Hubert Fichte in West Africa
Karin Krauthausen Contributes to a Workshop about the German Writer and Ethnologist
On February, 21st, 2023, an online panel with international researchers, among them MoA Member Karin Krauthausen, investigates the interventions of German ethnologist Hubert Fichte, who spent considerable time in West African countries in the 1970s and 1980s. The event organized by the University of Ghana is taking place virtually at 4 pm CET.
Contributions
- Prof. Dr. David Simo (University of Yaoundé): »Hubert Fichte: Africa as a Field of Aesthetic Experience: The Market of Bé in Togo.«
- Dr. Karin Krauthausen (Humboldt University Berlin): »The Assignment of the Author. On Hubert Fichte’s ›Afrika‹ in Psyche. Glossen.«
- Dr. André Fischer (Washington University in St. Louis): »Psychiatry as Postcolonial Spectacle in Hubert Fichte’s Psyche.«
- Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Hahn (Goethe University of Frankfurt): »Fichte’s ›Ethnopoetic Writing‹, the Writing Culture Debate, and the Limits of Authenticity in Authorship.«