Noted Afro-German Writer Delivers Pair of Public Lectures at Lawrence University

APPLETON, WIS. -- Afro-German writer, historian and university lecturer Fatima El-Tayeb will present a pair of public programs during a week-long visit to Lawrence University.

On Monday, Oct. 15, El-Tayeb will discuss the award-winning film, "Alles wird gut (Everything will be Fine)," for which she wrote the screenplay. A German comedy shown with English subtitles, the film has won several national and international film festival awards. It will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the Wriston Art Center auditorium.

El-Tayeb also will deliver the address, "We are Germans, We are White and We Want to Stay White!" Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 4:30 p.m. in Main Hall Room 202. The lecture will be based on El-Tayeb's recent book, "Schwarze Deutsche: Der Diskurs um Rasse und Nationale Identität (Black Germans: The Discourse on Race and National Identity)." Both the movie screening and the Main Hall Forum are free and open to the public.

A lecturer at Germany's Hamburg University, where she earned a Ph.D. in German history, El-Tayeb was the keynote speaker of a symposium on Afro-Germans at State University of New York-Buffalo last year and served as guest of honor at the annual convention of Women in German earlier this year. She spent last year as the Max Kade lecturer at Dickinson College and will spend the Spring 2002 semester as a visiting fellow at Amherst College.