As part of the City of Bern’s Action Week Against Racism, we are very happy to invite you to a symposium and film screening.

SYMPOSIUM
The symposium with Ana Texeira Pinto, Ingo Niermann and Priska Gisler explores the complex relationship between constructions of masculinity and the contemporary far right, but with a special attention to the cultural roles of sport and human–animal relationships. Through various perspectives and disciplines, the discussion examines how ideals of strength, loyalty, and dominance are mobilized within far-right narratives.  The symposium highlights how seemingly apolitical domains such as athletic competition and pet ownership can become arenas for the performance, normalization, and transmission of exclusionary gender norms and political ideologies.

FILM SCREENING
Swiss artist Roman Selim Khereddine weaves together migration, memory, and structural racism in poetic imagery, engaging questions of belonging and post-migrant identity in Switzerland. In his interdisciplinary practice, he works with human-animal relationships as a reflection of social power structures, a motif that connects thematically to the preceding symposium at Kunsthalle Bern.
The screening uses the shared experience of watching film as a moment of leisure to make subtle forms of exclusion and dominant narratives visible. The concluding Q&A opens up a space for reflection and dialogue.

More details will follow soon.