Dr Madeline J. Bass is a MOVES graduate, currently working as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Research Group “Migration, Identity, and Blackness in Europe” at the Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Institute. Her project is entitled “Organizing African identities in Germany: movements, migrations, and public positioning in the diaspora”.
Publications
Madeline J. Bass, Daniel Córdoba, and Peter Teunissen. “(Re)Searching with Imperial Eyes: Collective Self-Inquiry as a Tool for Transformative Migration Studies.” Social Inclusion 8:4 (2020).
Madeline J. Bass. ““Resistance is our Culture”: An Archival Exploration of Oromo Diaspora Organizing.” Displaced Voices: A Journal of Migration, Archives and Cultural Heritage, vol. 1 (summer 2020).
Madeline J. Bass. “Oromo Women in the Afterlives of Empire; Hybrid Resistance.” Heritage Hybridisations. Concepts, Scales and Spaces. Una Europa PhD Workshop Proceedings. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 10-12 May 2021.
Madeline J. Bass. “Answering the Call: Disrupting the Logics of Capitalism Through Indigenous Economies.” Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis 1:2 (2022).
Madeline J. Bass. “Hiriira Spatiotemporalities: Mapping Oromo Women’s Liberation in Post-Imperial Berlin.” Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography (12 October 2022).
Conference Presentations
Madeline J. Bass. “Racist Discourse, Social Inequality, and Epidemics.” Oromo Studies Association Mid-Year Conference, 16 May 2020.
Madeline J. Bass. “Humanitarian Needs and Observations from the ORA Archives.” Oromo Relief Association Global Launch, 5 December 2020.
Madeline J. Bass. “Sovereignty of the Soul: Oromo organizations in pursuit of self-determination.” 5th Annual Conference of the Network of Oromo Studies: Self-determination: Prospects and predicaments in Ethiopia with special reference to Oromia, 27 February 2021.
Madeline J. Bass, and Peter Teunissen. “Decolonial methods in studying and politically engaging in migrations: what can we learn from each other?” Workshop Decolonial Methods, Peripheral Selves: The Migrant Figure Between (South)East European and Global South Entanglements, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, 13 July 2020.
Madeline J. Bass. “Decolonial Knowledge and Post-Imperial Sates: Oromo Archives in Germany” presentation as part of a panel discussion alongside Solomon Benti, Dr. Mekuria Bulcha, Aster Gemeda, and Ayantu Tibeso. Oromo Studies Association Mid-Year Conference. 24-25 April 2021.
Madeline J. Bass. “Oromo Women in the Afterlives of Empire.” Heritage Hybridisations: Concepts, Scales, and Spaces. UNA Europa PhD Workshop. 10-12 May 2021.
Madeline J. Bass. “Re/Locating Resistance in the Diaspora: A Study of the Horn of Africa.” Identities in Flux: Past Presents and Futures of Migrant Communities across Europe. Hosted by University College Dublin Humanities Institute. 13-14 May 2021.
Madeline J. Bass. “Hiriira Temporalities; Mapping Oromo liberation in the German diaspora.” American Sociological Association Annual Conference, session stream Transnational Social Movements. 10 August 2021.
Madeline J. Bass. “Will the revolution be archived?”, presented with J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ayantu Tibeso, and Angatu Yousuf. Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, 7 August 2021.
Madeline J. Bass. “Europe, Abyssinia, and the Limits of Abolition: Rereading Barraké And Bilillee.” Centre for Modern European Literature and Culture (University of Kent), 8-Minute Lecture Series, October 2021.
Madeline J. Bass. “Sovereignty & The Siinqee Soul: Oromo Women’s Autonomy.” African Studies Association of Africa – Panel 71: Scripting of bodies. April 2022.
Other Activities
Madeline J. Bass. Seminar “Mapping Diaspora; New Understandings of Space, Place, and People on the Move.” X-Student Research Group. Berlin University Alliance (Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin).
Madeline J. Bass. “Sovereignty of the Soul.” Podcast Free Oromia.
“Oromo Perspectives on Crises in the Horn” – Panel Moderator (with T. Ararssa, T. Lemma, and M. Bulcha). Oromo Studies Association Mid-Year Conference, 27 March 2022.
