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Session
Keynote 1: Vassilis S. Tsianos, University of Applied Sciences, Kiel: On the vulnerability of the post-migrant society
Time:
Wednesday, 18/Sept/2024:
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Chair: Anita Rotter, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Discussant: Belachew Gebrewold, MCI – Die Unternehmerische Hochschule, Austria
Location: Audimax


The keynote will be in German. English interpreters will provide a simultaneous translation.

Session Abstract

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict confronts the normative foundations of the post-migrant society and its ability to shape the conflicts of multiple belonging and multiple discrimination inclusively. The current conflicts are acutely bringing to light disparate grievances, nourished by the politics of memory. Grievances emerge that counter the ethical claim to empathy and reconciliation with a politics of enmity. The post-migrant society is wounded because Jewish life in Germany is once again in danger. But it is also wounded when a restriction of fundamental rights in the form of selective assembly bans and the threat of revoking German citizenship are normalised. In politics of memory, a pedagogy of cruelty seems to be emerging before our eyes - when “tears are shed without mourning”, when the contextualisation of violent relationships is accused of relativising and legitimising violent events. An institutionalised culture of suspicion towards the inappropriate affect of the other bursts the delicate seam of any multidirectional memory; it separates the spaces of mourning, makes it impossible to understand the pain of the other, hierarchises the victims and separates the fight against anti-Semitism from the fight against racism. Instead of fighting this culture of suspicion, it strengthens the enemies of post-migrant society.




 
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