TSCHAD – WORKSHOP about the current situation in the country by activists

14.02.2016 | 15 Uhr (3 pm) | Kreuzberg Museum FHXB
Adalbertstr.95a, Kottbusser Tor U8-U1

from the group Chad Youth in Germany

*English – We will explain the system in Chad*
In our workshop we will speak first about the 103 children from Chad, who got kidnapped in October 2007 by the french aid-agency „L’Arche de Zoé“ pretending that they are orphans. After that three workers from this aid-agency got imprisoned. When in 2008 rebels wanted to overthrow the regime of Idriss Deby and take over the power in the capital N´Djamena, France and the regime made a deal: If the regime is letting the workers from „L’Arche de Zoé“ out of prison, France will fight the rebels with his army.  

CfP: States of Exceptions: The Politics of Sacrifice: Martyrs and Migrants

The Politics of Sacrifice

Workshop: The University of Manchester, December 10^th–11^th, 2015

The workshop will be held at the University of Manchester, December 10 and 11, 2015. The following topics will be covered

• The Mediterranean Migrants Crisis: Critical Analyses
• Political Theologies of Martyrdom
• Writing a Vacuum: Ethnographies of Migration
• Phenomenology of Martyrdom: Sacrifice, Suicide, Killing
• The World Seen from a Boat: Statelessness and Mobile Geographies
• Martyrdom & World Religions: Critical Interpretations
• Bio-Sovereignty: The Body of the Migrant, the Remains of Citizenship
• Martyrdom in Context: Case Studies from around the World
• Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, America: Translating Narratives of Migration and Diasporas
• The Politics of Martyrdom: Self-Immolation and the Quest for Sovereignty
• Martyrdom as a Politics of Sacrifice