Nelly Y. Pinkrah
Programme: “Past Tense”. Exhibition & “Resonant Futures – Haunted Archives and Technologies of Resistance”. Panel Discussion
Date: Friday, 5. September 15:30-17:00
Venue: ifk arkaden
Free Entry!
Nelly Y. Pinkrah is a Black and media studies scholar currently at the Chair of Digital Cultures at the Technical University of Dresden. Her work explores Black studies, media and technology, poetics and politics, and critical pedagogies. Her doctoral thesis explores «The Technological Everyday» through Édouard Glissant in relation to language, technology and cybernetics, history and epistemology. Nelly co-runs the project «School of (Un)Thought» with Mitch Pfeifer (part of international network ASchool). She is also part of the speakers’ circle of the Alliance for Critical Scholarship in Solidarity (KriSol), a member of the German Forum Antiracism Media Studies (FAM) and the DFG Network «Gender, Media, Affect». She is affiliated with the Center for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University. In 2021, she lectured at the University of Groningen. Most recent: «Calculating Intelligence,» in: Stella Rollin, Eva Fischer, Jamila Grandits (eds.), _coded manoeuvres_. Cologne: Walther und Franz König, 2025.