dOCUMENTA 13 – Symposium “Western Sahara – a colonial conflict in our time”

8th - 15th July

A series of public talks in the Sahrawi Tent (Khaima) by Robin Kahn –“The Art of Sahrawi Cooking”, Karlsaue, Kassel. The Program includes eminent speakers from the academic and socio-political sphere, NGOs, artists and eye witnesses of Sahrawi life, films, music and discussion. The list is open to guest speakers who will be announced online and in leaflets throughout the week.

The talks are being organized by artist Bettina Semmer, Berlin (bettinasemmer@googlemail.com), and will be held in English and German language. http://talkattent.blogspot.de

Schedule:

Daily  6 - 8 pm, panel of speakers with Q & A for the public.

Daily 10 am - 6pm Sahrawi tea, films and analogue chat.

8. 7.

Prof. Werner Ruf, Kassel: “Right to a home, right to a state”

9. 7.

Judit Smajdli, Anthropologist: “On the Saharaui Tent - Khaima”

Bettina Semmer: “Art and transformation” (artists’ projects in Western Sahara, ARTifariti, www.artifariti.org)

10. 7.

Thomas Schmidt, (lawyer), Secretary General of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) www.ejdm.de: The Rights of the Saharawi people: As Refugees and as Residents in the occupied zone of Western Sahara.

With: Annelie Koschella/Frau Urschel, medico international, Prof Werner Ruf, Kassel

11. 7.

Ingunde Fuehlau, Former head of MINURSO in Tindouf

12. 7.

Wolfgang Hofmann , Founder, „Sahara Marathon“ (www.lauftreffreisen.de)

13. 7.

Dr. Annelie Koschella, coordinator Western Sahara,  medico international e.V., and  Karin Urschel, director of projects, medico international e.V.,Frankfurt, on the right to health in the refugee camps.

(www.medico.de)

14./15.7.

"Projektgruppe Westsahara" on their initiative of youth exchange (www.projektgruppe-westsahara.org)

Also: Sahrawis living in Germany speak about their experience.