🗓️ Save the Date: In only one month it is finally time for this year's Benjamin Lectures by our Chair Lea Ypi! In three lectures, from Wed 19.6. to Fr 21.6., she will present her ideas on what is essential for a moral version of socialism.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)

BREAKING NEWS: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in Palestine
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#ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC announces applications for arrest warrants in relation to Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant in the context of the situation in the State of #Palestine ⤵️
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A day when one could start believing in global justice. Arrest the war criminals, free Assange. It's still a long road towards there, but at least preconditions are set.

According to a database, this year alone, there were 3455 publications focused on colonialism, coloniality, or decolonization in the social sciences and humanities. 76 mentioned Palestine in the abstract. 164 mentioned Palestine in the main text.

Escribir es atenerse a una doble lógica, la de los recuerdos y la de la ficción. Reconducir el pasado, organizarlo, mirarlo desde lejos, darle forma, intentar comprender. También para eso escribimos. | Hubo treinta mil desaparecidos. | Sobreviví.

German Academic Institutions: 'You are not allowed to say anything about Palestine, not allowed to sign anything. Be transformative but don't be politically engaged: BE SILENT IF YOU WANT YOUR JOB'

Also, German Academic Institutions: WE'D LOVE TO INVITE YOU TO OUR DIVERSITY DAY!

“Pro-Palestine students? They’re creating a new global movement. One that will bring once again peace into the public debate. And it’s just the beginning.”

Patrizia Nanz

🌎Interesadxs en la historia centroamericana para a comprender el presente: no se pierdan este #podcast conducido por Héctor Lindo y Víctor Hugo Acuña, con temas fascinantes y entrevistadxs de altísimo nivel rb.gy/mgafwa vía Franco Delle Donne

'My name doesn't allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.'

If things like this don't get a pushback from German elites (and I don't expect they will), I expect actors like Bild to take further steps in this direction. Fun times ahead for liberal democracy.

The latest New Yorker cover.

Demo for Gaza in Tel Aviv gestern, einige der selben Transparente wie an der FU. Was Bettina Stark-Watzinger wohl dazu sagen würde?

Call for Applications: Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Program (2025)

Eight three-month Fellowships on “Prototyping a Planetary Democracy” Panel on Planetary Thinking

Deadline to apply is July 24, 2024 – please see our call for applications for details: uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/p…

BREAKING: Yanis Varoufakis sues the German state.

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🇸🇻 Cándido Hernández and his family have for years lived off what the La Tirana mangrove forest provides in El Salvador’s Jiquilisco Bay. But every time they photograph a fallen tree or find fewer crabs, they know that the mangrove is dying. elfaro.net/en/202405/ef_p…

“My little son was jumping yesterday with extreme joy after the good news about the truce. Today we buried him.”

Heading to Berlin after a wonderful chat on green extractivism and deliberative democracy at The New Institute

Thank you for the invitation, Frederic Hanusch & Anna Katsman ✨

➡️ «El miedo lo hemos afrontado a través del valor de la palabra, la organización comunitaria, la consciencia colectiva y no en la consciencia individual»

- Cristina Solís, alcaldesa del Pueblo Ixil

➡️ «Hemos enfrentado cinco invasiones: Las ONGs, El estado, las universidades a través del conocimiento, las empresas transnacionales y el Conflicto Armado Interno»

- Cristina Solís, alcaldesa del Pueblo Ixil