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robin celikates
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critical theory, social & political philosophy @ fu berlin // center for social critique berlin

https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/RobinCelikates
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de
https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times
https://criticaltheoryconsortium.org
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when we lived in the US under Trump 1 my daughter had this t-shirt - i just found it again and wish i had one my size
T-shirt saying ‘I love naps but I stay woke’
January 31, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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if you happen to be in Oxford… i will give a talk in the Oxford Critical Theory Seminar tonight:

What is State Racism?

Nuffield College (The Butler Room)
Wednesday 28th January | 5:15 pm
January 28, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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Protest Under Pressure

if you want to learn more about how German universities became sites of resistance for students in solidarity with Palestine & how police violence & repression reshape academic spaces, go see this documentary

tonight @ FU, tomorrow @ Bard

berlin.bard.edu/events/docum...
FILM SCREENING PROTEST UNDER PRESSURE (2025) BY NOA ELIE MONAÈ, ELENA AVOLIO, AND NORA WEISE Over the past two years, German universities have become sites of resistance for students in solidarity with Palestine. Campuses have bee marked by police violence, court proceedings, intimidation, and growing forms of (self-censorship. Set at the Free University of Berlin, this documentary traces how academic spaces have been reshaped by state repression. The film centers the brutal eviction of the Palestine solidarity encampment in May 2024 and the cascade of events that followed: a media smear campaign, institutional threats, legal repercussions, and mounting interference with academic freedom. These developments are situated within a wider political framework-Germany's "reason of state"-and examined in relation to the country's role in the ongoing occupation and genocide in Palestine. Join us to witness the voices of students, activists, professors, legal experts and journalists who continue to fight for a free Palestine and to hold the Germany state and universities accountable for their complicity in genocide. There will be a short group discussion following the film. WEDNESDAY, 287H JANUARY, 2026 DOORS @18:00 FU LANKWITZ GEO CAMPUS, ROOM G202 MALTESERSTRASSE 74-100, 12249 BERLIN
January 28, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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4)
and sadly at the same time 😬

Standpunkte: Penelope Deutscher and Eva von Redecker on Reproduction, Life and Property
22.01.2026 | 18:00
FU Berlin
January 16, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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if you’re in town, here are 4 cool events in Berlin next week:

1)
Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social
Jan. 21, 10-12
Racism without Race? How Racialisation Cuts Across the Colour Line (at least in Europe)
FU Berlin
January 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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„Springer raus aus der BVG“

www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/prote...
January 13, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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bye bye warsaw
December 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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How can we preserve history when the infrastructures of memory are constantly under attack?

Ahmet Öğüt’s recreation of Hosni Radwan’s In Memory of Palestine (from the 1980 Palestinian Painting exhibition at Zachęta)
part of WHAT ARE OUR COLLECTIVE DREAMS? at Zachęta

zacheta.art.pl/en/wystawy/o...
How can we preserve history when the infrastructures of memory are constantly under attack - by war, by radical shifts of regimes, by the rewriting of narratives? Born in Diyarbakir, a city scarred by civil war, Kurdish artist Ahmet Ögüt approaches art not as an object but as a political and social situation. In this installation, Ogüt returns to the fragile traces of two exhibitions that have largely disappeared from art history: Palestinian Painting (Zacheta, 1980) and the International Art Exhibition for Palestine (Beirut, 1978). The archive of the former is incomplete, neglected as part of Poland's inconvenient socialist past; the latter was almost entirely destroyed, along with its collection of nearly 200 works, during Israeli bombings of Beirut in 1982. As a gesture of care, Ogüt has recreated two works from these vanished archives: Hosni Radwan's In Memory of Palestine and Janet Venn Brown's Zionist Crime, October 1972. Traditionally, copies are considered a lesser form, mere craft. Here, however, replication becomes a subversive act: restoring erased histories, resisting disappearance, and placing them back into the public sphere. Ögüt first applied this method in 2024, recreating works from art collections evacuated from war-torn Kharkiv. By extending the gesture to Palestinian archives, he bridges geographically distant conflicts, underlining our interdependence and the possibility of new translocal solidarities. For Zacheta, Ogüt presents these copies behind panes of magic glass - disappeared and destroyed artworks become visible only when viewers stand directly in front of them. The artist thus shows the vulnerability not only of art but also of fragile human lives and connections. Framed against two large murals that reproduce the visual codes of the 1978 and 1980 exhibitions, his installation restores visibility to what was nearly lost. Through acts of reconstruction, Ogüt insists that art can reactivate forgotten archives, reinsert them into history,…
December 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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El fascismo avanza
Javier Milei & @JMilei LA LIBERTAD AVANZA Enorme alegría por el aplastante triunfo de mi amigo @joseantoniokast en las elecciones presidenciales de Chile! Un paso más de nuestra región en defensa de la vida, la libertad y la propiedad privada. Estoy seguro de que vamos a trabajar juntos para que América abrace las ideas de la libertad y podamos liberarnos del yugo opresor del socialismo del Siglo XXI...!!! VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO...!!!
December 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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read it
“I want to believe there will come a day when children in Gaza learn the word “زنانة” only in a history lesson, and laugh at how strange it sounds in their mouths, disconnected from any personal memory. A day when “هدنة” describes a distant political concept in a chapter about past wars, rather than the fragile fabric of daily survival that can tear at any moment. A day when “نزوح” has no place in personal biography, no appearance in family WhatsApp groups, no role in the simple act of answering the question “Where do you live now.” Until that day arrives, I will keep stretching the limits of speech, sentence by sentence. I will keep returning softness to a vocabulary corroded by necessity, inserting small words of affection and ordinary detail into narratives that the world prefers to read only as tragedy. I will keep writing long, careful sentences in a place that tries to make every word short, because length itself becomes a declaration that we are still here, thinking in more than one line at a time. Language, even under siege, deserves air, and as long as I can place words on a page, I will refuse to let that air be taken from it.”
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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does anyone else think this is a bit funny? hegelian diffusionism seems to be alive and kicking!
(of course, all the speakers are great - it’s just that Hegel is and can be global(ised) in even more global ways!)

hegelglobal.hegelnow.org

www.hegelpd.it/cfa-5th-bian...
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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tomorrow evening, if you’re in berlin:

Education after Gaza | Critical Theory and the Present
Conversation with
Teresa Koloma Beck | Robin Celikates | A. Dirk Moses

diffrakt.space/events/educa...
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN CRITICAL THEORY
2026
FORCES OF HISTORY

CfA now online!

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/summer_schoo...
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Please join us in Berlin for this workshop on Anti-Palestinianism in four weeks:
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Unser Vermächtnis
Von Jason Stanley
Was sollen wir tun? Eine Rede zum 9. November
FAZ, 11.11.25
Unser Vermächtnis Von Jason Stanley Was sollen wir tun? Eine Rede zum 9. November. Foto: Abraham Pisarek fotografierte die 1912 geweihte Synagoge in der Berliner Fasanenstraße im März 1950. ‚Eine beträchtliche Minderheit der amerikanischen Juden steht Israels Umgang mit den Palästinensern kritisch gegenüber. Unter jungen amerikanischen Juden ist die Zahl der kritischen Stimmen deutlich größer. Obwohl die liberale deutsch-jüdische Tradition nicht mit einem Staat vereinbar ist, der Bürger zweiter Klasse aufgrund von Religion oder ethnischer Zugehörigkeit schafft, scheint Deutschland entschieden zu haben, dass nur jene jüdischen Stimmen zählen, die Israel bedingungslos unterstützen. De facto haben sich die Deutschen die Macht angemaßt, zu bestimmen, wer jüdisch ist und wer nicht. Mir wurde von klein auf beigebracht, dass dies Antisemitismus sei. Es ist beleidigend, von Nichtjuden darüber bestimmt zu werden, wer jüdisch ist und wer nicht. Unerträglich ist es, wenn es sich dabei um Deutsche handelt.‘
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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🧐 that is … weird. hope DW can clarify soon and put this important piece back online …
in the meantime, here is a pdf of it

tinyurl.com/3nvrx6cy
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Looking forward to this hybrid panel on the rise of the Far Right & how academia has become both target & accomplice in the global shift towards authoritarianism:

Academic Freedom Under Attack: A Transatlantic Conversation
Nov 5, 12 ET/5pm Berlin time
Register @ bit.ly/rsvp5nov
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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irgendwie muss ich die ganze zeit an dieses kippenberger bild denken
Martin Kippenberger, Ich kann beim besten Willen kein Hakenkreuz entdecken, Gemälde von 1984
October 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Save the date! Really looking forward to this:
October 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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in other news:
Berliner Kurier: Döner bleibt ein Berliner!
September 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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September 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Weil viele gerade an ihren Seminarplänen basteln: Falls Ihr noch Inspiration jenseits der ausgetretenen Pfade sucht und das Textangebot etwas pluralisieren wollt, haben wir hier eine ganze Reihe toller Pläne zusammengestellt:

ktpluralisieren.net
September 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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What Matthew says

dailynous.com/2025/09/19/p...
September 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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SOLIDARITÄT — WAS HEISST DAS?

morgen 18h in Neukölln:

epiz-berlin.de/veranstaltun...
September 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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next week at FU:

Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context

w/ @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Urs Lindner, Magali Bessone, Murad Idris, Lee Medovoi & many others

info and program:
tinyurl.com/4udeeae7
September 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM