Δ WELTKULTUREN EVENING SCHOOL

COMMODITIES – PEOPLE – CAPITAL
Circuits of Frankfurt Trade

TALK AND DISCUSSION
“Human Trafficking: Between Labour and Exploitation”
Sonja Dolinsek (historian and publicist)
What is meant by “modern slavery”? Every day, millions of people across the world migrate across national boundaries. State restrictions, the mechanisms of social exclusion, and exploitation by “human traffickers” define the options open to these migrants. For some, migration is an opportunity, for others it leads into situations of inhumane exploitation.
In her talk, historian and writer Sonja Dolinsek sets out the issues and explores the political circumstances that result in these destinies.

 

In German
€5 / reduced €2.50
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

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Δ WELTKULTUREN EVENING SCHOOL

COMMODITIES – PEOPLE – CAPITAL
Circuits of Frankfurt Trade

 

TALK ON THE EXHIBITION
“Alternative Currencies and Values: the Artistic Work of Minerva Cuevas”
Dr. Mona Suhrbier (research curator America) and Dr. Eva Raabe (research curator Oceania)
The installation created by Mexican artist Minerva Cuevas is conceived as a critique of capitalism and colonisation. It interrogates the ways in which collections are acquired and the different logics behind the concepts of value, value measures, exchange, and trade. Research custodians Eva Raabe and Mona Suhrbier explain indigenous forms of commodity exchange that differed  from Western capitalist models by placing the value of objects primarily in the service of social cooperation. In Brazil, the historical experience that indigenous models are usually ignored in the globalised world gave rise to the poetic and artistic movement of anthropophagy, which rejects the one-sided Western perspective on colonisation in favour of a Brazilian version.
 

Costs are incl. in admission fee
(€7 / reduced €3,50)
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ WELTKULTUREN EVENING SCHOOL

COMMODITIES – PEOPLE – CAPITAL
Circuits of Frankfurt Trade

WORKSHOP
“Degrowth & Transformative Education”
Susanne Brehm (political scientist and founder member of Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie)

“Degrowth” stands for a broad-based search for a society capable of providing a good life for everyone within the limits of the planet. This requires a clear break with the growth paradigms that characterise capitalist societies on every level – from economic policy to the individual caught in a spiral of self-optimisation. But degrowth also stands for close links between theory and practice, rethinking established economic categories (“commodities – capital – people”), and testing out other possible economic forms in practice labs. In this workshop Susanne Brehm, co-founder of Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie and co-organiser of the Fourth International Conference on Degrowth (Leipzig, September 2014), offers insights into the debate and discusses the potential options for action that arise from this approach.

 

 

In German
€15 / reduced €10, Registration and information: or 069 212 45115
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

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