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The discursive programme WIR SIND ALLE BERLINER: 1884-2014 commemorates 130 years of the Berlin Conference and proposes a space for deliberation on the repercussions of this crucial event, offering thereby an occasion to analyse the ideological, economic, political, and humanitarian justifications that underlay colonialism and still frame the asymmetric relations between the West and the non-West today. Keynote Lectures by Simon Njami and Ann L. Stoler 18:00 Simon Njami: In the Heart of the Lights Simon Njami – curator of the exhibition WIR SIND ALLE BERLINER: 1884-2014 at SAVVY Contemporary – will deliberate on the concept of the exhibition and the role and importance of artistic and cultural interventions in the context of shifting historical discourses and investigating politics of memory. Simon Njami is a writer and an independent curator, lecturer, art critic and essayist. He curated many international exhibitions, being among the first ones to think and show African contemporary artists' work on international stages. He curated Africa Remix (2004-07 in Düsseldorf, London, Paris, Tokyo, Johannesburg) and co-curated the first African Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. His exhibition The Divine Comedy – Heaven, Hell, Purgatory by Contemporary African Artists is currently touring after stations in Frankfurt a.M. and Savannah (USA) to Washington D.C and Lisbon. Njami is the co-founder of Revue Noire, a journal of contemporary African and extra-occidental art. His latest book publication is a biography of Léopold Sédar Senghor. 19:00 Ann L. Stoler: Imperial Debris and Why it Matters Now Ann Stoler's keynote lecture will set the framework of the discursive programme by redirecting the attention of critical engagement with colonial aftermaths towards the "less dramatic durabilities of duress" , the less visible and perceptible repercussions of imperial dispositions and the complex ways in which they shape not only the material but also the psychic space in which we live today. Stoler's shift of focus from "left ...