MINOR COSMOPOLITAN INTERVENTION

The event seeks to facilitate experimental collaborations across disciplines, based on the RTG's core values of conviviality, geopolitical decentering, and social commitment. During its nine years of activity, the RTG has sought to establish new ways of studying and understanding the cosmopolitan project against and beyond its Eurocentric legacies while addressing the systemic violence within historically colonial institutions. Building on the RTG’s previous events Minor Cosmopolitan Weekend at the HKW (2018) and Minor Cosmopolitan Assembly at silent green (2022), this final event engages with Berlin-based organizations and communities that critique and actively resist (neo)colonialism in its myriad forms.   

  
What kinds of repair might (still) be possible in an increasingly volatile planet, with escalating environmental, military, economic and social crises threatening non/human lives and life worlds? As a word, “repair” might suggest radical interventions oriented toward emancipatory transformation; a return to the stasis of normative structures and states; temporary or ephemeral restorative periods; or the kinds of mundane, quotidian maintenance (metabolic and structural) necessary for the continuation of life. Through lectures, panels, talks, workshops and roundtables, the Minor Cosmopolitan Intervention experiments with reparative and collaborative interventions in doing, undoing, and redoing the cosmopolitan project.  

The event is curated by Sofia Varino in collaboration with all members of the RTG minor cosmopolitanisms and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
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Program 

2 – 3:30 pm | Parallel Sessions

ROUNDTABLE | Diasporic Returns
Organized by the ERC Research Group “Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary”
With Fenja Akinde-Hummel, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Thao Ho, Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen and
Anne Potjans
Atrium 

FILM | Travelling Through Tilisms: A surrealist travelogue from page to screen
Organized by Abiral Kumar
With Abiral Kumar and Mainak Mitra
Auditorium

PANEL | "Cross-Pollinating the Minor Cosmos"
With Anni Fender, Baldeep Kaur and Kylie Crane
Studio

3:30 – 4 pm |  Break

4 – 5:30 pm | Parallel Sessions

CONVERSATION | “A radicle reaching for a home in the earth”: collaborative nature writing
Organized and moderated by Anna von Rath and Lucy Gasser
With Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles
Atrium

FILM | Aşît ve Aşîtî: Avalanche and Peace- Rethinking Kurdish Question through Violence, Destruction and Memory
Organized and moderated by Zeynep Turkyilmaz
With Pinar Ogrenci
Auditorium

ROUNDTABLE | Collective Reading as Intervention. On Fascism and Alt-Right Literature(s)
Organized by Sofie Fingado
Moderated by Sophia Doyle
With Neela Janssen, Andreas Gehrlach and Stephan Zandt
Studio

5:30 – 6:30 pm |  Break

6:30 pm – 8 pm | Special Session

PANEL | Dialogue Across Generations: Indigenous Scholarship and Activism (Atrium)
Organized and moderated by Chris Healy
With Tony Birch, Keith Camacho, Hereata Pereyre and Brigalow Joaquin McIntosh
Atrium

8 pm | Closing Night

PARTY | Minor Cosmopolitan Intervention Closing Night Party
With the RTG minor cosmopolitanisms team
Spore Café and Garden