anti-queerness.

We would like to encourage one another to acknowledge that there are many ways to oppose anti-Blackness.


 - Cedric Essi, Helen Gibson, Anna-Lena Oldehus