Witzenhausen and Colonialism - What Perspectives?

The Department of Ecological Agricultural Sciences cordially invites you to a lecture and two video works that direct different perspectives on the colonial past and present conditions.

Welcome to Zhengistan, Ethiopians! An introduction to postcolonial studies.
Aram Ziai, Professor of Development Policy and Postcolonial Studies in Kassel, holds up a mirror to German society by reversing the perspectives and roles of historical events.

Restituting evidence: genocide and reparations in German colonial Namibia.
Jaspar Humbert of Forensic Architecture, London University, uses historical photographs, oral accounts, and computer animation to sketch a pre-colonial Namibia before land seizure and genocide by the German Schutztruppen, making visible the consequences up to the present.

Witzenhausen: Coloniality. Postcoloniality. Decoloniality.
For several years, hr editor Christiane Kreiner accompanied local debates in Witzenhausen about the former German Colonial School. In the context of the participatory project "Change of Perspective - Witzenhausen tells History(s)" essayistic, artistic and documentary videos were created, which will be shown for the first time in front of an audience. The film discussion will be led by Johnny Ibraimo, student and member of WIZ Postcolonial.

Open discussion afterwards