Interwoven Memory(s)
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| free admission |
| no ticket required |
| English, German |
| Mechanical Arena in the Foyer |
| Belongs to: Global Cultural Assembly 2025 |
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 location and the collections and more about remembering today. How can the recognition of difference be translated into a social remembrance 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 dehumanisation in order to enable rehumanisation?
The Global Cultural Assembly, an association of indigenous, international and Berlin partners of the Humboldt Forum, offers a platform for dialogue on transcultural projects such as ‘Interwoven Memories’.
The event will be moderated by Carolina Chimoey.
Followed by music by Alex Stolze (DJ).
Participants
Eliaou Balouka
Eliaou is a clinical psychologist and PhD Student in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck University. His research engages with Jewish-Muslim histories of minoritization in northern Africa and in the European urban diaspora outside and beyond the question of Israel-Palestine. It provides important scholarship by engaging with long indigenous history and its rupture in modernity. It highlights the legacy of little-known histories of judeo-muslim symbiosis and minority diversity in Algeria and gives voice to populations whose histories have not been heard.
After studying for three years at a Talmudic school in al-Quds/Jerusalem, Eliaou obtained a master’s degree in clinical psychology, psychopathology and psychoanalysis at the University of Strasbourg, France and did a clinical specialisation in peer-support at Université Paris 5.
Eliaou worked as a clinical psychologist for five years, drawing on his profession to develop a research project at the articulation of psychosocial aspects at stake in traditionalist religious communities and transgenerational effects of exile/migration.
Onias Landveld
Onias Landveld is a Dutch multidisciplinary artist and playwright who also uses spoken word and animation in his work. Both his parents have Surinamese Maroon roots (Saamaka and Ndyuka). As a child, his family had to flee South America due to the civil war and, although his family did move back to Suriname, Onias returned to the Netherlands in 1998. Onias has a strong connection to his community of origin, their traditions and knowledge – he has been in contact with the Ethnologisches Museum/Humboldt Forum regarding an object in the collection that was taken from the Ndyuka village Wanhatti, where Onias’ uncle is a traditional leader.
Assumpta Mugiraneza
Assumpta Mugiraneza is a French-Rwandan academic with degrees in education, social psychology and political science. Since 1994, her research has focused on genocides and extreme violence, in particular through intensive discourse analyses. Since 2010, she has been co-founder and director of the IRIBA Centre for Multimedia Heritage. This centre for audiovisual archives from Rwanda works at the interface between academic research and practice. It comprises materials from over a century and is freely accessible.
She is the author and co-author of a number of articles on hate speech, propaganda, the communication of history and the role of archives in state building and the deconstruction of hate ideologies.
Alex Stolze
Alex Stolze is an East German Jewish musician, producer and songwriter. His art reflects a life spent engaging with his Jewish identity and connection with Israel. He is active in educational work and organises events, including music festivals and those related to the Jewish community. Alex is currently involved in the project Intertwined Memory(s)?
Imani Tafari-Ama
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
Roey Zeevi studied communication and cultural studies. He led educational groups at Yad Vashem for a decade before switching to organising 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 endeavours to ensure that the profound lessons of history find their way into educational institutions.
Host
Carolina Chimoy
Carolina Chimoy is currently the Ukraine correspondent in the Kyiv bureau of Deutsche Welle (DW).
She anchored the main news broadcasts for DW in German and Spanish and was previously a foreign correspondent in Washington and Berlin, as well as the host of the international talk show “Auf den Punkt gebracht” (“A Fondo”). She has interviewed heads of state from various parts of the world, ranging 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 topics for the German Federal Foreign Office, the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, and the German Marshall Fund in Brussels and Morocco.