Pegah Byroum-Wand is a literary studies scholar and has been working at the Technische Universität Berlin in the project “Museums and Society – Mapping the Social” since 2021. She studied modern literary studies and history at the Universität zu Köln, completing her PhD on the “Unity of Difference: Hybridity, Self-Rejection, and Repositioning in Post-GDR Literature” at the Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
In 2020, she conceptualized the workshop program for the project “Reflections: Colonial Heritage at the Brücke Museum” and worked as an expert in diversity development in the General Secretary of the German Red Cross Berlin. From 2017 to 2019, she worked as a project assistant for migration and diversity within the scope of the Jewish Museum Berlin’s academy program, where she organized the international conference “Ongoing Struggles: Anti-Discrimination Work during the Rise of the Far Right” and was a member of the organizing team for the workshop “Future Memories: Memory Culture(s) of the Migration Society,” editing the workshop's online publications. While working, Pegah Byroum-Wand completed further training on diversity-oriented organizational development at the Regionale Arbeitsstellen für Bildung, Integration und Demokratie e.V. in Berlin.
As our Associate for Research and Science Communication and Participation, she researches formats that are oriented toward anti-discrimination, diversity, the critique of power, and post-migrant perspectives, which she then implements in the project, for example, in the form of our collaboration with a critical Advisory Board.
Projects, lectures, events
Workshop with Daniela Bystron: "Museen dekolonisieren?! - Reflexionen
über koloniale Kontinuitäten in der kulturellen Vermittlung" for the event "Le(e)hrraum Kultur Macht kritisch? #2 kritisch aufarbeiten: Kulturelle Bildung dekolonialisieren" by kultur_formen Berlin (2024)
Moderation of the panel discussion „Tasting Decoloniality“ im Rahmen der Kuk-Tuesdays der Technischen Universität Berlin (2024)
Interview with Atelier Limo and the Berlin University Alliance on „Transdisciplinarity“ (to be published in autumn 2024)
Lecture on "MachtKritik - transdisziplinäre Projekte und die Reproduktion von Ungleichheit". Event "Lessons Learned: Transdisziplinäre Forschungspraxis", facilitated by the Social Cohesion-Project „Transforming Solidarities“ and the Labor für transdisziplinäre Forschung (TD-Lab) of the Berlin University Alliance (2024)
Workshop with Daniela Bystron: "Museen dekolonisieren?" as part of the lecture series 'Sharing is Caring' - Auf dem Weg zu einer diskriminierungskritischen und inklusiven Kunstpädagogik, ersität Potsdam (2023)
Critical documentation and commenting during the annual event of the Berliner Museumsverbands „Wissen im Wandel – eine Neuverortung?!“ (2023)
Critical documentation during the symposium „Curating Conflict with Care“ by nGbK in Berlin (2023)
Contribution "Existence is Resistance. Das Provisorische Frauenkomitee gegen die Hinrichtungen im Iran (1989)" as part of the collaborative exhibition "Power in/of Collections", organized by the Berlin Science Week (2023)
Interview with Dr. Pegah Byroum-Wand for the BUA-Podcast „Research Forum Forum Berlin Citizens“ / Berlin forscht mit. (2023)
Workshop with Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber: Decentering collections. Power critique in collaborations and digital tools for power sharing at the University of Oxford/am Pitt Rivers Museum (2023)
Conceptualization and moderation of the panel discussion "The Activist Exhibition: Museen zwischen Widerstand und Vereinnahmung" at the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum (FHXB Museum) with Initiative 19.
Februar Hanau, Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh e.V. and Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland, ISD. (2023)
Block seminar with Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber, Technische Universität Berlin: "Archivieren, Sammeln und Ausstellen durch Rom*nja – eine widerständige Praxis?" (2022/2023)
Moderation of a panel discussion of the Brücke-Museums Berlin: "Rassismuskritische Sprache. Ein lautes Nachdenken über die Umbenennung von Werktiteln." (2022)
Workshop with Daniela Bystron: "Koloniales Erbe – Museale Reflexionen. Ein Workshop, um Museen gemeinsam kritisch zu hinterfragen". The annual conference of the Bundesverbands Museumspädagogik e.V. in cooperation with the Regionalverband Museumspädagogik Nord e.V. and the Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg (2022).
Interview together with Prof. Dr. Tahani Nadim und Dr. Lukas Fuchsgruber during the Summer Trialogue "Sozialer Zusammenhalt, Migration und Diversität" by the Berlin University Alliance (2022)
Publications
Pegah Byroum-Wand (ed.): MachtKritikKollaboration. Praxisreflexionen zwischen Aktivismus, Museum und Universität. Verlag Yılmaz-Günay (to be published in autumn 2024).
Pegah Byroum-Wand; Malina Lauterbach; Lukas Fuchsgruber: Die Macht der Sammlungen / The power of collections. Tagesspiegel Supplement Berlin Science Week, October 2023, pp. 14-19.
Pegah Byroum-Wand; Daniela Bystron, "Zwei Rückblicke - zwei Perspektiven. Das Pilotprojekt
"Reflexionen. Koloniales Erbe im Brücke-Museum". In: Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum, Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Anne Fäser, Daniela Bystron (ed.): Das Museum dekolonisieren? Kolonialität und museale Praxis in Berlin. Bielefeld: Transcript 2022, S. 199-212.
Pegah Byroum-Wand, Einheit der Differenz : Hybridität, Selbstablehnung und Neuverortung in der Post-DDR-Literatur (Dissertation), digital publication, 2021.