Leipzig, Germany | November 3-4, 2022
Curated by Iris Rajanayagam of Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb
Organized by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb (Federal Agency for Political Education) and GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig (GRASSI Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig)
In this symposium, spaces for reflection and exchange will be created in order to discuss possibilities of illuminating hegemonic narratives and histories through so-called transformative archives on a transnational level. It is asked to what extent the documentation, archiving and the provision of marginalized (historical) knowledge sometimes opens up spaces in which new things can be thought of and decolonial options in the landscape of memory politics in Germany and beyond can be discussed.
The focus is on the question of re_centering overwritten, erased or negated knowledge (stocks) and narratives as well as a reflection on the possibilities of expanding collective memory that are linked to this.
The Opening Panel included Nico Rodriguez Melo and myself on behalf of Monument Lab, as well as the Black Cultural Archives London and the Tamil Archive Project.