Performing Womanhood

Rethinking everyday ideas, practices and rituals surrounding womanhood: themed evening with Jun. Prof. Dr. Jacky Kosgei, Dr. Gibson Ncube, Prof. Dr. Ursula Offenberger and Bibi Domingo

We cordially invite you to a themed evening jointly organized by the Linden-Museum and the DAAD Guest Chair for African Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen.

The event brings together artists, scholars, students and the general public to explore how womanhood is represented, narrated and ritualized in our everyday lives.

We will explore fundamental questions: What does femininity mean to us? How do we perform it in our everyday lives? What images shape our ideas of femininity?

Inspired by the exhibition "Celebrating Womanhood", the event offers a space to critically question familiar ideas, practices and rituals surrounding femininity.

From embodied traditions of initiation, marriage and coming-of-age to contemporary reinterpretations in poetry, music and performance, the event reflects on how formal and informal rituals of becoming and belonging shape gender identities - while inviting new, inclusive readings of 'womanhood' and its transitions in a diverse present.

Through interdisciplinary dialogues, live performances and creative interventions such as poetry performances and watching music videos together, the event foregrounds popular culture and opens up conversations about cultural heritage, feminist expression and the politics of gender representation across different stages of life.

Special: Afrodance workshop with Bibi Domingo

A Black History Month event in collaboration with: Section for African Literary and Cultural Studies, Center for Methods and Center for Gender and Diversity Studies (ZGD) at the University of Tübingen