DialoguePerspectives | Podcast

In this episode, Nicole Schweiß speaks with Katarzyna Tarkowska-Žogawa from the Institute of Tolerance in Łódź, Poland, about Spray Fair Play, an EPNA micro-grant project addressing antisemitism in public spaces through education, art and community engagement.

Walls and public space can become so familiar that we stop noticing the hate written on them. In Łódź, football rivalry has turned antisemitic slurs into everyday graffiti. Many fans do not know that both of the city's major clubs have Jewish roots. Katarzyna is part of the team behind Spray Fair Play, alongside Maria and Stanislav Goldstein and others at the Institute of Tolerance. Together they explore Spray Fair Play, an EPNA micro-grant project that goes far beyond repainting walls. It brings young people into the conversation through workshops, city walks, theatre and dance. Here, "spray" becomes a metaphor for spreading knowledge, awareness and kindness. The big question is how we can change not only what we see, but also how we see one another.

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Intro: Bethany Odd | Moderator: Nicole Schweiß | Speaker: Katarzyna Tarkowska-Žogawa | Audio-Edit: Gal Yaron Mayersohn | Music: Hopeful Start by John Bartmann is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License | Illustration: Saskia Schlarmann | Editing: Nihal Çalışır | Project Lead: Florian Eisheuer, Johanna Korneli, Jo Frank | © 2026 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | https://against-antisemitism.eu/⁠ | Insta: dialogueperspectives_epna

In this episode Nicole Schweiss speaks with Elyse Picker, Managing Director for National Programs at Rekindle, about a U.S. model for bridge‑building between Black and Jewish communities. Rekindle began in Cleveland and now supports roughly 20 chapters nationwide: a five‑session (≈15 hours) fellowship that combines historical readings, structured dialogue, and commitments to respectful conversation and a growing alumni network that turns dialogue into local action.

We discuss how Rekindle intentionally brings diverse voices into each cohort, uses “I‑statements” and facilitator commitments to create braver spaces, and adapts the program to local contexts (from learning trips to community events and collaborative projects). Elise also reflects on transnational learning and what European practitioners can take away from Rekindle’s chapter model.

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Intro: Bethany Odd | Moderator: Nicole Schweiß | Speaker: Elyse Picker | Audio-Edit: Gal Yaron Mayersohn | Music: Hopeful Start by John Bartmann is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License | Illustration: Saskia Schlarmann | Editing: Nihal Çalışır | Project Lead: Florian Eisheuer, Johanna Korneli, Jo Frank | © 2026 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | https://against-antisemitism.eu/⁠ | Insta: dialogueperspectives_epna

In this episode of Global DialoguePerspectives, Jo Frank speaks with Marco Ventura – Professor of Law and Religion at the University of Siena and a leading scholar of religious freedom, religious diplomacy, and the relationship between religion and innovation. Drawing on his work across academia and European policy networks, Ventura reflects on how religious communities engage with technological change, artificial intelligence, and shifting forms of authority in contemporary societies.

Together, they explore the ambivalent relationship between religion and innovation, discussing AI, social media, access, power, and the future of dialogue in an increasingly fragmented world. The conversation examines how technological developments challenge established categories of religion and politics, and why maintaining dialogue across differences remains essential in times of uncertainty and conflict.

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Global DialoguePerspectives, the Future 500 podcast series, brings together emerging thinkers and changemakers from around the world to explore the ideas shaping our societies and to engage with questions of trust, cooperation, and meaningful dialogue across divides. The conversations explore current philosophical and technological developments and examine their impact on dialogue, on rebuilding relationships, and on practical cross-community initiatives amid rising tensions across Europe and around the world. Through expert insights, personal reflections, and shared conversations, we explore: How do we build sustainable movements for change?

We invite you to listen to Global DialoguePerspectives and get involved.

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Speakers: Jo Frank, Marco Ventura | Intro: İrem Çörekçi | Editorial team: Nihal Çalışır | Audio-Edit: Gal Mayersohn | Illustration: Andrea Schmidt | Music: Alex Stolze & Yael Gat - White Noise | Programme Lead: Kira Wisniewski | Project Lead: Jo Frank, Johanna Korneli | © 2026 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | https://future500network.com

In this episode you can listen to our panel discussion in Brussels bringing together representatives from civil society and European political institutions. The conversation explores the persistent disconnect between institutions and practitioners in the fight against antisemitism. The panelists discuss why this gap remains despite a shared commitment to cooperation and share ideas for strengthening communication, trust, and collaboration across sectors and borders.

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Moderator: Jonas Fegert | Speakers: Friso Roscam-Abbing, Teona Dalakishvili, Basya Gartenstein, Joanna Podolska-Płocka, Abdou El Kaoukabi | Audio-Edit: Gal Yaron Mayersohn | Editing: Nihal Çalışır, Amina Ahmed |  Music: Hopeful Start by John Bartmann is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License | Illustration: Saskia Schlarmann | Project Lead: Jo Frank, Johanna Korneli | © 2026 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | https://against-antisemitism.eu/ | Insta: dialogueperspectives_epna

In dieser CPPD-Podcastfolge ERINNERUNGSFUTUR spricht Nicole Schweiß mit Sharon Dodua Otoo, über ihren neuen Roman  "So, in etwa, ist es geschehen" und dessen Beziehung zu einer pluralen Erinnerungskultur und -praxis. 

Der Titel des Romans signalisiert bewusst Unbestimmtes und fordert die Leser*innen auf, die Ereignisse selbst zu deuten. Der Plot verknüpft eine persönliche Schuld, Amata gesteht aus der Untersuchungshaft den Mord an ihrem Chef Brockhaus, mit vielen historischen Schichten: die NS‑Geschichte (z. B. das Bombardement der Kap Arcona 1945), koloniale Verbrechen und jüngere Proteste wie Black‑Lives‑Matter oder das Sterben flüchtender Menschen im Mittelmeer sind einige Beispiele. Durch die Familiengeschichte von Amata, deren Großvater NS‑Überlebender ist, und die Verstrickungen des Chefs in eine KZ‑Familie, wird deutlich, wie vergangene Gewalt in Gegenwart und individuelle Psyche nachhallt. Sharon plädiert für solidarische Gedenkräume, in denen verschiedene Diskriminierungserfahrungen gleichzeitig sichtbar werden ohne Herausforderungen zu verkennen. Sie spricht auch über aktuelle Bedrohungen für eine solidarische Praxis in Deutschland, die das Schreiben und die Erinnerungskultur erschweren, und betont, dass Literatur ein notwendiger Raum bleibt, um komplexe, verflochtene Erinnerungen zu bearbeiten und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung zu reflektieren.

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Bei ERINNERUNGSFUTUR berichten Wissenschaftler*innen, Künstler*innen, Journalist*innen und Aktivist*innen über ihre Arbeiten zu und Perspektiven auf Erinnerungskulturen in Deutschland und Europa. Die Reihe ist Teil des Podcasts der DialoguePerspectives e.V.

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Sprecher*innen: Sharon Dodua Otoo, Nicole Schweiß | Editorial team: Hannah Blumas, Nihal Çalışır | Audio-Edit: Gal Yaron Mayersohn | Film Glitch by Snowflake ©2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (3.0) license | Illustration: Rosa Viktoria Ahlers | Kurator*innen: Jo Frank, Johanna Korneli, Max Czollek | © 2026 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | http://www.cppdnetwork.com 

In der CPPD-Podcastfolge ERINNERUNGSFUTUR sprechen Iolanda Évora und Ibou Diop über koloniale Kontinuitäten, Erinnerungskultur, gesellschaftliche Teilhabe und Machtverhältnisse. Ausgehend von Portugal und Deutschland diskutieren sie Erinnerung als politische Praxis und die Frage, wie marginalisierte Perspektiven neue Narrative und demokratische Zukünfte eröffnen können.

Bei der Folge handelt es sich um eine Aufzeichnung von Ausschnitten des Podiumsgesprächs „After the Carnations – Cycles of Decolonisation and Democratic Futures“, moderiert von Cátia Severino, das am 24. April 2026 in der Biblioteca de Alcântara – José Dias Coelho in Lissabon als Teil des CPPD-Festivals „Voices Rising: Memory Unsilenced“ stattgefunden hat. Das Panel fand auf Portugiesisch und Deutsch statt. Im Transkript sind die jeweiligen Übersetzungen nachzulesen.

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Bei ERINNERUNGSFUTUR berichten Wissenschaftler*innen, Künstler*innen, Journalist*innen und Aktivist*innen über ihre Arbeiten zu und Perspektiven auf Erinnerungskulturen in Deutschland und Europa. Die Reihe ist Teil des Podcasts der DialoguePerspectives e.V.

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Sprecher*innen: lolanda Évora, Ibou Diop | Editorial team: Hannah Blumas, Nihal Çalışır; Audio-Edit: Gal Yaron Mayersohn; Film Glitch by Snowflake ©2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (3.0) license; Illustration: Rosa Viktoria Ahlers; Kurator*innen: Jo Frank, Johanna Korneli, Max Czollek | © 2026 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | http://www.cppdnetwork.com 

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No episódio ERINNERUNGSFUTUR do podcast da CPPD, Iolanda Évora e Ibou Diop conversam sobre continuidades coloniais, culturas da memória, participação social e relações de poder. Partindo de Portugal e da Alemanha, discutem a memória como prática política e a questão de como perspectivas marginalizadas podem abrir novos imaginários e futuros democráticos.

Este episódio consiste numa gravação de excertos da mesa-redonda “After the Carnations – Cycles of Decolonisation and Democratic Futures”, moderada por Cátia Severino, que teve lugar no dia 24 de abril de 2026, na Biblioteca de Alcântara – José Dias Coelho, em Lisboa, como parte do festival da CPPD “Voices Rising: Memory Unsilenced”. O painel decorreu em português e alemão. As respetivas traduções podem ser consultadas na transcrição.

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Em ERINNERUNGSFUTUR, cientistas, artistas, jornalistas e ativistas apresentam os seus trabalhos e perspetivas sobre culturas da memória na Alemanha e na Europa. A série faz parte do podcast da DialoguePerspectives e.V.

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Oradores/as: Iolanda Évora, Ibou Diop | Equipa editorial: Hannah Blumas, Nihal Çalışır | Edição de áudio: Gal Yaron Mayersohn | Film Glitch by Snowflake ©2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (3.0) license | Ilustração: Rosa Viktoria Ahlers | Curadores/as: Jo Frank, Johanna Korneli, Max Czollek | © 2026 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | http://www.cppdnetwork.com

In our second episode, Jo Frank speaks with Cyril Hovorun, a Ukrainian Orthodox theologian and academic, about the religious dimension of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Hovorun analyses how the Russian Orthodox Church under Patriarch Kirill has actively helped shape the so-called ‘Russian World’ ideology – a quasi-theological doctrine that legitimises Russian expansion as a sacred mission and provides the ideological basis for the invasion of Ukraine.

Drawing on decades of experience at the intersection of church, politics and international dialogue – including as a research fellow at Yale and Columbia and as a professor of ecclesiology and international relations at Ignatius College in Stockholm – Hovorun examines the roots of religious nationalism, the role of ecumenical institutions as silent enablers of violence, and the limits of interfaith dialogue. His thesis: without the deconstruction of warmongering ideas and without justice – analogous to the Nuremberg Tribunal after the Second World War – this war will not truly end, regardless of any ceasefire.

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Global DialoguePerspectives, the Future 500 podcast series, brings together emerging thinkers and changemakers from around the world to explore the ideas shaping our societies and to engage with questions of trust, cooperation, and meaningful dialogue across divides. The conversations explore current philosophical and technological developments and examine their impact on dialogue, on rebuilding relationships, and on practical cross-community initiatives amid rising tensions across Europe and around the world. Through expert insights, personal reflections, and shared conversations, we explore: How do we build sustainable movements for change?

We invite you to listen to Global DialoguePerspectives and get involved.

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Speakers: Jo Frank, Cyril Hovorun | Intro: İrem Çörekçi | Editorial team: Nihal Çalışır | Audio-Edit: Gal Mayersohn | Illustration: Andrea Schmidt | Music: Alex Stolze & Yael Gat - White Noise | Programme Lead: Kira Wisniewski | DialoguePerspectives e. V. Lead: Jo Frank, Johanna Korneli | © 2026 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | https://future500network.com

As part of our podcast series introducing the projects of this year’s European Alliance Programme (EAP), we continue to spotlight the people and ideas driving meaningful change across Europe.

In this episode of United Against Antisemitism, we explore the transformative project “How to talk when the world tells us to hate each other?” led by Jolanta Lechowska-Białecka and the HaKoach Association in Poland. This initiative addresses the urgent need for respectful dialogue in a time of growing polarization and hate speech across Europe.

Through a series of public discussions, expert panels, and an art exhibition, the project invited participants to engage in empathetic conversations about sensitive topics such as antisemitism, racism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jolanta shares insights on the challenges and successes of fostering constructive dialogue, the importance of linking contemporary issues to a culture of remebrance, and the power of community engagement in promoting understanding.

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Intro: Bethany Odd | Moderator: Nicole Schweiß | Speaker: Jolanta Lechowska-Bialecka | Audio-Edit: Gal Yaron Mayersohn | Music: Hopeful Start by John Bartmann is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License | Illustration: Saskia Schlarmann | Editing: Nihal Çalışır | Project Lead: Florian Eisheuer, Johanna Korneli, Jo Frank | © 2026 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | https://against-antisemitism.eu/⁠ | insta: dialogueperspectives_epna

Welcome to Global DialoguePerspectives, the Future 500 podcast series. For our first episode we look back to our Future 500 spring workshop 2026 in Brussels and share insights to the panel discussion “Voices Rising: Rebuilding Bridges. Dialogue, Trust and Solidarity Post-October 7th” with Camila Piastro, Barbara von Freytag, Furkan Yüksel, and Achim Rettinger, moderated by Igor Mitchnik (16 March 2026 | Brussels).

In the aftermath of crisis and collective trauma, rebuilding dialogue is both urgent and complex. This conversation explores how trust and solidarity can be strengthened across communities facing polarisation and uncertainty. The panel examines the role of AI-driven communication, online platforms, and traditional media in shaping narratives, influencing public discourse, and impacting interreligious relations - drawing on practical experience in fields.

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Global DialoguePerspectives, the Future 500 podcast series, brings together emerging thinkers and changemakers from around the world to explore the ideas shaping our societies and to engage with questions of trust, cooperation, and meaningful dialogue across divides. The conversations explore current philosophical and technological developments and examine their impact on dialogue, on rebuilding relationships, and on practical cross-community initiatives amid rising tensions across Europe and around the world.
Through expert insights, personal reflections, and shared conversations, we explore: How do we build sustainable movements for change?

We invite you to listen to Global DialoguePerspectives and get involved.

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Speakers: Camila Piastro, Barbara von Freytag, Furkan Yüksel, Achim Rettinger | Moderator: Igor Mitchnik | Intro: İrem Çörekçi | Editorial team: Nihal Çalışır | Audio-Edit: Gal Mayersohn | Illustration: Andrea Schmidt | Music: Alex Stolze & Yael Gat - White Noise | Programme Lead: Kira Wisniewski | Project Lead: Jo Frank, Johanna Korneli | © 2026 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | https://future500network.com

Die Folge beleuchtet das Berliner Erinnerungskonzept Kolonialismus: wie es seit 2019 in einem breiten, partizipativen Prozess von Zivilgesellschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst und Bildung entstanden ist und warum ein dezentral vernetzter Erinnerungsraum mit einem zentralen Lern- und Erinnerungsort zusammengedacht werden muss.
Ibou Diop und Katja Kinder sprechen über plurales, mehrdimensionales Erinnern zwischen Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft: vom somatischen Erinnern und Community-Wissen über Widerstand und Resilienz bis hin zu politischen Hürden und der Notwendigkeit, koloniale Kontinuitäten in Bildung und Wissenschaft, Archiven und im Stadtraum sichtbar zu machen.
Die Episode zeigt, dass Kolonialismus-Erinnern alle angeht, als Grundlage für Gerechtigkeit, Zugehörigkeit und eine demokratische, plurale Erinnerungskultur.

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Bei ERINNERUNGSFUTUR berichten Wissenschaftler*innen, Künstler*innen, Journalist*innen und Aktivist*innen über ihre Arbeiten zu und Perspektiven auf Erinnerungskulturen in Deutschland und Europa. Die Reihe ist Teil des Podcasts der DialoguePerspectives e.V.

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Sprecher*innen: Ibou Diop und Katja Kinder | Moderation: Nicole Schweiß | Editorial team: Hannah Blumas, Nihal Çalışır; Audio-Edit: Gal Yaron Mayersohn; Film Glitch by Snowflake ©2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (3.0) license; Illustration: Rosa Viktoria Ahlers; Kurator*innen: Jo Frank, Johanna Korneli, Max Czollek | © 2026 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | http://www.cppdnetwork.com