This episode features excerpts from the CPPD festival “Voices Rising: Memory Unsilenced”, which took place on 11 March 2026 at the Altonaer Museum in Hamburg. As part of the festival, the Dynamic Memory Lab – the CPPD’s central exhibition format – was launched with the exhibition “Nước Đức. Vietnamese-German Migration History(ies)”. The exhibition was curated by Dan Thy Nguyen and Nina Reiprich and focuses on Vietnamese-German migration histories. It explores the question of how history is remembered and recounted, but also what is repressed or kept silent.

Journalist Nhi Le and artist Minh Duc Pham contributed to the exhibition and presented their work as part of the opening programme. Below you can listen to a recording of the evening: Nhi Le’s reading from her essay “Teil des Ostens”, as well as Minh Duc Pham’s lecture performance. They were accompanied musically by the Lotus Ensemble.

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In ERINNERUNGSFUTUR, scientists, artists, journalists and activists report on their work and perspectives on cultures of remembrance in Germany and Europe. The series is part of the DialoguePerspectives e.V. podcast.

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Speakers: Nhi Le, Minh Duc Pham; Musik: Lotus Ensemble; Introduction: Hannah Blumas; Editorial team: Hannah Blumas, Nihal Çalışır; Audio-Edit: Gal Yaron Mayersohn; Film Glitch by Snowflake ©2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (3.0) license; Illustration: Rosa Viktoria Ahlers; Kurator*innen: Jo Frank, Johanna Korneli, Max Czollek | © 2025 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | http://www.cppdnetwork.com