Guests of the Bayreuth Academy in the last five years

Our Guests

Mr. Kien Nghi Ha

Inviting institution:	Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Stay:	01. Juni 2015 - 31. Juli 2015
Home university:	Universität Bremen (Deutschland)
Personal information:	Kien Nghi Ha, Fellow of the Institute for postcolonial and transcultural studies (INPUTS) of the University of Bremen and independent curator, holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and a Diploma in Political Sciences. Previously, he has hold research positions at New York University, University of Heidelberg and University of Tübingen. Additionally, he has curated programmes at the the House of World Cultures, the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre and the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Berlin. His research interests focus on postcolonial criticism, racism, migration and Asian Diasporic Studies. His last monograph „Unrein und vermischt. Postkoloniale Grenzgänge durch die Kulturgeschichte der Hybridität und der kolonialen »Rassenbastarde« (transcript 2010) was awarded with the Augsburger Science Prize for Intercultural Studies 2011. He is also author of several other books including “Ethnizität und Migration Reloaded” (1999/2004) and “Hype um Hybridität” (transcript 2005). He is also editor of “Asiatische Deutsche. Vietnamesische Diaspora and Beyond” (Assoziation A, 2012) and “re/visionen. Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und Widerstand in Deutschland” (Unrast, 2007).