Postcolonial city walks in Flensburg in summer 2024
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New dates for postcolonial city walks in summer 2024
New dates for postcolonial city walks in summer 2024
On 3 May 2024 at 19.30, we cordially invite you to a reading with Aert van Riel in the Campelle. He will read from his book Der verschwiegene Völkermord.
The illustration of the Flensburg shorelines shown on the homepage of the Flensburg Postcolonial Network is a collaboration between Felisha Maria Carenage and Nelo A. Schmalen. In a text we explain in particular the background to the graphic of the shorelines, which has its origins in a comparative map analysis by Nelo A. Schmalen.
New dates for postcolonial city walks in autumn 2023
In September 2023, the anthology Geographies of Coloniality - Histories of Global Inequalities was published by Sybille Bauriedl and Inken Carstensen-Egwuom, both part of the Integrative Geography department at Europa-Universität Flensburg. The anthology also includes contributions dealing with Flensburg's colonial entanglements.
The redevelopment of the area around Christiansen Park was completed in the summer of 2023. The creation of this area has direct links to Danish colonialism. This is now commemorated by a plaque in the park and a detailed text on this website.
Nelo A. Schmalen's work deals with the urban spatial changes in the Eastern Harbour and explores the extent to which this space is characterised by colonial entanglements. The maps of the harbour area created as part of the work visualize changes to the harbour edge, the terrain and the infrastructure.
Postcolonial city walks in Flensburg in spring 2023 Between mid-March and the end of May, postcolonial city walks will again take place in Flensburg’s city centre. Together with the participants, the initiative Postcolonial City Walk Flensburg will take a critical…
From August 13th to October 31st 2022, a total of 103 artistically designed globes were put on public display in seven cities across the UK to commemorate Britain's involvement in the transatlantic enslavement trade. The blog post reports on the action and explains what Flensburg has to do with it.
How does Flensburg live and experience its coloniality? Where do we stand? What has changed? And what could the future look like? With these questions, the Pilkentafel Theatre Workshop invited people to talk about Flensburg's colonial heritage on December 14th 2022. In this blog post we would like to briefly summarise the results of the evening.