Another spectre is haunting the world.

On 26 September 2025, AfroSwissters took part in an international conference at the University of Zurich on the memory of slavery, in its roundtable on Afro-descendant activism in Switzerland and the legacy of slavery.

26 September 2025 · 17:30University of Zurich · RAA-G-01Roundtable
Five speakers seated at a long table in a high hall with ornamented pilasters
The roundtable at the University of Zurich
The conference

Otro espectro recorre el mundo

Another Spectre is Haunting the World: Practices, Politics, and Aesthetics of Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

A transdisciplinary colloquium that brought scholars, activists and artists together to look at how the memory of slavery continues to shape societies today.

Our contribution
Tallulah Patricia BärIntroduced AfroSwissters: its mission, its work and its vision.
Lys SilvaShared her own journey of migration and resilience, connecting post-colonial realities around the world with lived experience in Switzerland.
At the conference
Seven people at the roundtable, some seated and some standing behind the table
After the roundtable
A large group of conference participants standing in front of a projection screen
Conference participants
Three women standing in front of the conference poster
At the conference poster

The conversation continued.

In August 2026, Lys Silva and Tallulah Patricia Bär spoke again, at Karl der Grosse, about resilience, belonging and rebuilding life in a new country. Thank you to the organisers of the conference for the invitation.

The event page → Resilience, belonging and rebuilding: Rise & Thrive → Read: The Shift 003, Who Gets to Say «Colonialism» →