Michael Rothberg’s Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture published
Michael Rothberg’s Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture was published as From Memory Wars to Memory Work: Relational Remembrance in Pınar Öğrenci’s Aşît [The Avalanche] by the Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). The Amo series honors the first African-German philosopher, Anton Wilhelm Amo, who studied and worked in Wittenberg, Halle, and Jena in the eighteenth century. Rothberg’s lecture focuses on recent German memory wars and on the memory work of the Kurdish artist Öğrenci’s film Aşît [The Avalanche], which treats the entangled histories of Armenians, Kurds, and Jews. The lecture is available as a video and and a free, downloadable booklet here: https://amo-lectures.uni-halle.de/lectures#from-memory-wars-to-memory-work-relational-remembrance-in-pinar-ogrenci-s-asit-the-avalanche
Pictured above: Amo Lecture’s poster from the June 2025 event.