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Palestine and German Studies
As we write this post, Israel is systematically displacing, maiming, and murdering Palestinians. At the same time, a global web of power structures is actively suppressing solidarity campaigns with Palestine and Palestinians. State representatives, police agents, and university administrators (among others) form an assemblage of power that reinforces the delegitimation of collective struggles for Palestinian liberation.
Controversy over 'culture of remembrance' reform
The coalition government wants to expand its remembrance culture to include the history of German colonialism. Initial proposals have been met with criticism, in particular from heads of Holocaust memorial sites.
Toxic dilemma faced by German museums repatriating artefacts
Historical use of pesticides to protect collections means objects are contaminated by not only colonial heritage
George the Poet – The Benin bronze
George the Poet performs a spoken-word poem about an African work of art – a Benin bronze plaque – in the British Museum's Africa Gallery.