Join us on November 4th at 11am for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series, featuring Riel Dupuis-Rossi, Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjahid. This talk is co-sponsored by the Centre for Migration Studies Narratives Group.
Register here via Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ivf-GgqTgrEtWz6c_l43xFmDwzhQ8vj3C0
Title: “Radical Diversity – An International discussion on colonial practices, structures and discourses and strategies to disrupt them”.
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 one of two panels on Radical Diversity featuring Berlin-based writers Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjahid in conversation with Riel Dupuis-Rossi, a locally based educator in decolonization and psychotherapist for Indigenous people. The second panel on Radical Diversity – An International Discussion of Transformative Narratives from an Indigenous, Jewish and Immigrant Perspective, will take place on January 20, 2022, at 11am PT, with Indigenous filmmaker Jules Koostachin and LGBTQ+ Support Worker Kristi Pinderi who immigrated from Albania.
Bios:
Riel Dupuis-Rossi, (MA, MSW, RSW), is a psychotherapist of Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk), Algonquin, and Italian descent. Riel grew up in their traditional territories, off reserve in Hamilton, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec. Since 2011, Riel has been providing decolonising and culturally-centred trauma therapy to Indigenous individuals, couples, families, and groups in Vancouver, British Columbia, located in the unceded and occupied Homelands of the Squamish, Tsleil Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. Riel has also designed and delivered educational training on Indigenous cultural safety and provided clinical consultation for allied healthcare staff working with Indigenous peoples within the healthcare system. Riel earned a Master of Educational Studies from McGill University and a Master of Social Work from California State University Los Angeles. They are co-author of a booklet published by AMSSA in 2020, “Disrupting Current Colonial Practices and Structures in the Immigration and Non-Profit Sector.”
Max Czollek is a poet, publicist and political scientist. He received his doctorate from the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technische Universität Berlin and is particularly well known for his theatrical and essayistic work surrounding memory culture, integration and Jewish identity in post-war Germany. Theaters works include De-Integration. A Congress on contemporary Jewish positions and the Days of Radical Jewish Culture at Maxim Gorki Theater as well as the international Days of Jewish-Muslim Hegemony. His essays Desintegriert Euch! (Disintegrate!) and Gegenwartsbewältigung (Overcoming the Present) are published with Carl Hanser Verlag, his collections of poetry at Verlagshaus Berlin. He is co-editor of the magazine 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 Diversity.
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 graduated from high school. He studied political science in Berlin and Cairo and conducted research on various anthropological projects in North Africa. During his studies, he worked as a journalist for taz, Frankfurter Rundschau and Deutschlandfunk. After completing his master’s degree, Amjahid worked as a trainee at the Tagesspiegel in Berlin. Afterwards he worked as a political reporter for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and Zeit Magazin. He is currently working on several new book projects. Anthropologically and journalistically, he focuses on human rights, equality and upheaval in the USA, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. His newest book, “Whitewash” 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 found at https://www.vatmh.org/en/tm-grant-recipient-details/grant/471-mohamed-amjahid.html
