{"title": "Global History Colloquium: James Robertson (UC Irvine) on “Transnational Lives and Communist Worldmaking”", "start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-16T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften", "address": "Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/communism"], "description": "A talk in the Global History Colloquium at Freie Universität Berlin. James Robertson, an associate professor of history at UC Irvine, speaks on “Transnational Lives and Communist Worldmaking”: using three little-known biographies, he reconstructs how international communism shaped lives, selves, and worldviews. He follows the African American nurse Salaria Kea, the Vietnamese Trotskyist Van Ngo, and the Argentinian-German spy Tamara Bunke. The colloquium takes place in person.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/global-history-colloquium-james-robertson-uc-irvine-on-trans-14860/", "official_url": "https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereiche/global_history/Dates/Colloquium-Global-History_WiSe26-27_04-James-Robertson.html", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-16T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften", "address": "Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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": "Geschichte statt Mythen. Rechtsextremen Geschichtsumdeutungen begegnen", "start": "2026-11-17T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/extremism", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A lecture evening on historical revisionism: how right-wing extremists systematically reinterpret, relativise and trivialise the National Socialist past. Behind the project „Geschichte statt Mythen“ are Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, funded by the foundation Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft. Berit Kö and Jakob Schergaut report on their project work and use concrete examples to present common strategies and narrative patterns of the far right – and what can be done to counter them. The evening is introduced by Jens-Christian Wagner, who leads the project; the moderation is by Andrea Riedle, director of the Topography of Terror Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geschichte-statt-mythen-rechtsextremen-geschichtsumdeutungen-31760/", "official_url": "https://www.topographie.de/veranstaltungen/detail/geschichte-statt-mythen-rechtsextremen-geschichtsumdeutungen-begegnen", "image": ""}, {"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": "Klassensitzung Klasse Sozialwissenschaften und Geisteswissenschaften", "start": "2026-11-12T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T12:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ratskeller", "address": "Bölschestraße 87, 12587 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/exile"], "description": "The class meeting of the Social Sciences and Humanities Class is a scholarly session with a lecture, held as a hybrid event on site and via Zoom. It is organised by the Social Sciences and Humanities Class of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Larisa Schippel speaks on the expulsion and return of scholars from a translation-history perspective, using the exile of scholars in Turkey, Great Britain, Yugoslavia and the USA to show which translation strategies were used and how academic milieus became transculturalised. She also examines who returned after the end of the Nazi regime and under what conditions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/klassensitzung-klasse-sozialwissenschaften-und-geisteswissen-104523/", "official_url": "https://leibnizsozietaet.de/veranstaltungs/klassensitzung-klasse-sozialwissenschaften-und-geisteswissenschaften-2/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Im Blick der Anderen. In the View of Others: Berlin – The International Discourse on European Postwar Modernism", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Akademie der Künste", "address": "Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin", "price": "7,50 EUR (Ermäßigt: 5 EUR)", "price_from": "7.50", "price_to": "7.50", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture/modernism", "history/cold-war"], "description": "A two-day conference with talks, discussions, lecture performances and a film programme, part of the exhibition „Metaxy : Zwischen Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau“. It examines the international media reception of postwar modernism during the Cold War, starting from reporting on the Karl-Marx-Allee in former East Berlin and the buildings of the Interbau 1957 in former West Berlin. A research project by Dr. Sandra Wagner-Conzelmann, Dr. Thomas Flierl, Dr. Paul Sigel and Robert K. Huber studied coverage in ten countries, and the conference presents the partly surprising findings. The programme is complemented by a film programme curated by Florian Wüst and a lecture performance by the Ukrainian group DENEDE.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/im-blick-der-anderen-in-the-view-of-others-berlin-the-intern-21468/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/2026/11/im-blick-der-anderen-in-the-view-of-others-berlin/596575", "image": ""}, {"title": "Auf der Schotterpiste der Geschichte 3: Die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/politics", "society/democracy"], "description": "„Auf der Schotterpiste der Geschichte 3: Die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden“ is a discussion event in the DT Kontext series, held in the Rangfoyer of the Deutsches Theater. The panel features political and social scientist Naika Foroutan, head of the German Institute for Migration and Integration Research, and historian Uwe Sonnenberg of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, moderated by André Mumot. At its centre is Rosa Luxemburg's famous line „Freiheit ist immer auch die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden“ and her legacy at a time when democratic values are under pressure worldwide. The discussion asks what her courage, her critique of the system and her idea of political participation can teach us for the challenges of the 21st century. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-3-die-freiheit-der-ande-16847/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-3-die-freiheit-der-andersdenkenden", "image": ""}, {"title": "Kolonialismus Erinnern", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "\"Kolonialismus Erinnern\" is an event by the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz at the Prater. It is \"Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus. Call & Response mit Alice Hasters und Khuê Phạm\". The event takes place in cooperation with Kolonialismus erinnern. It is part of a programme of two events by the Volksbühne on the theme of Kolonialismus Erinnern.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kolonialismus-erinnern-20444/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/", "image": ""}, {"title": "A Friend in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grüner Salon", "address": "Rückerstraße 9, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/film", "history/colonialism"], "description": "“A Friend in Berlin” is an evening event with a screening and a conversation in English at Grüner Salon. The series focuses on the fellows of the DAAD's Berliner Künstlerprogramm and their connections to the city, and this edition brings together the artists Wang Tuo and Sim Chi Yin, who has lived in Berlin since 2024. The evening begins with a screening of Wang Tuo's most recent work “Ratchet Drill” (2026), followed by a conversation based on a selection of both artists' works, exploring the connections between their practices and how they engage with challenging histories and historical experiences and find ways to speak about them with people outside of those experiences. Wang Tuo weaves historical facts, cultural archives, fiction and mythology into speculative narratives, while Sim Chi Yin uses artistic and archival interventions to question and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives and to explore transgenerational memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/a-friend-in-berlin-277/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/a-friend-in-berlin/20261105-1800/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Back to the Future: IMAGINE! x Kunst, Poesie, Gespräch", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Flutgraben e.V.", "address": "Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "literature/spoken-word"], "description": "\"Back to the Future: IMAGINE! x Kunst, Poesie, Gespräch\" is an openly designed evening that combines spoken word, an artist conversation and collective thinking. At its centre are tensions, contradictions and the space between apparent opposites. Behind the evening are Meriem Mohamed, an interdisciplinary artist and creative strategist whose practice is shaped by decolonial perspectives, and Glacier, an independent artist, musician, psychological counsellor and systemic thinker who moderates the conversation. Using the Know Thyself calendar as an example, it shows how a different view of time, memory and inherited orders can be translated into a personal practice and lived in everyday life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/back-to-the-future-imagine-x-kunst-poesie-gesprach-96864/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7c7194f94e18c0d052ed221d5f988deaa411306333266c2a8946b1bc9320c6e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Frauen und Revolution", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Besuchszentrum Ostkreuz", "address": "Revaler Straße 29, 10245 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/revolutions", "society/gender"], "description": "“Frauen und Revolution” is a theme evening with a discussion about what role female voices play in revolutions, then and now. From the revolutions of 1848 and 1918 to political upheavals around the world, it looks at women as actors in revolutionary movements and asks how they shape political change. Together the audience discusses female perspectives on revolution, democracy and social change; guests include the author Shila Behjat. The event takes place as part of the changing exhibition “Stimmen – Ein Ausstellungsexperiment zwischen Demokratiegeschichte und Gegenwart” in cooperation with the Berliner Landeszentrale für politische Bildung; admission is free, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/frauen-und-revolution-16803/", "official_url": "https://forum1848.de/veranstaltungen/stimmen-frauen-revolution/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0d47bc1053ff6769a228f55c1a9b83fcccb97e2e6afa28d7e45c713b068ac6f1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Über Grenzen: Ziehen, Einreißen und Verschieben", "start": "2026-08-14T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "A talk in the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition at the Humboldt Forum. It is the first of four events in the series „Über Grenzen: Ziehen, Einreißen und Verschieben“, held 65 years after the building of the Berlin Wall. Under the title „Grenzen/los?“, Elise Landschek (DIE ZEIT) talks with Ngoc Anh Nguyen, Juliane Meckert and Flor Fischer about the perspectives of the third and fourth generation East.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/uber-grenzen-ziehen-einreien-und-verschieben-79965/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3b60cf5bd71cdbc32b34c118b37f0d770cce0dd340a98c7296c05c1574ae23de-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Haus-Geschichten #3", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sophiensæle", "address": "Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "stage/theatre"], "description": "\"Haus-Geschichten #3\" is a discussion format with soup, bread and drinks, where small table groups talk about how a theatre venue remembers. The Sophiensæle invite audiences and, at the end of their double anniversary, look back on 120 years of the building's history and 30 years of independent theatre. With guests Anujah Fernando and Heinrich Horwitz, they discuss the role of archives and artistic strategies for making gaps visible, focusing on anti-colonial and queer historiography and the neighbourhood around the house. Moderation is by Elias Capelle and Stefanie Hauser. ", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/haus-geschichten-3-16776/", "official_url": "https://sophiensaele.com/de/stueck/haus-geschichten-3", "image": ""}]}