Reading and Discussion circleTheme: "Materialities of Race"

23 October 2024, 4:00 pm

This research group "Just Geographies" warmly invites you to join our reading and discussion circle that we organize this academic year 2024/25 on the theme "Materialities of Race".

If only we could explain race away, racism would cease to exist. But, as anti-racist struggle has long shown us, race is constructed materially—not just through ideas in the mind—and, therefore, it must grasped and contested as such. In this group, we want to discuss exactly where and how race is made and unmade materially. What and whose materialities—sites, spaces, places, infrastructures, technologies, bodies—are involved in constructing and contesting race?

23 October │ 20 November │ 18 December │ 15 January

We will gather on Wednesdays (4-6pm) every four weeks at Geomatikum room 527 to discuss these questions and related ones. The first meeting will be on 23 October.

Each gathering will be facilitated by one participant who will identify material to be circulated beforehand as a starting point for discussion. The first date is a meet-and-greet session where we get to know each other and what we make of our overarching theme.