International Workshop

This workshop gathers scholars who work at the intersection between Jewish and Black thought, as well as Black Jewish thought. It tries to situate Jewish and Black diasporic experience in relation to attempts to critically respond to antisemitism and anti-Black racism, exploring how narration, and other forms of aesthetic expression, become forms of reparation in the wake of loss and scattering.

Presentations engage issues of exile and diaspora; narrative and artistic practices; commemoration and memory politics; anti-fascist and feminist activism and aesthetics; as well as methodological questions regarding the complexities of comparative work across traditions and experiences and bodies of water. The workshop offers a space to think together about the role of narration and other forms of aesthetic expression to keep on living in the wake of transatlantic slavery, the Holocaust, and the afterlife of these events that is our own present.

The workshop is organized by Fanny Söderbäck at Södertörn University, within the research project Experimenting with Traditions: The Life and Afterlife of 20th Century Jewish Intellectual Culture in the Baltic Sea Region. It is made possible through generous funding from The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies and the Södertörn University Memory Studies Network. For questions related to the workshop, please write to fanny.soderback@sh.se.

Venue: Slupskjulsvägen 10, Stockholm (Östersjöstiftelsen)

The programme and speaker’s presentation can be found here.