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Lena Dallywater
Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde
Schongauerstr. 9
04328 Leipzig
Germany
l_dallywater(at)leibniz-ifl.de
T. +49 341 600 55-266
Coordinator of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Eastern Europe – Global Area
Short CV
Since 10/2016 at the IfL
Since 04/2013: PhD candidate, Graduate School Global and Area Studies, Research Academy Leipzig
05/2011 – 10/2016: Coordinator, DFG Priority Programme 1448 "Adaptation and Creativity in Africa" (SPP 1448)
04/2011 – 10/2016: Research Programme Coordinator at the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) and at the Centre for Area Studies (CAS) at Leipzig University
2011: M. A. in Communication and Media Studies and Cultural Studies
9/2009 – 12/2009: Internship at the Public Relations and Press department, Philipp Reclam jun. GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart
2008 – 2011: Student Assistant, Global and European Studies Institute (GESI), Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO) and Center for Area Studies (CAS), Leipzig
2005 – 2011: Communication and Media Studies and Cultural Studies at Leipzig University and The Hague University
2004 – 2005: Office Assistant, "Corporate Communications - Media and Public Relations" department, Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart
2002 – 2004: Apprenticeship as Administrative Assistant, Robert Bosch GmbH in cooperation with the Academy of Business Administration and Public Management (VWA), Stuttgart
Research interests
Intellectual History, African Philosophy, African Literature, Aesthetics, Black Arts Movement, Black Consciousness Movement
Regional Focus: South and West Africa, African diaspora in France and the USA
Publications
Journal articles
Dallywater, Lena (2020)
‘Black fire’ : conceptualisations of black liberation and engaged views of African and black aesthetics in the United States and South Africa
In: Third text, 34 (2020), 4-5: Decentring the genealogies of art activism, Seite 551-567
Book chapters
Dallywater, Lena / Saunders, Christopher C. / Fonseca, Helder Adegar (2023)
Introduction
In: Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa : new perspectives on the era of decolonization, 1950s to 1990s. - Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Seite 1-9
Dallywater, Lena (2022)
African intellectuals in processes of intercultural transfer
In: Intercultural transfers and processes of spatialization. - Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Seite 131-158
Dallywater, Lena / Saunders, Christopher C. / Fonseca, Helder Adegar (2019)
Southern African liberation movements and the global cold war 'East’: transnational activism 1960-1990 : introduction
In: Southern African liberation movements and the global cold war 'East’ : transnational activism 1960-1990. - Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Seite 5-24
Dallywater, Lena (2015)
The transnationality of aesthetics - philosophical conceptualizations in the tension field of universalism and culturalism
In: Transnational actors - crossing borders : transnational history studies. - Leipzig: Univ.-Verl., Seite 143-154
Dallywater, Lena (2015)
In search of ‘African aesthetics’ : academic perspectives on art, culture and the African way of appreciating
In: African thoughts on colonial and neo-colonial worlds : facets of an intellectual history of Africa / Arno Sonderegger (ed.). - Berlin : Neofelis-Verlag, Seite 45-65
Dallywater, Lena (2012)
Tradition und Transformation : das Leipziger Verlagswesen nach Ende der Gutenberg-Galaxie
In: Kultur und Beruf in Europa / Isabella Löhr, Matthias Middell, Hannes Siegrist (Hg.). - Stuttgart : Steiner. - (Europäische Geschichte in Quellen und Essays ; Band 2), Seite 297-307
Monographs and edited volumes
Saunders, Christopher C. (Herausgeber/-in) / Fonseca, Helder Adegar (Herausgeber/-in) / Dallywater, Lena (Herausgeber/-in) (2023)
Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa : new perspectives on the era of decolonization, 1950s to 1990s
Berlin ; Boston, De Gruyter Oldenbourg. VIII, 372 Seiten
Dallywater, Lena (Herausgeber/-in) / Saunders, Christopher C. (Herausgeber/-in) / Fonseca, Helder Adegar (Herausgeber/-in) (2019)
Southern African liberation movements and the global cold war 'East’ : transnational activism 1960-1990
Berlin, De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 300 Seiten
Sieveking, Nadine (Herausgeber/-in) / Dallywater, Lena (Herausgeber/-in) (2016)
Vital conjunctures revisited - gender in times of uncertainty
Leipzig ; Halle, DFG Priority Programme 1448 Adaptation and Creativity in Africa. 27 Seiten
Other publications
Dallywater, Lena (2022)
Review: N.D. Chandler: "Beyond this narrow now" or, delimitations, of W.E.B. Du Bois
In: Connections. A journal for historians and area specialists
https://www.connections.clio-online.net/publicationreview/id/reb-116306
Dallywater, Lena / Moledo, Ana (2022)
Actors and archives on the move - studying mid-20th century black radicalism and anticolonial activism
In: Global dynamics : blog of the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics
Dallywater, Lena (2022)
Review: B.R. Byrd: The black republic
In: Connections : a journal for historians and area specialists
http://www.connections.clio-online.net/publicationreview/id/reb-50562
Dallywater, Lena (2011)
Potentialanalyse für ein Verlagsmuseum in Leipzig
Leipzig. XI, 213 Seiten
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