I will be speaking online about ‘Antisemitism and the Proxification of Antiracism’, the subject of the 4th chapter of Why Race Still Matters to the University of Edinburgh Race.Ed seminar series on February 17. The political utility of antisemitism today is not to illuminate the operations…
Jewish-Muslim Research Network book discussion
I was delighted to have been invited to join Katharine Halls from the Jewish-Muslim Research Network in conversation about my book, Why Race Still Matters. A video of the discussion during which I answered questions from Katharine and participants in the webinar is below.
Interrogating Race: Exploring Racism and Anti-Racism
The video of an event I did for the Belongg Online Literature Festival in June is available. A rich conversation with the authors Camille Acker and Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl, chaired by Jessica Breakey. A truly transnational dialogue!
Decolonial Thought: A lecture for the Institute for Culture and Society Key Thinkers & Concepts series
I was kindly invited by the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University to give a talk on postcolonial and decolonial thought for its Key Thinkers & Concepts series. I have posted in the slides and notes here. 1. I wish to acknowledgement the Darug people,…
The racist violence of “not racism” and the role of “contrarian” academics
On February 21 I was invited to speak at the Center for European Studies Conference on ‘Racism and White Supremacy in Europe’ The audio of my talk is available here: And the accompanying slides:
What’s the Use of Race in Migration Studies?
During my recent stay at the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, as a guest of the RaceFaceID project, led my Professor Amade M’charek, I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak about the silence about race in migration studies at Spui 25. Event description…
White supremacy, white innocence and inequality in Australia
I was happy to have been asked to speak alongside Uncle Ken Canning at Politics in the Pub in Sydney in March 2018. You can watch the video of the talk here:
CAVE Symposium at MacQuarie University
I was delighted to have been invited to speak on ‘Race as Relational and Relatable’ at the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) Symposium, ‘Replacing Race?’ on August 17 2017. The event was organized by philosophers of race, Adam Hochman and Albert…
Colloquium on ‘Difference Diversity and Inclusion’
I was honoured to have been invited to participate in the Mellon Foundation Colloquium on ‘Difference Diversity and Inclusion’ in Haarlem, The Netherlands in June 2017. My talk, on race and relationality, looked at what I feel is the urgency of addressing dominant attempts to appropriate the definition of…
Not Racism: White crisis and the postracial denial of race
This is the audio of a talk I gave on June 23 at the conference, ‘Race-conscious and colorblind framings: converging and diverging trends in Europe and the Americas’, organized by the CERI and the INED at Sciences Po in Paris by Patrick Simon and Sarah Mazouz.…