The Missed Seminar (Entangled Internationalisms)

The Missed Seminar: Worldmaking after Internationalism is a Research Edition engendered by the project “Entangled Internationalism” that mobilizes a geopolitics of friendship between the pan-African feminist, Black photographer and anthropologist Eslanda Goode Robeson and world- renowned actor, social activist, and singer Paul Robeson from the US, on the one hand, and the Jewish German philosopher Franz Loeser and British teacher Diana Loeser in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) on the other. In 1963, the Robesons “‘sneaked’ to East Germany” (E. G. Robeson). The book is a study of their joint struggles fighting fascism, racism, and anti-Semitism. Archival materials document their encounters in the GDR in resonance with the collections of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the architecture of Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, along with new contributions from Steve McQueen, Katharina Warda, Tiffany Florvil, Matana Roberts, George E. Lewis, Kira Thurmann, and Kathleen Reinhardt.