15.01.2026 Workshop: Resistance against autocratisation: media, society, and politics

Policy Workshop: Resistance against autocratisation: media, society, and politics 

The policy workshop examines how different forms of resistance can counter processes of autocratisation. It focuses on artistic, journalistic, academic, and legal perspectives on practices of resistance under conditions of shrinking civic space. A wide range of forms of resistance is considered, from artistic and aesthetic interventions and civil society engagement to journalistic and legal work in repressive contexts.

Guest speakers:

Iryna Kovalenko (Europe-University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder)
Jiréh Emmanuel (Founder of Noirsociety, artist and activist, Munich)
Nazanin Noori (artist at the Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin)
Marta Lempart (Polish Women’s Strike Foundation, Warsaw)
Sofija Popović (European Western Balkans, Belgrad).

Details zum Programm.

Der Workshop wurde von Dr. Tareq Sydiq und Dr. Alena Strohmaier gemeinsam mit Studierenden der Lehrveranstaltung "Widerstand gegen Autokratisiserung" entwickelt und wird in Kooperation mit dem BMFTR-Forschungsnetzwerk Postcolonial Hierarchies durchgeführt.