18:00 - 21:00
University of Kassel, Arnold-Bode Street 2, Raum 0404
In a critical discussion, the lecture deals with German politics of remembrance - not with its official self-attributions, but with their empty spaces. He refers to the political handling of right-wing violence in Germany and offers a broad empirical overview. Starting from the thesis, that history is always political, he illuminates, how remembering works as a state-supporting instrument and what role forgetting plays as an institutionalized practice. The focus is on the question, how continuities of German historical thought beyond the narrative of the “memory world champion” are racist, Systematically hide and depoliticize anti-Semitic and right-wing violence.
To person: Rime Abd Al Majeed is a research assistant at the Chair of Media- and philosophy of technology at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (ABKM) in the research project “DisIgnorance – Seeing in a racist fog field”. She researches, among other things,. to subject theory, Anti-racism theory, feminist and postcolonial theory as well as aesthetics. In her dissertation she examines the relationship between work and property from a feminist perspective.