what: online workshop on the topic Remembrance as the Ultimate Decolonial Decision
when: 29th July from 18:00 till 20:00 Kyiv time (from 17:00 till 19:00 CET)
where: online, on BigBlueButton platform
with whom: Mariam Naiem
language: English spoken language
registration: please, fill in the registration form here https://cloud.educat-kollektiv.org/apps/forms/s/yorcb8niQg8qSSKictqRZrPX We will send the link to join the event no later than 28th of July.
What is it about
What we choose to remember, and how we grieve, is never neutral. Colonial power works not only through what it destroys but through what it makes unmournable — whose deaths are marked, whose losses are allowed to become history, and whose disappear without a trace.
This workshop looks at how grief and remembrance function together, and why the decision of what to remember is one of the most consequential decolonial acts available to us. Drawing on the Ukrainian context and on the stages of decolonization described in my book, we will ask what it means to reclaim the right to mourn on one’s own terms.
The session combines a lecture with practical work in pairs, where participants will bring their own contexts into the conversation.
Format:
45 min lecture + 10 min Q&A
20 min work in pairs + 10 min group feedback
Costs
The event is free of charge. If you feel like you want to support the project, feel free to donate, though 🙂 E.g. on Betterplace with a click on the following link: https://www.betterplace.org/de/projects/85789-educat-e-v-politische-bildung-in-ostdeutschland
Facilitator
Mariam Naiem
Mariam Naiem is a Ukrainian cultural researcher and writer of Afghan descent. She is the author of How to Breathe Freely: A Guide to Decolonization (Laboratoria), shortlisted for the KBU Awards, Ukraine’s national non-fiction book prize, and co-author of the graphic novel A Brief History of a Long War, published in eleven languages including editions by Penguin Random House and Hachette Livre. She has contributed to Decolonization: Essays from Ukraine (Komora), and her writing has appeared in Politico Europe and other outlets. Her work on otherness draws on her own experience of growing up as a visible minority in Ukraine.
Moderator
Nadja Sieffert is a friend and a colleague from Coopera e.V. We have organised an educational trip to Moldova together and hope to cooperate further within this project and others.
Initiators
Educat – Educational Collective
Educat e.V. is a collective of education workers from Dresden, Rostock and Berlin, who do diversity- conscious and critical education, work on remembrance and emancipatory and experimental educational formats. Together with a lot of partners and comrades Educat is facilitating Cultures of Remembrance since 2021.
Project partners
The project has been carried and inspired by a huge network of comrades, activists, artists and educators. For the recent episode of “Cultures of Remembrance” together with Educat Collective, there is Art Platforma, Human Constanta, Prismatica, Queer Cafe, Moldox Association and Solidarity Collectives involved as main partners.
