Filmscreening and Talk (in English): "Das leere Grab/The empty grave"

The empty grave ("Das leere Grab") is a Tanzanian–German documentary film from 2024 about Tanzanian families searching for the remains of their ancestors, who were brought to Germany during the period of German colonial rule.

Speakers:  Christoph Holthof (kurhaus production, Baden-Baden), Dr. Laibor Kalanga Moko (University of Hamburg), Gabriel Schimmeroth, M.A. (MARKK, Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Kristin Merle (University of Hamburg)

Organizer: The series of events is organised by Collective Responsibility in collaboration with the Equity Unit, the Faculty of Humanities’ Equal Opportunity Unit, the Anti-Discrimination Centre, and the CLICCS and UWA Clusters of Excellence.

Date and Time: Wednesday, July 8 2026, 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

Venue:  ESA 1, Main Building, Lecture Hall K

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We understand colonialism as a system of exploitation, violence and inequality that is permeated by racism, which produces and reinforces it. Colonial history and its reappraisal is, in a critical-reflexive sense, the reappraisal of a "shared history", a divided history that must be analysed and understood in its global interconnectedness and continuities.

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