20 February, 16:00-18:00
Lichthof Ost, Humboldt University, Berlin
This talk will introduce the Academy of Social Science, its research communes, and the Journal Democratic Modernity as a collective infrastructure for a communal knowledge production and political education.
The conversation approaches democratic modernity as a horizon of hope grounded in woman’s freedom, community self-organization, and transnational solidarity.
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A.
Here are some more information about the speakers:
Dr. Mechthild Exo
Peace researcher and activist. She focuses on the decolonization of knowledge, research methodologies, and practice, feminist-decolonial critique and the rethinking of central theories and concepts of (world) politics, grassroots democratic self-organization and new concepts of peace. She is a lecturer on international development, anti-discrimination and gender, at the University of Emden/Leer.
Dr. Nik Matheou
Researcher and activist. His activism has focused on political education, internationalist solidarity and the Boycott Turkey campaign. His research and teaching explore long histories of capitalism, the political economy of state civilization, and subaltern resistance, seeking to develop libertarian Marxist approaches inspired by the revolutionary paradigm of Abdullah Öcalan. He teaches and researches global history and Marxism at the University of Edinburgh in the UK.
Dr. Amber Huff
Anthropologist and political ecologist based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex in the UK, where she is part of the Resource Politics and Environmental Change research group and coordinator of the Centre for Future Natures. Her research focuses on political economy and people’s situated experiences of environmental change, exploring contested and evolving ecologies of ‘crisis’, enclosure and people’s struggles to claim, sustain and defend free life.
Moderated by:
Prof. Dr. Alice von Bieberstein
Social Anthropologist, guest professor at Humboldt-University Berlin. Her work is concerned with political violence, state formation and political economy with a focus on the afterlives of the Armenian genocide. Her book ‘Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey’ is out with University of Pennsylvania Press.
