“History is not the past. It is the present.”
We carry history within us.
“We are the story.”
James Baldwin (in Peck 2016)
How did the world come to be the way it is today? Why is there such immense global inequality between the Global South and the Global North? Why do people leave or flee their homelands? What aspects of this are voluntary, and what are forced? What did—and does—people’s resistance to injustice, exploitation, and racism look like, both in the past and today?
Many global and local issues that concern us today have their roots in the past. “Development” and “underdevelopment,” poverty and wealth did not arise by chance. The global system of inequality was created by people in the Global North. We want to explore the concepts, processes, and actors that have shaped our world as it is today, and identify where we can begin to change it.
In our seven-part event series, we explore aspects of global and local history related to (in)justice—issues that are just as central to our present as they are to shaping our future. You can find the event flyer HERE.
• Wednesday, April 17, 2024 (5:00–7:00 p.m.) Boniface Mabanza: Who Owes What to Whom? Coloniality in Economic Structures
• Wednesday, April 24, 2024 (5:00–7:00 p.m.) Corry Guttstadt: Rescue or Rejection? Turkish Jewish Migrants Between Anti-Semitic Persecution by Nazi Germany and the Nationalism of the Turkish Regime
• Tuesday, April 30, 2024 (5:00–7:00 p.m.) Jürgen Zimmerer: From Windhoek to Auschwitz? On the Historical Place of Colonialism in German History
• Wednesday, May 8, 2024 (5:00–7:00 p.m.) Serge Palasie: The Ocean Is Black—What Do the Borders of Fortress Europe Have to Do with the History of Slavery and Colonialism?
• Wednesday, May 15, 2024 (5–7 p.m.) Betiel Berhe: Race and Class – Why Anti-Racism Without a Critique of Capitalism Does Nothing to Change the Status Quo
• Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (5–7 p.m.) Vincent Bababoutilabo: Struggles Against Racism and Global Injustice—Past and Present
• Wednesday, May 29, 2024 (5–7 p.m.) Paulino Miguel: The Myth of Solidarity – Labor Migration to the GDR from Socialist “Brother States” in the Global South
To help us with planning, please register by April 5, 2024, at geschichte[at]glokal[dot]org . Registration is binding and can be done for either a single event or multiple events.
The Global Erinnern project is funded by Engagement Global with financial support from the BMZ, as well as from the budget of the State of Berlin—State Office for Development Cooperation