1. Guided Sightseeing Tours

Retold: Colonial Traces in Treptower Park

This audio walk tells the stories of 106 Black children, women, and men who came to Berlin in 1896, for the so-called 1st German Colonial Exhibition, held as part of the Great Industrial Exposition in Treptower Park in Berlin. Retold gives voice to their stories and brings participants back to the historical site. The audio walk is led by one of its authors, Vincent Bababoutilabo. 

Participants are asked to bring their own smartphone and headphones.

Revealing Berlin Traces of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire

This guided sightseeing tour explores the interconnections between German, Turkish, and Armenian history in Berlin-Charlottenburg through biographies of the district’s Jewish and Armenian inhabitants, supporters of communism, and social democracy.

The tour will be led by the historians Eike Stegen and Perihan Zeran (glokal e. V.).

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2. Workshop

„Connecting the Dots. Histories of Repression and Resistance“

This workshop on multi-sited global history addresses different viewpoints on the topic of heimaten. It is based on the award-winning timeline method developed by glokal e. V., which assembles quotations from diverse global diasporic perspectives across the centuries.

The workshop offers an introduction to global history that prompts participants to incorporate the material from Connecting the Dots into their own work.

It will be led by Tahir Della (Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland) and Perihan Zeran (glokal e. V.).

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