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From: Sabine Moedersheim <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Please forward to mailing list: Lecture Series: Multicultural
Society in Germany Today
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:52:02 -0800

The Department of German Announces:
Lecture Series: Multicultural Society in Germany Today

February 27
Dagmar Schultz (Berlin)
Lecture and film "Hope in my heart - May Ayim" (in German with English
subtitles)
6 pm 575 Van Hise
February 28
Ika Hügel-Marshall (Berlin)
Lesung /Reading (German/English) "Daheim unterwegs: Ein deutsches Leben." /
"Invisible Woman"
7.30 pm Memorial Union (see Today in the Union)

Dagmar Schultz was a co-founder of the Feminist Women's Health Center in
Berlin, the first of its kind in Germany. She also co-founded Orlanda
Women's
Press and was its publisher until 2001.
"Hope in my heart" is a documentary about May Ayim, an Afro-German author
who
committed suicide in 1996. A book of her essays and a selection of her
poetry
will be published in English this year by Africa World Press.

Ika Hügel-Marshall studied social work in Frankfurt and has published many
articles on anti-racist education and psychology. Since 1990, she has worked
as
public relations agent for the Orlanda Publishing house. She has also taught
courses on topics such as anti-racist consciousness-raising and
intercultural
social work as an adjunct at Berlin universities.
"'Invisible Woman. Growing up Black in Germany" tells the story of Ika
Hügel-Marshall, daughter of a white woman and a married African-American
serviceman stationed in Germany during the postwar occupation period who
lost
contact with the woman carrying his child after his tour of duty ended.
Seven
years later, Ika is led from her home to a religious institution where she
is
subjected to the tyrannies of Sister Hildegard and is taken to have the
"black
demon" exorcised from her. Ika struggled to come to terms with life as a
German
- the only life she knew - among people who seemed bent on disavowing her
existence. Only in her late thirties does Ika meet other Afro-Germans and
begin
to discover her own identity. Emboldened by them, she seeks out and
eventually
finds her father, who is living on Chicago's South Side, and discovers
another
aspect of herself.

Sponsored by the German Department and the Anonymus Fund, co-sponsored by
the
Retention Action Project (Richard Davis) and the Equity and Diversity Center
(Seema Kapani)
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/german/diversity.htm
for further information please contact Sabine Mödersheim:
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Sabine Moedersheim
Assitant Professor
Department of German
University of Wisconsin
818 Van Hise Hall
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 262-3758
(608) 262-7949 fax






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