How does food become a language of memory? What does it mean to grow old and die in Germany when your own story begins elsewhere? How can research be shared in ways that speak not about people, but with them?
The D03 subproject of CRC 1171 Affective Societies invites everyone interested to its public closing event. Under the title Việtdeutsche Gegenwarten, the project day brings together twelve years of research on psychosocial care, health, and community in Berlin’s Vietnamese-German lifeworlds and unfolds them in a dialogical format between scholarly reflection, artistic practice, and community knowledge.
The programme includes a culinary-ethnographic workshop on food, migration, and memory, a research salon on foodways, inequality, and racialised affective economies, a photo exhibition, a reading, a music set, and a scholarly panel on dying, death, and community care in Vietnamese Berlin. The day concludes with the premiere of a short film developed with artists as part of the Decoloniality and Reflexivity in Affect Studies fellowship of the CRC, followed by an artist conversation.
Free admission. Please send a registration request to Maximilian Müller: maximilian.mueller@fu-berlin.de
Language: German
Program:
12:00–12:20 Welcome and Introduction
12:30–14:00 cơm together: Multisensory Workshop and Shared Lunch
14:00–14:30 Coffee and Digestive Break
14:30–15:30 Research Salon: Migration, Inequality, and Racialized Foodways
15:45–16:15 Live Music: Another Nguyen
16:15–16:45 Reading: Thị Thanh Thảo Trần from People Like Us
16:45–17:10 Conversation with the Artists
17:30–18:45 Panel Discussion: Living, Dying, and Community Care in Vietnamese Berlin
from 18:45 Closing Gathering and Informal Exchange
approx. 19:30 Premiere Screening of bến không tên, followed by a Conversation with the Artists
Time & Location
Jul 06, 2026 | 12:00 PM
Aktionshaus Berlin
Gottlieb-Dunkel-Straße 44
12099 Berlin