Past events

  Lunch-time seminar with  Prof. Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche As part of the Borders and International Mobility (BIM) seminar series, we are pleased to invite you to a lunch-time presentation by Prof.

  Sociologie de la blanchité critique As part of the Critical Approaches to Race Seminar Series , we are honored to welcome Martin Frager Perrier, PhD candidate at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

  We are pleased to invite you to a reading and discussion with award-winning writer Caryl Phillips (St Kitts / UK) on 6 May 2025, at 20:00, at Passa Porta in Brussels. Registrations will be opened in February 2025.

  Rethinking methodology as a technology of social (in)justice in academia? As part of the Critical Approaches to Race Seminar Series , we are honored to welcome Dr. Zehra Çolak and Dr.

  Doing Diversity in Health(care), Doing Race? As part of the Critical Approaches to Race Seminar Series , we are honored to welcome Dr. Alana Helberg-Proctor, Assistant Professor in the Health, Care and the Body programme group at the University of Amsterdam’s Department of Anthropology.

  Bending the Master’s Tools?

  Vulnerabilities, Racism, and Political Subjectivities in Tunisia: The Ethnographic Case of Migrants from West Africa & Race, Femininity and the Nation-State in Tunisia (In French)  As part of the  Critical Approaches to Race Seminar Series , we are pleased to welcome Khaoula...

How to use BIRMM to generate societal impact with your research?  Join us for the BIRMM Member Day!  When: February 12, 2025 Where: Pleinlaan 5, Room Rome and Lisbon (-1 floor) On February 12, 2025, BIRMM researchers will come together for our Member Day—an event to explore how we can...

  Universities, Black students, and the (re)production of whiteness through securitisation As part of the Critical Approaches to Race Seminar Series , we are honored to welcome  Remi Joseph-Salisbury , Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester and visiting scholar at the Ci...

  Disseminating and Popularizing Critical Race Approaches in Sociology: Reflections on Two Co-Writing Experiences (in French).

  Words that matter: critical reflections on categorisation from migration and diversity research     Welcome to the fourth edition of the joint CESSMIR ( UGent ) – MIGLOBA (University of Antwerp) - BIRMM (VUB) – research day! We aim for a day full of inspiring talks...

  Seminar with Lionel Zevounou: Racial Equality and Discrimination (in French)  As part of the Critical Approaches to Race seminar series, Lionel Zevounou will present his latest book "L'égalité dans ses rapports à la race: Des discriminations subies par les travailleurs marocains de la SN...