Professor Esra Özyürek joins a cross-sector and cross-disciplinary conversation to discuss her book Subcontractors of Guilt and its implications in postmigrant Germany and Switzerland.
As the event organisers put it: “Memory politics poses one of the main challenges in pluralistic (European) societies. In Subcontractors of Guilt (2023), anthropologist Esra Özyürek analyses the case of Holocaust remembrance in Germany and offers critical perspectives on memory politics in postmigrant societies.”
This event will include discussion of questions such as:
- How are memory politics and national narratives of guilt, responsibility and and innocence connected?
- How are anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim racism intertwined in discourses and practices of memory politics?
- How can the remembrance of Holocaust, of colonialism and of violence in post-war migration-regimes be dealt with in a multidirectional way – that is to say, without the claim of exclusiveness or the competition for state recognition?
- What are the challenges in Switzerland?
- How do or don’t international dynamics manifest themselves in Switzerland?
About the participants
Professor Sabine Strasser and Dr Rohit Jain host this conversation between Professor Esra Özyürek (Cambridge), Asmaa Dehbi from the Swiss Centre for Islam and Society (SZIG, Freiburg University), Yves Kugelmann, chief editor of the Jewish weekly Tachles, and Professor Christina Späti (Department of History, Freiburg University).
About this event
This free event combines an English-language talk with a German-language conversation.
The hosts are based in the Faculty of Social Anthropology at Bern University, and this event is a collaboration between Social Anthropology, Public Anthro Lab, and an institute for Swiss–Turkish study & research.
The event begins at 18:15 local time (Bern, Switzerland), which corresponds to 17:15 BST.
Venue: Room 220, Hauptgebäude (main building), located on Hochschulstrasse 4. (View a map courtesy of unibe.ch.)