Archiwum Edukacji #41 - Potential History Symposium. Monika Bobako

Weekend international symposium with participation of artists, curators and invited speakers who have been engaged for years in both theoretical and practical fields (artistic, curatorial, academic, activist) of potential history. They all have worked at the complex and creative intersections of topographies, methodologies, heritages, languages and politics. Drawing on this experience, they will share their research and engagement and will discuss possible scenarios of collaboration and solidarity, refusal and resistance to dominant narratives, affects and aesthetics in the face of violent forms of feeling and representation.

Monika Bobako, on her research on the genealogies of peripheral whiteness and the relationship between the history and memory of Nazi genocide and the history of Palestinians in Polish academia and in social life, on whether the concept of potential history may allow us alternative forms of engagement with past and present violence.

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Monika Bobako philosopher and gender studies scholar from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her research interest include questions of power dynamics in the post-colonial world, social inequality, peripherality, race and racism, including islamophobia and anti-semitism. She is the author of Islamofobia jako technologia władzy. Studium z antropologii politycznej [Islamophobia as a technology of power. A study in political anthropology] (2017) and Demokracja wobec różnicy. Multikulturalizm i feminizm w perspektywie polityki uznania [Democracy in the face of difference. Multiculturalism and feminism in the perspective of the politics of recognition] (2010). Currently she is involved in a research project entitled Genealogies of Peripheral Whiteness. Polish Identities in the Perspective of Racialisation Theory (National Centre for Science grant).

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Curator of the programme: Katarzyna (Kasia) Bojarska, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies of the SWPS University in Warsaw. Founder and head of Center for Comparative Research on Memory Cultures (CCRMC). Co-founder and editor of View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture journal. Scholar of visual culture, contemporary art and memory cultures. Translated among others Michael Rothberg’s Multidirectional Memory. Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2016). Author of a book Wydarzenia po Wydarzeniu: Białoszewski – Richter – Spiegelman [Events after the event: Białoszewski – Richter – Spiegelman] (2012). Editor and translator (among others) of Ernst van Alphen’s Criticism as Intervention: Art, Memory, Affect book (Polish edition 2019). Member of the Polish section of AICA.