Past events

  Join us for the book launch of Citizens Gone: How Emigration Transforms the European State, edited by BIRMM member Christof Roos and Anna Kyriazi. The book examines how large-scale emigration reshapes states at Europe’s periphery.

Debordering the city: Struggles Against Urban Bordering in Brussels Three public events, in English, October through December, all free to attend.    Join us & bring your colleagues and friends ! Sign-up links are open below Borders do not only exist at the edges of nation-states.

Investigating the Coloniality of Film Production: Towards a Structural Approach to Race and Racism   "Enquêter sur la colonialité de la production cinématographique.

  Critical Approaches to Race (CAR): A Seminar Series on Race and Racism 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.

  BIRMM, WeDecolonize and ’ Nuff Said invite you to an artist talk with Ursula Rucker on 4 October at 17:30 at the WeDecolonize Library. Under the title “Who Gets to Make Knowledge?

Public lecture with Dr. Leila Mouhib (ULB/UMONS)   The FWO-SBO project ENGINE invites you to a public lecture with Dr. Leila Mouhib (ULB/UMONS).  The ethno-racial gap in higher education is widespread all over Europe and beyond but not uniform.

BIRMM invites you to attend the public PhD defence of Gaia Romeo: Apeirohedron. The Implementation Of The Eu Safe Third Country Policy In Greece (2016-2024). This event can be attended either in-person or virtually.

EXPO: Nous ne sommes pas dangereux, Nous sommes en danger   This exhibition is part of the project “We are not dangerous, we are in danger”, led by La Voix des Sans-Papiers Bruxelles (VSP) in collaboration with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (CRiS and BIRMM), with the support of the Collectif F...

Repenser l’Hexagone dans la production culturelle noire contemporaine   What role do geographical imaginaries play in the production of black identities, and of racial difference as a marker of alterity in France?

Movies That Matter: Film Screening L'histoire de Souleymane   BIRMM and BRISPO warmly invite you to the last edition of our joint film series Movies that Matter on 6 May at VUB. This edition will feature the screening of L'histoire de Souleymane (2024) directed by Boris Lojkine.

Jabalia Hall, BRISPO and BIRMM warmly invite you to a special edition of the film series Movies that Matter on 29 April at VUB. This edition will feature the screening of Palestine '36, directed by Annemarie Jacir.

The Postracial Discursive Contract: Complicity and collaboration in the (un)hearing of race   In many contemporary European settings, race is expected to remain unseen and unspoken.