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.
The theatre workshop Pilkentafel's autumn 2022 programme deals with heritage. What do we inherit and to what extent does it define us? How do we deal with our colonial heritage? And what will we bequeath one day?
What do Flensburg and Altona have to do with colonialism? Are there connections between the two cities? Similarities or differences? After a short introduction and a lecture, we would like to talk about this with anyone who is interested.
'Cuating the Discomfort' is an intervention at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow that critically explores post/colonial power relations in museums. A report on the intervention and why we in Flensburg are inspired by it.
On June 10th, the panel discussion "Postcolonial Memory Cultures in Flensburg" took place. The audio track is now available for re-listening on YouTube!
On Monday, June 13, Prof. Sybille Bauriedl will give a lecture on colonial amnesia in Flensburg as part of the lecture series "Unsayable" at the Phänomenta in Flensburg.
On Friday, June 10, 2022, at 6 pm, a panel discussion on the culture of remembrance in Flensburg will take place at the Museumsberg. Representatives of state politics, science and the practice of remembrance will discuss the topic.
The project Sønderjylland-Schleswig Colonial aims to collect and communicate the colonial references in the region between Eider and Königsau. On the site there is, among other things, a map with colonial memorials in the region.
On Wednesday, 4 May, at 7 pm, the film "We carry it within us - fragments of a shared colonial past" will be shown.
