The latest podcast episode looks at mobility in Europe from different perspectives, from the right to free movement between national borders to free public transport and the options for people with different backgrounds to move around Europe safely – or not. Neta-Paulina shares her knowledge as a critical geographer: "Critical geography approaches mobility as a socially constructed and contested process, shaped by power relations, inequalities and spatial structures." And Whitney, who is...
TW: violence, sexual violence, abuseThis episode focusues on feminism, storytelling, the current revolution in Iran and the shrinking space for women's rights. To bring in more perspectives on these issues, our hosts invited our DialoguePerspectives alumna Ladan and her friend Nilou to talk about their book project, which brings together different perspectives, experiences and multi-voiced narratives about feminism, everyday experiences of sexism, misogyny or discussions about the concepts of...
TW: migration, asylum seeking, boarders, death For this episode, our hosts invited DialoguePerspectives alumna Dr. Hannah Pool to discuss the issues of migration, refugees and illegal pushbacks at the EU's external borders. Dr. Hannah Pool is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Her research focuses on the intersection of mobilities, money, and borders.In this episode, Hannah shares her insights about her multifarious experience i.a. working in the ...
David is not only a participant of DialoguePerspectives, but also a fellow of the Young Islam Conference, a board member of Keshet Germany, pre-viewer at the Giornate degli Autori (Mostra del Cinema di Venezia), an activist and filmmaker.In our latest podcast episode, our hosts Whitney, Neta-Paulina and Henri talked to David about his passion for film and learned a lot about his approach to this specific art and media form. David is currently writing his bachelor's thesis on the "queer g...
Neta-Paulina, who has just returned from our Spring Seminar in Kraków, talks to Whitney about her impressions and also lets some of our participants speak about their previous knowledge and impressions of Poland. Inspired by the participants' responses and the diversity of the group, the two co-hosts recall their own memories of DialoguePerspectives seminars, as both have been attending our seminars for years, and share some highlights from their personal experiences. Write us an email t...
#BlackLivesMatter, #JinJiyanAzadi, #StandWithUkraine, #MeToo, #JeSuisCharlie - These hashtags have gone viral in recent years, supporting a range of political campaigns on social media. In the latest episode of our podcast, our co-hosts Neta-Paulina and Whitney discuss and analyse online activism from different perspectives. The main question on their minds is: How can social media campaigns have an impact on political decision making and what examples of successful campaigns do we already kn...
We have been tweaking our podcast "(Re-) Shaping Europe" over the last few weeks and are thrilled to finally share the new format with you!DialoguePerspectives project manager Henri Vogel has invited two of our alumnae, Neta-Paulina Wagner and Whitney Nosakhare, to co-host the podcast to facilitate a pluralistic, discursive and critical thinking conversation. Whitney is a Black human rights lawyer who works on international criminal justice and how to hold human rights violators accounta...
Episode 17 of (Re-)Shaping Europe is out now! We spoke with our participant Sophie Schmalenberger about far-right parties and actors in Europe, about why they are successful, about normality, why it is desirable to be “normal” but also why it can be a very harmful concept. Ultimately, we tried to find coping mechanisms for researchers and activists in this field and what we as scientists and active members of society can do.Sophie is a participant at DialoguePerspectives since 2021. She holds...
We spoke with Jochen Schlenk about religious freedom in the EU and the process of negotiation between European law, national law and religious law. Also about what a constitutional identity actually is, what the term world-view means - and what it is like to participate in interreligious-worldview dialogue as a non-religious person. Jochen Schlenk is an editor for “Verfassungsblog” — an academic and journalistic open access platform for constitutional law. There, he produces the podcast “Verf...
In the 14th episode of our series (Re-)Shaping Europe, Gil Shohat talks to two participants from our current program year: Pauline Pautz, who is participating in our programme for the first time, and Lena Salewski, who has already been a participant in DialoguePerspectives since 2019.In the conversation, our two participants share their experiences of working in different interreligious-worldview contexts and talk about the different visibility of religious life in France and Germany. The mai...
In this 13th episode of our series (Re-)Shaping Europe, Gil Shohat speaks with our current participant Akhmadshokh Sharifov. Akhmadshokh was born and raised in the Central Asian Republic of Tajikistan and has been living in Germany for five years now. He is currently studying for a Master's degree in "Theory and Comparison of Political Systems in Transition" at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His main areas of interest are European politics, peace and conflict studies and political culture ...
"Now we speak for ourselves." These words start the #OutInChurch manifesto, with which over one hundred full-time, voluntary and former employees of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany have publicly come out as queer today (24 January 2022). The activists demand an end to the manifold discrimination against queer Catholics in all fields of activity and occupation of the church, as well as the acceptance of responsibility for the institutional history of queer hostility by the Catholic bishop...
In this episode, our participant Fatima Akbar Jiwani joins our DialoguePerspectives podcast series (Re-)Shaping Europe to discuss her interfaith and religious education work in Mumbai, India. We furthermore spoke the situation of her Shia Ismaili Nizari Muslim community in India and the world, as well as about differences and similarities when it comes to memory culture and pluralism in India and Europe. Fatima is currently pursuing a professional doctorate in Interfaith Studies at the ...
New year, new DialoguePerspectives podcast-episodes! In our first episode in 2022, Gil Shohat speaks to our participant Henri Vogel, who is currently taking part in our DialoguePerspectives-programme for the first time. In their discussion, Henri reflected his experiences as a trans-man in our interreligious-worldview programme as well as how he navigates his manifold identity-markers derived from his personal history in this context. The two furthermore discussed the necessity for the visibi...
Revolution, Hitlerputsch, Pogromnacht, Mauerfall: Kaum ein Datum in der deutschen Geschichte ist historisch, emotional und symbolisch so aufgeladen wie der 9. November. Insbesondere die Pogromnacht und der Fall der Mauer werden heute mit dem Datum in Verbindung gebracht. Diese starke Inbezugsetzung spielt für das Narrativ von der Wiedergutwerdung Deutschlands eine wichtige Rolle: Die Friedliche Revolution der DDR-Bürger*innen und die Wiedervereinigung werden nur zu oft zum symbolischen Abschl...
»Erinnerungskultur ist das unangenehmste Thema, das sparen die Leute gerne aus«, erzählt der Journalist und Autor Mohamed Amjahid in der neuen Folge der CPPD-Podcastreihe ERINNERUNGSFUTUR. Auch für die Journalistin und Autorin Alice Hasters ist Erinnerungskultur ein Thema, mit dem viele gesellschaftliche Tabus verbunden sind. Für die 4. Folge von »Erinnerungsfutur« traf Max Czollek die CPPD-Mitglieder zum Gespräch über ein Kapitel, das für die Mehrheit der Menschen in Deutschland und Europa l...
In this episode, Gil Shohat spoke to our participant Svea M. Schnaars, a third-time participant in the DialoguePerspectives programme. We discussed her experiences as a self-proclaimed atheist in our interreligious-worldview programme as well as the necessary boundaries for conducting respectful and forward-oriented dialogue between participants of manifold backgrounds. Svea also shared some insights from her research in the last years, examining the relationship between Scientism, Critical T...
In the seventh episode of our podcast series (Re-)Shaping Europe, our programme manager Gil Shohat spoke with our participant and interfaith activist Josephine Davidoff. Born and raised in London, she self-identifies as a British Progressive Jew, specializing in the fields of interfaith and community cohesion. She works as a Project Coordinator and Communications Professional dedicated to empowering marginalised faith and non-faith communities to strengthen social cohesion and understanding i...
Was genau ist postkoloniale Stadtforschung und in welchem Verhältnis steht sie zu einer pluralistischen Erinnerungskultur? Inwiefern prägt Deutschlands koloniale Vergangenheit das Berliner Stadtbild bis heute? Welche Alternativen gibt es für die Gestaltung von Architektur und öffentlichen Plätzen schon heute und warum ist es so schwer, diese umzusetzen? Über diese Fragen und das Potential dezentraler Formen der Erinnerungskultur spricht Jo Frank mit Noa K. Ha in der 3. Folge von ERINNERUNGSFU...
In this fascinating bi-lateral exploration, Jessica Jung and Nurenisa Reichling discuss their approaches to the complex relationship between the topics of mental health and religious practice. Their two respective viewpoints on the issue, underscored by their academic, religious and private engagements, yield an intriguing interplay that gives us some clarity on the how these two spheres intermingle with each other – in positive as well as in negative ways. Nurenisa Reichling is a recen...