the minor constellations podcast

In this episode we host a conversation between Dr Layla Zami and Jan Dammel about Dr Zami's recently published book Contemporary PerforMemory: Dancing Through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century. 

Dr Zami is an academic and artist, working in the fields of humanities, performance studies and art history. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She also curates for the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York, together with Oxana Chi. Jan Dammel is our colleague in the RTG minor cosmopolitanisms and his project, Theatre and German Colonialism, investigates theatre practices in the context of Tanzanian-German entangled histories by conceptualizing theatre as a site of both complicity and resistance.

For links, a list of references, and more information about our guest please visit https://minor.hypotheses.org/podcast

Our amazing intro track is by Shane Cooper, called "Bass in the Bathroom", from the album "Small Songs for Big Times", March 2020. For more, please visit shanecopper.bandcamp.com/

In this episode we talk to Azar Dakwar, a PhD candidate in political and social thought at the Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent. The conversation centres around an article he wrote with Raef Zreik entitled  “What’s in the Apartheid Analogy? Palestine/Israel Refracted”. Taking this as our point of departure, we start with the events which took place in Palestine/Israel last May. We continue with the proliferation of the apartheid discourse: we ask what’s between South Africa and Palestine/Israel, and explore the differences between settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation.

For links, a list of references, and more information about our guest, please visit https://minor.hypotheses.org/podcast

Our amazing intro track is by Shane Cooper, called "Bass in the Bathroom", from the album "Small Songs for Big Times", March 2020. For more, please visit shanecopper.bandcamp.com/

In this episode we talk with Tim Fish Hodgson, socio-economic Human Rights expert at the International Commission of Jurists, about Covid-19 vaccine inequality, focussing on the ICJ briefing paper he put together, in collaboration with activists and stakeholders from within the SADC states, titled “The Unvaccinated: Equality not Charity in Southern Africa”. 

For links, a list of references, and more information about our guest, please visit https://minor.hypotheses.org/podcast 

Our amazing intro track is by Shane Cooper, called "Bass in the Bathroom", from the album "Small Songs for Big Times", March 2020. For more, please visit shanecooper.bandcamp.com/ 

In this episode, we talk to Eilat Maoz, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of anthropology at the University of Chicago. We start with the events which took place in late May, in the mixed cities in Israel. We talk about police and policing, vigilante law and even some thoughts on the current project of the left. 

For links, a list of references, and more information about our guest, please visit https://minor.hypotheses.org/podcast

Our amazing intro track is by Shane Cooper, called "Bass in the Bathroom", from the album "Small Songs for Big Times", March 2020. For more, please visit shanecooper.bandcamp.com/

In this episode we find out about the translation tool macht.sprache. We talk about some of the challenges of translating politically sensitive terms across not only language but also discursive contexts. 

For links, a list of references and more information about our guests, please visit https://minor.hypotheses.org/podcast 

Our Amazing intro track is by Shane Cooper: “Bass in the Bathroom”, from the album Small Songs for Big Times, March 2020. For more, please visit shanecooper.bandcamp.com/

In this episode we talk to Gitte Westergaard, doctoral fellow associated with the Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Research Group at the University of Stavanger, and our colleague in the RTG minor cosmopolitanisms, Anne Maabjerg Mikkelsen. Both researchers deal with questions within the environmental humanities, exploring the posthuman through the prism of concepts like sacrality and liminality. The point of departure for the conversation is Gitte's article, co-written with Dolly Jørgensen, titled "Making Specimens Sacred: Putting the Bodies of Solitario Jorge and Cụ Rùa on Display”. The conversation weaves Gitte's work on the display of extinct giant tortoise Lonesome George's remains in the Galapagos through with Anne's work with the Ọ̀ṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove in Nigeria and its inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

For links, a list of references, and more information about our guests please visit https://minor.hypotheses.org/podcast

Our amazing intro track is by Shane Cooper, called "Bass in the Bathroom", from the album "Small Songs for Big Times", March 2020. For more, please visit shanecopper.bandcamp.com/

Our conversation explores the idea of what it might mean to have a minor orientation in thinking and in practice. We talk about constellations of positions, narratives or geographic locations as forming not fixed minoritarian identities, but different ways of worldmaking that exist in varied relationships of orientation to one another. We also talk about how attending to the minor in its different forms can enable us to undermine from within in order to trace unexpected connections and perhaps even remake the world anew.

For a list of references and more information about our guests, please visit https://minor.hypotheses.org/podcast

Our Amazing intro track is by Shane Cooper: “Bass in the Bathroom”, from the album Small Songs for Big Times, March 2020. For more, please visit shanecooper.bandcamp.com/

Introducing the minor constellations Podcast with Yael and Kathleen

This is episode two of Erased in Translation, part of the minor constellations in conversation project.

In this 2 part series Hannah Vögele, Kathleen Samson and Yael Attia co-hosted a conversation between Dr. Vanessa Thompson, based in the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, and Dr. Sara Salem based at LSE. They brought their interests in decolonial studies, critical race theory, travelling theories and the articulations of race in Europe together in a co-written article titled “Old Racisms, New Masks: On the Continuing Discontinuities of Racism and the Erasure of Race in European Contexts”, and we were thrilled to be able to talk with them about their academic work and practice.

The podcast forms part of a series of conversations organised by doctoral fellows at the University of Potsdam’s Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms. You can find links to the other conversations on our website minor.hypotheses.org/podcast.

| Music | Shane Cooper - Bass in the Bathroom, from the album Small Songs for Big Times. For more, please visit shanecooper.bandcamp.com/

This is episode one of Erased in Translation, part of the minor constellations in conversation project.

In this 2 part series Hannah Vögele, Kathleen Samson and Yael Attia co-hosted a conversation between Dr. Vanessa Thompson, based in the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, and Dr. Sara Salem based at LSE. They brought their interests in decolonial studies, critical race theory, travelling theories and the articulations of race in Europe together in a co-written article titled “Old Racisms, New Masks: On the Continuing Discontinuities of Racism and the Erasure of Race in European Contexts”, and we were thrilled to be able to talk with them about their academic work and practice.

The podcast forms part of a series of conversations organised by doctoral fellows at the University of Potsdam’s Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms. You can find links to the other conversations on our website, minor.hypotheses.org/podcast

| Music | Shane Cooper - Bass in the Bathroom, from the album Small Songs for Big Times. For more, please visit shanecooper.bandcamp.com/