Program “Decolonize the City!”
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| THURSDAY 20th September 2012 |
Excursion with Corina Kwame Jazz, Swing & Funk: https://gidsy.com/activities/berlin/9181/jazz-swing-and-funk-walking-tour
| FRIDAY 21st September 2012 |
09:30 Registration
10:30 Welcome by Noa Ha & Koray Yilmaz-Günay:
“Decolonize the City - Colonial Legacies in Urbanism and Urban Politics"
11:00 Talk Transnational Perspectives on Racialised and Gendered Urbanism
• Ella Shohat (New York University): Race and the Right/Left Convergence
• Denise Ferreira da Silva (Queen Mary University, London): Radical Praxis or Knowing (at) the Limits of Justice
• Moderated by Anna Younes (Université de Genève)
13:00 Lunch break
14:30 Panel War in the City
• Rachel Herzing (Critical Resistance¸ Oakland): Enemy Places: The United States and the War at Home
• Abraham Habtemariam (Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh e.V.)
• Olad Aden (Streetworker, Gangway Berlin)
• Biplab Basu (Kampagne für Opfer rassistischer Polizeigewalt KOP, Berlin)
• Moderated by Vanessa Eileen Thompson (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)
16:30 Break
17:00 Panel
The Coloniality of the European City
• Manuela Boatca (Freie Universität Berlin): “City Air Makes Free”: Orientalistic Constructions of Otherness in Max Weber’s Sociology of Citizenship
• Joshua Kwesi Aikins (Universität Bielefeld): Indelible Imprints: Coloniality and its Contestations in Contemporary Berlin
• Noémi Michel (Université de Genève): Visual Politics of (In)visible Racism - the Controversy over the “Black Sheep” Poster in Swiss Cities
• Moderated by Cengiz Barskanmaz (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
17:00 Workshop
Policing, Resistance and Mis-education
• Isaac Ontiveros
• Rachel Herzing (Critical Resistance)
• Olad Aden (Gangway Berlin)
• Mona El Omari (Berlin)
19:00 Break
19:30 Angela Davis Support Note via Internet
20:00 Film Die Leere Mitte (1998) von Hito Steyerl
|SATURDAY 22nd September 2012|
9:30 Welcome by Cristina Martín Asensio (Migrationsrat Berlin-Brandenburg)
10:00 Talk Decolonize the Neoliberal City
• Ramón Grosfoguel (University of California, Berkeley): White Cities, Multiculturalism and the Westernized Left Paradigms of Urban Political Economy
• Kanishka Goonewardena (University of Toronto): Colonialism and Urbanization in Critical Theory and Radical Politics
• Moderated by Noa Ha (Technische Universität Berlin)
12:00 Break
12:30 Panel Decolonize Memorating (in) the City
• Kien Nghi Ha (Universität Bremen): Colonial Disgust - A Case of Institutionalised Defamation in German Cultural Studies?
• Veronika Zablotsky (Freie Universität Berlin):
The Diasporization of the Other in post-National Socialist Memory Scapes
• Isabel Dean (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): Traces of Colonialism in the Representation of African Art in the Ethnological Museum Berlin-Dahlem
• Moderated by Andrea Meza Torres (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
14:30 Lunch break
16:00 Panel Decolonize Secularism
• Mariam Popal (Universität Freiburg): (Becoming-) Major in Metropolitan Post-Colonial Space
• Yasemin Shooman (Technische Universität Berlin): “Deutschenfeindlichkeit“ – The German Debate about Reverse Racism
• Nadia Fadil (Catholic University Leuven): The Funding of Islam in Belgium. A Question of Compensation or Regulation?
• Moderated by Anna Younes (Université de Genève)
18:00 Break
18:30 Queering the City
• A presentation by Arpi Adamyan, Shushan Avagyan, and Lusine Talalyan (Queering Yerevan Collective, Armenia)
|SUNDAY 23rd September 2012|
10:00 Welcome
10:30 Talk Transformative Justice and the City
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore (City University of New York): Partition
• Jin Haritaworn (York University, Toronto): Queering Gentrification: Beyond Safe Spaces
• Moderated by Charlie Haddad
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Workshops / Aktionen
• Joshua Kwesi Aikins/Rosa Hoppe/Philipp Khabo Köpsell: “Here comes the Judge“- Koloniale Gegenwart in Berlin (Straßeninitiative, Berlin)
• Rima Hussein (Berlin): Rassismus und Psychiatrie
16:00 Break
16:30 Runder Tisch:
Rassismus und Stadt – Herausforderungen in Berlin und Deutschland?
• Sanchita Basu (ReachOut Berlin)
• Philippa Ebéné (Werkstatt der Kulturen)
• Natasha Kelly (Landesbeirätin für Integrations- und Migrationsfragen des Berliner Senats)
• Isidora Randjelovic (Ini Rromnja)
• Saïdeh Saadat-Lendle (LesMigraS)
• Moderated by Noa Ha (Technische Universität Berlin)
