Disruption and Survival

Organised by Sana Chavoshian, Aksana Ismailbekova, Samuli Schielke

The ZMO winter colloquium series Disruption and Survival offers empirically grounded insights into disruptions and possible ways to survive them. We feature ethnographic and historical investigations in the contexts of warfare, mass destruction, environmental damage, borders, and migrations. By unsettling established ways of living and ecosystems across the world, such disruptions call for perpetual anticipation as well as new modes of adaptation. It is often not possible to know whether those modes may help to survive the disruption long-term, or whether they rather provide ways to live the moment that aggravate and escalate it. We pay particular attention to issues of family and community survival, shifts in ecologies and livelihoods, and the relationship of ordinary people with corporate and government projects, and lives in their shadow or aftermath.

25.09. Nayera Soliman Abdelrahman (Freie Universität Berlin): War Times from Homes: Between Losses and Survival for Suezi Forced Migrants Post-1967

23.10. Veronica Ferreri (Ca’ Foscari University Venice): Dissonant Aftermath: Suspended Time and Elusive History among Exiled Syrians in Lebanon

27.11. Alice von Bieberstein (Humboldt Universität Berlin): Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey

29.01. Muna Dajani (London School of Economics): (Im)possibilities of Ecological Survival in Palestine

26.02. Alice Elliot (Goldsmiths London): Safe Sight: Migrant Policing and Anthropologies of Vision

Die Vorträge finden am ZMO statt. Teilnahme über Zoom ist auch möglich. Online Registrierung um per Zoom teilzunehmen.