BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cenes.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211126T2021Z-1637958075.6841-EO-18304-25@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260607T183229Z CREATED:20211117T205601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211211T000011Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220120T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220120T123000 SUMMARY: Radical Diversity: An International Discussion of Transformative N arratives from an Indigenous\, Jewish and Immigrant Perspective DESCRIPTION: Join us on January 20 at 11 am for a talk on "Radical Diversit y - An International Discussion of Transformative Narratives from an Indige nous\, Jewish and Immigrant Perspective\," featuring Dr. Jules Arita Koosta chin\, Kristi Pinderi\, Mohamed Amjahid and Max Czollek. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us on January 20 at 11 am PT for a ta lk on "Radical Diversity - An International Discussion of Transformative Na rratives from an Indigenous\, Jewish and Immigrant Perspective\," featuring Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin\, Kristi Pinderi\, Mohamed Amjahid and Max Czollek. The event is co-sponsored by the Cen tre for Migration Studies Speaker Series and the Narratives Research Group. It is also part of the Indi genous Presence and Representation in European Studies Lecture Series.< /p>

Register for this virtual event here: https ://migration.ubc.ca/events/event/radical-diversity-an-international-discuss ion-of-transformative-narratives-from-an-indigenous-jewish-and-immigrant-pe rspective/

Title: "Radical Diversity: An Interna tional Discussion of Transformative Narratives from an Indigenous\, Jewish and Immigrant Perspective"

Abstract: As part of UBC’ s Narratives Research Group’s 2021/22 Lecture Series on Indigenous Presence and Representation in European Studies\, co-organized by Elizabeth Nijdam and Markus Hallensleben\, this will be the second of two panels on Radical Diversity featuring Berlin-base d writers Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjahid\, this time in conversation with Indigenous filmmaker Jules Koostachin and LGBTQ+ Support Worker Kristi Pind eri who immigrated from Albania. They will talk about human rights and gend er politics\, integration and diversity issues\, as well as the significanc e of Indigenous documentary practices based on storytelling.

Bios:

Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin is an InNiNew IsKwew (Swampy Cree woman) and a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation located in what is now called no rthern Ontario. Jules was raised by her Cree speaking grandparents in Mooso nee\, as well as in Ottawa with her mother\, a residential school warrior. She is a graduate of Concordia University’s Theatre program and Ryerson Uni versity’s Documentary Media Master’s program. In 2010\, Jules was awarded a n Award of Distinction and an Academic Gold Medal for her thesis d ocumentary film Remembering Inninimowin. She is the mother of four incredible sons\, a published writer\, performance artist\, an academic an d an award-winning filmmaker. She completed her PhD with the Institute of G ender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice program at the University of British Columbia and her research focuses on Indigenous documentary practic es. Jules is represented by The Characters Talent and Lucas Ta lent in Vancouver\, and she is the voice of Layla (Molly’s mom) on the award-winning animated series Molly of Denali. Jules has also been activel y working with Indigenous community supporting women and children who face barriers.

Kristi Pind eri is a tireless campaigner for gay rights and co-founder of both ProLGBT and The Alliance Against Discrimination\, the two major LGBTI orga nizations in Albania. He is the author of a documentary on the history of t he LGBT movement in Albania\, while he has published “1997”\, a memoir deta iling violence endured while coming of age. Kristi has been featured\, inte rviewed\, or referred in several international media like: Le Monde\, NBC\, Vice News\, Reuters\, ARTE (Germany)\, Amnesty Inter national Press\, etc. Kristi has a bachelor’s degree in History and Ar chaeology (UT)\, an Associate Degree in Family Studies from Langara College \, and he is doing his Bachelor of Social Work at UBC. In 2017 he was force d to leave his country\, together with is partner. He now leads “Together N ow” a support group for LGBTQ newcomers in Vancouver’s Lower Mainland and o ffers one on one support services to LGBTQ+ newcomers\, as part of a unique service launched by DIVERSEcity and supported by IRCC. He sits on various boards\, steering committees\, and working groups on LGBTQ+ issues in Briti sh Columbia\, and is an outspoken defender of the rights of refugees in Can ada.

Mohamed Amjahid was born as the son of so-called guest workers in Frankfurt am Main in 1988. He attended school in Morocco until he graduate d from high school. He studied political science in Berlin and Cairo and co nducted research on various anthropological projects in North Africa. Durin g his studies\, he worked as a journalist for taz\, Frankfurter Rundschau a nd Deutschlandfunk. After completing his master’s degree\, Amjahid worked a s a trainee at the Tagesspiegel in Berlin. Afterwards he worked as a politi cal reporter for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and Zeit Magazin. He is curr ently working on several new book projects. Anthropologically and journalis tically\, he focuses on human rights\, equality and upheaval in the USA\, E urope\, the Middle East and North Africa. His newest book\, “Whitewash< /em>” appeared in German (Der weiße Fleck) at Piper this year. He will be Thomas Mann Fellow at the Villa Aurora in 2022. More info can be fo und at https://www.vatmh.org/en/tm-grant-recipient-detai ls/grant/471-mohamed-amjahid.html.

Max Czollek is a poet\, publici st and political scientist. He received his doctorate from the Center for R esearch on Anti-Semitism at the Technische Universität Berlin and is partic ularly well known for his theatrical and essayistic work surrounding memory culture\, integration and Jewish identity in post-war Germany. Theaters wo rks include De-Integration. A Congress on contemporary Jewish positions and the Days of Radical Jewish Culture at Maxim Gor ki Theater as well as the international Days of Jewish-Muslim Hegemony< /em>. His essays Desintegriert Euch! (Disintegrate!) and Gegen wartsbewältigung ( Overcoming the Present) are published with Carl Hanser Verlag\, his col lections of poetry at Verlagshaus Berlin. He is co-editor of the magazine < em>Jalta – Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart. (Yalta – Positions on the Jewish Present). Recently\, Czollek collaborated with the Maxim Gorki Theater to create the film\, The Best Supper: From the Bubble to the Charts (2020). He has also been the co-creator\, alongside Mohamed Amjahid\, of a Goethe Institute event series titled Radical Di versity.

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