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16.01.2025 | Frankfurt am Main
Conference

Police, racism and civil society – (im)possibilities of coming to terms with the past

Keynote and symposium

Please register at frickel@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

Program (pdf): Here…

 

Program

January 16, 2025, 6 p.m.
Keynote
Vanessa E. Thompson (Queen’s University Canada | International Independent Commission to Investigate the Death of Oury Jalloh)

 

Symposium
January 17, 2025

10.00-11:30
Panel 1
20 years of struggle for clarification: the Oury Jalloh case
Initiative in memory of Oury Jalloh and Vanessa E. Thompson

11:30-12:00
Coffee break

12:00-13:30
Panel 2
Racism and the police: current problems and continuities
Campaign for Victims of Racist Police Violence (KOP), Lina Mitschke (AntiRaktiv), Halil Can (InRa study)

13:30-14:30
Lunch break

14:30-16:00
Panel 3
Opportunities for change: Challenges and solutions
Solidarity Circle Justice4Mouhamed, Laila Abdul-Rahman (German Institute for Human Rights), Heike Kleffner (VBRG)

Zeit

16. January 2025, 18:00-17. January 2025, 16:00

Ort

Building “Normative Orders”, EG.01
Max-Horkheimer-Strasse 2
Frankfurt am Main, 60323 Deutschland + Google Map

Organisation

“ConTrust. Trust in Conflict”

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