A discussion with Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjahid and Carla Murphy.
“Radical Diversity” is a discussion series presented by several Goethe-Institut locations in North America in collaboration with its Goethe Pop Ups, the Thomas Mann House, and the Institute for Social Justice & Radical Diversity under the sponsorship of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung North America.
This event takes place on March 31, 2021, at 12pm EST.
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Right-wing extremism, everyday racism and racialized microaggressions, and pressure to “assimilate” – all of these constructs affecting racialized minorities result from an inability and unwillingness to respect and appreciate the radical diversity that underscores our societies. Max Czollek (“De-integrate Yourselves”) and Mohamed Amjahid (“Among Whites: What It Means to Be Privileged”) are two Millennial generation voices that have emerged from Germany in recent years. With a critical, multidimensional approach, Czollek and Amjahid will examine the challenges faced by German and North American societies, as well as various visions for progress, by discussing them with experts in the USA, Canada, and Mexico.
For the third episode of
Radical Diversity, we travel to New York, one of the U.S.’s media and journalism hubs. We’ve invited
Carla Murphy, a journalist, writer, and editor who focuses on inequality and diversity in journalism and journalism reform. Murphy will speak with Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjahid about how to build diverse and sustainable newsrooms, as well as challenging the troubled history of objectivity in journalism.
Carla Murphy is a journalist, editor, and writer. Her struggle as a reporter to cover news for, not about, marginalized or low-income communities fuels her current focus on journalism reform. In 2020, she published
The Leavers, the results of a survey of 101 former journalists of color to understand when and why they left the journalism industry. Through the News Integrity Initiative, she leads or co-leads data-driven diversity projects for student and working journalists of color and newsroom management. She is editor of the podcast,
The View from Somewhere and is a new essayist on class, race and power in media, supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP). She has reported in Haiti and on the Haitian diaspora in the wake of the 2010 earthquake and covered criminal justice reform and police violence in Baltimore, New York City and Chicago. Educated in New York City and London, she is a sometimes Spanish-speaker, an immigrant from the rural Caribbean, and a first-generation college student.
Dr. Max Czollek completed his doctorate studies at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin. Since 2009, Czollek has been a member of poetry collective G13, which has published books and organized lectures. In 2018, his essay
Desintegriert Euch! (
Disintegrate!) was published at Carl Hanser. His second essay,
Gegenwartsbewältigung (Coping with the Present), was published in August 2020.
Mohamed Amjahid studied political science in Berlin and Cairo, and conducted research on various anthropological projects in North America. Mohamed is working as a political reporter for the weekly newspapers
Die Zeit and
Das Zeit Magazin. Anthropologically and journalistically, Amjahid focuses on human rights, equality, and upheaval in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
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