Tea & Talks
The academy library invites!
Two guests, two talks, two noons, lots of tea. We start a library conversation on intersectional feminism by and for P.O.C., queer, more-or less abled bodied persons. We invite all students and researchers to take part in these conversations and especially encourage voices of diverse backgrounds to take centre.
We invite Lina Ejdaa and Débora Gomez de Oliveira to select a book from the library and start the conversation from there. Tea & Talks is open for questions from the audience, if you would like to send in a question in advance, or if you recommend a book, please email to ine.boogmans@ap.be
The conversation starts at 12:00, time for questions is from 13:00 until 14:00. We will provide tea, unfortunately no lunch (or cookies) is allowed in the library.
• Wednesday 12 November, 12:00-14:00: Lina Ejdaa
• Wednesday 26 November, 12:00-14:00: Débora Gomez de Oliveira
Location: Academy library
Organisation: Eline De Clercq, artistic researcher & Ine Boogmans, librarian
Tea & Talks is an initiative of Who and what makes the academy garden?, research group Archivolt.
Lina Ejdaa (she/her, °1998, BE) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and researcher. Her practice explores knowledge production within (de-)coloniality, challenging mono-epistemic Western traditions by centring sonic storytelling. Rooted in her Indigenous Amazigh heritage, she focuses on ancestral knowledge transmission through sound, blending diasporic musical traditions. Influenced by musical epistemologies, she draws on jazz, Gnawa, Amazigh blues, dub, electro, funk, hip-hop and folk to explore how communities share and transform knowledge across borders. Her DJ sets extend her artistic practice, using sound as resistance and storytelling to honour marginalized narratives and celebrate the resilience of diasporic and Indigenous traditions.
Débora Gomes de Oliveira can lately be found performing herself in conversations, writing, project management, walking, radio and video making. Academically trained in Linguistics, some of her scientific areas of interests are multilingualism, acquisition, urbanism and discourse and some of her artistic areas of interest are people, cities, spontaneous collections, intimacy, subjectiveness, womanhood and otherness.