{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus Bastian – Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung", "address": "Am Kupfergraben 10, 10117 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": "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"}, {"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": "Englischsprachige Führung „Umstrittene Verwandtschaft. Koloniale und nationalsozialistische Gewalt“", "start": "2026-10-17T16:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-04-10T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Deutsches Historisches Museum Pei-Bau", "address": "Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 10117 Berlin", "price": "3,00 € (plus museum admission)", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "3.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "This is a public guided tour in English through the exhibition “Controversial Kinship. Colonial and National Socialist Violence” at the Deutsches Historisches Museum. The museum explores the debates surrounding the parallels and differences between colonial violence and the violence of National Socialism. In each section, objects relating to both themes are presented – ranging from propaganda posters and works of art to everyday objects such as dolls or items of clothing. The tour concludes with a joint examination of key themes such as racism and anti-Semitism, resistance and collaboration, forced labour and repression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/englischsprachige-fuhrung-umstrittene-verwandtschaft-kolonia-16101/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/veranstaltung/guided-english-tour-controversial-kinship-colonial-and-national-socialist-violence/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/afde0b9ad25d146ed528b77052b679b3684e1bc9d6f07fedf6702889e53e5f5b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Koloniale Gegenwart", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "9 EUR zzgl. Ausstellungsticket", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "The public tour \"Koloniale Gegenwart\" takes place at the Humboldt Forum. It is run by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and has accompanied the debate on colonialism since the Humboldt Forum's groundbreaking. Using selected objects from the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, participants explore provenance, the return of cultural goods, and the effects of colonialism on today's society. The tour lasts 60 minutes and is held in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/koloniale-gegenwart-10727/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/koloniale-gegenwart-2026-10-10-170000-162269/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2e09f4f7162ccb5c00346b6ed0a21804c4bb8ab8ac31041293a6ec3b2feee5b1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dr. Elke Krasny: Museum, Care, and Violence", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ZK/U", "address": "Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/curation", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A lecture by Dr. Elke Krasny on care and violence in the museum, part of the Talks on Curatorial Practice series. The professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna examines how curating is entangled with colonial extraction, dispossession and epistemic violence. The lecture asks what responsibility becomes possible through practices of refusal and rematriation, rather than treating care as a redemptive gesture. Admission is free and on-site participation requires no registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dr-elke-krasny-museum-care-and-violence-31920/", "official_url": "https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/dr-elke-krasny-museum-care-and-violence/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3015946c2279a7adfb307746e265dea21afd6fa3844ab2d42e205d3ad1e75f30-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Öffentliche Führung „Umstrittene Verwandtschaft. Koloniale und nationalsozialistische Gewalt”", "start": "2026-10-16T14:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-04-11T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Deutsches Historisches Museum Pei-Bau", "address": "Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 10117 Berlin", "price": "3,00 € (zzgl. Eintritt)", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "3.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "A public guided tour through every section of the exhibition „Umstrittene Verwandtschaft. Koloniale und nationalsozialistische Gewalt” in the Pei-Bau of the Deutsches Historisches Museum. Run by the museum, it sets out the debate on parallels and contrasts between colonial and Nazi violence, illustrated with objects ranging from propaganda posters and artworks to everyday items such as dolls or clothing. The tour ends on shared themes including racism and antisemitism, resistance and collaboration, forced labour and repression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/offentliche-fuhrung-umstrittene-verwandtschaft-koloniale-und-15990/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/veranstaltung/oeffentliche-fuehrung-umstrittene-verwandtschaft-koloniale-und-nationalsozialistische-gewalt/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3d145e65c7633237cb94c6f49f6812a37812667206d513201dc2ae296f07fd81-1200.webp"}, {"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": "Fortbildung:Bildungsmaterial zum Dekolonialen Denkzeichen", "start": "2026-11-05T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berlin Global Village", "address": "Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/racism"], "description": "A training for facilitators of Global Learning about the multisensory educational material for EarthNest, Berlin's first decolonial memorial, which commemorates the violent history of colonialism. The material was developed by Blackademy e. V., an educational and cultural association that makes Black perspectives, history and knowledge production visible. It addresses Germany's role in colonialism and the racist practice of so-called „Völkerschauen“ (human zoos), centres anticolonial resistance, and includes a role play as well as songs and instruments that are practically tested during the training and can then be borrowed. The speakers are Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago and Konstantin Bez.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fortbildungbildungsmaterial-zum-dekolonialen-denkzeichen-79851/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin-global-village.de/de/event/257/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lesung & Gespräch mit Friedrich Burschel zu „Present Past. Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen“ (empfohlen ab 16 Jahre)", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Die gute Seite", "address": "Richardplatz 16, 12055 Berlin", "price": "Kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading and conversation with author Friedrich Burschel, who talks about his own family research into the National Socialist era. At the centre is the volume „Present Past“, in which ten descendants describe how they investigated their family's Nazi past and how they deal with what they found. Burschel, who works on anti-fascism at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, contextualises the stories and then invites an audience discussion on memory politics. The event is part of the autumn series 2026 of the Neukölln bookshops against right-wing populism and racism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-gesprach-mit-friedrich-burschel-zu-present-past-wie-n-48498/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a49c27e608476b4c56a6c9195696c4be5a36311623fceb5d740b3742f4278648-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Verdrängte Musik-Geschichte/n. Konzepte und kulturelle Praktiken", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "UNI.T", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "music/history"], "description": "The lecture series „Verdrängte Musik-Geschichte/n. Konzepte und kulturelle Praktiken“ is a digital, cross-university series of talks in the winter semester 26/27. It is run by the Musica inaudita team at the Berlin University of the Arts and is intended as a space for networking and exchange between teachers, researchers and students from different locations. A sequence of themed evenings is planned, opening up different perspectives on writing music history, including questions of repertoire formation, visibility in exile, gender staging, media and knowledge transfer, biographical research, queerness, decolonialisation and postcolonial approaches. The series takes place weekly on Wednesdays from 18:00 to 19:30; admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/verdrangte-musik-geschichten-konzepte-und-kulturelle-praktik-31774/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/verdraengte-musik-geschichte-n-konzepte-und-kulturelle-praktiken/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c17ecb4fb37de9ce9f181889be993ee9d58b0567483e8468be186a38bc566288-600.webp"}, {"title": "Umstrittene Verwandtschaft. Koloniale und nationalsozialistische Gewalt", "start": "2026-10-16T10:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-04-11T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Deutsches Historisches Museum Pei-Bau", "address": "Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 10117 Berlin", "price": "7,00 €, ermäßigt 3,50 €, bis 18 Jahre frei", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/violence"], "description": "This exhibition in the lower level of the Pei Bau at the German Historical Museum compares central features of colonial and National Socialist violence in the twentieth century. Organized by the Deutsches Historisches Museum, it traces the debate over similarities, differences and the conflation of these two regimes of violence back to its origins in the 1930s. Anticolonial thinkers, journalists, politicians, historians and Holocaust survivors have posed these questions for nearly a hundred years. The show invites visitors to judge such comparisons for themselves on the basis of historical facts.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/umstrittene-verwandtschaft-koloniale-und-nationalsozialistis-15976/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/vorschau/umstrittene-verwandtschaft-koloniale-und-nationalsozialistische-gewalt/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f410214763407453d1b1769690bb32150c28338c5dfcaf5ff85a4b65323299b2-600.webp"}, {"title": "After Art History: Future Paradigms for the Contemporary Art Museum", "start": "2026-11-12T08:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Admission free of charge, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/museum"], "description": "“After Art History? Future Paradigms for the Contemporary Art Museum” is a one-day symposium at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. The event is organised by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, with speakers including Dr Sam Bardaouil, Dr David Joselit and other scholars from art history, sociology and science and technology studies. The symposium asks what happens when art history is no longer the unquestioned epistemic centre of the museum but becomes one form of knowledge among many. It explores how museums can classify, interpret and preserve under conditions of uncertainty, and how historical knowledge can coexist with provisional, situated and collaborative forms of knowledge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/after-art-history-future-paradigms-for-the-contemporary-art-10939/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/after-art-history-future-paradigms-for-the-contemporary-art-museum-2026-11-12-083000-160217/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Meet your Researcher: Was forscht man zu „Intervenierenden Künsten\"?", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "address": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, kostenfreie Tickets über Pretix", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "science"], "description": "„Meet your Researcher“ invites conversations with researchers from the Collaborative Research Centre „Intervenierende Künste“, who answer questions after an introductory pitch. The centre is based at Freie Universität Berlin and cooperates with, among others, the Berlin University of the Arts, the European University Viadrina and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. It researches forms and practices of intervening arts, asking for example whether memes are art, how improvisation helps in everyday life, or why a voice can move us. Participating scholars come from disciplines such as art history, literature, media and music studies, philosophy and history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/meet-your-researcher-was-forscht-man-zu-intervenierenden-kun-2580/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Geschichte(n) Tansanias", "start": "2026-10-24T10:30:00+02:00", "end": "2027-10-23T18:30:00+02:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "regulär 9 EUR, Ausstellungsticket für Ethnologische Sammlungen und Asiatische Kunst erforderlich", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "“Geschichte(n) Tansanias” is a special exhibition showing the centuries-long entanglements of present-day Tanzania through cultural belongings, texts and film, with a particular focus on colonial oppression and exploitation. It was developed by the National Museum of Tanzania, the Ethnologisches Museum and the Central Archive of the Staatliche Museen Berlin – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz together with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss. Curators from Dar es Salaam, Songea and Berlin and representatives of communities in Tanzania speak in texts and filmed interviews, alongside works by East African artists and a school short-film project carried out in Berlin and Dar es Salaam. The exhibition is planned to be shown at the National Museum of Tanzania after its Berlin run, with preparations made for a permanent restitution of the cultural belongings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geschichten-tansanias-3509/", "official_url": "https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/dauerangebot/ausstellung/geschichten-tansanias-136691/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a3405096f0ae7d2aae2a88ee7700d6d85bafd482ab8cc206083e3042bd1113f4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kuratieren", "start": "2026-11-05T09:15:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T18:15:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/curation"], "description": "“Kuratieren – Sorgen für Wissen und Gesellschaft” is a conference about the role of universities and museums as places of knowledge exchange. It is jointly organised by the Berlin University Alliance, the Humboldt Labor and the Zentrum für Kulturtechnik. Curators from Berlin cultural institutions and researchers from the Berlin excellence alliance present practices of curating in four panels – “Natur erleben”, “Gesünder werden”, “Gemeinsam leben” and “Zukunft gestalten” – using specific case studies. These are complemented by a keynote by Elke Krasny and a closing conversation with Marion Ackermann and Joachim Baur titled “Sorge, Wut, Mut”.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kuratieren-16793/", "official_url": "https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/konferenz-symposium/kuratieren-171633/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a53642687fe2d44a61b71b0506c20cc2e3b43a51768cd7f868428fa8626101e-600.webp"}]}