Past events

Screening of “Tout Contact Laisse Une Trace” (ZinTV 2024) followed by a discussion    This composite film draws on fragmented narratives, on the journeys of non-white, Afro-descendant and African people, and retraces the topographical and symbolic coloniality of the Capital of Europe...

  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.

  We warmly invite you to a screening of The Mind Game, a gripping documentary that follows the journey of Sajid Khan Nasiri. At just fifteen, Sajid fled Afghanistan and began a long and dangerous journey to Europe.

  Palestine: Between colonial epistemologies and liberation worldmaking As part of the Critical Approaches to Race Seminar Series , we are honored to welcome Dr. Omar Jabary Salamanca, research fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Epistemologies matter.

  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...