Online Lecture Series | New Unit | Lucia Stecher "Dionne Brand's 'A Map to the Door of No Return' and Afro-Diasporic Discourse"
Lucia Stecher, who in April 2025 was a visiting fellow at the ScienceCampus, recorded a video as part of our online lecture series with the VHB: Bavarian Virtual University.
Lucia Stecher, our first visiting fellow from the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile, created a teaching unit for our online lecture series European-American Entanglements in the Modern World. Find the video here.
In the talk, Prof. Stecher introduces Black Canadian writer Dionne Brand and her work A Map to the Door of No Return. The door, geographically located in West Africa, symbolizes the deportation of Africans to North America in the slave trade and the loss of their histories. As well as providing insights into Brand's work, users become acquainted with broader concepts of intersectionality, colonialism and decolonization, and intersectionality, as well as literary processes contributing to critically working through the past.
The talk is in Spanish with options for English, German and Spanish subtitles. The exercises and interface are in German. Many thanks to the ScienceCampus student assistant Christoph Kulzer for creating the teaching material and for the technical development of the unit. Much appreciation also goes to Barbara Aránda, doctoral researcher at DIMAS with Prof. Dr. Anne Brüske, who created the Spanish subtitles and provided translations into English. Thank you to the staff at the UR Center for University and Academic Teaching (ZHW) for giving us access to their studio and for their technical support.
