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Dr. Anna Danilina is an interdisciplinary historian at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin. Her research focuses on the study of racism and antisemitism, the history of the body and affect theory, transnational history and colonialism, and the history of science and medicine. Thematically, she is concerned with the critique of different forms of social exclusion and (right-wing) violence.

Anna Danilina studied psychology, religious studies, philosophy and political science in Leipzig, Göttingen and at UC Berkeley. During her studies she also worked at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. She wrote her master’s thesis on Theodor W. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory as critique.

Anna received her PhD in historical studies from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Technical University in Berlin. During her PhD, she was also a Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her dissertation on an emotional and corporeal history of race, racism, and antisemitism in the voelkisch movement, which she defended with the grade ‘summa cum laude’, will be published as a book by Wallstein Verlag in 2023.

Anna has received grants from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Zeitlehren Foundation, the FAZIT Foundation, the German Historical Institute Washington, and the Max Planck Society. She has published on Critical Theory, antisemitism, race and racism, history of medicine, and social exclusion.

Is a graphic designer, interdisciplinary initiator and activist who, especially within the struggle for queer civil rights, deals with the consequences of collective Aids trauma: the loss of lovers, friends and fellow activists in queer communities during the Aids crisis, especially in the 1990s, but also today, where the deep wounds manifest themselves above all in irrational fears and the destructive power of stigma that unfolds as a result.

As an educational and cultural scientist as well as a sociologist, the topics Falk wanted to engage in were obvious to him, as was their pursuit within a non-academic existence beyond employment: accompanying fleeing people on the Balkan route, fundraising for political projects, assignments on sea rescue ships in the Mediterranean, the Christmas Soli campaigns of a well-known Berlin club. – Thus, resisting various forms of social exclusion and boundary drawing, confronting violence and trauma, and supporting affected people form the core of Falk’s organizational, curatorial, intellectual, and activist work.

Today, Falk spends most of his time doing activist work with the Love Lazers, a safer-sex-guerrilla group. During several longer stays in Colombia, Falk organized the PrEP campaigns that were started in Germany and Switzerland and also in South America, and looked for ways to fight the prevailing HIV stigma. He is currently cooperating with the local ballroom scenes in Colombia.

In the project “Somatic Memory of Historical Violence” Falk is responsible for the conception and design of the homepage trans-somatic.com. In it, he curates the connection of content-related academic and political discussions with artistic positions and the aesthetic mediation of the topic of transgenerational trauma.

Ida von Holtum is a student assistant at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin in the project “Somatic Memory of Historical Violence” and studies psychology at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin. She is concerned with the topics of aggression, violence and trauma, especially with regard to racism, antisemitism and mental illness.

She studied philosophy and social sciences and wrote her thesis on the process of ideological lying within totalitarian regimes. In her current studies, part of her interest includes the question, how intrapsychic processes and (transgenerational) family experiences condition and give rise to structures of violence and trauma, and the role of the unconscious that influences these processes.

Ida sees herself as a proponent of the “Living Museum” movement, which creates art asylums for mentally ill people and works against the stigmatization of those affected. She is particularly intrigued by the artistic process: the intangible within the psyche can be transformed through art – in the broadest sense – by the traumatized body and thus made palpable.

Ida is a recipient of the Deutschlandstipendium as part of a class on „Aggression and Violence“.