Decolonising the Archives Research Residency Programme" 

"Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries"

„WE GOT A LIST OF DEMANDS…“ – (Kunst-)Hochschule, Rassismus & Empowerment

Diversitätsbeauftragter UdK Berlin im Gespräch mit Studierenden der UdK und Anti-Rassismus-Expert*innen

Panelist*innen: Dr. Noa K. Ha (Postkoloniale Stadtforscherin, Gastdozentin KH Weißensee), Dr. Aki Krishnamurthy (Referentin für Antirassismus und Empowerment ASH), Dalís Pacheco (Interflugs UdK Berlin), Elena Buscaino (AG Critical Diversity UdK Berlin)
Moderation: Dr. Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz (Diversitätsbeauftragter UdK Berlin)
Veranstaltungssprache: Englisch und Deutsch

Vor gut anderthalb/zwei Jahren demonstrierten Studierende unter dem Titel #exitracismUDK und machten auf Rassismus an der UdK Berlin aufmerksam. Parallel dazu, in einer breiten Koalition formulierten die Studierenden unter anderem eine Reihe von Forderungen an die UdK. Wie der Titel der Veranstaltung (in Anlehnung an den Rap-Song von Saul Williams „List of Demands (Reparations)“) andeutet, richtet das Panel den Fokus auf den offen Brief (https://exitracismudk.wordpress.com/), den die Studierenden der UdK im Rahmen der #exitracismUdK-Proteste formulierten. Manche der Forderungen (https://exitracismudk.wordpress.com/demands/), die in diesem offenen Brief gestellt wurden, lesen sich wie Empfehlungen einer professionellen, intersektionalen Diversitätsberatung.
Zusammen mit dem neuen Diversitätsbeauftragten (Schwerpunkt Rassismus) Dr. Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz (UdK Berlin), diskutieren die Studierenden Dalís Pacheco (Interflugs UdK) und Elena Buscaino (AG Critical Diversity UdK) über die Entwicklungen seit dem offenen Brief. An dem Gespräch über diese Forderungen für eine intersektionale Antidiskriminierungsarbeit an der UdK Berlin werden auch die postkoloniale Stadtforscherin Noa K. Ha und Antirassismus & Empowerment Referentin Aki Krishnamurthy der ASH teilnehmen. Somit wird auch das Thema Rassismus und Empowerment an (Kunst-)Hochschulen generell adressiert.

Webex-Meeting-Link: https://udk-berlin.webex.com/wbxmjs/joinservice/sites/udk-berlin/meeting/download/cb0d7e5fdc6d478c916ab3a40a51ac36?siteurl=udk-berlin&MTID=mc6dda48ff3fdcff893a2539ed11515ab 

• 31.05.2022, 09:00 - 11:30, Raum M5, Podiumsdiskussion "„Bunt“ reicht nicht: Diversität als Selbstverständnis" (Details zum Inhalt gibts hier)
• 31.05.2022, 15:00 - 16:30, Seminarraum 13, Interne Arbeitssitzung der dbv-Kommission "Bibliotheken und Diversität" (siehe auch hier)
• 01.06.2022, 11:15 - 12:30, Seminarraum 8, Öffentliche Arbeitssitzung Sacherschließung und GND-Arbeit in den Fachinformationsdiensten (FID) (siehe auch hier)
• 01.06.2022, 14:00 - 16:00, Raum 3, Öffentliche Arbeitssitzung der neu berufenen dbv-Kommission „Bibliotheken und Diversität“ (Titel: Außenansichten. Wie divers sind Bibliotheken?)
• 01.06.2022, 14:00 - 15:30, Vortragsraum 12, Interne Arbeitssitzung, 360° Session - Diversitätsorientierte Öffnung verankern (Zusatzinformationen gibts hier)
• 01.06.2022, 16:30 - 18:00 , Vortragsraum 9 (mit Streaming), Kritische Reflexion im Beruf
• 01.06.2022, ab 19Uhr, informelles Netzwerktreffen im Cafe Cantona, Windmühlenstr. 29, 04107 Leipzig (Anmeldung jederzeit noch via e-mail an "schuerer[at]hgb-leipzig.de" möglich
• 02.06.2022, 16:30 - 18:00, Seminarraum 14/15, Hands-on Lab: Beyond Politically Correct – Developing an Affirming, Compassionate, and Empowering Culture for Diversity (ein Abstract zum Inhalt gibts hier)

Final conference of the Decolonising GLAMs project - this is the page for registering to attend in person.

Decolonising GLAMs: Practices, Communities and Collective Action

This one-day hybrid final conference of the DeCoGLAM community explores how decolonial and community-centred approaches can benefit Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs).

Through talks, discussions, and collaborative mapping, participants will reflect on what it means to decolonise GLAMs practice — and how collective action can build more equitable knowledge futures.

DeCoGLAM (Decolonising the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Network) brings together researchers, cultural workers, and community organisers to share experience, tools, and critical insights that challenge colonial legacies within memory institutions.

This event will summarise the achievements of DeCoGLAM, discuss its sustainability and continue that conversation by focusing on practice — what we do, how we do it, and how we can act collectively to make change sustainable.

DeCoGLAM is supported by the Collaborative Research Cultures project at the University of Strathclyde funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Living in the Digital World Lecture Series

January 21, 2026

London, United Kingdom

Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Tracing its roots to a project in Mozambique in 2014, the Aga Khan Foundation’s Learning Hub, an award-winning digital learning platform, is transforming how some of the world’s poorest and most remote communities with little or no access to the internet or digital technology – as well as people development practitioners, civil society organisations (CSOs), educators, government officials and others working to improve their quality of life – access and share knowledge across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This lecture will share the story of how a Human-Centred Design process conducted in Mozambique, which aimed to solve a local problem led, several years later, to the development of a digital learning platform sharing hundreds of high-quality highly localised learning materials in 25+ languages.

Following ten years of testing, iteration, scaling, and partnership, today, teachers, farmers, entrepreneurs, government officials, and parents across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East can all find practical, relevant, high-quality learning content in their own language or dialect on The Learning Hub, all produced locally using a low-cost approach. By removing barriers to access, including developing a custom-build learning management system (LMS) using open source technology, The Learning Hub is able to share all learning content for free, as a public good.

By fostering collaborative learning design and prioritising equitable access, The Learning Hub offers a scalable model for inclusive lifelong learning – on that has already been recognised and adopted by 150+ partner organisations globally. Its community-driven, multilingual ecosystem demonstrates how digital platforms can democratise knowledge, empower local practitioners, strengthen education systems – and pave the way for decolonising digital learning.

Ana Barfield leads the Aga Khan Foundation’s Global Practice function. As such, her role is to stimulate an inclusive culture of learning, sharing, innovation, and collaboration across AKF and to amplify AKF’s best practice across the development sector. Ana oversees the implementation of AKF’s learning strategy, including through the design, development, and dissemination of high quality, innovative, digitally enhanced learning and knowledge assets, platforms, and solutions, including AKF’s Learning Hub (akflearninghub.org).

This event will be held at the Aga Khan Centre - London and will also be streamed live via Zoom. 

Attendance is free, but registration is necessary. Please register by clicking on one of the links below.

Academics at Lancaster University and partner universities brought together staff and students from across the United Kingdom (UK) to discuss decolonisation and anti-racism in Higher Education (HE).

More than 60 staff and students from different universities in the UK met in Lancaster to attend a one day-symposium titled: ‘Are we still decolonising the university? Reclaiming anti-colonialism and anti-racism in Higher Education.’

The event was hosted by Dr Sunita Abraham (Lancaster University), Dr Laura Key and Lucy Potter (York St John University), and Dr Leon Moosavi (University of Liverpool).

It was open to all staff and students in UK HE with the aim of bringing together individuals who work in the broad area of decolonisation, anti-racism, and anti-colonialism, or who are otherwise interested in reckoning with the legacies of slavery and empire today.

Professor Kendi Guantai, Lancaster University’s new Dean for Culture and Inclusion, opened the day and highlighted the necessity of shifting our academic foundation from a singular, Eurocentric epistemology toward a broader, more equitable architecture of global knowledge.

Participants came from different parts of the UK, representing a range of disciplinary backgrounds, interests, and stages in their studies or career. It was a diverse audience who shared an interest and passion but who also had different experiences and perspectives to share.

The context for the event is the increasing push-back against the use of the word ‘decolonisation,’ inherent dangers in its interpretation and practice, and its co-option into mainstream narratives that depoliticise its content and intent.

Whilst these issues have led some colleagues to discard the term altogether, others attending the event felt that the term needs to be reclaimed to inform a progressive agenda which will transform HE for the better.

Given that efforts at decolonisation can be disjointed and reactionary, the symposium aimed at providing space for participants to suggest ideas, highlight challenges and discuss ways forward in relation to setting up a decolonisation network for colleagues working in British universities.

Many of the discussions centred around the growing urgency of developing and supporting decolonising initiatives in the current political context, the need to hold universities to account for their earlier commitments whilst continuing to build solidarity, and facilitating inclusive communal spaces for critical discussion, debate and sharing practice across the sector.

This appeal to community was a key outcome of the day, with those present generally agreeing that the establishment of a UK decolonisation network would be a positive step forward in helping to shape and progress the next ten years of decolonising practice in UK universities.

It was agreed that the next step should be to hold an online space for colleagues to come together to discuss how such a network should operate, and to what end, and to consider our respective roles and contributions.

If you would like to find out more about how these plans are shaping up or would like to join upcoming discussions, including an online network launch meeting later this term, please contact Dr Sunita Abraham on s.abraham1@lancaster.ac.uk

It is hoped that these collective efforts will build on existing initiatives in Liverpool (Decolonial Critique), York St John (Discussing Decolonisation) and at Lancaster (Decolonising Lancaster University Network) universities, and will enable staff and students to continue to build relationships and solidarity within and across UK HE.

online via MS-teams

Veranstaltung von decolonize Berlin e.v., bei der Initiativen zur Dekolonialisierung sich vernetzen können

Link zur Anmeldung: https://decolonize-berlin.de/de/veranstaltung/open-space-decolonize-berlin-friends/

This co-creation event will bring together library professionals, managers and colleagues working with collections, learning, research support, metadata, digital services, user engagement and institutional policy to explore current needs, emerging good practice and unresolved challenges around the decolonisation of academic libraries, with a particular focus on Scotland.

The event will create space for open exchange and practical reflection. Together, we will discuss questions such as:

• What does decolonising an academic library mean in practice?

• Where do decolonisation and EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion) overlap, and where do they differ?

• How are libraries rethinking collections, cataloguing, classification and discovery?

• How can academic libraries support more inclusive teaching, learning and research?

• What forms of community knowledge, lived experience and marginalised voices are still under-represented?

• How can libraries move beyond symbolic actions towards sustainable organisational change?

• What support, tools, guidance and partnerships are needed across Scottish academic libraries?

Participants will be invited to share experiences, identify barriers, exchange practical approaches and help shape future DALiS guidance for Scottish academic libraries.

This event is organised by DALiS (Decolonising Academic Libraries in Scotland: From Principles to Practice) and funded by SLIC (Scottish Library and Information Council), coordinated by Dr Milena Dobreva at the University of Strathclyde.

Präsentation von Julia Zenker, Lars Müller, Moritz Strikert, Saskia Köbschall und Matthias Harbeck

Die Veranstaltung widmet sich aktuellen Fragen der Dekolonisierung von Bibliotheks- und Archivbeständen, der Digitalisierung historischer Sammlungen sowie der kollaborativen Arbeit mit Partnerinstitutionen und Communities. Neben Einblicken in das gemeinsame Forschungsprojekt mit Partnerinstitutionen im Senegal stellt Birgit Athumani Hango auch den neu erschienenen Leitfaden zum Umgang mit kolonialen Kontexten in Bibliotheken vor.