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The lecture reconsiders the relationship between mining and violence and discusses violence as historically constitutive of mining as a profession, generative of mining communities’ social life as well as of miners’ political subjectivities and collectivities.
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This lecture explores Hungarian women’s digital grassroots activism that emerged in the early 2010s alongside the rapid global spread of social media, coinciding with the rise of an illiberal regime following the FIDESZ party’s two-thirds victory in the 2010 parliamentary election.
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This talk revisits transformative concepts of the sixties regarding new media, urban renewal, psychedelic art, and cybernetics from the vantage point of postcolonial critique. It situates this constellation in the writings of South African artist Selby Mvusi, specifically in papers he worked on for an international design congress in Vienna 1965 and FESMAN in Dakar 1966.
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This lecture explores the role archives can play in postcolonial research today, and what these archives transmit.
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The Palestinian citizens of Israel have always lived between a rock and a hard place, watching as their country goes to war against their nation. A lacuna in research on this group continues to this day—a group sometimes perceived by the Arab world at large as turncoats, sometimes recognized as the core of Palestinian steadfastness, but consistently overlooked for their active influence from within the Israeli parliamentary system.
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How to be an old woman? The lecture looks to contemporary fictional and autofictional texts for answers. Female old age has been traditionally maligned and associated with invisibility and marginality. Role models which go beyond the meek and harmless grandmother or the hag are sparse.
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Violence during childbirth has been gaining more attention over the past 20 years, with many women and birthers complaining about the circumstances under which they were made to give birth. In a highly medicalized and technologically led birth culture driven by capitalist logics of health care management, birth care can often become violent or be experienced as such.
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Britain is famously class-obsessed, yet working-class people remain underrepresented on British screens, both in front of the camera and behind it. Television often reduced class to a character flaw, framing poverty and struggle as personal failings rather than systemic injustices.
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Beginning in the late sixteenth century, vast amounts of silver flowed from the New World into Ming and later Qing China. In this context, Manila played a key mediating role. By connecting the mining areas of New Spain and Peru with Chinese markets, it permitted the circulation of wealth on an unprecedented scale.
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This lecture addresses the issue of genocide in Algeria, as discussed in recent scientific research and by the Algerian people and authorities. It aims to demonstrate how this subject haunts France’s colonial history in Algeria, and how it is currently perceived and discussed locally. The notion of a »continuous spectre of genocide« highlights both the ongoing threat of extermination and the variations in its manifestations.