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Friday, 1 November 2019
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The Legacy
of Slavery, Race and Racism in Morocco
Lecture by Prof Chouki
El Hamel, Arizona State University
7 November
2019, 5 pm
Venue: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung,
Schützenstraße 18, 10117
Berlin
In recent decades, a number of scholars have revised
existing historical constructions of African societies by focusing
on the agency of subaltern groups. As yet, there are only quite a
few comprehensive and analytic published monographs on the history
of slavery or trans-Saharan slave trade or their abolitions in the
Maghreb. A serious academic endeavour to restore the forgotten role
of blacks in North Africa has just started. The objective is not
only to fill the gap but to challenge the conventional readings of
slavery in Islam. This lecture tells the story of the silenced
under-represented and reveals the system of inequality, feelings of
superiority and nationalistic narration as a system of social
control that has reduced Moroccan minorities to a marginalized
social status.
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7 November
2019, 4 pm,
ZMO
Translatability and Open
Architecture as Antidotes of Nationalism: A Response to the Travel
Ban
Keynote lecture by Esra
Akcan, Cornell University, at the workshop "Spaces of
Unnationalism".
This talk will offer the concepts of translatability
and open architecture as antidotes of nationalism by drawing from
the author’s previous works and carrying their frameworks to
a discussion of contempo-rary anti-immigration policies that are
recent reflections of xenophobic nationalism. Akcan's lecture will
ask: Can architects get their ethico-political compass from a
commitment to perpetual peace rather than the dominant geopolitical
regimes?
Esra Akcan is currently the Frieda Miller Fellow at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and an
Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture at
Cornell University.
Please register for this keynote and other sessions of the
workshop: jona.vantard@zmo.de.
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11 November
2019, 5 pm,
ZMO
What is in
the Air: Global Environmentalism and Local Activists in Bishkek and
Almaty
Lecture by Xeniya
Prilutskaya (Universität Tübingen) as part of the ZMO
lecture series "Central Eurasian Studies and Translocality
– A Debate
Unfolding"
Central Asian ecological activism has recently grown
in reaction to different ecological threats and has many
interconnected flows. The talk concentrates on the activism based
on ideas around air quality, air pollution and its visuality in two
metropoles, Almaty and Bishkek, former and current capitals of
Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, respectively. The air quality issue in
Almaty and Bishkek is a new phenomenon, related to an increased
number of cars, congestion and the heritage of highly polluting
Soviet electro energy, along with new awareness among the
population and an anti-establishment youth subculture.
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28 November
2019, 5 pm,
ZMO
The
Purva-Paksha of the Indian Modern: History, Critique, and
Constructive Philosophy
Lecture by Rakesh Pandey
(Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) as part of
the ZMO Colloquium "Thinkers and Theorizing from the Global
South"
Theories and philosophies are as much habitations of
the mind as of locations, both of which have been seen as a
preserve of the Western world. While this sounds commonsensical for
the large part of modern humanity, it is equally true that
theoretical conscience and philosophical wisdom has evolved in all
societies. However, they are generally perceived as the bearers of
traditional knowledge rather than the ground for new thinking. This
has been starkly evident in the case of modern social and human
sciences, where theory has been singularly Western in orientation.
In this presenta-tion, Pandey proposes to look into the three
moments of history, critique, and constructive philosophy to trace
the ways in which the ground of the Indian modern was laid
out.
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29 November
2019, 6.30 pm, Moviemento Kino Berlin, Kottbusser Damm 22,
10967
Berlin
"Jordanien
- Land der Geflüchteten"
Film und Gespräch,
u.a. mit Dr. Katharina Lange (ZMO), organisiert vom Bildungswerk
Berlin der
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Olivia Samnick und Philipp Lippert zeigen in ihrem Film fünf
Geschichten übers Helfen. Die fünf unterschiedlichen
Protagonisten des Films haben eines gemeinsam: Sie sind nach
Jordanien geflüchtet. "Jordanien - Land der Geflüchteten"
befasst sich mit den persönlichen Geschichten dieser Menschen
und begleitet sie beim Ankommen im Land.
Im Anschluss an die Filmvorführung findet eine
Diskus-sionsrunde mit der Filmemacherin und Journalistin Olivia
Samnick und Dr. Katharina Lange (ZMO) statt, mode-riert von Micky
Haque (Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung).
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Scholarships
International Parliamentary
Scholarships (IPS)
The German Bundestag, in cooperation with the Freie
Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and
the Technische Universität Berlin, offers scholarships to
young university graduates from 42 countries. The IPS programme
lasts a total of five months (1 March to 31 July) and involves a
number of special events, seminars and a work placement with a
Member of the German Bundestag.
Applications are accepted until 1 December 2019.
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