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:20211005T1134Z-1633433657.6628-EO-18190-25@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260815T181523Z CREATED:20210929T184243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210929T212613Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211104T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211104T123000 SUMMARY: Ziegler Lecture: Riel Dupuis-Rossi\, Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjah id\, “Radical Diversity” DESCRIPTION: Join us on November 4th at 11am for the virtual Ziegler Lectur e Series\, featuring Riel Dupuis-Rossi\, Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjahid. T his talk is co-sponsored by the Centre for Migration Studies Narratives Gro up. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us on November 4th at 11am for the vi rtual Ziegler Lecture Series\, featuring Riel Dupuis-Rossi\, Max Czollek an d Mohamed Amjahid. This talk is co-sponsored by the Centre for Migration St udies Narratives Group.

Title: "Radical Diversity – An International discussion on co lonial practices\, structures and discourses and strategies to disrupt them ".

Abstract: As part of UBC's Narratives Research Gr oup's 2021/22 Lecture Series on Indigenous Presence and Representati on in European Studies\, co-organized by Elizabeth Nijdam and Markus Hallensleben\, this will be one o f two panels on Radical Diversity featuring Berlin-based writers Max Czolle k and Mohamed Amjahid in conversation with Riel Dupuis-Rossi\, a locally ba sed educator in decolonization and psychotherapist for Indigenous people. T he second panel on Radical Diversity - An International Discussion of Trans formative Narratives from an Indigenous\, Jewish and Immigrant Perspective\ , will take place on January 20\, 2022\, at 11am PT\, with Indigenous filmm aker Jules Koostachin and LGBTQ+ Support Worker Kristi Pinderi who immigrat ed from Albania.

Bios:

Riel Dupuis-Rossi\, (MA\, MSW\, RSW)\, is a psychothera pist of Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk)\, Algonquin\, and Italian descent. Riel gre w up in their traditional territories\, off reserve in Hamilton\, Ontario\, and Montreal\, Quebec. Since 2011\, Riel has been providing decolonising a nd culturally-centred trauma therapy to Indigenous individuals\, couples\, families\, and groups in Vancouver\, British Columbia\, located in the unce ded and occupied Homelands of the Squamish\, Tsleil Waututh\, and Musqueam Nations. Riel has also designed and delivered educational training on Indig enous cultural safety and provided clinical consultation for allied healthc are staff working with Indigenous peoples within the healthcare system. Rie l earned a Master of Educational Studies from McGill University and a Maste r of Social Work from California State University Los Angeles. They are co- author of a booklet published by AMSSA in 2020\, "Disrupting Current Coloni al Practices and Structures in the Immigration and Non-Profit Sector."< /p>

Max Czollek is a poet\, publicist and political scientist. He received his doctorate from the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technis che Universität Berlin and is particularly well known for his theatrical an d essayistic work surrounding memory culture\, integration and Jewish ident ity in post-war Germany. Theaters works include De-Integration. A Congr ess on contemporary Jewish positions and the Days of Radical Jewis h Culture at Maxim Gorki Theater as well as the international Days of Jewish-Muslim Hegemony. His essays Desintegriert Euch! (D isintegrate!) and Gegenwartsbewältigung (Overcoming the Present) are published with C arl 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 Bub ble to the Charts (2020). He has also been the co-creator\, alongs ide Mohamed Amjahid\, of a Goethe Institute event series t itled Radical Diversity.

Mohamed Amjahid was born as the son of so-called guest workers in Frankfurt am Main in 1 988. He attended school in Morocco until he graduated from high school. He studied political science in Berlin and Cairo and conducted research on var ious anthropological projects in North Africa. During his studies\, he work ed as a journalist for taz\, Frankfurter Rundschau and Deutschlandfunk. Aft er completing his master’s degree\, Amjahid worked as a trainee at the Tage sspiegel in Berlin. Afterwards he worked as a political reporter for the we ekly newspaper Die Zeit and Zeit Magazin. He is currently working on severa l 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 Germa n (Der weiße Fleck) at Piper this year. He will be Thomas Mann Fel low at the Villa Aurora in 2022. More info can be found at https://www.vatmh.org/en/tm-grant-recipient-details/grant/471-mohamed-amj ahid.html

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