RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms

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RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms

The Research Training Group (RTG) Minor Cosmopolitanisms wishes to establish new ways of studying and understanding the cosmopolitan project.

The Research Training Group (RTG) Minor Cosmopolitanisms wishes to establish new ways of studying and understanding the cosmopolitan project against and beyond its Eurocentric legacies. It will focus on concrete critical, artistic as well as everyday practices that straddle the schism between cultural relativism and humanist universalism, and combine visions of transcultural justice, peace and conviviality with an ethical commitment to difference and alterity.

03/11/2025

Workshop Writing about Labour from Colonial Archives

The archive as a mediated space poses a challenge for every academic who enters it in order to understand the many material elements that document history. What happens when the archive in question is colonial? The problem of being able to “read” an archive is considerably more complex when we are confronted by its coloniality that not only structures the information we have access to but also the language in which the information is curated and created. In this workshop with Vidhya Raveendranathan (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and Dr. Nitin Varma (Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies), we will work with the “field notes” of historians who are writing about labour in the colonial archive. How can we understand history from a life story? How does law permeate into the daily lives of people?

Open to advanced Masters students, doctoral candidates, and postdocs this workshop will focus upon the academic methodology of writing about disenfranchised labour and will explore how imperial legislation has shaped the way we imagine labour. Readings and other material will be sent by email ahead of the workshop.

Interested participants may register by sending an email to Priyam Goswami Choudhury [email protected] with the subject “Labour Workshop” by December 2nd to receive the readings.

📍University of Potsdam
Haus 1, Room 0.04
Am Neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam

🗓️ 09.12.2025 (Tuesday)
14:00-17:00

29/10/2025

The Institute for English and American Studies at Universität Potsdam and subkontinent () warmly invites you for the screening of "Wounds of Pyre"—a urgent and powerful documentary that brings to light the lives of the Dom community, who for generations have carried the burden of being society’s cremation workers in Benares, India. Made by Dalit Desk () and supported by Mariwala Health Initiative (), the film highlights the systemic caste-based oppression and the resulting mental health challenges faced by Dalit communities.

The film would be followed by a conversation between Dr. Namrata Khobragade () and Priyam Goswami Choudhury ().

📍subkontinent (Donaustraße 84,12043 Berlin)
🗓️ 14.11.2025 (Friday)
Doors open at 18:30.
📽️ Film length: 60 mins (with English subtitles)

Content warning: This film features sequences of cremations not suitable for minors.

28/10/2025

The renowned Indigenous writer Drew Hayden Taylor from Turtle Island, Canada, will read from his latest novel Cold at the University of Potsdam. Taking tropes from the murder mystery, police procedural, thriller, and horror genres, the novel is a page-turner that makes the streets of Toronto the setting of Indigenous life and stories, both traditional and contemporary.

The event takes place on Friday November 7, at 4 pm, Campus Neues Palais, Foyer Building 8.

Join us for an afternoon of stories, suspense, and conversation.

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RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms, University Of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10
Potsdam
14469

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http://www.uni-potsdam.de/minorcosmopolitanisms/

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