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Confronting European Pasts in the Present

9. November 2023 12:30 – 10. November 2023 15:00 Uhr

Confronting European pasts in the present: theoretical reflections and methodological approaches to researching formations of ‘race’ and whiteness

Conference of the Section “Migration and ethnic minorities” of the German Sociological Association (DGS)

Organizers: Christine Barwick-Gross & Christy Kulz

Place: Technical University Berlin, Institute for Sociology, Room FH 804, Fraunhoferstraße 33-36, 10587 Berlin, U Bahn Ernst Reuter Platz (U2)

The conference is hosted in collaboration with the SFB 1265 Refiguration of Spaces and supported by the Volkswagen Foundation. Attendance is free, but please register at sektionMueM@gmx.de.

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Confronting European Pasts in the Present

9. November 2023 12:30 – 10. November 2023 15:00 Uhr

Program

Over the past decade activist movements have ‘forced’ societies across the Global North to actively reflect on how colonialism, racism and whiteness shape both institutional and material structures, and everyday affective encounters. This conference invites a dialogue around what theoretical and methodological lenses we use to study ‘race’ and whiteness in societies across the Global North and South, and what sort of knowledge of the social world our approaches either generate or obscure. This connects to how ‘race’ is produced through a continuous, yet differentially regulated flow of persons, knowledge and materials between the Global South and North.