Koloniales Erbe im Dialog: Zwischen Denkmal, Biografien und gesellschaftlicher Erinnerung

In the organizer's words:

Who speaks when the memorial is silent? And who listens when history speaks back?

The Carl Peters monument in Hanover stands there - heavy, motionless, colonial. But new voices are beginning to stir in its shadow.

Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago (M.A.) traces these voices - between research and activism, between Lower Saxony and Ghana, between archive and street.

At the center of the lecture is the Carl Peters monument, a symbol of imperial power and colonial fantasies. Based on the memory of the philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo, whose knowledge touched European thinking in the 18th century, it opens a trail to today's movements.

How do we remember the colonial legacy in Lower Saxony - and how do we rewrite the cultural history of memory? Which voices are missing from this stone? And how can memory be transformed if we no longer read it from the perspective of the perpetrators?