Friday, 6 February, 6 pm –  9 pm

Reimagining everyday notions, practices and rituals on womanhood

We cordially invite you to a themed evening, jointly organized by the Linden Museum in Stuttgart and the Methods Centre & the DAAD Visiting Chair for African Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen.

Titled Performing Womanhood, this event brings together artists, scholars, students, and the general public, in an exploration of how womanhood is performed, narrated, and ritualised in our everyday lives.

We ask ourselves: What is womanhood to us? How do we perform womanhood in our everyday lives? What everyday images do we link with the idea of womanhood?

Drawing inspiration from and entering into conversation with the exhibition Celebrating Womanhood, the event provides a forum for interrogating everyday notions, practices, and rituals on womanhood.

From the embodied traditions of initiation, marriage, and adulthood to contemporary reimaginings in poetry, music, and performance, this event will reflect on how these formal and informal rituals of becoming and belonging continue to shape gendered identities, while inviting new, inclusive readings of ‘womanhood’ and its transitions in the contemporary world.

Through interdisciplinary dialogues, live performances, and creative interventions such as poetry performances and a joint viewing of music videos, the event foregrounds popular culture and encourages conversations about cultural heritage, feminist expression, and the politics of performing gender across transitional life stages.

Special: Afrodance workshop with Bibi Domingo

Junior Professor Dr. Jacky Kosgei is junior professor of Global Epistemologies at the University of Tübingen. She is the co-convener of the new study programme BA-NF African Literary and Cultural Studies, and the convener of the international DAAD-funded Mzee Suleimann Nyembwe Visiting Chair of African Literary and Cultural Studies.

Dr. Gibson Ncube is a senior lecturer in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages ​​at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, where he teaches in and researches on comparative literature, postcolonial African culture, and gender and queer studies. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Tübingen, for the international DAAD-funded Mzee Suleimann Nyembwe Visiting Chair of African Literary and Cultural Studies.

Prof. Dr. Ursula Offenberger is Professor of Qualitative Empirical Social Research Methods at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on qualitative methods, gender studies, and science and technology studies.

Bibi Domingo, 34 years old, is a trained educator and has been active as a dance and fitness trainer for over 11 years. I developed a great passion for movement and music at an early age. As a trainer, she choreographs her own dances and draws inspiration from the energy of music. She currently teaches Afrodance for kids and adults, female hip-hop, hip-hop for kids, African dance workout, step & ABS, and twerk. Her classes are all about positive energy, joie de vivre, and motivation.

Reservation: Tel. 0711.2022-444, anmeldung@lindenmuseum.de