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Wednesday, 28th September
Day 1: Minorities in Perspective
Location at Oyoun: Seminar Room (first floor)
14:00 - Welcome
14:30 - 16:00 - Session A
Lecture by Hannah Tzuberi (Freie Universität Berlin): Re-Humanizing the Figure of the Jew, or An Excavation of German Travel-Guides to Israel from the 60s to Today
Respondent: Nahed Samour (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
16:00 – 17:00 - Coffee Break
17:00 – 19:00 - Keynote Lecture
Lecture by Faisal Devji (University of Oxford): Islam, Blasphemy, and the Loss of Theology
Discussant: Schirin Amir-Moazami (Freie Universität Berlin)
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Thursday, 29th September
Day 2: (Re)Imagining Dominance
Location at Oyoun: Seminar Room (first floor)
14:00 – 16:00 - Session A
Panel: Everyday Border Making Practices: Intersections of Migration, Democracy, and Nationalism (coordinator: Saskia Schäfer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Zeynep Balcioglu (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): “Why Bother? Local Bureaucrats’ Motivations for Providing Social Services for Refugees”
Ezgi Irgil (Swedish Institute of International Affairs): “All That is International is Also Local: Assessing the Domestic Impacts of Turkey’s Coercive Migration Diplomacy“
Selin Siviş (University of Bristol): “The Use of Cultural Repertoires of Everyday Nationhood and Citizenship in National Identity Boundary-drawing: A Case Study of Syrian Refugees in Turkey”
16:00 – 17:00 – Coffee Break
17:00 – 19:00 - Session B
Roundtable: Aesthetics of Majoritarian Nationalism (coordinator: Salma Siddique, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Nadja-Christina Schneider (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): “Nari Shakti and the Nation: The Emerging Figure of the Woman Air Force Pilot“
Salma Siddique (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): “Historical Consciousness as an Immolating Queen”
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Friday, 30th September
Day 3: Iconographies of Resistance
Location at Oyoun: Ahead Club (basement)
10:00 - 12:00 Session A
Panel: Women and Gender in the Kurdish Struggle (coordinator: Off-University)
Introduction by Nazan Üstündağ (Gerda Henkel Stiftung) to the Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement, its History and Development.
Delal Aydin (Universität Duisburg-Essen): "Iconic Women Figures in the Kurdish Mobilization in the 1990s"
Irem Aki (Philipps-Universität Marburg/Off-University): "Intersectionality and Peacebuilding: Kurdish Queer Politics in Turkey"
12.00 - 14.00 - Lunch break
14:00 – 16:00 - Session B
Roundtable: Storytelling, Re-Writing Histories (coordinator: Juliana Streva, Freie Universität Berlin)
Zahra Gardi (Photographer/Filmmaker)
Barbara Marcel (Berlin Artistic Research Grant Program Fellow)
Juliana Streva (Freie Universität Berlin)
Nagehan Uskan (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
16:00 – 17:00 - Coffee Break
17:00 – 19:00 - Session C
Book Presentation and Discussion: The Image of the Protesting Woman
Moderator: Fritzi-Marie Titzmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Prarthna Singh (Photographer, Mumbai): Discussion of Singh’s photo book Har Shaam Shaheen Bagh
Mallika Leuzinger (German Historical Institute London)
19:00 – 20:00 - Dinner Break
20.00 - 22.30 - Poetry Reading and Cinema Night
Poetry Reading:
Film Screening:
Two Short-Films by Kino Mosaik Film Collective
“Mulheres em Movimento” (2020) by Juliana Streva
