Why Are We Afraid to Call It What It Is: Genocide - A conversation with Majd Nasrallah and Bojana Piškur

 

Why Are We Afraid to Call It What It Is: Genocide - A conversation with Majd Nasrallah and Bojana Piškur

25.04.2024 - 25.04.2024 / MSU, 1. kat

Why Are We Afraid to Call It What It Is: Genocide
A conversation with Majd Nasrallah and Bojana Piškur
Sad Songs of War exhibiton, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1st floor
25th of April, 7 p.m.

Supporters of a free Palestine within the global solidarity movement find themselves in a precarious position: opposing human annihilation against one people is framed as an accusation of endorsing it for another. This paradox, where resistance to genocide is seen as problematic and threatening and is censored and demonized, highlights the grave risks facing global affairs today—signaling the dangerous rise of neo-fascism and right wing politics of a new dark era.

 

At this pivotal moment, it is crucial for the free peoples of the world to loudly denounce and actively confront these injustices and scare tactics. Silence not only legitimizes genocide but also risks allowing its ripples of human rights violations to spread to our own doorsteps.

Now is the time to strengthen platforms that boldly support freedom of expression and to critically discuss the true meaning of solidarity. Let’s have this conversation. If we can’t talk about it, let’s talk about why we can’t.

Join Bojana Piškur and Majd Nasrallah in a conversation that deconstructs the current political reality while reflecting on the experience of former Yugoslavia and Palestine during the Non-Aligned movement. In what fashion can societies resist and what does radical imagination in this context imply? 

Bojana Piškur works as a curator at the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana. Most of her work is related to the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav context and the Non-Aligned Movement, especially in relation to arts and culture. She is also interested in the question of how historical emancipatory ideas can be translated and practiced in today's situations.

Majd Nasrallah is a cultural practitioner, community organizer, researcher, and curator from Qalansuwa, the Triangle area in Palestine. His work focuses on popular education, grassroots political formation, and critical knowledge production. Majd is interested in rethinking the role of cultural institutions in creating new political thought, particularly in Palestine and the region. Currently, he’s in residency at MSU Zagreb.


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