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Wednesday, 10.2.2027

16.30, Foyer Arrival and Registration

Inform yourself about the table presentations and the solidarity tables and book a time for the tables you wish to join!

18.30 Opening

Speakers: tba

19.00, Cinema, ZHdK Sand in the Eyes

Lecture Performance by Rabih Mroue followed by a conversation with Monika Bolliger

Sand in The Eyes Rabih MrouéMonika Bolliger
20.30, Kaskadenhalle, ZHdK Dinner

Kaskadenhalle, ZHdK

Thursday, 11.2.2027

9.00–10.30 Opening Plenary

with Abdullah Alkafri, Lukas Pairon

10.30–11.00 Coffee Break
11.00–12.30 Workshops A

5 groups in parallel, as pre-booked at registration:

A1 Beyond Survival: The Power of Music in Troubled Lands
A2 Small Centres for Peace. Examples from Poland and Moldova
A3 Beyond the Project: What Remains? Eco’Band, Arts-Based Peacebuilding and the Legacy of Change in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
A4 Peace Mediation and Art: Practical Ways of Working Together
A5 Resist, Repair, Reimagine: Socially Engaged Arts Practice in the Wake of Conflict
12.30–14.00 Joint Lunch
14.00–16.00 Workshops B

5 groups in parallel, as pre-booked at registration:

B1 Higher Education in Times of Conflict: Museums as Spaces of Collective Learning
B2 Foundations of Peace
B3 Art in Peace Mediation
B4 Peace Mediation and Art: Practical Ways of Working Together
B5 Potentials of the Ephemerality or Working Against Isolation
16.00–16.30 Coffee Break
16.30–17.30 Panel Discussion: Different Ways of Capturing Reality – Strengths and Limitations Lusine KharatyanNicole Vögele
17.30–18.00 Closing Remarks Miriam Walther
19.00, Kaskadenhalle ZHdK Dinner: Simplicial Complex Collapse

by artist and cook Alex Ghandour

Friday, 12.2.2027

9.00–9.30 Speech: On the Tension of Knowledge Creation

Speaker: Henri-Michel Yéré

10.00–12.00 Artist Table Presentations

Dialogues at 20 Tables with artists or organisations (4 rounds of 20 minutes)

12.30–13.30 Conversation: Can Art Have a Role in Peace Mediation

Speakers: Alexandre Fasel, Dagmar Reichert

13.30–14.30, Kaskadenhalle, ZHdK Joint Lunch
14.30–16.00 Work Demonstration: The Creative Practice of Zoukak Theatre

Performance by Zoukak Theatre Group

Lamia Abi AzarOmar Abi AzarJunaid SarieddeenMaya Zbib
16.00–16.30 Coffee Break
16.30–17.45 Parallel Panel Discussions:

Two Panel Discussions in parallel, as pre-booked at registration:
Panel A) Silent Talks and Implicit Peacebuilding
Speakers: Jörg Scheller, Rada Leu, Rana Yazaji
Panel B) Beyond Support: How Do We Work Together? Lessons from Supporting Artists with Refugee and Migration Experience
Speakers: Elena Leskova, An Vandermeulen, Nika Parkhomovskaia, Rahel Leupin
Moderator: Ana Sobral

18.30, Quartierzentrum Schütze Apéro

by artlink, Here I am Project

Saturday, 13.2.2027

9.00–9.30 Speech

Speaker: tba

9.45–11.00 Panel Discussion: Beyond Good Intentions – Anchoring Cooperation After the Project Ends

Speaker: Ruth Daniel, Heba Hage-Felder, tba

11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.45 Solidarity Tables

Discussions in 5 parallel, small groups.