Living Together / Looking Apart

International Conference

28.-30.9.2022

Organized on behalf of RePLITO by Salma Siddique, Juliana Streva, Hannah Tzuberi and Fritzi-Marie Titzmann

Cooperation partner: Prof. Faisal Devji, Oxford, St. Anthony’s College

In collaboration with OFF University

Venue: Oyoun, Lucy-Lameck-Str. 32, 12049 Berlin

The three-day academic, activist and artistic gathering focuses on the representational strategies, practices and histories of living together in the so-called multicultural and multi-ethnic societies in the Global South and within Europe. We draw attention to what Fathima Tobing Rony calls visual biopolitics whereby visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others, “who is visible and who is invisible, … and who is protected and who is not” (Rony, 2022). Proceeding from this, we examine contexts of segregation, integration, friction and minoritization to offer new insights into religious divisions and secular ambiguities. We are particularly interested in approaches that are concerned with aesthetics, images and iconicity, to explore how looking becomes closely intertwined with living. While the controlling look or gaze has been central to the way in which the gendered, racialized and colonized body has been made visible, we also seek out what Paula Amad refers to as the visual ripostes (Amad, 2013), evident in powers relations embedded in imperial, postcolonial and global antagonisms. This three-day event is organised by "Beyond Social Cohesion: Global Repertoires of Living Together" (RePLITO) funded in the framework of the Grand Challenge Initiative Social Cohesion by the Berlin University Alliance (2021-2024)

The event is free and open. Please register here: [email protected]