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How art and culture rethink the legacy of the Treaty of Lausanne.

In the last 100 years, the Treaty of Lausanne has served as a model for other peace treaties and for the "solution of minority problems", for example in the Balkans or in Palestine/Israel. Through the often violent creation of linguistically or religiously uniform nation-states, minorities were categorized as the others. In once diverse societies, differences were thus emphasized or created in the first place. How can artistic activities and cultural institutions today help to overcome these differences and exclusions and build bridges between different ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups that were separated by peace treaties such as Lausanne? What approaches can be found in the cultural field to overcome this "otherness" and thinking in terms of nation-states as homogeneous structures?

Discussion with:

• Asena Günal, Director Anadolu Kültür, Istanbul
• Ilir Hasanaj, Co-founder of the alternative cinema «Kino ARMATA» (Pristina)
• Adania Shibli, writer (Berlin/Palästina) and visual culture researcher