Our new event flyer for March till June 2019 is out!
More information about full programme in German under this link.
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Resistance Movements Re/visited
This event will take place in spoken German spoken.
Bewegungsgeschichte*n re/visited: Gespräche mit Zeitzeug*innen
Montag, 1. April, 7pm
1970er bis Anfang der 1990er Jahre: Schwarze Communities und Communites of Color: Ausgangspositionen – Begegnungen –Erkundungen
Mit: Anita Awosusi, Kook-Nam Cho-Ruwwe, Arfasse Gamada und Katja Kinder. Moderation: Nicola Lauré al-Samarai
Es hat in Deutschland zu verschiedenen Zeiten verschiedene bewegungspolitische Momente und Anfänge gegeben. Oft sind diese Beginnings mit einzelnen Personen verknüpft; oft hängen individuelle und kollektive Bewusstwerdungsprozesse eng miteinander zusammen, beeinflussen und verstärken sich gegenseitig. Frauen* spielen in solchen Zusammenhängen häufig eine besondere Rolle, da sie politische Entwicklungen angestoßen und wichtige inhaltliche Setzungen vorgenommen haben. An welchen Ausgangspunkten mussten sich einzelne Personen und/oder Communities zusammenfinden, um Widerstand zu leisten und für ihre Rechte einzutreten? Auf welche politischen Bewegungsgeschichte*n wurde und wird dabei Bezug genommen? Wie konnten und können bewegungspolitische Erfahrungen weiter gegeben werden?
Diese und andere Fragen werden wir gemeinsam mit unseren Gästen in der ersten Diskussionsveranstaltung im Rahmen des Projektes »Passing it On« diskutieren.
Anita Awosusi ist seit 30 Jahren in der Bürger*innenrechtsbewegung mit dem Schwerpunkt auf erinnerungspolitische Arbeit aktiv und war u.a. als Leiterin des Bildungsreferats und Vorstandsmitglied im Dokumentationszentrum deutscher Sinti und Roma in Heidelberg tätig.
Arfasse Gamada ist Mitbegründerin des Bremer Frauenprojekts »decolores« ist Diversity Trainerin mit den Schwerpunkten Rassismus/Anti-Rassismus & Empowerment und war Teil der Oromo-Frauenbewegung.
Kook-Nam Cho-Ruwwe ist Gründungsmitglied der koreanischen Frauengruppe in Deutschland und Vorstandsvorsitzende im Dachverband der Migrantinnenorganisationen (DaMigra e.V.).
Katja Kinder ist Mitbegründerin von Generation Adefra. Sie ist Erziehungswissenschaftlerin, diversitätsorientierte & diskriminierungskritische Beraterin und bei der RAA Berlin tätig.
What’s Up With Class?!
Not: Race vs. Class
But rather: Race and Class!
Wednesday 15th of May 2019
9.30am – 6pm
Location: Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße, Urbanstraße 21, 10961 Berlin.
How to get there: www.nachbarschaftshaus.de/kontakt/anfahrt/
We want to reclaim the conversation about class because any conversation about class is incomplete unless we also talk about race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, national and migration status. The aim of this all-day event it to open up a space for exchange in order to approach class/classism from an intersectional perspective. In various inputs, workshops and discussion rounds, a number of topics will be broached, topics that deal with the intertwining of race and class as well as further categories of discrimination and oppression.
The thematic focal points will be:
★ The link between colonialism, racism and capitalism
★ Care work
★ Reproductive justice
★ Public space
All topics deal in particular with questions of participation, exclusion and inclusion as well as barriers to access in the context of race and class. Our aim is explicitly to take ordinary conversations about classism and include categories like race and migration. Our aim is to illustrate how race and class are interwoven as social categories in a wide variety of areas – on an institutional, structural as well as everyday level.
This event is a cooperation between xart splitta, the Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ) and the Bildungswerk of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and will be held together with the Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstrasse (NHU). It is part of the Shared Spaces project of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Programme
9:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome Address from xartsplitta and Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ)
10:10 – 11:10 Stories About Class with
★ Emine Aslan
★ Sandra Selimović (Actress, Director and Singer)
★ Tuğba Tanyılmaz & Ed Greve (i-Päd and Migrationsrat Berlin)
11:15 – 12:00 Input on the History of Class, Migration, (Post)Colonialism and Racism with Sinthujan Varatharajah
12:00 -13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Care-Work
★ Input by Collectif 360° and Discussion
★ Parallel Workshop carried out by Tuğba Tanyılmaz & Ed Greve
14:35 – 16:05 Reproductive Justice
★ Input by Dinah de Roquet-Bons (Transgender Europe, Int. Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe & Global Network of Sex Work Projects) and Discussion
★ Parallel Workshop carried out by Aylin Turgay (Alice-Salomon-Hochschule)
16:10 – 17:40 Public Space
★ Input by Céline Barry (Each One Teach One and the campaign “Ban Racial Profiling”) and Discussion
★ Parallel Workshop carried out by Saboura Naqshband (Berlin Muslim Feminists) & Amina Aziz (Podcast Host of “Mit freundlichen Grüßen”)
17:40 – 18:00 End
19:00 Film Screening of “Remue-Ménage Dans La Sous-Traitance” (Big Sweep-up in Subcontracting)
About the film:
March 2002, Paris. Cleaners doing subcontracted work in Accor hotels go on strike. Most of the strikers are women with West African origins and are fighting for their rights for the first time in their life. Shot over a 4 year period, the film outlines different struggles where with few resources but a will, collectively organized individuals disrupt the law of submissiveness prevailing in the world of work, particularly in subcontracted work.
**Within the framework of this event, there is a possibility that photos, sound and video recordings will be made for publishing by the organisers.**
Participation free of charge.
Registration is required! Please register under the following link
Dinner and Talk with Reni Eddo-Lodge
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On March 27th Reni Eddo-Lodge will present her book “Why I am No Longer Talking to White People About Race” at Kulturkaufhaus Dussman. Following this book presentation we invite all Black People, Indigenous People and/or People of Colour to join us at xart splitta for an informal dinner and talk with the author starting at 21.30h. We would like to continue talking to Reni Eddo-Lodge about her book in a relaxed atmosphere while enjoying a delicious meal.
The event will take place in English spoken language.
About “Why I am No Longer Talking to White People About Race” and Reni Eddo-Lodge:
In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration at how the discussions about race and racism in Britain were conducted by those who were not affected. She published an article in her blog entitled “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race”. Her words struck a nerve. The post went viral and comments flowed in desperately from others to talk about their own experiences. Motivated by this, Reni Eddo-Lodge dug into eradicated Black history to political purpose of white dominance, whitewashed feminism and inextricable link between class and race. Reni Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential framework for how to see, acknowledge and counter racism.
image sources: https://www.klett-cotta.de/media/1/9783608504194.jpg and http://kaboompics.com/one_foto/385/lunch-table-salad
Racial Capitalism – Theory, Politics, Practice. A Talk by Ceren Türkmen
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Wednesday, 20th of February 2019, 7pm
Location of event: Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße (Urbanstraße 21, 10961 Berlin, Saal).
This event will be held in German spoken language. Simultaneous interpretation into spoken English will be provided.
Guardian Artikel über J-M Basquiat
Discussions about the connection between capitalism and racism are experiencing a new boom since the recent increase in right-wing populist tendencies in the UK and the USA. The discussion itself is not new. Intensive discussions were already taking place in the 1970s and 1980s under the terms “Racial Capitalism”. Debates about a “Black Marxism” were only marginally received in Europe, and the production and circulation of knowledge partially failed because of Eurocentrism. In this lecture Cedric Robinson’s analysis will be introduced in order to work out perspectives for a leftist debate in Germany.
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Ceren Türkmen is a sociologist and lecturer at the Justus-Liebig-Universität-