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Symposium with livestream
Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus & Münchner Kammerspiele
20.-22.4.2023
Free admission
Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus & Münchner Kammerspiele
20.-22.4.2023
Free admission
At the first “Women’s Peace Congress” in The Hague in 1915, 1,200 women from 16 warring and neutral countries drew up joint demands for world politics. They developed proposals for international law and a feminist foreign policy. They passed 20 resolutions – including one on the first day which condemned rape as a weapon of war. They confronted contradictions among “enemies” but still asked themselves whether and how wars could be ended through diplomacy.
We would like to invoke the powerful solidarity of that congress in The Hague with our own international assembly and, alongside artists and activists, ask the following questions: What is the current situation regarding our faith in democracy, human rights and international solidarity? What contradictions must we learn to endure today? Which visions can lead us to a better future?
We will discuss a feminist foreign policy and the current options for action with the political scientist Françoise Vergès and human rights activist Kristina Lunz. We will talk to artists and journalists from Syria, Ukraine, Belarus and Iran about writing during wartime and, in a cooperation with Missy Magazine, about the threats to – and also the resistance of – the female and queer body. A group of international scholarship holders will broaden our perspectives.
Photo: Gabriela Neeb
Foto: Gabriela Neeb
Photo: Gabriela Neeb
Photo: Gabriela Neeb
Foto: Gabriela Neeb
Photo: Gabriela Neeb
Foto: Gabriela Neeb
Foto: Gabriela Neeb
Photo: Gabriela Neeb
Part of "Female Peace Palace", a joint project between the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus. The project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Programme Thursday, 20 April 2023 Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus & Münchner Kammerspiele
5 pm / The Women's Peace Congress in the Hague 1915 / Monacensia
An introduction by the archive of the German Women's Movement.
7.30 pm - 9 pm / Halide. Words of flame / MK
Directed by Emre Koyuncuoğlu
Werkraum // Tickets from 10 euros
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7.15 - 7.45 pm / in my hands I carry / MK
Concept and Directed by Miriam Ibrahim
Foyer im Schauspielhaus // Tickets from 10 euros
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8 pm - 9.30 pm / Anti War Women / MK
Directed by Jessica Glause
Schauspielhaus // Tickets from 10 euros
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Programme on Friday, 21 April 2023 Münchner Kammerspiele, Therese-Giehse-Halle & Live Stream
6.00 pm / Opening and Welcoming Addresses / MK
The symposium opens with an introduction to the project and words of welcome from Munich mayor Katrin Habenschaden, as well as Marieke Fröhlich and Heidi Meinzolt of the German section of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
6.30 – 8.00 pm / A Palace for Peace? / MK
Perspectives on 108 years of feminist foreign policy
Three experts look at feminist demands from The Hague in 1915 until today: How can we talk about freedom and peace in the face of war and repression around the world? What chance does a feminist foreign policy have?
With:
Kristina Lunz, co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy and author of “The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist”
Françoise Vergès, political scientist and author of “A Decolonial Feminism” and “A Feminist Theory of Violence”
Host:
9.00 pm / Green Corridors / Зелені коридори / MK
By Natalka Vorozbhyt (Director: Jan-Christoph Gockel)
In German and Ukrainian with English surtitles
Therese-Giehse-Halle // Tickets from 10 euros
Programme on Saturday, 22 April 2023 Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus, Live-Stream & Münchner Kammerspiele
11.00 – 11.30 am / Welcome and Film Screening / Monacensia
11.30 am – 1.00 pm / Women in War and Resistance / Monacensia
For centuries, the female body has been an arena for violent patriarchal demonstrations of power. This panel discussion addresses the threat to women in repressive regimes and armed conflicts, but also the power that lies in resistance, networking and joining together.
With:
Düzen Tekkal, journalist and writer who, with her human rights organisation HÁWAR.help, has been campaigning for years for the rights of the Yazidi community.
Elisabeth Baier, lawyer and criminal defence attorney specialising in human rights and international law.
Shahrzad Osterer, author and moderator at BR, was born and raised in Tehran and currently reports a lot about the protest movement in Iran.
Host:
Jutta Prediger, Bayerischer Rundfunk
2.00 – 3.30 pm / Art and War: A Conversation with Writers from Conflict Zones / Monacensia
Three writers read from texts written during wartime and discuss the role of art in times of war.
With:
Volha Hapeyeva, author and poet from Belarus living in exile in Munich. In 2022, she received the Wortmeldungen award for critical short texts for her essay “A Defense of Poetry in Times of Perpetual Exile”.
Natalka Vorozhbyt, author, playwright and filmmaker who lives in Kyiv and was commissioned to write the play “Green Corridors” for the Münchner Kammerspiele.
Anna Akkash, playwright and director who lives and works in Damascus and has been writing a war diary since the beginning of the war in Syria.
Host:
Christine Hamel, Bayerischer Rundfunk
4.00 pm – 5.30 pm / Queer Talk Show: Exile and resistance / Monacensia
In cooperation with the Missy Magazine.
Two experts and other online guests discuss their experiences and perspectives on queer resistance and life in exile. What did global solidarity look like in the past, how do we want it in the present and in the future?
With:
Zain Salam Assaad, activist and journalist from Syria, Missy Magazine, lives in Berlin.
Ozi Ozar, digital content creator, director, dramaturge and author, born in Tehran, lives in Frankfurt and Berlin.
7.30 - 9 pm / Halide. Words of flame / MK
Directed by Emre Koyuncuoğlu
Werkraum // Tickets from 10 euros
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8 - 9.30 pm / Anti War Women / MK
Directed by Jessica Glause
Schauspielhaus // Tickets from 10 euros
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Followed by DJ İpek (Berlin/Istanbul) / Party / MK
The party will take place in the MK canteen, Hildegardstr. 1. More info DJ İpek here.
