BGHRA/Africana Annual Conference: Rekinning, Reckoning, and Justice

The Black German Heritage & Research Association in Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Camden and the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice are pleased to invite you celebrate the Eighth International Conference. This year’s three-day, virtual event, Rekinning, Reckoning, and Justice, will be held on February 20-22, 2025 and will be free and open to the public.

Our annual BGHRA Conference theme asks, what is next for us? what does justice look like? We wish to consider reparative justice and how, using this framework, we can reckon with state violence and displacement, as well as with family rupture. How are we healing? The critical concept of rekinning: family and diaspora reconnection, in all its complexities, is glaringly ignored in the literature and public discourse though it is evident in a diversity of literary and artistic forms depicting individual Black experiences. It is also evinced in the nearly 30 years since the organization of the US-based Black German community.

Our BGHRA conferences and public conversations have documented the importance and the immeasurable impacts of reconnecting with our families and with our globally situated communities within a multiplicity of contexts.

More information about the conference HERE

Registration is free and open to the general public. The event will be held virtually from February 20-22, 2025.

Artwork by Zari Harat.