Programme
Look forward to a diverse programme with workshops and lectures on various topics related to colonialism. Our content programme will be accompanied by exhibitions, films, concerts and more.
Short-term changes to the program are possible and will only be announced at the congress information desk.
Introduction
For an introduction to the topic of colonialism, we recommend the lecture "Welcome to Zhengistan, Ethiopians!" by Prof Aram Ziai.
Exhibitions during the congress
Thursday
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Kick-off event
20:00 – 21:00, Saal
Friday
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The Cauca Regional Indigenous Council, CRIC: the struggle for land, culture and autonomy in south-west Colombia
10:00 – 11:30, Vortrag, Saal
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Africa and the colonial challenge
10:00 – 11:30, Vortrag, R106
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The sound of the Sumaq Kawsay - "Sikuri" and "Buen Vivir" ?
10:00 – 11:30, Workshop, R105
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The many-headed Hydra - uprisings of enslaved people in the early modern period
10:00 – 11:30, Workshop, R107
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Decolonise Tourism!
12:00 – 13:30, Workshop, R107
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grassroots global solidarity
12:00 – 13:30, Workshop, R105
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European interventions in Africa since "decolonisation" (with a focus on Germany)
12:00 – 13:30, Vortrag, Saal
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Episodes from a Colonial Present - A postcolonial comic
12:00 – 13:30, Vortrag, R106
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Colonialism reloaded? The economy between power and history.
15:00 – 18:30, Workshop, R107
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Cultural appropriation of traditional indigenous medicine in Europe
15:00 – 16:30, Vortrag, Saal
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BUKO Internationalism Discussion: Colonialism - A role backwards in the search for a left-wing identification?
15:00 – 16:30, Diskussion, R106
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AI & labour in the colonial relationship
17:00 – 18:30, Workshop, R106
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Speakers Tour Namibia and energy colonialism
17:00 – 18:30, Vortrag, Saal
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Biopiracy
17:00 – 18:30, Workshop, R105
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BUKO Annual Plenary Meeting
19:30 – 21:00, Plenum, R107
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Konzert: Sikuri Kassel
21:00, Concert at the Färberei
Saturday
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Arriving in the body together with exercise in the morning
9:00 – 9:50, Gymnastik, R106
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Colonial debts of the past, present and future
10:00 – 11:30 und 12:00 – 13:30, Workshop, R107
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Grandad was not a settler
10:00 – 11:30, Workshop, R105
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Colonialism and agriculture
10:00 – 11:30, Workshop, R106
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Bring on the carers! On colonial continuities and networking
10:00 – 11:30, Workshop, Saal
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Western Sahara - Africa's last colony: 50 years of occupation and resistance
12:00 – 13:30, Vortrag, R106
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Travel report from Vaca Muerta: Extractivism, indigenous land rights and resistance
12:00 – 13:30, Vortrag, Saal
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Excursion to Witzenhausen
14:00 - 19:00, Excursion
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Mesoamerican Caravan for Climate and Life
15:00 – 16:30, Vortrag, Saal
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Neo-colonial hydrogen futures
15:00 – 16:30, Workshop, R106
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Acting in solidarity with coffee?
15:00 – 16:30, Vortrag, R105
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Israel, Palestine and the German debate - An understanding in the BUKO on a slightly different level of dialogue
15:00 – 16:30, Diskussion, R107
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"What does genocide actually cost?" - Namibia, Germany and the question of reparations for colonial violence
17:00 – 18:30, Workshop, R106
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In the German interest. The acceptance of the genocide 120 years ago in Germany
17:00 – 18:30, Workshop, R107
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New corridors of an old colonial project: the "Tren Maya" and the "Interoceanic Corridor"
17:00 – 18:00, Vortrag, Saal
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Founding meeting BUKO working focus on postcolonialism
17:00 – 18:30, Plenum, R105
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Plunder in the postcolonial political economy
19:30 – 22:00, Podiumsdiskussion und Vortrag, Saal
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Congress party
21:30, Party
Sunday
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Arriving in the body together with exercise in the morning
9:00 – 9:50, Gymnastik, R106
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Kassel's colonial traces: a post-colonial city tour
10:00 - 12:00, city tour
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Critical somatics
10:00 – 11:30, Bewegungsangebot, R105
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Panama: Gold, ships, and bananas
10:00 – 11:30, Vortrag, R107
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The politics of memory in Germany – A debate
19:30 - 22:00, panel discussion, Saal