Conference program

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18 September 2022

09.00-09.30 - registration pre-conference
09.30-11.00 - pre-conference/training PhD students
10.30-11.30 - registration main conference/welcoming coffee
11.30-13.00 - Opening keynote: “Ideological incompatibilities and institutional contradictions: Racism and Discrimination in Color-Blind Europe Today” by dr. Kwame Nimako (Black Europe Summer School, Amsterdam) + discussion with Neslihan Doğan (STAM, Gent) followed by Q&A
13.00-14.00 - lunch break
14.00-15.30 - parallel sessions
15.30-16.00 - coffee break
16.00-17.30 - dialogue sessions & symposia
19.30-22.00 - movie screening PRISM and discussion with directors An van Dienderen (live) Rosine Mbakam (online), moderated by Lennart Soberon (VUB and artistic coordinator KASK cinema):
For PRISM Belgian filmmaker An van Dienderen invited Brussels based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to work together on a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the biased limitations of the medium. Photographic media are technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin. Such white-centricity means that the photographic media assume, privilege and construct whiteness. Find more info here and watch the trailer here

09.00-09.30 - registration main conference
09.30-11.00 - Keynote: “On the wounds of racism and the importance of resilience” by Naima Charkaoui (11.11.11) + panel discussion with Astrid De Bruycker (Stad Gent) en Arne Carpentier (School without racism)
11.00-11.30 - coffee break
11.30-13.00 - dialogue sessions & symposia
13.00-14.00 - lunch break
14.00-15.30 - parallel sessions
15.30-16.00 - coffee break
16.00-17.30 - parallel sessions
17.30 - reception

09.00-09.30 - registration main conference
09:30-11.00 - dialogue sessions
11.00-11.30 - coffee break
11.30-12.30 - closing keynote: “Reducing race/ethnic inequalities in Flemish education: thinking broad and bold” by Peter Stevens (Ghent University) & Keynote: “The long arc towards justice: have racism and discrimination been declined, or not?” by Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe (Free University of Brussels)