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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

Lena Dallywater, M.A

Coordinator of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Eastern Europe – Global Area

Short CV

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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

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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

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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

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2020.1831804

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

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787757-001

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

Volltext

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

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787757

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

Volltext

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

Volltext

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

https://recentglobe.hypotheses.org/2009

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