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VORBEI MIT ALLES
KLAR (It’s All Over with “Everything’s Okay“) The lecture series is based on an interdisclinary approach to addressing migration that does not look at the issue as a temporary state or individual case. Migration has long been part of the transformational processes occuring on social, cultural, and “identity” levels. In connection with other aspects of globalization, migration demands a new way of thinking about political categories, historical narratives, and cultural assumptions, and even includes new perspectives on living and being. Outdated oppositions such as identity versus difference, self versus others, and their obligatory, discursive homogenization of majorities and minorities fail to encapsulate these changes. This lecture series thus links the productive potential of migration with destabilizing and redefining terms and concepts with which societies characterized by migration—their realms of imagination and space for action—could be described. The series focuses on the conceptual crisis of cognivitive structures and descriptive models; it addresses shifts in theories of awareness and knowledge that are triggered by social and cultural practices in spaces of transition. And finally, it prompts people to envision how they can think about community or identity differently and articulate subjectivity in a new way within the area of tension between old (institutional and discursive) ordering structures and new, diversified ways of living. (Christian Kravagna)
In her newer artworks, such as Short Hills and Women of the Orient, Dorit Margreiter examines spaces of migration in relation to the world of media and realms of the imagination. Margreiter’s art articulates moments of penetration of historial, cultural, and subjective motifs through experiencing and designing these spaces.
Utopias are obsolete, dangerous, and totalitarian–that is,
according to mainstream discourse. And indeed, the idea of a utopia
has always gotten bad press, as Ernst Bloch–the philosopher
of hope–used to say. After all, for those who are content
with the status quo, utopias are inconvenient. They disturb the
comfortable atmosphere that is maintained by a continual state of
normality. María do Mar Castro Varela is a psychologist and political scientist at the University of Cologne.
The lecture addresses the supressed narratives of the Modern Age with regard to “colonized bodies,” exploited territories, and the diverse structuring of the modern metropolis. Iain Chambers, Professor at the Instituto Universatorio Orientale, Naples (Migration, Culture, Identity, 1996; Border Dialogues, 1990)
In the context of “cultural turn,“ “hybridity“ has become a key term within the humanities and social sciences. Hybridity is often presented outside of fundamental historical and political contexts as a model of “cultural amalgamation” and is euphorically celebrated as an alternative mode of ordering society. Local interest is primarily directed at the productive and aesthetic aspects of processes of cultural hybridism rather than at post-colonial and interventionist issues. Based on this situation, it seems appropriate to critically analyze the concept of hybridity and to discuss regional uses of the term with regard to problematic abbreviations, exclusions, and functionalizations that can be associated with national projects and consumptive pitfalls. Kien Nghi Ha, Political Scientist, Berlin (Ethnizität und Migration, 1999; „Ethnizität, Differenz und Hybridität in der Migration: eine postkoloniale Perspektive“, in Prokla 3/2000 (Ethnicity, Difference and Hybridity in the Context of Migration: A Post-Colonial Perspective“))
In my lecture, I will discuss the term “contact“ as the history of various and diffuse encounters which elude paradigms such as colonialism or immigration. In contrast, other intercultural contacts of the “multitude” and their processes of bio-political hybridity exist, such as in the way Toni Negri and Michael Hardt describe them. And finally, I will look at the issue of so-called “terrorism“ as a form of contact whose narratives cannot be recognized and thus always appear as momentary events. Irit Rogoff, Professor for Historical and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, London
Debates in Germany about “migration,” “xenophobia,“ or the „Leitkultur” (defining or dominant culture) normally take place without any kind of historial contextualization. It is a common assumption that Germany has become a “country of immigration” only in the past few decades. Yet the issues being discussed today were actually a matter of debate throughout the 20th century–an ethnically homogenous German nation threatened by massive immigration was never a fact, but had to be continually, discursively construed. This lecture will address the colonial debate about Black Germans as a way of demonstrating how this process has functioned and how it has affected ethnic minorities in the country. Fatima El-Tayeb is an historian and currently a “Scholar in Residence” at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, U.S.A.
In his lecture, Encarnacion Gutiérrez Rodríguez will
talk about personal and biographical experiences with migration.
By contrasting memories with official versions of history, he will
address aspects of migration that are generally overlooked. Encarnacion Gutiérrez Rodríguez is a social scientist who lives and works in Hamburg and London.
Since 1989, the former countries of emigration–Turkey, Greece, and the former Yugoslavia–have increasingly become new countries of immigration and transit. Gülsün Karamustafa, one of Istanbul’s most influential artists, looks at various perspectives of the migration movement in her work–from the period before World War I, to the immigrant worker movements, to the Balkan Wars. The artist will use her work as a basis for discussion with Erdan Kosova about the history of migration, with a particular emphasis on Turkey. Gülsün Karamustafa is an artist who lives and works in
Istanbul.
What makes a place dangerous and how one deals with that danger–that is an issue which young people view very differently depending on where they live in the city. For some, the place makes the young people who hang out there dangerous; for others, certain, ethnically defined groups of young people are viewed as dangerous and the place they inhabit becomes a no-go area. The history of politics and colonization of the constructed environment, its depiction in public, its appearance, and the daily lives of its inhabitants create a “local place of normality,” which offers young people a sense of empowerment and definition, which they in turn regenerate in their own behavior. (Nora Räthzel) Nora Räthzel is Assistent Professor at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Umeå, Sweden. She focuses on ethnic and gender relations, and the everyday lives of young people in urban areas. Dec. 10, 2003, 7 pm Manuela Bojadzijev addresses the history of resistance by migrants in Germany, whose traces often become blurred. How can one record a history of these confrontations and keep track of their developments? In this lecture, Manuela Bojadzijev will attempt to answer this question–not by relying on subjects as defined by racist policies and attitudes, but by tactics and strategies of resistance and recalcitrance.
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