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Invitation to open research seminar: When intersectionality travels

Invitation to open research seminar: When intersectionality travels

The aim of this seminar is to address and discuss how intersectionality can help us to explore how the markers of racialisation intersects with other markers such as gender, class, sexuality, nationality etc. within the context of Europe.

Time

28.03.2023 kl. 13.30 - 16.00

Description

Much has been said about the theoretical and methodological journey of intersectionality from the United States to Europe within feminist studies. A shift away from the intersection of race and gender in favor of focus on gender, ethnicity, and migration has taken place in the Nordic region, where the role of the categories ‘race’ and racialization have been neglected. However, during the last decade, we have witnessed a steady rise in critical studies on whiteness, racialization and racism within the Nordics across disciplines both within social science and humanities. In such studies intersectionality has both directly and indirectly guided these studies.

The aim of this seminar is to address and discuss how intersectionality can help us to explore how the markers of racialisation intersects with other markers such as gender, class, sexuality, nationality etc. within the context of Europe.

By stressing the empirical setting of Europe this seminar further discuss how the marker of race and racialized hierarchy, as one of the ‘original’ markers or hierarchies, has returned to intersectionality studies – just in another geopolitical setting. Thus, the seminar will ask: What kind of differences do we see when intersectionality travels? and is intersectionality still a useful analytical lens?

Programme

13.30 - 13.40 Welcome by Marlene Spanger
 
13.40 - 14.10

The travel of intersectionality and its challenges
Kathy Davis, senior research fellow, Dept. of Sociology, VU University Amsterdam

14.10-14.30

Who’s Afraid of “Race”? - Translational and conceptual challenges in Danish Intersectionality Work
Mira Skadegaard, assistant professor, Dept. of Culture and Learning, AAU

14.30 - 14.45 Discussion
 
14.45 - 15.00 Break
 
15.00 - 15.20 Female soldiers in the Danish Armed Forces
Helene Pristed, senior researcher, Videnscenteret, Veterancenteret
 
15.20 - 15.40

Racial hierarchy in the Danish labour market
Marlene Spanger, associate professor, Dept. of Politics & Society, AAU 

15.40 - 15.55 Discussion
 
15.55 - 16.00 Wrapping up


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Registraion

Please register via this link no later than 23 March 2023.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding the seminar, please contact Marlene Spanger at spanger@dps.aau.dk.

Want to know more?

Host

Global Refugee Studies Research Group, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University

Address

Aalborg University Copenhagen, A. C. Meyers Vænge 10, room: 3.084A, 2450 Copenhagen SV