Intention & Intervention

Intention & Intervention

Authorial strategies against exclusionary discourses

Events

Upcoming

Workshop with Fatma Aydemir in Amsterdam

On 31 May 2023 Fatma Aydemir will deliver the fourth State of European Literature lecture in Amsterdam. Together with Jesse van Amelsvoort I am organising a pre-lecture workshop in which a group of cultural practitioners, students and academics will get to enter into discussion with the author. Please feel free to get in touch, if you’d like to participate!

Past

Ruhr area premiere anders bleiben

The ‘Ruhrgebietspremiere’ of anders bleiben formed part of the International Weeks Against Racism 2023. Selma Wels, Marija Latković and me discussed our individual and collective processes, the expectations for (post)migrational authors to share personal experiences, and our different forms of personal writing with our host Fatima Khan at the Ruhrmuseum in Essen on 30 March 2023.

Berlin book release anders bleiben

On 16 February 2023, Selma Wels, Asal Dardan, Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç and me read from our new book and discussed the decisions behind our letters with Fatma Aydemir who hosted the evening at Heimathafen Neukölln.

Das kritikable Queertett in Hamburg

You can find a recording of Maha El Hissy, Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako and me discussing fictional depictions of political organising by Yara Rodrigues Fowler and Négar Djavadi in the ‘Watch’ section..