Roskilde University Intercultural Studies, Open seminar and Postcolonial Europe book launch : 

“(Anti)Racism in the University”
December 4, 2017, 1-4 pm

This public seminar invited such a discussion based on presentations by scholars whose work emphasizes problems of epistemic racism and its close connection to other structural expressions of racism. The presenters addresses questions as:

• What is the connection between epistemic racism and other structural expressions of racism?
• What are the alternative understandings of scientific validity, objectivity, and universality that continue being marginalized and/or ignored in white academia?
• How to understand and address the racial hierarchies and their operation in academia?
• What is meant by ‘decolonizing the university’?

Presenters:
Alice Feldman, Masters Programme in Race, Migration & Decolonial Studies, School of Sociology, University College Dublin.
José Arce, MA student, Global Refugee Studies. Coordinator of the reading group on Postcolonial Perspectives on Borders, Migration and Asylum
Yannick Nehemiah Antonio Harrison –Marronage
Tara Skadegaard Thorsen) and Christopher Macias Escalona. -FRONT 
Discussant/moderator: Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Roskilde University

Decolonising the Curriculum -  Roskilde University

Students from SOC40930 Critical Race & Decolonial Theories and the UCD Decolonising the Curriculum Platform following their interview with Ms Naledi Pandor South African Minister for Science & Technology (4th from left) and her delegation; in association with staff from the School of Sociology Masters in Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies, the School of Physics/Space Science Group, and UCD Parity Studios.

As Minister of Science & Technology in South Africa (2009-2012, 2014-to date), Ms. Naledi Pandor has been a tireless champion for the cause of science and scientific research. She and her team successfully won a competitive bid for the siting of part of the future Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope in South Africa. This will be a transformative piece of global astronomy infrastructure into the next decade and one of the largest scientific endeavours in history. Ms. Pandor is a powerful and enduring advocate for the importance of education and science in moving Africa forward, empowering its citizens and inspiring its children.

UCD awarded the Minister an Honorary Doctorate of Science 6 December 2017

For more information contact Alice Feldman (alice.feldman@ucd.ie)
www.racemigrationdecolonialstudies.com
www.facebook.com/DecoloniseUCD