Alternative Histories and Practices of Creative Conflict Resolution

At the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, AGYA organized the salon around the theme of conflict as part of the annual Salon Sophie Charlotte in Berlin (17 Jan 2026). I spoke on how Mediterranean communities are moving away from nostalgia as a political resource (e.g. old cosmopolitan myths) and more towards future-oriented imaginaries of belonging that are less about shared origins and more about shared vulnerabilities: climate change, housing precarity, mobility restrictions, and economic uncertainty.

I was also honored to moderate the soap box talks with nine outstanding scholars, looking at the history of conflict resolutions.