{"id":49577,"date":"2023-03-09T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.africologne-festival.de\/project\/opening-ecas-conference-2023\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T14:07:52","slug":"opening-ecas-conference-2023","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/project\/opening-ecas-conference-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening ECAS CONFERENCE 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We celebrate the grand opening of the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2023 <em>African Futures<\/em> &amp; the citizens&#8217; program <em>African Futures &#8211; all Around.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>The 9th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) &#8220;African Futures&#8221; aims to explore the continent&#8217;s critical engagements with the past, present and future of Africa&#8217;s global interdependencies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecasconference.org\/2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">. www.ecasconference.org\/2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>On the occasion of the ECAS symposium, the City of Cologne, together with representatives of Afro-diasporic groups and organizers such as africologne, invites you to the extensive African Futures &#8211; All Around programme: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.african-futures.koeln\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">www.african-futures.koeln<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>PROCESS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>18:30 &#8211; 18:50: Welcome by the Lord Mayor Henriette Reker, the Rector of the University of Cologne Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Axel Freimuth and representatives of the African communities.<\/p>\n\n<p>18:50 &#8211; 19:30: Keynote by Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owour:<em>Inscribing African Futures &#8211; from the Continent to the Galaxies<\/em> (English with German translation)<\/p>\n\n<p><br\/>19:30 RECEPTION &amp; Get together in the foyer of the depot<\/p>\n\n<p><br\/>20.15: OPENING africologneFESTIVAL in the foyer of the depot.<\/p>\n\n<p>Greetings from the patron Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and Media and the patron Aristide Tarnagda, Director of the R\u00e9cr\u00e9\u00e2trales-Festival Ouagadougou.<\/p>\n\n<p>Followed by a presentation of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/programm\/samson\">SAMSON<\/a><\/em> (Admission with performance ticket) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrate the grand opening of the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2023 African Futures &amp; the citizens&#8217; program African Futures &#8211; all Around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":49214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[82],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-49577","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-2023-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/49577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/49577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49578,"href":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/49577\/revisions\/49578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=49577"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africologne-festival.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=49577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}