Lunes, 12 de Octubre, a las 17h
Punto de Encuentro: Palau Colonial de la Virreina (La Rambla 99, M Liceu)
Marcharemos juntas hacia el monumento imperial de Cristobal Colón y terminaremos en el monumento esclavista de Antonio López y López!
POR LA DESCOLONIZACIÓN Y LUCHA ANTIRACISTA!
by Daniela Ortiz
published in Decolonizing Museums, edited by Internationale Online
In a context of extreme colonial violence which the migrant and refugee populations are currently experiencing in Europe, it can be useful and necessary to think about decolonising the museum. But there is a danger that it may become a matter that is totally out of context and even insulting if it does not place at its centre a discussion concerning the situation that is currently imposed by Europe’s migratory control system on which people come from the former colonies. Decolonising a cultural institution does not just mean considering the matter and organising exhibitions and seminars. In the current context, decolonising a museum requires a constant effort to take a position in regard to the migratory control system; it requires accepting that it is impossible to continue programming activities and events while there is a total normalisation of the existence of Migrant Detention Centres, forced deportation flights on a mass and individual scale, individuals with semi-rights and anti-rights, and situations of extreme violence in border zones which are the local contexts where these projects are presented. Decolonising a museum means sending letters to the Ministry of Interior, organising press conferences to condemn the use of culture in the discourse of integration, making the legal apparatus of the museum available to persecuted people; it means acknowledging the level of urgency imposed in the European context by the backbone of coloniality.
Angela Davis: Life between Politics and Academia
5th of October, 2015, 18:30h
University of Vienna, Großen Festsaal (Great ceremonial hall, main building)
The introductory speech by Marissa Lôbo and Njideka Stephanie Iroh from Black_Woman*_Space (http://blackwomenspace.com) and PAMOJA – The Movement of the young African Diaspora in Austria(facebook.com/pamojamovement).
The lecture was organized within the gender justice focus project by AG UniFrauenJubel, University of Vienna
(univie.ac.at/en/650/celebrating-with-us/gender-justice-focus/)
5 October 2015, 18:30
Venue: University of Vienna, Großen Festsaal (Great ceremonial hall, main building)
Angela Davis, activist and philosopher, associated with the Black Panthers in the 1960s-1970s. She joined the Communist Party when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. Already in the 1970s she taught women’s and gender studies as well as African American studies in the US. Concurrently, she became a central figure in the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the US. She still investigates the intersections between oppression on grounds of gender, race/ethnicity and class in a globalised world.
If postsocialism is not at all postcolonial, decolonial transfeminist re-reading of capitalism in its correspondence with coloniality of gender and racism profoundly related with class and gender can shed new light to relational processes of colonial/imperial differentiation and subjectification across former communist/socialist space and Global South, and in order to disrupt the monolithic history of feminism allows us to tackle the ticklish subject of feminist struggle from marginalized/minoritized positions, as well as to re-think the new possibilities for building critical alliances transversally with a vision of pluriversal future. Here, the imaginary and affective dimension is playing one of the crucial roles to be taken into analysis.