Global and intersectional perspectives in historical-political education

Friday, 16 October 2020, 11-18h (Language: spoken German)

 

  • Panel discussion with Saraya Gomis, Isidora Randjelović, Manuela Bauche and Darja Klingenberg Moderation: Diane Izabiliza and Iris Rajanayagam.

 

  • Workshop on the website “Verwobene Geschichte*n” (“Entangled Histories”) with Diane Izabiliza and Iris Rajanayagam.

 

 

In this full-day event we would like to deal with memory cultures and the transfer of historical knowledge in the German-speaking context, from a decolonial and cross-community perspective. Intersectional approaches and perspectives in historical-political education will also be addressed in this context.

Our focus will lie on collective memory and historical interweavings between different marginalised and racialised communities. In this context, both continuities and breaks up to the present will be discussed.

The day will be opened by Iman Attia (director “Verwobene Geschichte*n”) and will begin with a panel discussion on the topic:

 

Shared and Divided Histories
Cross-community and transnational linkages of histor(y)ies

 

Central issues addressed here will be:

 

  • How important is the knowledge of (cross-community and transnational) interrelationships of histor(y)ies for the establishment or further development of networks/structures of solidarity between different communities?

 

  • How can (his)stories of different communities be put into relation with each other without losing sight of the specifics of each community and avoiding watering down these stories and their continuities to this day?

 

  • How can this knowledge be made fruitful for (shared) resistance movements and which role does it play for decolonial theory and practice today?

 

  • How can intersectional perspectives be integrated/considered in historical-political education?

 

This will be followed by a workshop on “Verwobene Geschichte*n”, in which the various levels and approaches will be presented and the above-mentioned questions taken up and discussed in more depth.

The “Verwobene Geschichten*n” website uses different approaches to recall marginalised and interwoven stories that refer to the presence of Black people and People of Colour in Berlin and Germany. It deals with their everyday life and their resistance, which are and have always been struggles for agency and the right to define.

The event aims to provide a space for people working in (historical)-political education to get to know and apply global historical and intersectional approaches to teaching in their own educational practice. However, people who are not explicitly active in this field are also warmly welcome. During the workshop there will be plenty of room for exchange and existing approaches will be discussed and, if necessary, further developed.

The panel discussion and the workshop will take place online and in spoken German.

Please register for the panel discussion (not incl. the workshop!) by October 14th, 2020 at contact@xartsplitta.net

Please register for the workshop (incl. panel discussion!) with brief information on your motivation for participating (5-7 lines) by September 21st, 2020 at contact@xartsplitta.net.

Taking part in the panel discussion, is a prerequisite for participation in the workshop.

As we will only be able to admit a limited number of participants to the workshop, all registrations will be collected till September 21st, 2020. You will receive a reply by September 28th, 202o as to whether we were able to admit you.


Speakers

Manuela Bauche is a historian with a focus on the history of colonialism and of life sciences of the 19th and 20th centuries. She also has several years of experience in historical-political education. Her dissertation, published by Campus-Verlag in 2017, examines the relationships between the fight against malaria, state rule, racism and classism in Cameroon, German East Africa and East Frisia around 1900. Since January 2019, Manuela Bauche has been the director of the project „History of Ihnestr. 22″, which aims at developing a concept for remembering the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics” at the historical site Ihnestraße 22 – a history which entailed the dehumanization and persecution of among others Sint*ezze and Rom*nja, Jews, Black people, Asian-Germans and disabled people.

Saraya Gomis Educator and learner.

Darja Klingenberg is research fellow at the Chair of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Cultural Studies (Kuwi) of the Viadrina University Frankfurt /Oder. Her teaching and research interests include migration sociology, with a focus on Russian-speaking, especially Jewish, migration movements in the 20th century. She deals with feminist theory, intersectional perspectives on social inequality, the sociology of housing, the sociology of humour and methods of qualitative social research. Darja Klingenberg received her doctorate with a dissertation entitled “Living/residing after Migration. Materialism, Aspirations and Melancholy of Russian-speaking Migrant Middle Classes”, which will be published by Campus end of this year.

Isidora Randjelović is a social pedagogue and social worker. She is director of the feminist Romnja* Archiv RomaniPhen. She writes about the interdependence of race and gender as well as movements and self-organisation and is involved in IniRromnja. Isidora Randjelović is lecturer at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin and board member of RomaniPhen e.V.

 

Workshop facilitators

Diane Izabiliza is currently studying socio-cultural studies at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder. She is a graduate of the bachelor’s programme in Social Work at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin and is a qualified educator. Her main areas of study include (anti)racism, gender, postcolonial theories and critical migration research. Diane Izabiliza was involved in the development of the site “Verwobene Geschichte*n”, which also features her film “The Wall Fell on Our Head“.

Iris Rajanayagam is a historian, director of xart splitta: www.xartsplitta.net/en/people-at-xart-splitta/ and also contributed to the development of the website “Verwobene Geschichte*n”.


This event is part of the project  #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken and is sponsored by LADS.

What are Safe(r) Spaces?

To the documentation: The Living Archives

Thursday, September 23rd 2020, 3-7pm

Location: bUm – Auditorium, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 21, 10999 Berlin

*This event will take place in spoken German*

What are Safe(r) Spaces ? Who needs Safe(r) Spaces? Where do we need Safe(r) Spaces? And how can we create and guarantee them?
 
In cooperation with BIWOC Rising*, we will follow up on those questions and many more in an intensive, daylong Workshop in September and together, come up with possible Group solutions that are intersectional and create definitions.

We support the view that not everything that is labelled as Safe Space truly is a Safe Space. That is because some privileged people tend to make use of important terms in a superficial manner (Intersectionality, Diversity, Woke etc.) and on the other hand, there is a lack of clear definition, of different intentions and sometimes of wrong assumptions. These are questions we would like to address. To do so, we will scrutinize physical as well as digital living environments.

With an intersectional approach, we will with the help of an expert team and through the inclusion of experiences of Safe Space seeking People (like Trans* and non-binary People of Colour, Refugees, Woman* of Colour, People affected by abelism) develop and specify possible definitions of Safe Spaces for physical and digital spheres.

Questions that are relevant for us in this context:

  • What are Safe or Safer Spaces and who has the power to define that?
  • Does a room filled with people who have experienced discrimination qualify as a Safe Space ?
  • Considering anonymity, can digital rooms even be safe ?
  • How do algorithms control the access to digital Safe Spaces ?
Following the workshops, the definitions/possible solutions will be summarised by a creative team and published for a broad audience.
 
Workshop facilitators:
 
Carma M. Lüdtke: Graduate engineer (FH) for technical computer science, Co-Founder and CEO at LaceWing Tech.

Sanni Est: M
ultimedia artist DJ, performer, musician, actress and trans*feminist activist. Pls. find further information on Sanni Est hier.

The intensive workshop is limited to a certain number of participants.

The bUm including the bathroom is wheelchair accessible.

Questions and registration via: contact@biwoc-rising.org

Funded by:
 

This event is part of the project  #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken and is sponsored by LADS.

German Sign Language Course II with the Team of Lebendige Gebärden I Sommer/Autumn 2020

*These courses will take place in German Sign Language.*


**Diese Kurse finden online statt!**

Dienstags, 8. September – 17. November 2020, 19:00-20:30h

und

Mittwochs, 9. September – 18. November 2020, 17:00-18:30h

Wir freuen uns in diesem Jahr auch DGS II Kurse mit Diana Spieß und dem Team von “Lebendige Gebärden” anbieten zu können.
 
Der erste Kurs (Gruppe A) findet vom 8. September bis 17. November 2020 wöchentlich, Dienstags von 19-20:30h online statt. (Am 10. November findet kein Kurs statt!)
 
Der zweite Kurs (Gruppe B) findet vom 9. September bis 18. November 2020 wöchentlich, Mittwochs von 17-18:30h online statt. (Am 11. November findet kein Kurs statt!)
 
Beide Kurse umfassen 10 Termine.
Informationen zum Kurs:
 
In diesem Kurs bekommst Du einen weiteren Einblick in die Gehörlosenkultur. Natürlich machen wir auch mit der Gebärdensprache weiter. Die Vokabeln, die du schon bei DGS I gelernt hast, werden wiederholt, um sicherzugehen, dass du nichts vergessen hast. Dazu lernst du viele neue Vokabeln für Farbe, Gefühle und Emotionen. Ein großes Thema bei DGS II ist Zeit: das heißt viele Gebärden für Wochentage, Monate und andere Zeitangaben. Zudem erfährst du wie man Uhrzeiten auf DGS ausdrückt. Da kommt auch die Zeitlinie hinzu; sie ist ein wichtiger Teil der Grammatik der DGS, denn man drückt damit Tempus aus. Die Struktur von Aussage- und Entscheidungsfragesätzen wird geübt und, die im Kurs gelernten Gebärden und Strukturen werden auch durch Dialogübungen gestärkt.

Bitte beachtet folgende Hinweise:

– Personen, die nicht an einem DGS I Kurs bei xart splitta bzw. Lebendige Gebärden teilgenommen haben, müssen die Absolvierung der vorigen Niveaustufe(n) oder entsprechende Vorkenntnisse durch ein Skype-Interview nachweisen, um am DGS II Kurs teilnehmen zu können.

– Eine Teilnahmebescheinigung kann von Lebendige Gebärden nur ausgehändigt werden, wenn eine Teilnahme am Kurs von 70% oder höher vorliegt.

– Eine dolmetschende Person wird bei Kursbeginn anwesend sein.

– Nach der Einführung erhalten Teilnehmende die Unterrichtsmaterialen per E-Mail und im Chat bei Zoom, welche im Nachinein ausdruckt werden können. Das Unterrichtsmaterial ist nur für Teilnehmende Personen bestimmt und darf nicht an Dritte weitergegeben werden.

Bei Interesse, Anmeldung und Fragen zu weiteren Teilnahmebedingungen, schreibt bitte bis zum 2. September 2020 eine Email an: contact@xartsplitta.net.


Zu Diana Spieß:

“Bist DU taub? ICH bin es! GEBÄRDENSPRACHE IST SPANNEND, VIELFÄLTIG UND WOW!”

Diana Spieß wuchs in einer tauben und gebärdensprachnutzenden Familie als taub Geborene auf. Sie ist auf dem Gebiet der Gebärdensprache Muttersprachlerin. Von frühster Kindheit an bestand ihr Interesse an einem Austausch mit der hörenden Welt. Nach einer Ausbildung und der beruflichen Tätigkeit als Sozialpädagogische Assistentin, qualifizierte sie sich erfolgreich zur Gebärdensprachdozentin. Seit dem ist sie neben vielen anderen Sozialen- und Schulprojekten im Bereich der Gebärdensprachvermittlung sehr aktiv.

Weitere Infomationen zu Diana Spieß und Lebendige Gebärden unter: : www.lebendige-gebaerden.de


This event is part of the project  #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken and is sponsored by LADS.

It’s About Our Booties – BLACK ENERGY – Workshop 6

With Paula Azeviche and Ford Kelly

19th & 20th of September 2020 // 11 – 18 h

You can find information about registration here. Please check this out before you register. Deadline for registration is 13.09.2020.


What does Black Energy mean to us in the context of Black Rage, Black Rest, Black Spirituality and Black Love?

This Workshop is about harvesting our energy as Black Trans*, Inter, Non_binary, Genderqueer, Agender People where we will explore ways in which this energy effects us as we use movement, sounds, meditations, discussions and experimentations as well as drawing and sharing music to guide us within Black Energy.

Black Energy is a experience that will give us internal tools to navigate our external worlds. It is a preparation for how important it is to find our own energy, and how our own energy can transform our own world. 

It is an exercise for self empowerment, growth, healing, resilience, creativity and give us strength to exist as Black Bodies in movement. 


For: Black People, all bodies welcome.

The workshop will take place in English spoken language. The facilitators also speak German, Spanish and Portuguese (spoken language). 

This is an online workshop.


Paula Azeviche holds a Master’s degree in Ethnology and African Studies from the Faculty of Humanities, 2011 and a Bachelors degree in Education from the Faculty of Education, 2007. Her experience is concentrated in the field of human sciences, with special emphasis on racism and antiracism praxis in education and diversity. She is a pedagogical consultant and art educator.

 

Ford Kelly is a Black Alien Queer Trans* Artist / Facilitator who lives and works in Berlin. Ford’s experience is concentrated between the fields of design, Cultural Production and dance/movement research. All with a focus on Black Queer Spaces in Berlin.


 

This event is part of the project  #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken and is sponsored by LADS.

It’s About Our Booties

Body empowerment for queer, fat, Black people/ Indigenous people/ People of Color, with disability/ies

August 2020 – October 2020

Here, it is all about your body!

In eight different workshops we will be offering eight different programmes for intersectional body empowerment. Together with the other participants you will be able to exchange experiences and develope strategies to relate to your physical self in a positive way.

Often, bodies that deviate from the cis-binary gender norm are subject to different kinds of discrimination and have hardly any access to body-related empowerment offers that consider them, let alone, center their perspectives and needs. Therefore, these workshops are all aimed at queer people, especially with regard to a non-cis-binary gender identification.

However norms and mechanisms of exclusion also exist within queer communities, since they too are mostly dominated by white, abled-body and slim beauty norms and thus have a certain (body) aesthetic. It’s About Our Booties creates spaces in which discrimination is considered from an intersectional perspective.

All workshops are free of charge. Nonetheless, if you would like to support our work we would be happy about every donation. Pls. find further information here.


What is there to consider?

Finding your workshop: This is about safer spaces! Please respect the space and carefully consider which workshop could be meant for you and which not. For example: Black people, indigenous people and People of Color can of course attend a workshop in which white people are also welcome. However, if you are not affected by racism, please respect the safer space and register for one of the workshops which are open to everyone.

Furthermore: We know that being fat can also intersect with disability/ies. We want to create space for all processes, identifications and positions, therefore fat and disabled are sometimes separated here. 

If you have any questions/uncertainties – please contact us!

The workshop series is generally aimed at people who (want to) break with a cis-binary gender identity. Trans*, non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid are some of the identities to be mentioned. However, the workshop serie is very open. We want to offer space in which gender can be thought, experienced, tried out and created outside the norm.

DGS (German Sign Language) -interpreters are available. Please let us know whether you will be needing translation into German Sign Language in your registration. 

All workshops will be taking place online.

Please register via contact@xartsplitta.net and tell us a little bit about yourself and how you position yourself, which workshop you would like to attend and what kind of support you may still need!

We are looking forward to your participation!


Pls. find the workshops here (the workshops are in chronological order, so do not get confused):

Workshop 1 – We are here to be alive! – With Ginnie Bekoe & Tsepo Bollwinkel – 15th & 16th of August 2020

Workshop 4 – We are here to be alive! – With Ginnie Bekoe & Tsepo Bollwinkel – 22th & 23th of August 2020

Workshop 2 – Do it the Body positiv Way! – With SchwarzRund – 5th & 6th of September 2020

Workshop 7 – Refraim Fat-Reclaim Movement – With Mäks – 12th & 13th of September und 3rd & 4th of October 2020

Workshop 6 – BLACK ENERGY – With Paula Azeviche and Ford Kelly – 19th & 20th of September 2020

Workshop 5 – Do it the Body positiv Way! – With SchwarzRund – 26th & 27th of September 2020

Workshop 3 – Do it the Body positiv Way! – With SchwarzRund – 10th & 11th of October 2020

Workshop 8 – Your Body_Your Sexuality! – With Nino Mar Seliz – 17th & 18th of October 2020