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Collective Study in Times of Emergency, Amsterdam

Within the context of ‘Every Act of Struggle’, the research project and exhibition at de appel in Amsterdam, L’Internationale Online has been invited to propose a programme of collective study.

The programme is a moment to launch Collective Study in Times of Emergency in the Netherlands with public readings, listening sessions and gathering with friends, whilst also forging and strengthening alliances and strategies for what lies ahead. It is being conceived across public and closed sessions with the aim to articulate (link) strategies of Sumud (steadfastness) across current times of emergency with examples from the past, namely apartheid South Africa and institutional responses in the Netherlands that is the focus of de appel’s current research. These articulations will, we hope, allow for a moment of reflection and consolidation across different practices and trajectories of study that will be generative for the future.

The programme includes public sessions by Elke Uitentuis, Chad Cordeiro, Charles Esche, Rana Issa, Learning Palestine, Rasha Salti, and Françoise Vergés, as well as closed sessions by Layal Ftouni (on the politics of life and living at the boundaries with death, both human and environmental in conditions of war and settler colonialism, focusing on Syria and Palestine); a conversation between the Black Archives and Subversive Film (on archives of struggle and solidarity), as well as the participating artists of Every Act of Struggle Chad Cordeiro, Pieter Paul Pothoven, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Lara Khaldi (on their archival research for the exhibition).

If you are a researcher or activist directly related to the content of the closed sessions and would like to join, please write to janpieter@deappel.nl with a few lines about why you would like to join.


Full programme

8 May:
14h Closed Session
16h Break
16h Welcome and introduction, Nick Aikens and Lara Khaldi
16h Conversation, ‘Past Disquiet - Solidarity Exhibitions: South Africa, Palestine and beyond’, Rasha Salti and Elke Uitentuis with Lara Khaldi
18h Music, Chad Cordeiro (with bites & drinks)
19h Lecture, ‘Today, again, we must say that Palestine is the centre of the world’, Françoise Vergés, followed by conversation with Charles Esche
21h End

9 May:
11h - 16h Closed sessions
16h Poetry readings, ‘Poetry against Language Dioxide’, Rana Issa
17h Food and drinks
18h30 Listening session, ‘Until Liberation, Part III’, Learning Palestine
20h Lecture and discussion, 'Palestine’s South Africa Moment', Omar Bargouthi
21h Collective Reading, ‘Everything will stay the same if we don’t speak up’
21h Food and drinks

For further information visit the de appel website

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