Beyond Borders

Beyond Borders
Saturday 25.05.2019 — 10 am until 10 pm
A day for discussions, workshops, exhibitions, films and performances
about borders between communes, regions or
states, borders in our minds and borders that you impose on
yourself, or that others impose on you. Borders that seem
insurmountable, that are secured by fences and walls and
borders between cultures and opinions, borders that need to
be overcome.
Conference languages
German and English
The ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius supports research
and scholarship, art and culture, as well as education
and training. It provides funding for outstanding international
young researchers working in an interdisciplinary environment.
The Ph.D. scholarship program “Trajectories of
Change” contributes to studies in the humanities and social
sciences with a focus on transformation processes in the
European neighbourhood. The Bucerius Young Scholars
Forum in Berkeley deals with histories of migration from an
international and global perspective.
The Bucerius Alumni Network brings together fellows in
History, Migration and Urban Studies as well as Area Studies
concentrating on Eastern Europe and the MENA region.
www.zeit-stiftung.de
silent green Kulturquartier is a new event venue and an independent
project shaped by the biographies and interests of all
involved parties, which has found a unique home in the historic
premises of the Crematorium in Berlin-Wedding.
www.silent-green.net
Impressum
„Beyond Borders“ is a project of the Bucerius Alumni
Network of the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius
Feldbrunnenstraße 56
20148 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 413366
E-mail: zeit-stiftung@zeit-stiftung.de
www.zeit-stiftung.de
Team
Anna Hofmann
Director, Head of Research and Scholarship
Petra Borchard
Program Director Alumni Relations
Phone: +49 152 08 66 86 19
E-mail: borchard@zeit-stiftung.de
Marcella Christiani
Project Manager Research and Scholarship, Publications
Design
MasoudMorgan.com
Website
www.zeit-stiftung.de/beyond-borders
Venue
silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35 — 13347 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 120 822 1-0
info@silent-green.net
www.silent-green.net
Credits
Schedule: Sham (There) שָ‏ ‏ׁמָ‏ ה ‏,شامْ)ا(‏ a film by Thalia Hoffman, 2016,
Photographer: Ran Muncaz and DEUTSCHE ILLUSTRIERTE FLUG-
BLÄTTER DES 16. UND 17. JAHRHUNDERTS. Hrsg. von Wolfgang
Harms. Bd. VII. Die Sammlung der Zentralbibliothek Zürich. Kommentierte
Ausgabe. Teil 2: Die Wickiana 11 (1570-1588). Hrsg. von Wolfgang
Harms und Michael Schilling. - Tübingen: Max Niemeyer 1997
Contributors: Michelle Weitzel
A day for
discussions workshops
exhibitions films and performances
Saturday 25 May 2019 —Berlin
10 am until 10 pm
Venue
Gerichtstraße 35—13347 Berlin
silent green Kulturquartier
Free admission
Please register
http://www.zeit-stiftung.de/beyond-borders

Contributors
Alumni
AAA
Amt für Autonome Angelegenheiten: Jana Bleckmann
Kirsten Bönker
Professor of History, University of Bielefeld
Hendrik Bohle
Studio Bohle, Berlin
Noelle Brigden
Assistant Professor in Political Science, Marquette University,
Milwaukee (USA)
Per Brodersen
Historian and Managing Director, Ost-Ausschuss der
Deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin
Manuel Clancett
Student of Liberal Arts, Leuphana University, Lüneburg
Cristina-Ioana Dragomir
Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of Human Rights,
Columbia University, New York (USA)
Marwa El Chab
Autoentrepreneur, Nîmes (France)
Carolin Genz
PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Humboldt Universität
zu Berlin
Lena Gorelik
Author and Journalist, Munich
John Hanna
PhD candidate at Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment,
Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
Revital Madar
PhD candidate in Cultural Studies, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem (Israel)
Kateřina Pražáková
Assistant Professor, Institute of History, University of South-
Bohemia, České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
Ali Taptik
Artist, Istanbul (Turkey)
Michelle Weitzel
PhD candidate in Politics, New School for Social Research,
New York (USA)
Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe
PhD candidate in Anthropology and Middle East Studies,
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (USA)
Guests
AAA
Sharon Jamila Hutchinson, Moritz Urban
Muzna Awayed-Bishara
Post-doc fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Andreas Baumgartner
Student of Art, The Braunschweig University of Art
Natalie Baruch
PhD candidate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba,
executive director of The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow
(Israel)
Yaara Benger Alaluf
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Debby Farber
PhD candidate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba,
and independent curator (Israel)
Yael Mishali
Lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Beersheba, feminist/queer writer, activist and performer
(Israel)
David Motzafi Haller
Student of social and cultural history, Tel-Aviv University
(Israel)
Samira Saraya
Television, movies and theater actress (Israel)
Noam Shaulsky
Student in Gender Studies and Literature, Tel-Aviv (Israel)
Music
Oriental Slow-House by SHKOON

10:00
10:30
12:00
1:00
2:00
3:00
Schedule Beyond Borders
Lunch Break
25 May 2019
Lunch Break
Blue: Program in English
Lunch Break
Green: Program in German
Kuppelhalle Kubus 1 Kubus 2
Kubus 3
Opening - Greetings
Christina Rau
Member of the Board of Trustees, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius
10:30 am - 12
Lena Gorelik Revital Madar
Vortrag
Lebensgrenzen: Entlang des Eisernen Vorhangs
Da, wo der so genannte Eiserne Vorhang verlief, wurden früher
Leben, Systeme und Schicksale voneinander getrennt, man sagte gar,
die Welt wurde geteilt. Was ist aus dieser Trennlinie geworden?
nschließend: Diskussion
Moderation: Per Brodersen
Marwa El Chab
12 - 1 pm
Presentation
The Borders That Shape Us: Understanding Borders as
a Social Construct
This presentation is an invitation for researchers in social sciences to
self-reflect over their own practices and the biases of their disciplines.
Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe &
Carolin Genz 2 - 3 pm
Round Table
Out of the Box: Crossing Boundaries, Interdisciplinary
Methods, Visual Communication
A platform for discussing and sharing information gathered during our
site visit: Berlin will be our urban laboratory as we focus on visual
communication and embodied experiences in the city.
Noelle Brigden 3 - 4 pm
Presentation
Mapping Clandestine Journeys from Central America to
the United States
This presentation offers a critical cartography of Central American
migration journeys that takes us beyond borders to understand the
experience of everyday people on the move.
Revital Madar
2 - 3:30 pm
Presentations/Workshop
Intimate Borders: The Case of Israel-Palestine
Chair: Debby Farber
10:30 am - 1 pm
Presentations/Workshop
Living with Contested Borders: The Case of Israel-Palestine
Chair: Yaara Benger Alaluf,
The Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Muzna Awayed-Bishara
Exploring the Linguistic Borders: Between Politics and Language Policy
Revital Madar
Inscribed Sovereignty: Repudiated Violence on the Borders
David Motzafi Haller
Geo-Ethnic Boundaries in Israel: who “made the Negev desert bloom,”
and how
Natalie Baruch
Crossing the Border: Relationships between Israeli Jewish Women and
Palestinian Men Living in the Occupied Territories
Debby Farber
When Utopia becomes Topia: Re-imagining borders for the future in
Israel-Palestine
This session will discuss the following subjects: linguistic borders, violence
on the borders, the production of identities in frontier areas, and the
presence of borders in the works of Israeli-Jewish and Israeli-Palestinian
artists envisaging life after the conflict.
Yael Mishali
Performativity and Solidarity: Love beyond Queer Borders
Noam Shaulsky
Trans-Activism in Israel: Building the next Generation of Gender
Transformation
Samira Saraya (Performance)
From territorial borders to intimate limitations
This session will address the following subjects: borders within the
LGBT and queer community in Israel, trans activism in Israel, the
implications of the current borders on the intimate life of couples of
Israeli-Jewish women and Palestinian men, and the way in which
Israel’s contested borders reflect the limitation over different emotional
expressions of Palestinians.
10:30 - 12
Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe & Carolin Genz
Workshop: Seminar, Walkshop and Roundtable (the Roundtable will take place
at 2:00 pm in the Kuppelhalle)
Out of the Box: Crossing Boundaries, Interdisciplinary Methods,
Visual Communication
The workshop consists of three parts: a short seminar (we touch upon methods
from ethnography, design), a walkshop through a specific neighborhood of
Berlin which we explore and document through the fieldnote materials, and a
roundtable.
Please make sure to attend all three.
John Mounir Hanna
Michelle Weitzel 2 - 3 pm
12 - 1 pm
Exhibition
Photo Essay
Post-Violence City – Borders and Conflicts
This exhibition aims to explore the question of borders in post-attacks Paris
through looking at the intersection of bordering practices with the practices of
memory and commemoration, security, and everyday life.
Presentation
Audializing Migrant Bodies: Sound and Security at the Border
Sound represents a salient yet rarely examined counterpoint to visuality and
materiality in security, international bordering, and mobility literature.
Cristina-Ioana Dragomir 3 - 4 pm
Presentation
Women Beyond Borders – Roma and Adivasi Women on the
Move in India and Romania
This is a feminist project encompassing both photography and storytelling, which
challenges stereotypes and showcases stories of migration of women labeled as
“Gypsy” in Romania and India.
AAA
10:30 am - 12
Amt für Autonome Angelegenheiten
Das Amt für Autonome Angelegenheiten steht Ihnen als Ansprechpartnerin
der Autonomieverwaltung zu vielen entsprechenden und unterschiedlichen
Themenbereichen zur Verfügung. Der Service steht für Sie in unserer
Zweigstelle des AAA den ganzen Tag und rund um die Uhr bereit. Es besteht
keine Notwendigkeit einen Termin zu vereinbaren.
Manuel Clancett & Andreas
Baumgartner 3 - 4 pm
Ausstellung
Entgrenzung
AAA
Amt für autonome Angelegenheiten
Fotografie trifft Poesie. Zusammen und mit dem Mehr an eingebrachter Relationalität
entsteht eine radikale Praxis der Entgrenzung.
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00
4:30
6:00
8:00
Revital Madar & her Guests
4:30 - 6 pm
Round Table
Re-thinking Borders within a Contested Territory
Chair: Muzna Awayed-Bishara
Ali Taptik 6 - 8 pm
Lecture Performance
Looking at Osmanbey: Social and Spatial Entanglements
of Fashion Trade
How can spatial transformation and production of urban area be positioned
within history? Where is the line between the personal and the
social histories? The lecture performance relates synthetic materials,
ubiquitous elements of contemporary textile and building technologies
with the interaction between global economy and the transformation
of this urban area.
Farewell Drinks and Oriental Slow-House
in concert
SHKOON
Kateřina Pražáková
4:30 - 6 pm
Workshop
Das Bild anderer Kulturen in Flugblättern des 16. und
17. Jahrhunderts
Was wussten die Bewohner Europas im 16. Jahrhundert über andere Kulturen?
Wie stellten sie diese dar? Welche Stereotypen entstanden damals und dauern
bis heute?
Coffee Break