I studied Theatre and Performance Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, l’Université Lille III and the Universiteit van Amsterdam, graduating in 2016 with an M.A. in Theatre Studies.

Between 2017 and 2020, I have supported activities by Berlin Postkolonial as a volunteer, such as events, conferences and archival research on acts of anti-colonial resistance by citizens of former “German East Africa” residing in Berlin. I am also an event organizer with ten years of experience in organizing events in varying roles with and for different groups, organizations and institutions. In 2019, I joined the RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms.

Conceptualized and Organized Events

Film Preview from Tanzania by Vicensia Shule and Navigating Academia, Art, Activism and Business in and beyond Tanzania. A Conversation with Vicensia Shule (moderation: Layla Zami), Minor Cosmopolitan Assembly, 10-12 November, 2022, Silent Green Berlin 

Listening for Black Feminism. A conversation as mixtape with Romi Ron Morrison and Layla Zami. organized by Layla Zami and Jan Dammel, and Screening of selected video work by Vicensia Shule as part of MCA FILM program, Minor Cosmopolitan Assembly, 10-12 November, 2022, Silent Green Berlin

Detours – Approaches to Doing Decolonial Work During a Pandemic; a roaming workshop series with Jewish Museum Berlin, Floating University Berlin and xart splitta, September and October 2021, organized together with Yael Attia, Sofia Apostolidou, Anne Mikkelsen, Kathleen Samson and Johanna Heide

Embodied Practices - Looking From Small Places - an online event with Sruti Bala and Dylan Kerrigan, November 19 2020, conceptualized and organized together with Tori Sinanan, Johanna Heide. Access the edited transcript, published in June 2021 with Potsdam University Press, on the Minor Constellations blog.

Event management for several events for BDP, amongst them Tag der Psychologie 2018 (Lecture, panel discussion and barcamp).

Panel discussion on decolonial student movements, Humboldt-University Berlin, September 2017.

Symposium How To Dance with Art, Foreign Affairs Festival, Berliner Festspiele, July 2014.

Install & perform, theatre-based arts education workshop and presentation, conceptualized and organized with Priska Janssens, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, April 2013.

Organizational Support

“Restorative Justice after Genocide – Non-Governmental Congress on the Ovaherero and Nama Genocides, 1904-1908”, organized by Berlin Postkolonial and Alliance No Amnesty on Genocide, Berlin, October 2016.

International Symposium-Festival Moving Memory. Erinnerung in Bewegung, curated by Dr. Layla Zami and Oxana Chi, Technical University Berlin, October 2016.

Interdisciplinary symposium “Arts of Standstill”, curated by Prof. Dr. Barbara Gronau, Sophiensaele Berlin, June 5-6 2015.

Performatik festival, curated by Katleen van Langendonck, Kaaitheater Brussels, March 2015.

Internationales Forum, two-week workshop program as part of Theatertreffen, Berliner Festspiele, May 2009, 2010, 2011.

Dammel, Jan. "Review: Azadeh Sharifi, Lisa Skirblies (Ed.): Theaterwissenschaft postkolonial/dekolonial.” rezens.tfm, no. 2 (November 2022) https://doi.org/10.25365/rezens-2022-2-0

Bala, Sruti and Dylan Kerrigan. “Embodied Practices - Looking from Small Places.” Minor Constellations in Conversation Lecture Series, edited by Johanna Heide, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2021, pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-50899 (co-conceiver/co-organizer of event and proofreader of transcript).

Dammel, Jan, Sebastian Brünger and Sandra Umathum: “Global und ortsspezifisch? Zu Mobilität und Zuschauen bei Rimini Protokoll.“ Arbeitsweisen im Gegenwartstheater, edited by Beate Hochholdinger-Reiterer et al., Alexander Verlag Berlin, 2015, pp. 82-88.

Participation in Workshop “Global Complicities”, DFG Network Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings, TU Dresden, June 4-6, 2023

Episode 5 of Podcast Minor Constellations (curated by Yael Attia and Kathleen Samson), “PerforMemory: In Conversation with Dr. Layla Zami and Jan Dammel”, October 2021.

Participant of PSi Summer School #4.33 Attentions and Attunements, organized by Performance Studies international Future Advisory Board, July-October 2021.