"Poser pour la liberté / Standing for freedom"

Table of contents

1. 1. Photo exhibition from April 4 - May 17, 2022
      1. Exhibition concept
      2. Biography Pascale Laborier
      3. Biography Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj
      4. Opening of the exhibition: April 13, 2022, 6 p.m.
         1. Photo impressions
      5. Panel discussion "Liberté / Freiheit: Wissenschaft im Angesicht von Flucht, Vertreibung und Exil", May 12, 2022, 6.30 pm
         1. Photo impressions

Photo exhibition from April 4 - May 17, 2022

Foyer in the Auditorium Center of TU Dresden, Bergstraße 64, 01069 Dresden

Unfortunately, the exhibition had to be dismantled on 17 May due to internal TUD organizational reasons.

Exhibition concept

The exhibition Poser pour la Liberté / Standing for Freedom is the result of the photo project RESTRICA (Insights into Forced Scientific Exile in the Past and Present), which was initiated in 2018 by the scientist Pascale Laborier together with the French photographer Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj, who lives in Berlin. Over the course of three years, 51 portraits of researchers and scientists in exile were created. 15 of them were on display in the exhibition, which explores "exile" along four thematic axes. Further information can be found at www.standingforfreedom.eu.

The flyer (with poster on the front) can be downloaded here: Flyer of the exhibition "Poser pour la liberté / Standing for freedom" and its supporting events

Biography Pascale Laborier

Pascale Laborier has been Professor of Political Science and Research at the University of Paris Nanterre since 1999 and since 2011. From 2005 to 2010, she was director of the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. She works at the interface of political science, history and sociology.

Since 2013, she has been co-director of the Master's program 2 Political Sociology / Political Sociology of the International. She is a Fellow of the Convergence Institute and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Horizon 2020 project InSPIREurope (MSCA for vulnerable researchers). She is co-author and curator of the project Poser pour la Liberté / Standing for Freedom.

Biography Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj

Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj is a photographer, video artist and author (former theater director). He lives and works in Berlin and deals with different types of photographs and video works (portraits, cities, bodies, ...) whose common denominator is the questioning of identity and the relationship between memory and history.

With the historian Nicolas Offenstadt, he created the exhibition Éclats DDR/RDA Splitter (2017) and with Amandine Thiriet the installation À mur découvert (2019). With Pascale Laborier, he is the photographer and co-author of the exhibition Poser pour la Liberté / Standing for Freedom.

Opening of the exhibition: April 13, 2022, 6 p.m.

Lecture Hall Center of the TU Dresden, Post Lecture Hall HSZ/0002/E

With a panel discussion between the artist Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj and the curator Pascale Laborier.

Musical framing: Banda Comunale, Dresden

Photo impressions

Panel discussion "Liberté / Freiheit: Wissenschaft im Angesicht von Flucht, Vertreibung und Exil", May 12, 2022, 6.30 pm

Lecture hall center of the TU Dresden, post lecture hall HSZ/0002/E

Scientists with exile biographies at the TUD and experts from scientific organizations discussed freedom in a globalized world.

The panel guests were:

• Dr. Natalija Sadredtinova, scientist from Ukraine, who continues her research work with Prof. Yordan Kyosev at the Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering after her escape.
• Dr. Fatina Kourdi, Syrian architect and scientist at TU Dresden, who fled from Syria to Germany in 2013.
• Frank Albrecht, Advisor for the Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, whose funding enables scientists at risk in their countries of origin to continue their work in Germany.
• Christiane Schmeken, Director of the Strategy Department of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• Prof. Michael Kobel, Vice-Rector Academic Affairs at TU Dresden

and as moderator: Katharina Schmitt M.A., Directorate 9 - University Culture - International Campus

Photo impressions

The Dresden show and its supporting events were made possible by a cooperation between TU Dresden - Centrum Frankreich | Frankophonie, Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections, Prorectorate University Culture, International Campus, TUD im Dialog - with the Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Institute Français Dresden and the Office for University Cooperation of the French Embassy in Germany.