Description
The filmscreening and round table is organised as part of the 8th Biennial Afroeuropeans Network Conference “Intersectional Challenges in Afroeuropean Communities”. This conference (22 – 24 September 2022) is hosted by Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), and co-organised by the Africa Platform of Ghent University Association (GAP), the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (BCUS), the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), the Research Centre Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality (RHEA) and the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings at VUB, and a wide variety of other institutions in Belgium. Matonge has been operating as a multifunctional arrival neighbourhood since the expansion of Ixelles in the second half of the 19th century, but the subsequent (ongoing) arrival of people from Africa and the Caribbean since the 1960s has radically transformed the composition, the metabolism as well as the commercial and political profile of this part of Brussels. This round table is devoted to exploring the present-day outcomes of this (ongoing) transformation while unpacking some of the social and mercantile practices and textures, as well as the political, cultural and commercial imaginaries surrounding and mobilising Matonge as Black neighbourhood. Our entry point into this open exploration is Rosine Mbakam’s Chez Jolie Coiffure, a recent film and an intimate portrait of the everyday work of Sabine Amiyeme. Sabine’s hairdresser’s shop is a convivial space of socialisation and a precarious entrepreneurial site in the middle of Matonge – a neighbourhood that is as much a fascination for tourists as it is the target of police incursions. Participants: Rosine Mbakam (film maker), Jeroen Marckelbach (former head of Kuumba), Alana Osbourne (ULB researcher), Ken Ndiaye (alderman for Cultural Affairs, Ixelles). Special guest: Sabine Amiyeme Convenors: Lena Imeraj (VUB) & Karel Arnaut (KULeuven)Period | 22 Sep 2022 |
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Event type | Screening |
Location | Brussels, Belgium |
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