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Peggy Piesche, visiting instructor of German and Russian studies, participated in the first public event of the newly founded Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies.

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche delivered invited lectures on Nov. 19 and 20 at the University of Bayreuth.

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s death, Visiting Instructor of German & Russian Studies Peggy Piesche published a new anthology, Eurer Schweigen nützt euch nichts:  Audre Lorde und die Schwarze Frauenbewegung in Deutschland (Your Silence Will Not Protect You:  Audre Lorde and the Black Women’s Movement in Germany). The book was launched with a discussion and reading on Nov. 21 in one of the main theaters in Berlin (Volksbühne).

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche participated at the Second Annual Convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey (BGCSNJ) Aug. 10-11 at Barnard College. The theme of the conference was “What is the Black German Experience? History, Performance, Popular and Visual Cultures.”

Peggy Piesche, visiting instructor of German and Russian Studies, presented  papers at the University of Bayreuth and Humboldt University of Berlin this summer.

Peggy Piesche, visiting instructor of German and Russian studies, co-authored an article titled “Das Trauma der Schuld oder: Wie lässt sich koloniale Geschichte in einem post-kolonialen Deutschland von heute denken?” (“The trauma of guilt or: How can colonial History be contextualized in a post- colonial Germany of today?”) in the April issue of Freitext, a German journal on social justice and culture.

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche was interviewed by Deutsche Welle Arts and Culture for an article on the ongoing nationwide debate about the use of blackface makeup on German theatre stages.

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche was featured in White Charity: Blackness and whiteness on charity donation posters, a documentary about German charity aid posters. Piesche contributed research for the film by Carolin Philipp and Timo Kiesel that analyzes the posters from a postcolonial perspective.

Peggy Piesche, visiting instructor of German and Russian studies presented a paper at the Ninth International Conference of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) held April 6-9 at the Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 in France.

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche presented a paper at the “Black Europe and the African Diaspora” Lecture Series at Vanderbilt University on April 2. In “The Perpetual Other: African Imagination in West and East Germany in the age of the Cold War” Piesche stressed the relations between the uprising African Independence Movements and both Germanys after World War II.