Shitstorms and Staatsräson
With Emily Dische-Becker and Eva Menasse
In the third panel, Shitstorms and Staatsräson, Emily Dische-Becker and Eva Menasse look at the recent weaponization of antisemitism accusations by the Right in Germany and elsewhere. By what mechanisms are uncomfortable voices excluded from public debates? How to navigate social media shitstorms, and how to keep them from becoming toxic?
Emily Dische-Becker is a writer, film producer, researcher, and curator. She worked as a cultural manager in Beirut and has contributed to Harper’s Magazine, Der Spiegel, and Die Zeit, among others. At Forensic Architecture and its sister agency Forensis, she investigates the role of state authorities in cases of antisemitic and racist violence in Germany. Dische-Becker is on the steering committee of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism and the Germany director of Diaspora Alliance. She was an adviser for public programs at Documenta 15, Kassel, and co-organized the international conference Hijacking Memory: The Holocaust and the New Right (Berlin, 2022).
Eva Menasse is a writer and essayist. Her works include Der Holocaust vor Gericht: Der Prozess um David Irving (Siedler, 2000), Vienna (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2005), Quasikristalle (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2013), Dunkelblum (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2021), and Alles und nichts sagen: Vom Zustand der Debatte in der Digitalmoderne (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2023). Menasse was the spokesperson of PEN Berlin until November 2024. She has been awarded, among others, the Heinrich Böll Prize (2013), the Austrian Book Prize (2017), and the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book (2021).
8.2., 15:15–16:45
Neue Galerie Graz (Auditorium)
Joanneumsviertel
8010 Graz
Moderated by David Riff
In German
→ Uncomfortable Voices
Symposium, exhibition finissage, and catalogue presentation
