The cultural scientist and artist Sandra Chatterjee gives an insight into “The 200-year counterculture of anti-colonial resistance”. Since the beginning of European colonialism, there has also been a history of cultural and political counter-designs for the liberation and renewal of colonized societies. This critique of the “West”, which has developed over centuries, has produced important intellectuals such as Rabindranath Tagore (the first Asian Nobel Prize winner for literature) and Aimé Fernand Césaire, as well as leaders of national liberation movements such as Hồ Chí Minh, Mao Zedong and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. In the lecture, Sandra Chatterjee discusses some examples of different models of anti-colonial resistance.
The Aussee duo Franz Thalhammer & Toni Burger will provide a regional musical counterpoint with “Songs from the Undergrowth”.
