Witzenhausen and colonialism - what perspectives?

The Department of Ecological Agricultural Sciences cordially invites you to a lecture and two video works that offer different perspectives on the colonial past and current 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 from Forensic Architecture, London University, uses historical photos, oral reports and computer animation to create a pre-colonial Namibia before the land seizure and genocide by the German Schutztruppen and thus makes the consequences visible to the present day.

Witzenhausen: Coloniality. Postcoloniality. Decoloniality.
For several years, hr editor Christiane Kreiner accompanied the local debate in Witzenhausen about the former German colonial school. As part of the participatory project "Perspektivwechsel - Witzenhausen erzählt Geschichte(n)", she created essayistic, artistic and documentary videos that will be shown to an audience for the first time. The film discussion will be led by Johnny Ibraimo, student and member of WIZ Postkolonial.

Followed by an open discussion