Africa and the Afrodiaspora Faced with Gender Worlds

Oyèrónkẹ Oyěwùmí is full professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University and a scholar in the areas of gender and African studies. Her book La invención de las mujeres (Virus, 2023 – in English, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, 1997) is an essential reference in African feminist studies and an inspiration in the field of decolonial feminism.

The aim of this seminar is to create a space for discussion organised around several areas that allow deeper reflection on the ideas in The Invention of Women, while also engaging with realities and understandings of the world constructed in other African social and community forms of social organisation and in the Afrodiaspora present in Catalonia. The discussion will consider notions of “body”, “spirituality”, and “sense of the world”, and will be structured by means of methodologies aiming to organise the seminar around such nonprivileged forms of expression as sound or the word (orality).