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WHERE: University of Cologne (Germany) WHEN: 29.9.-2.10.25 The conference of the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology (short DGSKA) on “Un/Commoning Anthropology ” will take place at University of Cologne (Germany) from 29.9. – 2.10.25. It is organized and hosted by the DGSKA together with the Cologne Institute of Ethnology. About this year’s theme “Un/Commoning… Continue reading LECTURE by Asma Aiad and Anahita Neghabat “Racialized Access to Freedom of Art: Racism, State Violence and Artistic Interventions by the Muslim*Contemporary Art Festival”

WHERE: Zoom // https://akbild-ac-at.zoom.us/j/69477153964 (meeting ID: 694 7715 3964) WHEN: Wednesday, January 29, 2025, from 14.00 to 16.00 The very last event of the 4-year art-based research project FWF PEEK 679 Conviviality as Potentiality concludes with the region of Europe that reaches us with the most precise thinking about TOGETHER in the melting world. Moderated by Marina Grzinic. Skopje Pride Weekend… Continue reading LECTURE by Slavcho Dimitrov “Skopje Pride Weekend – Festival for Queer Art, Culture and Theory Thinking Together the Political and the Curatorial: Affect, Relationality and Performativity”

WHERE: Studio Building, Lehárgasse 8, 1060 Vienna, 1. floor, studio south WHEN: 18.1.2025, 18–22h FWF-PEEK AR 679 (2021–2025)After four years, this artistic research project will conclude at the end of January 2025. Members of the project team—Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Asma Aiad, Anahita Neghabat, Esra Özmen, and Ümmü Türe—will engage in discussions with invited guests.… Continue reading Conviviality as Potentiality: From Amnesia and Pandemic towards a Convivial Epistemology 18/01/2025

WHERE: Deutsche Islam Akademie, Berlin, Germany WHEN: 11.1.2025 Lecture + Workshop “Stimmen von Kunst & Kultur: Kreative Wege des Empowerments” by Asma Aiad at “Kick-off: reKUNSTruktion – Kunst als Brücker zur Identität und gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe“; Deutsche Islam Akademie, Berlin, Germany.

Esra Özmen | Award of the City of Vienna We proudly congratulate Esra Özmen on receiving the Promotion Award of the City of Vienna in the category Music! The award is a special recognition of the artistic achievements to date.

WHERE: Atelierhaus, Lehárgasse 8, 1. OG, 1060 Wien, Atelier Süd WHEN: 17.12.2024, 16:30–18:30h The talk will explore Rap, Migration, and Class from my post-migrant perspective. Organized by the Studio Art and Intervention /Concept/ Post-conceptual Art Practices / Prof. Marina Gržinić and the PEEK project Conviviality as Potentiality (FWF-PEEK Project AR 679). Esra Özmen began her… Continue reading Class, Culture and Struggle: A Conversation with Esra Özmen (EsRAP), Ana Ryue and Petar Rosandić (Kid Pex) 17/12/2024

WHERE: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna I Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Vienna, 1st floor Atelier Süd (M1) WHEN: 19.11.2024, 16:30-18:30 WORKSHOP TITLE: RAP MUSIC/HIP HOP VISIONS, resistance, working class, empowerment WORKSHOP/collaboration with Peek research project CONVIVIALITY AS POTENTIALITY and its newly joined member raper Esra Özmen, MA in arts (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna). Esra Özmen will… Continue reading Esra Özmen, convivial workshop one 19/11/2024

Intersections of Conviviality: Voices from Communities Edited by Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Asma Aiad, and Anahita Neghabat Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025 This book explores the nuanced dynamics that shape conviviality and examines the different ways in which individuals within communities navigate the challenges of the neoliberal, racializing European landscape by forming alliances that transcend identity,… Continue reading forthcoming book in 2025: Intersections of Conviviality: Voices from Communities

Anti-Muslim Racism Report 2024 (published by Dokustelle Austria – Documentation and Counseling Center for Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Racism, forthcoming 2025) Editorial Team for the 2024 Report: Ümmü-Selime Türe, Sedra Arab, Slađana Adamović, Rumeysa Dür-Kwieder, Munira Mohamud, Klaudia Wieser, Iris Neuberg, Esmeralda Golubović, Dunia Khalil, Anna-Laura Punkt The report aims to showcase ten years of work by Dokustelle Austria, providing… Continue reading forthcoming book in 2025: Anti-Muslim Racism Report 2024

Sexual Dissidences: Frau Diamanda’s Catalan Scenes, Travesti Politics of Resistance, and Anti-Canonical Knowledge Edited by Oke Fijal, Marina Gržinić, Sen Reyes, Melina Vesely Despite its long history, the unique Latin American phenomenon of sexual identity, travesti, has been largely overlooked in Western European discourse. Travesti brings to life systems of knowledge and the attitude of autonomy that occupies… Continue reading forthcoming book in 2025: Sexual Dissidences: Frau Diamanda’s Catalan Scenes, Travesti Politics of Resistance, and Anti-Canonical Knowledge