Panel Discussions
Past Events
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Widersprechen gegen das Vergessen. Tschechoslowakische Zwangsarbeiter*innen in der Region BremenForced laborers from the occupied territories of what was then Czechoslovakia (“Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia”) are among the most invisible victims of National Socialist crimes in and around Bremen. It is very difficult to…
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Wie weiter nach den Parlamentswahlen in Spanien?The panel discussion will be held in German and English with simultaneous translation. After the recent elections in Spain, a stalemate emerged in which neither the PP- nor PSOE-led coalition of choice could unite a…
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Widersprüche der Erinnerungskultur. Die Realität der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft anerkennen?Die deutsche Gesellschaft ist stark von Migrationsbewegungen und dadurch von einer Vielstimmigkeit an Vergangenheits- und Erinnerungsnarrativen geprägt und die hier lebenden Menschen stützen ihre Identitäten auf unterschiedliche kulturelle Praktiken des Erinnerns. Das sog. Kollektive Gedächtnis…
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Constitution and/or Declaration – Discussing the Question of the (Linguistic) Construction of Contradictions
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Afrospanish Literature. Between Activism and Creating References
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Blackness as a Universal Claim. Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures and Black Power in Berlin
In this bold and provocative new book, Damani Partridge examines the possibilities and limits for a universalized Black politics. German youth of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and…
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Hegel (anti)kolonialHegel arguably developed and disseminated racist and pro-colonialist views. At the same time, he has been a source of inspiration for generations of progressive philosophers, incl. thinkers in the Black radical tradition and their accounts…
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Breaking) Barriers in Academia: Mapping the FieldThe dominant understanding of academia assumes that beneficial participation for all involved (students, early career researchers, academic staff…) is based primarily on the ability to make a valuable intellectual contribution to research. In reality, however,…
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Exclusionary Inclusions: Race in (Trans)national ImaginariesThe first discussion in WoC’s new Agora format will focus on the exclusionary effects of contemporary discourses and politics of inclusion. Taking the globalization and mediatization of the Black Lives Matter movement as a starting…
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