Conference presentation on 'Sharing experiences of migration as a way of commoning?' (02.10.2025)

Great panel at the DGSKA2025* conference on 'Revisiting Humanity in Dark Times: Anthropological Dialogues With Hannah Arendt', with contributions by Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Jonas Lykke Larsen, Paolo Gaibazzi, Judith Beyer, Ahmad Moradi, Aksana Ismailbekova, Aymon Kreil, Samuli Schielke, and me.

We discussed on how to create a common world when it appears to be shattered, on the difficulties of fraternity based on compassion, on friendship building on equality while acknowledging differences allowing co-existence, and on abandoning truth claims to enable friendship, conversation and a shared world.

My own presentation reflected on the relationship between personal migration experiences and seemingly disconnected public discourses on migration. With Arendt’s essay I asked whether the sharing, the making public, of personal migration experiences can be a basis for rebuilding a shared world, a world which might be experienced as shattered in situations of large-scale migration.

*DGKSA -> Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology)