Verflochtene Erinnerung(en). Spuren der Shoah und des Kolonialismus im Berliner Schloss und den Ethnologischen Sammlungen

In the organizer's words:

What traces of colonial and National Socialist histories and crimes can be found in the exhibitions of today's Humboldt Forum?

In the collaborative educational project "Intertwined memory(s)?" , which has been running since 2024 international partners, experts from Berlin's urban society and employees of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin and the Humboldt Forum Foundation at the Berlin Palace are reflecting on ways to engage with memories of the Shoah and the crimes of colonialism from multiple perspectives. Concrete traces in the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the history of the site of the Berlin Palace as well as different perspectives on objects and biographies are part of concrete educational formats (student workshops and guided tours) at the Humboldt Forum.

The discussion between the participants, which takes place as part of the Global Cultural Assembly, is less about the site and the collections and more about remembering today. How can the recognition of difference be translated into a social memory that leaves room for pluralistic Jewish and postcolonial voices of the present? What role do different transgenerational trauma experiences play in educational work, especially with young people? To what extent is it important to analyse processes of dehumanization in order to enable rehumanization?

The Global Cultural Assembly as an association of indigenous, international and Berlin partners of the Humboldt Forum offers a platform to exchange ideas about transcultural projects such as "Interwoven Memories".

The event will be moderated by Carolina Chimoey.

Followed by music by Alex Stolze (DJ).

PARTICIPANTS

Eliaou Balouka is a clinical psychologist and PhD candidate in psychosocial studies at Birkbeck University. His research focuses on the Jewish-Muslim history of minority education in North Africa and in the European urban diaspora outside and beyond the Israel-Palestine question. He does important scholarly work by examining the long indigenous history and its rupture in modernity. It sheds light on the legacy of the little-known history of Jewish-Muslim symbiosis and minority diversity in Algeria and gives a voice to populations whose stories have not been heard.

After studying for three years at a Talmudic school in al-Quds/Jerusalem, Eliaou earned a master's degree in clinical psychology, psychopathology and psychoanalysis at the University of Strasbourg, France, and completed a clinical specialization in peer support at the Université Paris 5.

Eliaou worked as a clinical psychologist for five years and used his profession to develop a research project focusing on the psychosocial aspects of traditional religious communities and the transgenerational impact of exile/migration.

Onias Landveld is a Dutch multidisciplinary artist and playwright who also uses spoken word and animation in his work. His parents both have Surinamese Maroon roots (Saamaka and Ndyuka). As a child, his family had to flee South America because of the civil war. Although his family moved back to Suriname, Landveld returned to the Netherlands in 1998. He has a strong connection to his community of origin, their traditions and their knowledge - he has been in contact with the Ethnological Museum/Humboldt Forum about a collection item from the Ndyuka village of Wanhatti, where his uncle is a traditional chief

Assumpta Mugiraneza is a Franco-Rwandan academic with degrees in education, social psychology and political science. Since 1994, her research has focused on genocides and extreme violence, particularly through intensive discourse analysis. Since 2010, she has been co-founder and director of the IRIBA Center for Multimedia Heritage. This center for audiovisual archives from Rwanda works at the interface between academic research and practice. It includes materials from over a century and is freely accessible.

She is the author and co-author of a series of articles on hate speech, propaganda, the mediation of history and the role of archives in state building and the deconstruction of hate ideologies.

Alex Stolze is an East German Jewish musician, producer and songwriter. His art reflects a life in which he comes to terms with his Jewish identity and his connection to Israel. He is active in educational work and organizes events, including music festivals and those related to the Jewish community. Alex is currently involved in the project Intertwined Memory(s)?

Imani Tafari-Ama spent the 2023-24 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (SIR) in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. This was her second SIR award, having served in the Department of Anthropology at Bridgewater State University (BSU) in Massachusetts from 2017-18. From 2018-23, Dr. Tafari-Ama was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies.

She curated the exhibition "Rum, Sweat and Tears (RST)" at the Flensburg Maritime Museum in Germany (2016-17) and published several articles and books including "Blood, Bullets and Bodies: Sexual Politics Below Jamaica's Poverty Line", "Lead in the Veins" (poetry) and the award-winning novel "Up for Air: This Half has never been Told!".

Roey Zeevi studied communication and cultural studies. He led educational groups at Yad Vashem for a decade before transitioning to organizing nationwide tours with a team of educators six years ago.

His main focus is on teaching Holocaust remembrance, for which he cooperates with over 2000 Israeli teachers every year. With his innovative approaches to Holocaust education, he tries to ensure that the profound lessons of history find their way into educational institutions.

Moderation Carolina Chimoy

Carolina Chimoy is currently Ukraine correspondent at the Deutsche Welle (DW) office in Kyiv. She presented the main news program for DW German and DW Spanish and was previously a foreign correspondent in Washington and Berlin and host of the international talk show "Auf den Punkt gebracht" ("A Fondo"). She has interviewed heads of state from different parts of the world, from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to international figures such as the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Patricia Espinosa. Carolina has also moderated several panel discussions on international issues for the German Federal Foreign Office, the Humboldt Forum in Berlin and the German Marshall Fund in Brussels and Morocco.

- free of charge, no ticket required

- Language: German, English

- Location: Mechanical Arena in the foyer