{"title": "BerGSAS-Talk with Marian Feldmann (Johns Hopkins University): \"Between Monuments and Memory in Ancient Mespotomia\"", "start": "2026-11-18T10:15:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-18T11:45:00+01:00", "place": "FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften", "address": "Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/antiquity"], "description": "An informal BerGSAS-Talk with Marian Feldman of Johns Hopkins University about monuments and memory in ancient Mesopotamia. Drawing on her research and her book „Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia“, she discusses how ancient societies actively shaped their past by preserving or erasing material culture. The Q&A and roundtable for doctoral students also covers monumental architecture, visual traditions, space, power and the legitimization of authority. Registration by email until 17 November is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bergsas-talk-with-marian-feldmann-johns-hopkins-university-b-133761/", "official_url": "https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/vaa/veranstaltungen/2026-BerGSAS-Talk-with-Marian-Feldman.html", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T10:15:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-18T11:45:00+01:00", "place": "FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften", "address": "Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "DHC Lecture mit Marian Feldman \"Monuments, Architecture and the Shaping of Historical Memory in Southern Mesopotamia at the End of the Third Millennium BCE\"", "start": "2026-11-17T18:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften", "address": "Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/middle-east"], "description": "A lecture in English as part of the Dahlem Humanities Center Lectures at Freie Universität Berlin. Marian Feldman of Johns Hopkins University examines how the rulers of the Third Dynasty of Ur shaped the memory of the Akkadian state. She shows that Ur-Namma and Shulgi destroyed older sacred buildings and built new ziggurat precincts on freshly excavated foundations, while also collecting and displaying statues of Akkadian rulers. Through this selective forgetting and remembering they secured their own place in Mesopotamian history and shaped the legacy of Akkad to this day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dhc-lecture-mit-marian-feldman-monuments-architecture-and-th-94426/", "official_url": "https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/termine/2026-11-17_DHCL-Feldman.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8140163b3b289c5f7c1cd3f160f8821719f47e087cca8de9a77c4121698e2820-600.webp"}, {"title": "80. Waisenhausgespräch", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "SchuleEins Waisenhaus, Betsaal, Berliner Straße 120-121, 13187 Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "literature/reading"], "description": "The 80th Waisenhausgespräch asks how a culture of remembrance can succeed as a project across generations. Organized by the Cajewitz Stiftung together with the SchuleEins and the Theater OfW, it features pupils presenting their research into the history of the former orphanage, a staged reading by Anja S. Gläser and Florentine Schara (text and staging by Philipp Urrutia, with English surtitles), and a panel discussion with Lena Ditte Nissen and Rosa Jellinek. In this way the historic building's Betsaal becomes a place of living memory where past and present enter into dialogue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/80-waisenhausgesprach-72986/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus. Call & Response mit Alice Hasters und Khuê Phạm.", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "A keynote dialogue on the question of how a central place of learning and remembrance for the history of colonialism and its continuities can be shaped. Following an introduction by literary scholar and curator Ibou Diop, Alice Hasters and Khuê Phạm take up questions about forms, practices and politics of remembering and bring them into conversation with each other, after which the exchange continues with the audience. The event reflects on the Erinnerungskonzept Kolonialismus (2025), initiated by actors of Berlin's civil society, which combines activist, scholarly and artistic positions and presents guidelines for engaging with and remembering Berlin's long-suppressed colonial history. In cooperation with Kolonialismus erinnern, the dialogue opens the event „Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort.“ on 13 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erinnerungsort-kolonialismus-call-response-mit-alice-hasters-283/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261109-1700/", "image": ""}, {"title": "„Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Erinnerung und Gedenken an den Holocaust zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Schule", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "diekleinegalerie", "address": "Goßlerstraße 21, 12161 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust/commemoration"], "description": "diekleinegalerie invites to a conversation on a current topic: „Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust between historical scholarship and school. The conversation is between Prof. Wolfgang Benz, a historian, and Jakob Ciré, a teacher of history at a Berlin integrated comprehensive school. It addresses how remembrance can be conveyed when there are no more contemporary witnesses, how it can be kept alive in our post-migrant society, and what the claim of „never again“ means in the present. Due to limited seating, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-ist-jetzt-erinnerung-und-gedenken-an-den-holocaus-22255/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "TALK: The Grandmothers of Stone: Paths of Return and Re-existence", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Babylon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei / Free Entrance", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism/restitution"], "description": "A talk offering a space of dialogue, memory, and collective listening in the OVAL, with free entrance. Members of the Indigenous Misak Misak and Yanakuna communities of Colombia invite us, alongside the Veeduría for the Repatriation/Rematriation of the Lithic Heritage of the Colombian Massif and Posmonumenta. Together with SIN TEMER and La Sur Real, the gathering weaves ancestral knowledge and shared reflections on historical reparation, territorial memory, and the return of sacred stone ancestors to their territories.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/talk-the-grandmothers-of-stone-paths-of-return-and-re-existe-67949/", "official_url": "https://babylonberlin.eu/programm/festivals/la-sur-real-colombia/10775-talk-the-grandmothers-of-stone-paths-of-return-and-re-existence", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63c3f1d6e8afaa470e74f3c0696374c09468bbd0fb2f49d3cff8030882e1239f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Was lehrt(e) die Vergangenheit? Die Frage nach dem Orientierungswert von Geschichte", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung", "address": "Hiroshimastraße 17, 10785 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/historiography"], "description": "An evening lecture held as part of an annual conference asks what the past teaches us for the present. The talk is given by Martin Sabrow, spokesperson of the Leibniz research network „Wert der Vergangenheit“, moderated by Anja Kruke of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. The conference explores history's value as orientation in science, museums, schools, politics and the media. The evening event is open to anyone interested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-lehrte-die-vergangenheit-die-frage-nach-dem-orientierung-116091/", "official_url": "https://zzf-potsdam.de/wissenstransfer/veranstaltungen/vortrag-von-martin-sabrow-was-lehrt-e-die-vergangenheit", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf232ab32b86c0688787fa4ee6b9de76117c4914a43141c3c8e0ab07a594589e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "„Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort“ is an evening devoted to the question of how a central learning and memorial site on the history of colonialism could be designed in Berlin. The event brings together perspectives from academia, art, architecture, activism and memorial policy practice, sharing with a broad audience the conceptual and spatial foundations of the future site as well as the structures and networks that could sustain it. Artistically, the evening is framed by the dance company Fii ak Fee with the work DEM DEM and by Nathalie Vairac, who reads for the first time from Felwine Sarr's „Traces – A Speech to African Nations“. The event takes place in cooperation with „Kolonialismus erinnern“ and further partners, with simultaneous translation into English and French.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kolonialismus-erinnern-vom-konzept-zum-ort-293/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261113-1900/", "image": ""}, {"title": "DemokratieGEDICHTE: Erinnerungen neu gestalten - Demokratiegeschichte als gemeinsame Aufgabe", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus für Poesie", "address": "Knaackstr. 97 (Kulturbrauerei), 10435 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/democracy", "literature/spoken-word"], "description": "An evening of poetry slam and a panel discussion on how the history of democracy is remembered. At the third evening of the \"DemokratieGEDICHTE\" series, poetry slam on democracy past and present meets experiences from memorial work. The focus lies on whose democratic history is told, which voices are missing, and how remembrance can be shaped openly and with many voices. The event takes place at the Haus für Poesie in the Kulturbrauerei and participation is free of charge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/demokratiegedichte-erinnerungen-neu-gestalten-demokratiegesc-96878/", "official_url": "https://www.deutsche-gesellschaft-ev.de/veranstaltungen/diskussionsreihen/2184-demokratiegedichte-reihe.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/03faa6179bc7152671053557f26f1f554402955af53a677c0d06b56b14c108bb-600.webp"}, {"title": "Wie erinnern wir? Wie erinnerst du?", "start": "2026-09-29T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-05-09T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit", "address": "Britzer Straße 5, 12439 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A special exhibition about the changing nature and significance of remembrance. The Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit presents it at the historical site of a former Nazi forced labor camp, using objects from its collection to show personal, family and public forms of remembering forced labor. Students from Archenhold-Gymnasium, participants of an international youth encounter and local neighbors co-created the exhibition. Interactive stations invite visitors to do their own research and reflect on the past, present and future of remembrance and its meaning for a democratic society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wie-erinnern-wir-wie-erinnerst-du-11738/", "official_url": "https://www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/ausstellungen/wie-erinnern-wir", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a9684c4e4a2ad3f75a44fe128a583c6f95747a086e276b444c5f0cd9eeb83476-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Der neue Raum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte", "start": "2026-11-19T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Reinickendorf", "address": "Alt-Hermsdorf 35, 13467 Berlin", "price": "entgeltfrei", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/prehistory"], "description": "A panel talk at Museum Reinickendorf marking the newly opened room for prehistory and early history. As a \"Making of\", those involved look behind the scenes of their working processes and answer questions from the audience. The panel brings together archaeologist Dr. Nicola Crüsemann, scientific graphic designer Daniela Greinert and Claudia Wasow-Kania from education and outreach. Dr. Sabine Ziegenrücker from the department of art and history gives the welcome and moderates; over recent months a working group of curators, specialists, a design and technical team and the education team jointly developed and implemented the new concept.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/der-neue-raum-fur-vor-und-fruhgeschichte-29934/", "official_url": "https://museum-reinickendorf.de/termine/der-neue-raum-fuer-vor-und-fruehgeschichte-podiumsgespraech/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/84b76051201cf837027c82777862f2c86b28d1a3ceaa61c2472562925f0d5404-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Voneinander lernen und gemeinsam agieren: Provenienzforschung und Vermittlung zu NS und Kolonialismus zusammendenken.", "start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus Bastian – Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung", "address": "Am Kupfergraben 10, 10117 Berlin", "price": "0 €", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/provenance-research"], "description": "An evening talk and discussion in the lecture series „Provenienz und Vermittlung im Gespräch“, part of the project „Kunst, Raub und Rückgabe – Vergessene Lebensgeschichten“. Dr. Sven Haase, provenance researcher at the Central Archive of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and Dr. Patrick Helber, curator for education and outreach at the Ethnologisches Museum, report on their projects on the intersections of the Nazi era and colonialism. Moderated by Dr. Lilja-Ruben Çaharnas Vowe, they discuss similarities and differences between the two disciplines from a transhistorical perspective and what public debate can learn from discussions on colonial looted art. The project is a cooperation between the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden with the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste; admission and participation are free, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/voneinander-lernen-und-gemeinsam-agieren-provenienzforschung-10956/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/voneinander-lernen-und-gemeinsam-agieren-provenienzforschung-und-vermittlung-zu-ns-und-kolonialismus-zusammendenken-2026-11-16-180000-160852/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/97a02728430dd9e7149162dc18524e394401c06a15d53d6b2957f6956f8ece5a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Preuss’s Dilemma", "start": "2026-11-14T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Savvy Contemporary", "address": "Reinickendorfer Straße 17, 13347 Berlin", "price": "Free entry, donations welcome", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism/restitution", "art/sculpture"], "description": "A Círculo de Palabra y Escucha (word and listening circle) around the Stone Grandmothers, ancestral lithic beings from the Colombian Massif now held in the collection of Berlin's Ethnological Museum. Members of the Yanakuna and Misak Misak peoples, the Rematriation Oversight Group and Posmonumenta take part, including Jhon Alirio Córdoba Quinayas, Carla Isabel Espinosa Muñoz, Martha Jeannette Gil Gómez, Indy Piapya, Marleny Deli Yalanda Cuchillo, Adriana María Velasco Muelas and Julián Santana-Rodríguez. At the centre stands a soft textile sculpture of a Grandmother of Stone, divided into two parts, which participants will reunite through a collective weaving and sewing action whose line of joining remains visible. The gathering asks what it means to preserve an ancestral being by fragmenting it – as the German ethnologist Konrad Preuss once did to transport some of them – and is accompanied by community projection mapping with archival images and landscapes of memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/preusss-dilemma-127424/", "official_url": "https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/events/2026/preusss-dilemma/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e903edc78191da81927d836cc00c57e681b7abe96230a61af0e9d8f2fc007ee9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Zikaron Ba'Salon \"Our identity\"", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-19T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bibliothek Schöneberg", "address": "Hauptstraße 40, 10827 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist kostenfrei und nur nach persönlicher Anmeldung möglich.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["community/remembrance", "history/holocaust"], "description": "Zikaron Ba'Salon \"Our identity\" is an evening of remembrance, listening and dialogue at the Bibliothek Schöneberg. It is hosted by Zikaron Ba'Salon together with the district office Tempelhof-Schöneberg's commissioner against right-wing extremism and antisemitism. At its heart is the personal story of Ruth Winkelmann, a Holocaust survivor and Berlin native, followed by a shared discussion on memory, identity and belonging. The evening aims to deepen the understanding of shared responsibility and to reflect on how a safer, more inclusive and more just future for all can be shaped.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zikaron-basalon-our-identity-132708/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Koloniale Gewaltgeschichte erinnern - Gespräch mit Abenaa Adomako und Dr. Ibou Diop", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schöneberg Museum", "address": "Hauptstraße 40, 10827 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/racism"], "description": "A conversation on remembering German colonial history of violence takes place at Schöneberg Museum. Abenaa Adomako and Dr. Ibou Diop discuss civic engagement within Berlin's decentralized culture of remembrance, coming to terms with German colonial history and researching Black German history. Adomako has been campaigning against racism and for making Black history visible for over 40 years. Diop curates discourse programmes and art exhibitions in Senegal and Germany and, since 2022, has been shaping concepts and places of remembrance for Berlin's colonial history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/koloniale-gewaltgeschichte-erinnern-gesprach-mit-abenaa-adom-12563/", "official_url": "https://museen-tempelhof-schoeneberg.de/events/koloniale-gewaltgeschichte-erinnern-gespraech-mit-abenaa-adomako-und-dr-ibou-diop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c149d30805acc9a39ff7783253385b478b15a133ac14bb4278dd607fc8dc1706-600.webp"}]}