Centered on the themes of repair and collaboration, the final event of the research training group (RTG) minor cosmopolitanisms offers an overview of nine years of transdisciplinary interventions while looking toward the future. 

The event seeks to facilitate experimental collaborations across disciplines, based on the RTG’s core values of conviviality, geopolitical decentering, and social commitment. During its nine years of activity, the RTG sought to establish new ways of studying and understanding the cosmopolitan project against and beyond its Eurocentric legacies while addressing the systemic violence within historically colonial institutions. Building on the RTG’s previous events Minor Cosmopolitan Weekend at HKW (2018) and Minor Cosmopolitan Assembly at silent green (2022), this final event engages with Berlin-based organizations and communities that critique and actively resist (neo)colonialism in its myriad forms. 

What kinds of repair might (still) be possible on an increasingly volatile planet, with escalating environmental, military, economic and social crises threatening non/human lives and life-worlds? As a word, ‘repair’ might suggest radical interventions oriented toward emancipatory transformation; a return to the stasis of normative structures and states; temporary or ephemeral restorative periods; or the kinds of mundane, quotidian maintenance (metabolic and structural) necessary for the continuation of life. Through lectures, panels, talks, workshops and roundtables, the Minor Cosmopolitan Intervention experiments with reparative and collaborative interventions in doing, undoing, and redoing the cosmopolitan project. 

The event is curated by Sofia Varino in collaboration with all members of the RTG minor cosmopolitanisms with funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). 

For more information, please check the instagram account @minorcosmopolitanisms or the RTG minor cosmopolitan website 

14:00–15:30 
Bodies on the (Digital) Margins: The Politics of Solidarity and Resistance in the Age of ‘Smart Borders’ 
Organized and moderated by Mohammad Dalla 
With Nuno Ferreira, Francesca Schmidt, Ali Tutar and Ahmed Awadalla 
Panel Discussion 
Haunani-Kay Trask Hall 

14:00–15:30 
Non-binary Futures: Reflections on a Forthcoming Special Issue of ‘Continuum Journal’ 
Organized and moderated by Claude Kempen and CQ Quinan 
With Nana Bauernfeind, Ezra Oosthoek, and Simon(e) von Saarloos 
Panel Discussion  
Teresia Teaiwa Room 

16:00–17:30  
Rest\\less[m]ess: Articulations of The Otherwise Discarded Listening and Viewing Session  
Organized and moderated by Fogha Mc Cornilius Refem and defayasite kolektif 
With Fogha Mc Cornilius Refem (aka Wan wo Layir) and Abiral Kumar 
Artist Talk 
Haunani-Kay Trask Hall 

16:00–17:30 
Weaving Wor(l)ds: Collaborative Practices for Just Presents and Futures  
Organized by Isadora Cardoso  
Facilitated by Fatim Selina Diaby and Nary Götze from Climate Justice Berlin Kollektiv 
Workshop 
Teresia Teaiwa Room 

19:00–21:00  
Chimurenga Book Series: ‘Riots of Our Hands, Deep as Revolt’  
Organized and moderated by Saskia Köbschall 
with Mishca Peters, Duduestang Lamola, Memory Biwa, Moses März and Aouefa Amoussouvi 
Book Launch / Keynote Session  
Safi Faye Hall  

21:00–00:00  
Opening Night Party  
with DJ Makossiri 
Angie Stardust Foyer