Doe op 3 september (18 uur) mee met een boekenclub over Albert Memmi’s Portret van de kolonisator & Portret van de gekoloniseerde. Samen met de vertaler Esha Guy Hadjadj zullen we deze postkoloniale klassieker bespreken, en de blijvende relevantie ervan voor onze tijd. Kom met vragen, interpretaties en anekdotes! Deelname is gratis maar, het aantal plekken is […]
Op 10 juli om 17:00 u zal in het Fort van Sjakoo, Jodenbreestraat 24, Amsterdam, Herman de Tollenaere samen met Diana Ozon spreken over vroege Nederlandse punk. Onlangs publiceerde Active Distribution Punk Anarchy in Action over de relatie tussen anarchisme en punk. Een hoofdstuk hier in door Herman de Tollenaere gaat over anarchisme en punk
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Thursday, 11 June, 2026 – 17:00 to 19:00 Fascism and authoritarianism are often framed as a danger in the future that paradoxically resembles a relapse into the past: If we do not defend our democracy now, we might experience again what we believed to have left behind. Informed by the interventions of black radical thinkers and activists such
Thursday, 18 June, 2026 – 17:00 to 19:00 This talk argues that the degrowth movement has two blind spots at its theoretical core. The first concerns militarism. The vast apparatus of modern warfare — the logistics, the accounting systems, the nationalism needed to make people willing to fight — was not a byproduct of capitalist growth but one
19 June 2026 / 17:00 – 18:30h @ Fort van Sjakoo Songs and music are integral to anti-caste movements in India. The songs and sonic imaginations inspired by the radical Indian anti-caste thinker and leader Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1891—1956) form the anchor for this conversation with writer and publisher from Nagpur/India, Yogesh Maitreya, and Amsterdam-based
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Op 22 mei om 17:00 u zal in het Fort van Sjakoo, Jodenbreestraat 24, Amsterdam, Herman de Tollenaere samen met Diana Ozon spreken over vroege Nederlandse punk. Onlangs publiceerde Active Distribution Punk Anarchy in Action over de relatie tussen anarchisme en punk. Een hoofdstuk hier in door Herman de Tollenaere gaat over anarchisme en punk
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Friday, 1 May, 2026 – 17:00 to 19:00 It’s been a decade since the Balkan Route was declared “closed” by the EU. What followed, however, has been a surge of investment: more funding for policing, expanded infrastructures of securitization, and a growing archipelago of detention across the region. This talk traces how a once relatively
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Friday, 8 May, 2026 – 17:00 to 19:00 This talk will look at how and why the police are often used as way of resolving crises generated by climate crisis, and what an abolitionist approach can say about climate breakdown, and an emerging political form of climate barbarism that appears to be coalescing. There will
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Friday 10th April from 17.00h @ Fort van Sjakoo Feminist, queer and punk American authors come together to share new published works on the transformative power of grief, and be in conversation with one another and the audience. In many cultures grief is depressing, it’s pushed down and kept hidden. Ariel Gore, Dusty Bryndal, and
Fri 6 March 2026, 17hrs @ Fort van Sjakoo – Jacinta Kerketta is a Hindi poet and freelance journalist from the Oraon Adivasi community of Jharkhand, India. Her poetry revolves around the life-worlds of Adivasi communities and offers a keenunderstanding of their struggles for survival in the face of forced displacement, corporate extractivismand ecological devastation.