Barrio Berlin Festival: poco.lit. Event on Belonging
Join us for an evening with the 2 storytellers and artists, avrina prabala-joslin and Maya Saravia, who will share their approaches to open questions of belonging.
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5 Essays about Traveling Ideas
Ideas can travel in different contexts, but they also reach their limits. 5 essays about traveling ideas and their barriers.
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Community Event 2024 with Giuliana Kiersz, Ben Osborn and the “Macht Sprache” Book
Warm invitation to our second community event! We would like to meet you all in person and have a chat over a drink. First we will introduce ourselves, poco.lit. and our newly published book “Macht Sprache: Ein Manifest für mehr Gerechtigkeit”. And then, we will be able to enjoy a performance by poet Giuliana Kiersz and musician Ben Osborn.
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Call for Submissions – Being from
This is our third call for submissions and we are looking for pieces about being from. Please send us your pitch!
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From Text Choice to the Individual Word – the Political Decisions of a Translator
Within the framework of the Resonance program organized by the Goethe-Institutes in France, Justine Coquel and Anna von Rath chatted with Lucie Lamy, who, together with Jean-Philippe Rossignol, translated May Ayim’s works into French.
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Online-Lecture with Ervin Malakaj as part of the #Vorzeichen series
Join us for an online lecture with Ervin Malakaj about literature in, not of, Germany on zoom on June, 4.
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7 introductory essays on postcolonialism
One of our aims with poco.lit. is to try to demystify some of the core ideas in and around postcolonial studies. Here we’ve compiled 7 introductory essays that discuss different aspects of postcolonialism.
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Where to begin? 5 postcolonial classics
If you are interested in postcolonial literature but don’t really know where to begin, we put together a list of 5 postcolonial classics for you.
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Call for Submissions – Ideas That Travel
For our online magazine, we are looking for contributions on the topic of “Ideas that Travel”.
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We are publishing a book: Macht Sprache. Ein Manifest für mehr Gerechtigkeit
Anna von Rath and Lucy Gasser co-founded poco.lit. and macht.sprache. These projects involved a lot of research, conversations with experts, workshops and inputs for different target audiences. Many of the discussions and learnings can soon be found in their book Macht Sprache. Ein Manifest für mehr Gerechtigkeit. The book will be published on September 26, 2024.
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