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(In)Visible Connections: Imagining Solidarities Across Struggles
Conversation
16. May 2026
17.30-19.30
17.30-19.30
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Kostenlos
for adults
in English
Existing narratives around imperialist and authoritarian forms of violence often fail to hold complexities and acknowledge their entanglements. They tend to flatten material realities of those affected into simplified frames that cannot adequately account for simultaneity, contradiction, or ambiguity. In turn, the struggles resisting them are perceived as isolated or even competing with one another.
This conversation brings together voices from different struggles to explore how multiple imperial and authoritarian forces intersect and operate simultaneously. Together, they examine the ways in which emancipatory discourses - as decolonial or anti-imperial - are being co-opted and misused, asking: What might solidarity look like in practice across different localities? How do we build caring connections between contexts that hold complex realities of oppression and resistance? And what role does imagination play in making alliances possible?
Moderation:
Maia Barkaia (Interdisciplinary scholar and Associate Professor at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA))
Participants:
Rita Adel (Palestinian-Ukrainian humanitarian researcher and analyst), Philip Obaji Jr. (Journalist and activist from Nigeria), Oksana Briukhovetska (Curator and artist from Ukraine) und Robin Yassin-Kassab (writer, editor and author of The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad)
