27.2.2015, Panel I

27.2.2015, Panel II

27.2.2015, Keynote

27.2.2015, Performance

28.2.2015, Panel III

28.2.2015, Panel IV

The discursive programme WIR SIND ALLE BERLINER: 1884-2014 commemorated 130 years of the Berlin Conference and proposed a space for deliberation on the repercussions of this crucial event, offering thereby an occasion to analyse the ideological, economic, political, and humanitarian justifications that underlay colonialism and still frame the asymmetric relations between the West and the non-West today.


Programme at ICI Berlin

Friday, 27 February 2015

10:30 Welcome & Introduction
11:00 Panel I: Unsilencing (Colonial) Histories
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 Panel II: Contested Geopolitics - Before and After the Scramble
18:00 Keynote: Manthia Diawara: Berlin: What Concepts of Reparation?
19:30 Media Minerals: A Spoken-Word and Sound Lecture by Biters (Larry Achiampong & David Blandy)

Saturday, 28 February 2015

11:00 Panel III: L' Intrus – On Enacting and Enacted Citizenships
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Panel IV: L'Intrus – The Outward Trappings of Sovereignty
17:00 Panel V: On Colonialism and Ethnologic Collections


Roundtable Panellists
Nana Adusei-Poku, Vanessa Agard-Jones, Kader Attia, Bilgin Ayata, Friedrich von Bose, Silvy Chakkalakal, Paola Ivanov, Imara Limon, Sarah Mazouz, Renée Mussai, Kien Nghi Ha, Peggy Piesche, Anupama Rao, Dierk Schmidt, Alessandro Triulzi, and Francoise Vergès




The symposium accompanied the exhibition WIR SIND ALLE BERLINER: 1884-2014 at SAVVY Contemporary. The discursive programme took place from 26 February – 1 March 2015 at three different locations: ICI Berlin, KuLE Theater, and SAVVY Contemporary. For parts, which did not take place at ICI Berlin, please see savvy-contemporary.com

Flyer (PDF)

A Project by SAVVY Contemporary in cooperation with the ICI Berlin and the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Concept: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with Elena Agudio, Anna Jäger, Saskia Köbschall


Time: 27-28 February 2015
Venue: ICI Berlin
In English