Lecture series

Vortragstermin liegt in der Vergangenheit

Volodymyr Ishchenko (Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland): Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: The End of the Post-Soviet Hegemony Crisis?

Vortragstermin liegt in der Vergangenheit

Firoozeh Farvardin, HU Berlin (Deutschland): Woman, Life, Freedom Revolution in the Making: Rethinking Political Subjectivity and the Spaces of Solidarity

Daniel Inclán (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexiko)

Social Ways of Killing a Body

No one is born a sicario, a hitman. It is daily practices that make possible the serial murder of people and in which they are classified as exterminable stocks. Murdered bodies suffer slow deaths, and are never the mechanical result of victimizers against victims. It is a whole complexity of violent realities, many Latin American countries are going through in 21st century. Behind them there are every day processes; as it is the colonial relations between differences; as it is gender hierarchies and the hypersexualization of bodies; as it is the labor abuse. It is a network of procedures, without any one being the priority, without any one being the origin of the others. This talk will focus on the social, economic and political dynamics that make cruel violence possible as a form to participate in decadent capitalism in Latin America.
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14. Juni 2023 | 18 Uhr c.t. | Campus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum HZ10

Vanessa E. Thompson (Queen's University, Kanada) & Daniel Loick (University of Amsterdam, Niederlande)

Über Gewalt

Allein in der ersten Woche im August 2022 hat die deutsche Polizei vier Menschen getötet. Einer davon war der 23-jährige Biriq, der im Frankfurter Bahnhofsviertel vom SEK erschossen wurde. Dies sind nur die offensichtlichsten und dramatischsten Fälle staatlicher Gewalt. Sie ist eingebettet in zahlreiche andere Formen der "organisierten Vernachlässigung" (R.W. Gilmore). In einem Briefwechsel überlegen Daniel Loick und Vanessa E. Thompson, was aus einer abolitionistischen Perspektive zur Frage der Gewalt beizutragen ist – und was das Gegenteil von Gewalt sein könnte.
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28. Juni 2023 | 18 Uhr c.t. | Campus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum HZ10

Sandro Mezzadra (Università di Bologna, Italien)

Spaces of Struggle. Rethinking Internationalism in an Age of War and Transition

Based on a book that Sandro Mezzadra is writing with Brett Neilson, he will first discuss the fractures, conflicts, and wars that are currently shaping the capitalist world system. By referring critically to different uses of multipolarity he will rethink the relations among what G. Arrighi calls "territorialism" and capitalism. Contrary to most approaches in International Relations and „geopolitics“, he will then focus on social movements and struggles as a key factor in the production and constitution of political spaces. Further, he will emphasize the need to rethink internationalism, going beyond the pitfalls and shortcomings that characterized its history in the 20th century. In doing that, Mezzadra will be in dialogue with feminist, antiracist and postcolonial thinkers and he will tackle a whole set of questions - ranging from the relation between internationalism and "cosmopolitics" to the vexed issue of the universal.
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5. Juli 2023 | 18 Uhr c.t. | Campus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum HZ10