Decolonising Berlin:Memory-Work and Anticolonial Practice in a Wounded City

First seminar of the series Dissonant Memories & Movements

Prof. Karen Till is a cultural geographer, feminist scholar, curator, creative writer, and activist who engages in collaborative research about place, memory and creative practice. She is the author of Mapping Spectral Traces (2010 ) and The New Berlin: Memory, politics, place (2005). Her book in progress, Wounded City, highlights the significance of place-based memory-work and ethical forms of care at multiple scales that may contribute to creating more socially just futures.

Event venue: Aula Capitani, Piazza san Giovanni in Monte, 2, Bologna

& online (via Teams)

The other invited guests planned in the 2024-2025 series are Ann Laura Stoler (14th February 2025, Keynote event f the seminar series), Judith Revel (26th March 2025), Roberta Altin (April 2025), Roberto Beneduce (May 2025), Marcus Rediker (June 2025).

Organised by prof. Annaclaudia Martini and prof. Martina Tazzioli and by the Memory Lab of the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna

Host or Publisher Ana Valdivia, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli