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LECTURE ARCHIVE



Migration Jam
Amal Jibril and Suha Nabhan
Silent University Members and Co-founders of Migration Jam


Immigration Knowledge
Odugbesan Abimbola
Silent University Hamburg Co-coordinator


Multilingualism: evidence of sociolinguistic Super-diversity in the Ruhr Valley
Bridget Fonkeu
Silent University Ruhr Co-coordinator


The Participation of Immigrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in German Politics
Justin Fonkeu
Silent University Ruhr Co-coordinator



The Silent University

Towards A Transversal Pedagogy





ACADEMICS



Stanley Steve Nwaogu
Silent University Hamburg coordinator

Zeinab Musavi
Silent University Lecturer, Upstate New York

Sayed Jafar Ahmadi
Silent University Member, Upstate New York
Suha Nabhan
Silent University Lecturer and Member, Istanbul 


Amal Jibril
Silent University Orientation Program Lecturer, Istanbul

Fahyma Alnablsi
Silent University Stockholm coordinator


Justin Fonkeu
member of the management team for the Silent University Ruhr in Mulheim


Bridget Fonkeu
member of the management team for the Silent University Ruhr in Mulheim



Odugbesan Abimbola
member of the coordinator team of the Silent University Hamburg



Salah Zater
member of the coordinator team of the Silent University Hamburg

Ahmet Öğüt
Intiator 

Yelta Köm
Coordinator (2021-2022)


BOOK




The Silent University: Towards a Transversal Pedagogy

Editors: Florian Malzacher, Ahmet Öğüt, and Pelin Tan

Publisher: Sternberg Press

The Silent University, initiated by artist Ahmet Öğüt in 2012, is an autonomous platform for academics who cannot share their knowledge due to their status of residence, because their degrees are not recognized or regaining access to academia is blocked for other reasons. It is a solidary school by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants who contribute to the program as lecturers, consultants and researchers. The Silent University proposes a new institution outside of the restrictions of existing universities, migration laws and the other bureaucratic or juridical obstacles many migrants face. At the same time it mimics the idea of exiting universities, using their representational logics by developing alternative structures of pedagogy beyond border politics, race/ethnicity and normative education. This first comprehensive publication about the Silent University introduces the initiative and contextualizes it in the wider framework of both radical pedagogy and socially engaged art projects. In addition, all current branches of the Silent University—in Amman, Athens, Hamburg, London, Mülheim/Ruhr, and Stockholm—describe their very different achievements as well as their struggles and failures. The book contextualizes this initiative within a broader picture of migration policies, critical pedagogy, artistic involvement and institutional engagement. It also hopes to be an introduction for all those who might want to get involved in the Silent University—as contributors, lecturers, students in the existing branches, or by initiating new SUs wherever they are needed: a need which is becoming urgent in more and more cities and countries all around the world.

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CHRONOLOGY






The Silent University presentation at CCS Bard, Upstate, New York, 2023