The Critical Approaches to Race (CAR) lecture series has the ambition to offer an academic space for young researchers in which to present their work, whether in progress or completed, and enrich their reflections. The CAR seminar invites to an approach combining decolonial and postcolonial theories and Critical Race Theory through the questioning of phenomena linked to race and racism in different contexts.
This is the first university seminar organized in Belgium on Critical Race Theories, a mainly English-speaking multidisciplinary field of study aimed at analyzing not only the forms of racialization and racism in human societies (Western and non-Western), but also the forms of subjectification that racialized people resort to in the face of racialization.
When: Thursdays, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: Various venues, including ULB and VUB campuses
Entry: Free (registration encouraged)
Contact: birmm@vub.be / marti.luntumbue@ulb.be
Upcoming Events:
Launch of FirstWaves.be: An open web platform unveiling the struggles of the Maghrebi and Black diasporas in Belgium (1918-2000) – 26 September 2024 (7 PM) at Pianofabriek
Lionel Zevounou: L’égalité dans ses rapports à la race: Discriminations faced by Moroccan workers at SNCF (1970-2018) – 10 October 2024 at ULB
Solène Brun: Diffuser et vulgariser les approches critiques de la race en sociologie: Retour sur deux expériences de co-écriture – 14 November 2024 at VUB - BsoG
Alana Helberg-Proctor: Doing diversity in health(care), doing race? – 12 December 2024 at ULB
Remi Joseph Salisbury: Universities, Black students, and the (re)production of whiteness through securitisation – 23 January 2025 at VUB / BsoG
Khaoula Marti – Vulnérabilités, racismes et subjectivités politiques en Tunisie: Le cas ethnographique des migrant.e.s de l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Yasmine Akrimi – Race, Féminité et État-Nation en Tunisie: Intersections et Subversions. 13 February 2025 at ULB
Folashade Ajayi – Black Utopia in Berlin - 20 March 2025 location TBD
Zehra Colak & Zakia Essanhaji: Rethinking methodology as a technology of social (in)justice? – 24 April 2025 at VUB - BsoG
Martin Frager Perrier: Sociologie de la blanchité critique – 15 May 2025 at ULB:
Omar Jabary Salamanca: Palestine Between colonial epistemologies and liberation worldmaking – 12 June 2025 at VUB
If you want to join one or more of the seminars, please send us an email at birmm@vub.be.