– Keynote: Diaspora Dynamics: Shaping the Future of Literature: ALA Conference of African Literature Association, Bayreuth, June 2015
– Keynote: „Kunst ist für alle da! Wie Deine Bilder die Welt verändern” (Art is for everyone – how your pictures shape the world”), Juni 2015, Bildungsstätte Anne Frank, Frankfurt (mit Jurytätigkeit zum Plakatwettbewerb »Mensch, du hast Rechte«)
– Radio Meta: Audio Play and Radio Intervention
Radio Meta broadcasts four fictional archetypical radio formats, written, produced and performed by Noah Sow, unmasking cultural and gender-based chauvinis in pop culture and popular media. Content comes with its own meta messages thereby unclosing additional ways of reception, enjoyment, analysis.
- Nationwide broadcast by federal public radio Deutschlandradio Kultur, March 2017
- CTM festival 2017, Berlin – FEAR ANGER LOVE: „Radio Meta – A Major Intervention“ : presentation about conceptualizing and producing a satire audio play that deconstructs sexism, racism and bias inherent in pop music and media culture
- Part of the Exhibition “Ordnung // Struktur”, Thea.Lit Frauen.Kultur.Labor, Bremen, April 2015
- Nominated and screened at 7th Berlin Radio Drama Festival (Hörspielfestival) 2016
- Screened around cinemas in Germany (Babylon Berlin, B-Movie Hamburg, Peter-Weiss-Haus Rostock)
– Keynote: Wer spricht, wer liefert? Voraussetzungen für qualifizierte Antidiskriminierungsarbeit“ („Who speaks, Who delivers? – Prerequisites for Qualified Equality Work”), Forum der Kulturen, Laboratorium, Stuttgart, November 2015
– Keynote and Artist Presentation: „Überlegungen und Überlegenheiten Diasporischer Kunst“: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Kültürgemma, October 2015
– Sister-Wellness: an evening for exchange on ‘wellness’ and self care as political act, for Black Women*Inter*Trans*/People. Curator, panelist, short film. Berlin, 12.12.14
– Guernica-Society at Federal Collection of Art Dresden: Keynote “Schwarze Wissensproduktion als angeeignete Profilierungsressource” (“The appropriation of Black Knowledge Production for Nonblack academical careers”) 6. Dezember 2014, keynote lecture at Dresden State Art Collections and AG Queer Studies Hamburg 2014, reprinted in: Kunst und Politik Jahrbuch der Guernica-Gesellschaft– Band 017, Anna Greve (Hg.) Weißsein und Kunst, Neue postkoloniale Analysen, V&R unipress, Göttingen, 2015 ISBN 978-3-8471-0526-8 (Art and Politics Yearbook of the Guernica Society, Whiteness and The Arts, New Postcolonial Ways of Analysis)
– Guest Lecture “Decolonize Your Veranstaltungsplanung (aka: verantwortlich Veranstalten)” – Epic Fails und Bessere Praxis für die Planung transformativer Projekte: Einführung und Grundlagen. (Decolonize Your Event Planning – epic fails and better practice for planning transformative projects), AG Queer Studies Universität Hamburg, 2016, conference “Vernetzt Euch”, Berlin, 2015
– Publication (edt.) »German Humor« book presentation / performance
– Seminar: Decolonising Who? – Curating Change, HfBK (Hochschule für bildende Künste) Hamburg, SoSe 2015
– Keynote: “Jenseits böser Wörter… Hegemoniale Mechaniken öffentlicher Sprache” (“Beyond ugly words: hegemonic mechanics of public speech”) on Symposium “Correctly Political! Sprachkritik und kritischer Sprachgebrauch für das 21. Jahrhundert”, University Hamburg, 25. Juli 2014
– Guest lecture: “Dominanzerhalt über Kommunikation innerhalb von Medien und ‘Antira’-Arbeit” (“Preservation of dominance via communication – by examples of media and ‘anti-racist’ work”), University of Osnabrück, 2. Juli 2014
– Exhibition/Storytelling-Project “Wall of Wellness” at Berlin Art Festival “48h Neukölln”, with Hollaback!Berlin and “Stop Telling Women to Smile” by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, 27.-29. June 2014, Endorphina Berlin
– Publication of Electronic Griotage “Rest, Rooms” in book AfroFictional In[ter]ventions, Susan Arndt & Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (Hg.), edition assemblage, Februar 2014
– September 2013 Lecture: »Not Exactly Mainstream: 30 Years of Afrodeutsche Artistic Production«, Northwestern University, Deptment of African American Studies, Chicago
– 2013 Presentation of unreleased novel in German (original) and English translation at BIGSAS Literaturfestival Bayreuth (‘intertextuality’)
– Presentation “Lost in [Cultural] Translation – Common North American Misconceptions about Black Germany”, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York 2012, 2nd Annual BGCS Convention http://blackgermans.us/convention2012/index.php/2012-05-21-18-28-32/participants/40-noah-sow
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– Curator “Blacklectic” Intersectional Live-Music and Art Dialog, Hamburg and Berlin 2012 and 2013
– Personality book backside blurb; reading of unpublished May Ayim poems at book presentation »Euer Schweigen schützt Euch nicht: Audre Lorde und die Schwarze Frauenbewegung in Deutschland« (Peggy Piesche, Orlanda, 2013)
– Keynote ”Strengthening Transatlantic Connections” , Black German Cultural Society (BGCS), Humanities Council of Washington, DC and German Historical Institute Washington Autumn 2011 http://blackgermans.us/convention2011/
– Co-Author of Dictionary “Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht – (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache. Ein kritisches Nachschlagewerk” (~How Racism speaks out of Words – Legacy and Continuity of Colonialism in the Knowledge Archives of German Language. A Critical Reference Book) Editors: Susan Arndt and Nadia Ofuatey-Alazard), Unrast Verlag, Münster, 2011 (Contributed 100 pages)
– Featured in “Briefe bewegen die Welt“ (~Letters move the world), te Neues Verlag: A chapter about NoahSow ‘s friendship with Activist, Author, Scholar Rosemarie Pena (Hellmuth Karasek, Editor) 2011 http://www.noahsow.de/blog/?p=4044
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– Libretto “Clong”, a musical for the youth , Federal State of Northrhine Westfalia, 2010
– Curator “Punk of Color“ Panel Discussion, Hamburg Black History Month on History, Roots, Unique and Sub-Cultural aspects of Black Rock Music 2010
– Conception, Production, Script, Director, and Live Performance “Edutainment Attacke” , a Multi-media Live Duo Show which includes Stand-Up Comedy, Videoclips, Short Readings and diversity and equality education, with stage Partner and Co-Author Mutlu Ergün. Numerous live performances, tours and shows, Germany, 2009-2012
– Founder Jeanne Dark Records, 2009 Self-released NOISEAUX “Out Now!” debut album, whose lyrics are utilized as teaching materials in German Studies at universities in the US.
– TV Presenter, Reporter Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: WDR and Federal Agency for Civic Education; Live Educational Television report series targeted at young adults and teens facing social challenges. 2008-2010
– Presentation ‘Strukturell dominanter Diskurs am Beispiel deutscher Medien’ (media analysis: hegemonic discourse) at symposium “Rassismus Wissenschaft Universität” (Racism, Science, University), Berlin, 2009
– Presentation, Lecture and Symposium “Enträumlichung” (Dislocation/Deterritorialization), Goethe Institute, Sao Paolo, 2008
– Author of »Deutschland Schwarz weiß: der alltägliche Rassismus« (Germany Black White – everyday racism) C. Bertelsmann / Random House, 2008, which has since become a standard and frequently quoted reference in contemporary German decolonial literature, studies and education. Further editions of the book have since been released as well as an updated version from 2018 and an audio version.
1991 – 2008: producer, author, host of various weekly personality radio and tv shows in ARD stations HR, WDR, SWF, RBB; Jury for Voice talent casting show “Popstars”, TV appearances
