Black History Month 2023
7 March 2023 at 17:00 - 19:00 UAntwerpen city campus, Rodestraat 14 - R.008
The Faculty of Arts and Philosophy welcomes you to the city campus on 7 March for the film screening of 'Gurumbé'. Flamenco is synonymous with Spanish culture. Yet theorists have from the beginning discounted the Afro-Andalusians' fundamental contribution to this art form.The commercial exploitation of the American colonies brought hundreds of Africans to Spain to be sold as slaves, forming a population group that over time managed to carve out a place for itself in a society full of racial prejudice. Music and dance were a fundamental part of their expression and the main affirmation of their identity. With the disappearance of the black population from Spain in the late 19th century, their contribution to this particular art form also disappeared. In Gurumbe: Afro-Andalusian Memories, their story is finally told.The film will be introduced by Christiane Stallaert.Directed by M. Angel Rosale, Spain/Mexico/Portugal/Senegal, 2016, 72 min.
15 March 2023 at 19:30 - 21:30 UAntwerpen city campus, Rodestraat 14 - R.008
La Noire de ... (FR/SN, 1966, 60', OVFR, st - ond EN), Ousmane Sembène's first feature film, played an important role in the development of African cinema and succeeds in laying bare the post-colonial dynamics of dehumanisation, ethnicity, class and gender.
Diouana, a young woman from a Senegalese village, daily roams Dakar in search of work. Despite many other unemployed women, she is 'chosen' as a nanny by a wealthy French family because of her submissiveness. When she is allowed to live with them in France, a dream seems to come true. A dream that soon turns into a nightmare. Introduction by Ilja Van Damme and follow-up discussion with Pierre-Antoine Vettorello, Matthias De Groof and Kathleen Gyssels.After the performance, we invite all participants to a reception.
Black History Month 2024
28 March 2024 from 16:00 until 22:30 in De Cinema, Maarschalk Gérardstraat 4, 2000 Antwerpen
Film screening and discussion as part of Black History Month
As part of Black History Month, the Faculty of Arts, in collaboration with the Centre for Urban History (CSG), Power in History: the Centre for Political History (PoHis), Research Centre for Visual and Digital Cultures (ViDi), Decolonial Dialogues and USOS, is organising a public film screening of Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror) at De Cinema, combined with lectures and talks about the film, on the 28th of March.
16:00h: Black history and culture in the spotlights: an introduction – Ilja Van Damme (CSG, UAntwerpen)
16:20h: Sambizanga and African Cinema – Matthias De Groof (VIDi en Decolonial Dialogues, UAntwerpen, ASCA Universiteit van Amsterdam)
17:00h: 'Et les chiens se taisaient' (Aimé Césaire): Sarah Maldoror et le cinéma transcontinental – Kathleen Gyssels (Decolonial Dialogues, UAntwerpen)
17:30h: Maldoror's Struggles for Independent Cinéma – Olivier Hadouchi
20:15h: Film screening (with a short introduction by Olivier Hadouchi)
22:00h: Q & A with all speakers