A Glimpse Across the Linguistic Border: The Ethno-racial Gap, DEI Policies and Activism in Higher Education in Francophone Belgium
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. If racism, as Stuart Hall argues, is a “floating signifier,” then its institutional expressions — and the responses it provokes — shift across contexts. Situated within broader debates on neoliberalism, coloniality, and institutional change in higher education, this lecture offers a focused glimpse across Belgium’s linguistic border. What happens when similar structural pressures are refracted through a somewhat different demographic, political and intellectual landscape? Drawing on her research and teaching practice at several Francophone universities, Dr. Leila Mouhib will examine how the ethno-racial gap is both reproduced and contested in Francophone higher education: what is known — and overlooked — about the gap, how these inequalities are discussed or silenced, which policies and institutional responses are implemented or absent, and how engaged students and scholars can build collective pathways toward racial justice.
Practical information
Date: 18 June Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: LIC Learning Theatre, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels
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