Decolonize Europe!

Françoise Vergès image source: Anthony Francin - Berlin Southern Theory Lecture 2022 on December 15 with author and activist Françoise Vergès on the importance of the "decolonization of Europe" / Joint press release by Freie Universität Berlin and Leibniz Center for Modern Oriental Studies What do we mean by decolonization? What does it mean to fight for the decolonization of Europe today? And what exactly could a decolonized Europe look like? Françoise Vergès will address these questions at the Berlin Southern Theory Lecture 2022. Against the backdrop of the survival of colonial ideologies, Françoise Vergès invokes, among others, the Afro-Caribbean-French writer and author Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), who once wrote: "'Europe' is morally and spiritually untenable". It also refers to the mastermind of decolonization Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), who projected into the decolonization of Europe a comprehensive change of the world and a "program of absolute upheaval. It is precisely this upheaval and its realizations that Françoise Vergès approaches in her current works. Her lecture in Berlin is entitled "A Program of Total Disorder: Decolonizing Europe" and will be held in English. The Berlin Southern Theory Lecture is taking place for the fourth time this year. The lecture series on scholarly perspectives from the Global South is organized jointly by the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology of Freie Universität Berlin and the Leibniz Center for Modern Oriental Studies in cooperation with the Ethnological Museum, National Museums in Berlin, the Dahlem Research Campus, and co2libri.