{"id":6527,"date":"2025-06-04T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T08:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/projekt\/ecas-2025-keynote-speaker\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:14:17","slug":"ecas-2025-keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"projekt","link":"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/en\/projekt\/ecas-2025-keynote-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"ECAS 2025 &#8211; Keynote Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Johny Pits: Afropea: An Imaginative Map<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ECAS Prague, June 25, 2025<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During an era of cultural and geopolitical fractures, how can Black communities in Europe form resilient cross-border connections and solidarities? Drawing upon underrepresented histories in order to suggest alternative futures, At the ECAS 2025 in Prague, Johny Pitts will present a keynote speech bringing together 15 years of on the ground travels and research, which culminated in his award-winning book Afropean: Notes from Black Europe will suggest a theoretical framework for scholars, artists and writers. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"196\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ECAS2025_JohnnyPitsKeynote-Speaker.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6532\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, academic and journalist and he recently served as the 20th Friedrich D\u00fcrrenmatt Guest Professor at the University of Bern. He has received various awards for his work exploring African-European identity, including a Decibel Penguin Prize, an ENAR (European Network against Racism) award, the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a scholarship from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-ecas-2025 wp-block-embed-ecas-2025\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.ecasconference.org\/2025\/\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"sc9r7C1HzH\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecasconference.org\/2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; ECAS 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecasconference.org\/2025\/embed\/#?secret=Emw9SmEPfY#?secret=sc9r7C1HzH\" data-secret=\"sc9r7C1HzH\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johny Pits: Afropea: An Imaginative Map ECAS Prague, June 25, 2025 During an era of cultural and geopolitical fractures, how can Black communities in Europe form resilient cross-border connections and solidarities? Drawing upon underrepresented histories in order to suggest alternative futures, At the ECAS 2025 in Prague, Johny Pitts will present a keynote speech bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6508,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[],"projekt-kategorie":[],"class_list":["post-6527","projekt","type-projekt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekt\/6527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projekt"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekt\/6527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6547,"href":"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekt\/6527\/revisions\/6547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"projekt-kategorie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jutta-vogel-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekt-kategorie?post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}